Cop Saves Boy's Life: 'Part of My Job'

By Sean Stillmaker in News on Nov 6, 2010 6:30PM

A Chicago police officer saved the life of a 2-year-old Thursday afternoon just has he started his shift in the 17th district. Officer Tom Norberg, a 15 year veteran, was driving east on Montrose Ave. when a car pulled up behind him honking and flashing its lights. He let the car pull alongside side when the driver yelled out that her baby was not breathing. The mother told Norberg that the boy had been eating, but then started coughing and vomiting.

Norberg called for an ambulance and took the boy out of the car, laying him on a blanket on the ground. Recalling his police first-aid training he inspected the boy’s airway and began CPR. Sergio Martinez started breathing again and was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital when paramedics arrived. Norberg said he never had to do first aid quite like that, “It’s part of my job,” the father of two said at a press conference.