Crime & Safety
Police Deliver Healthy Baby Boy At I-94 Gas Station
A woman in labor didn't make it to the hospital in time, so two Metro Detroit police officers brought her son into the world.
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, MI — Officers in a suburban Detroit police department delivered a healthy baby boy to a motorist who had pulled over early Saturday morning in a gas station parking lot on Haggerty Road near the Interstate 94 service drive in Van Buren Township, television station WDIV is reporting.
Van Buren Township police Officer Mike Rini and Sgt. Mark Abdilla delivered the baby in the BP gas station parking about 1:24 a.m. while waiting for emergency medical responders to arrive.
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The front seat of the car served as a birthing chair for the mother. Both are “healthy and great” and are doing well at University of Michigan Hospital, according to the report.
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