Crime & Safety

[VIDEO] Milwaukee Family Rescues Toddler after Couple Found Passed Out From Heroin Overdose in Running Car

BREAKING: First responders responded to the scene within minutes saving the lives of the couple and rescuing the toddler from the back seat

MILWAUKEE -- When a Milwaukee family learned a child was rescued after a couple passed out in their car from a Heroin overdose in Ohio, the family came forward and said they rescued a Milwaukee couple in exactly the same way.

The Milwaukee family has the video to document their heroic rescue:

The rescue in Milwaukee happened in March 2016,and according to a report today from WISN 12, a West Allis eighth-grade student alerted his parents, running into the house after he believed he saw two dead people parked in front of their family's house.

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According to WISN 12, the West Allis couple heeded their son's emphatic alert, and went outside to find a man and a woman unconscious, possibly dying, from an apparent overdose. The woman's 2-year-old son was also inside the car.

Firefighters on the scene and administered Narcan, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Victoria Warzyniakowski, 27, and Matthew Huber, 41, both from West Allis, fully recovered and were later convicted of child neglect. Huber was also convicted of felony drug possession.

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Watch more video and read the full WISN report here:

http://www.wisn.com/news/west-...

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