Thomas J. Kelly III (August 8, 1947), born in Hackensack, New Jersey, is an American, Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist.
[1] In the spring of 1978, Kelly caught a call coming over the police scanner that the Goodwill Ambulance needed assistance in East Coventry County where "someone was stabbing everybody."
Kelly took multiple rolls of film during the incident, including the instant that Chief Detective Douglas Weaver rushed in to grab six year old Beth Ann Greist, bloody from multiple stab wounds, the young girl in one arm and his shotgun in the other hand; at one point, Greist broke free from the custody of the officers and charged Kelly, who would later say he didn't even realize that he had taken a photo of the incident because it happened so suddenly.
The photographer's intuitive sense captured virtually every significant moment of a highly-dangerous, quick moving event...The pictures were taken at considerable personal risk and represent more than merely being at the right place at the right time.
"'[6] The series of photos, titled "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road," were featured in a TNT documentary, "Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs," and have been included in multiple exhibitions around the country.