A 12-year-old boy is being hailed a hero after he ran to get help for his mother who suffered a medical emergency while driving her car in West Orange, Texas at the end of July.
Newly released bodycam video shows the tense moments leading up to the daring rescue.
Jonquetta Winbush and her two children – 16-year-old daughter Bri-Asia and 12-year-old son Dwight – were driving in the car when Jonquetta suffered a seizure. She passed out, hit the gas, and sped towards a pond on the side of the road.
Bri-Asia and Dwight were able to escape the sinking vehicle, but their mother was trapped in the car.
The preteen ran down the road to where he saw a police officer monitoring traffic.
“She’s having a seizure! She’s stuck! She’s in the water, help her!” an out of breath Dwight is seen saying in the officer’s bodycam.
West Orange Officer Charles Cobb rushed to the pond where he found two good Samaritans already attempting to free Jonquetta.
The men pulled the mother of two out of the sinking vehicle and placed her on the grass. She was unconscious, didn’t have a pulse, and was not breathing.
Cobb began administering CPR, and after several minutes of chest compressions her rescuers began to feel a pulse.
Jonquetta was transported to a hospital where she spent three weeks on a ventilator. Bevnisha Holman, Jonquetta’s sister, told ABC News her sister is finally breathing on her own and growing stronger every day.
Thank you to everyone involved! Each and every one played their own special part in this rescue. This is a beautiful reminder to step up when you see someone in trouble.
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