An Illinois man saved his neighbor’s choking child in a moment that was captured in doorbell camera footage.
In the video, the child’s mother, Stephanie George, can be seen running over to her neighbor’s house carrying her 7-year-old son.
George’s son, Sebastian, has a rare genetic condition called Cornelia de Lange syndrome and eats through a feeding tube, she told Chicago ABC affiliate WLS-TV. On Saturday evening, a piece of chicken that didn’t blend up finely enough became lodged in Sebastian’s throat, and she quickly realized he was choking.
Fearing it would take emergency responders too long to arrive, George grabbed her son and carried him across the street to the home of her neighbor, Gary Hutchinson.
In the moment captured on the doorbell camera, Hutchinson can be seen answering the door, then laying Sebastian across his knee and gently hitting him on the back until the stuck food was dislodged.
Hutchinson said he has taken CPR training and is grateful he was able to help his neighbors in their time of need.
