A Tennessee police officer is being saluted after saving the life of a 9-month-old baby who was choking.
A frantic mother jumped out of a car at a gas station Tuesday night and begged Metro Nashville Police Officer Philip Claibourn to save her ailing son. He and another officer were investigating a traffic accident at the time.
“I could hear that the baby was gasping for air and not really breathing and wasn’t making any kind of noises other than that,” Claibourn told WTVF.
He said his academy training in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver immediately kicked in.