The reporters' tweet has a GFM link in one of the replies; the link (but not the tweet) purports to be run by this man's son, but other than there being a different picture of him in the hospital than what's run in the article, I'm not actually sure how you'd verify whether it's legit or not.

(also, reddit deletes gfm links as a site rule so just go to article, click author tweet and scroll down the replies)