Cop Saves Unconscious 3-Year-Old's Life Thanks to CPR

CHICAGO, IL — A probationary Chicago police officer used CPR to save an unconscious 3-year-old boy's life Thursday morning on the West Side, according to police.

Tone Trujillo, a probationary officer with the Chicago Police Department, and his partner, Officer Jose Sanchez, responded to a radio call at about 7:16 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, of a child found not breathing at a home in the 5500 block of West Gladys Avenue in the Austin neighborhood.

When the officers arrived at the scene, Trujillo immediately began performing CPR on the boy, police said. Emergency workers from the Chicago Fire Department took over for Trujillo after arriving a short time later, and the child was resuscitated.

The boy was taken and treated at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, and he appears to be recovering just fine, police said.

"[H]e is said to be running around the ER like a normal 3-year-old," according to a CPD statement.

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