Chick hatched but there’s blood??

We have had a chicken sitting on eggs for a few weeks and they are now hatching. She kept one chick and stopped sitting on all the other eggs so we have brought them in under a heat lamp. They are doing well now, except for one. He was the coldest but perked up a little after under the warmth however he was struggling to get out of his shell (we expected this as he was quite cold and lethargic). My mum helped him get out of half of his shell and we are letting him do the rest. We noticed there was some bloody veins in the membrane which is why we intervened. He is still alive and warm just not trying to hatch the rest of the shell. Should we not have helped him? Is he going to die now that we have removed some of his shell. P.S. he is not bleeding, it is the membrane around him and it is not bleeding it’s just blood. Picture of him attached
Was he moving?
 
We have had a chicken sitting on eggs for a few weeks and they are now hatching. She kept one chick and stopped sitting on all the other eggs so we have brought them in under a heat lamp. They are doing well now, except for one. He was the coldest but perked up a little after under the warmth however he was struggling to get out of his shell (we expected this as he was quite cold and lethargic). My mum helped him get out of half of his shell and we are letting him do the rest. We noticed there was some bloody veins in the membrane which is why we intervened. He is still alive and warm just not trying to hatch the rest of the shell. Should we not have helped him? Is he going to die now that we have removed some of his shell. P.S. he is not bleeding, it is the membrane around him and it is not bleeding it’s just blood. Picture of him attached
This just happened to me but chick was not alive when I opened the shell...so sad cos it was fully formed but had no movement when I candled her.
 

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