FORT MYERS, Fla. – Surveillance video has been released this week of a school resource deputy in Lee County who saved a 5-month-old baby who was choking.
According to local news outlet WGCU, Jennifer Howard was dropping off her older daughter Savannah, 7, at her elementary school in Fort Myers on Sept. 9 when the incident occurred.
WGCU reported the baby girl had choked on phlegm and Savannah alerted her mother that her sister Cheyanne wasn’t breathing.
Howard immediately jumped out of her SUV and began patting Cheyanne on the back while calling out for help.
Howard said Deputy Bill Weaver then ran over to the drop-off line and started doing back thrusts on her daughter to clear her airways.
Cheyenne was taken to a local hospital as a precaution but her mother says she is doing great now.