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Police Body Cam Shows Desperate 12-Year-Old Son Recruiting Help To Save Mother

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A 12-year-old boy recruited Texan police to rescue his mother who experienced a seizure while driving a car and had fallen into a pond of water.

The act by Dwight Winbush helped to save the life of his mother on June 24, Good Morning America (GMA) reported Wednesday. (RELATED: Bodycam Video Shows Deputy Rescue 5-Year-Old Boy With Autism After He Leaves Home)

Police bodycam footage captured the moment when young Winbush flagged the police cruiser. “She’s having a seizure! She’s stuck! She’s in the water, help her!,” Dwight told the officer. The officer, Charles Cobb of the West Orange Police Department, told the boy to “hop in” his cruiser and drove to the scene. The partially-submerged car that Jonquetta Winbush, Dwight’s mother, drove was near the center of the pond.

“Is she in there? Is somebody in there,” Cobb shouted at Dwight’s 16-year-old sister Bri-Asia, who was getting out of the car. Cobb waded into the pond and unsuccessfully tried to open the door to the vehicle. Cobb then went back to the cruiser to grab a window punch to break into the car. “Here, got a punch,” Cobb told a good Samaritan as he re-entered the pond. The next clip in the video showed the officer administering CPR on Jonquetta surrounded by multiple individuals.

Epifanio Munguia, a good Samaritan, joined in the rescue efforts, GMA reported. “I realized that it was happening at that very moment. I pulled over and I jumped in the water,” he told ABC News.

“And then as soon as we were opening the door, the front door, I heard ‘I got her,’ and I felt like I won the lottery,” Munguia reportedly said.

Jonquetta is still in the hospital from the incident but is now stronger and breathing without the need for a ventilator, Bevnisha Holman, her sister, told the outlet. “My sister and my niece and nephew, they all needed you. Y’all stepped in. Y’all didn’t hesitate,” Holman reportedly said of the men who rescued her sister.

The City of West Orange in Texas recognized the “courageous efforts to save Jonquetta [Winbush]” displayed by Cobb in their letter of commendation to him. They also named two good Samaritans, Corey Bull and Epifanio Munguia.

Cobb’s actions “resulted directly in saving of the life of Jonquetta Wishbush,” a city official read during the ceremony.