Charles Ramsey, a local dishwasher in Cleveland, Ohio who helped rescue three woman and a girl from captivity, once attended Central State University for one semester in the fall of 1989.
According to University officials, Ramsey is said to have taken classes like health, mathematics and student orientation as a freshman student at Central State in 1989.
“The university applauds Mr. Ramsey for his courageous efforts to save those young women,” Central State spokeswoman Dr. Gayle Barge said Monday.
Ramsey has since turned into an internet meme after his original account of how he saved the women reached 7 million views on YouTube.
“They keep saying I’m a hero,” said Ramsey when he spoke to Cleveland’s NBC affiliate Tuesday. “Let me tell you something — I’m an American, and I’m a human being.”
“I’m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?”
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[…] one semester, Ramsey once attended Central State University, a historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio, in the fall of 1989 where he took classes […]