A Georgia police officer is being called a hero after he saved a baby from choking.<br /><br />Marietta officer Nick St. Onge responded to a 911 call May 15 from a woman who said her 2-month-old infant was conscious but not breathing, according to a statement by the Marietta Police Department.<br /><br />The act was caught on dashcam and bodycam footage. <br /> The baby appeared lifeless and was turning blue, police said. Officer St. Onge began CPR, using chest thrusts and back blows to try and clear the baby’s airways.<br /><br />“There we go. Come on, baby. Come on,” St. Onge says in the video. <br /> After a couple minutes, police said, the infant started to respond to the CPR, crying and breathing irregularly<br /><br />St. Onge had recently taken a CPR class in February that helped him during this incident, he told ABC Atlanta affiliate WSB-TV.<br /><br />Fire department paramedics arrived shortly afterward and took over.<br /><br />Dorsey called St. Onge the family’s hero.<br /><br />But the officer said, “I’m just the guy who showed up to do what he had to do.”<br /><br />The baby was released from the hospital and is home with her family.
