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Life Saving Incident

October 17, 2017
Texas
Brazos County
College Station

A Texas A&M University police officer used her skills, training and quick-thinking abilities to help save the life of a newborn infant at a local restaurant. Officer Norma Schoellman was on her lunch break at a nearby College Station restaurant on October 17, 2017, when she heard a woman screaming for help near the front door and needing help with her young son who was just a few days old. The mother had been driving in her car when she noticed her son was not breathing and immediately turned into the restaurant parking lot. Officer Schoellman, a Houston native who has been a Texas A&M police officer since 2014, quickly noticed the child was not breathing, and began life saving efforts and radioed the College Station Fire Department for assistance. “The mother believed the boy had stopped breathing,” Officer Schoellman recalled. “I grabbed him and began administering first aid and CPR. His eyes opened after a few moments and he started breathing again. About that time, the EMS personnel showed up and took it from there, and he was transported to a local hospital.” Officer Schoellman says it’s the first time she’s ever had to use her life-saving training on a person, “but I worked as a dispatcher for several years and on some occasions I had to give instructions over the phone. But to actually do this on a person, yes, that was a first.” “CPR training is required for all of our officers,” explains spokesman Bobby Richardson of the Texas A&M University Police Department. “It is important for everyone to be trained in basic first aid because you never know when you will need it.”

The history of law enforcement in the United States is a long and wonderful history of bravery. This website is dedicated to documenting the heroic deeds of law enforcement officers throughout the United States who have either given or risked their lives to save others. There are many stories of bravery and heroism for many who are considered first responders. However, it is those in law enforcement who are most likely to be the first to arrive upon a location requiring life saving acts engaging dangerous hostage takers, running into burning buildings/vehicles, providing first aid to seriously injured victims, saving near drowning victims and much more are what the women and men of law enforcement do routinely and at many times, great peril to their own safety.
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