- Baby Bella, 29 days old, stopped breathing around 8:30pm on December 1
- Officer Eng of the Savannah-Chatham police department rushed to the scene
- He revived her and she was taken to a hospital; doctors said he saved her life
- Eng, Bella and her mother were reunited at the police department’s HQ today
- ‘I just took a deep breath and did what I was trained to do,’ he said
A Georgia police officer has been hailed a hero after he saved a 1-month-old girl who had stopped breathing.
Video shows Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Officer William Eng rushing up a flight of stairs of an apartment complex where poor Bella, 29 days old, was not breathing.
Family members called police around 8.30pm on Friday, December 1 to ask for urgent help.
Officer William Eng had responded to a call from baby Bella’s family members on December 1.
The toddler had stopped breathing. He was able to revive her and doctors said he saved her life
Savannah-Chatham, Georgia police officer William Eng, 46, plays with 29-day-old Bella Adkins while her mother, Tina Adkins, holds her during the trio’s Monday reunion
The police department noted on Facebook: ‘Although Officer Eng was not the one dispatched, he knew he was closer and headed that way.’
Eng, 46, found baby Bella in the arms of her mother, Tina Adkins.
He performed compressions on Bella for about one minute before she began to cry – a sign of life.
She was then taken to a hospital, where doctors said Eng had saved her life.
‘I just took a deep breath and did what I was trained to do,’ Eng told ABC News.
During the November 4 reunion, Eng presented Bella with a onesie emblazoned with the police department’s logo
‘I just took a deep breath and did what I was trained to do,’ Eng said
The three were reunited at the SCMPD headquarters on December 4.
One of Bella’s family members told the assembled crowd: ‘Sometimes angels don’t come from heaven. Some of them are already here. And [Eng] is an angel.’
He presented the girl with a toddler’s onesie emblazoned with the department’s logo.