A Chicago postal worker who helped save a 75-year-old man receives a Thanksgiving invitation and tribute from the Illinois city

A Chicago postal worker draws national attention when she helps save a man.

On November 16, Jaylen Lockhart, while working on his regular mail route in a Chicago neighborhood, saw an elderly man walking his dog on the sidewalk fall to the side.

“He seemed to lose his balance…he fell and hit his head…he fell face first on the ground” – Lockhart, 26 he told the Washington Post..

Lockhart immediately got out of the truck, checked on the man, called 911 and waved to several drivers for help.

“I dropped his bag of treats on the ground and bent down to pick it up,” said 75-year-old Guy Miller. “About the time I leaned over, he lunged at the squirrel. I lost my balance and fell to the ground.

Lockhart said Miller was bleeding from a cut to his head and he patched the wound with napkins and someone’s spare T-shirt.

“I’m trying to get up at the same time and… he tells me to just lie down, just lie down, because you might get hurt and you can’t walk anywhere,” Miller said.

Lockhart asked Miller where he lived and hurried to his home, about a block away, where he told Miller’s wife about the fall.

After notifying his family, Lockhart returned to work. Miller was brought home by his wife, and his daughter, who is a nurse, dropped by to envision on the minor cuts and bruises he suffered.

“He has diabetes, so he bleeds easily. It looked much worse than once we cleaned it,” Miller’s wife said.

Lockhart didn’t give his family his name when he visited their home, so Miller’s daughter posted a photo of him from the Ring i camera footage he asked social media help her reconnect with him and offer appropriate thanks.

The next morning, Lockhart woke as much as tons of of notifications on his phone and contacted Miller’s daughter.

This selfless act earned Lockhart recognition from the city of Aurora and an invitation from the Miller family to Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas celebrations.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin presented Lockhart with the Mayor’s Award of Merit during the city’s annual Winter Lights Fest.

“You make all of us Aurora proud,” Irvin said.

A story first reported NBC Chicagoit became a sensation on the Internet.

“It was truly a blessing,” Lockhart said. “I never expected this.”

In a similar story of strangers vacationing together, 26-year-old Jamal Hinton and 67-year-old Wanda Dench are widely known online for Dench by chance texting Hinton as an alternative of her grandson in 2016.