Dashcam Footage of a Cop Saving a Baby's Life Is the Definition of Right Place, Right Time

Nechole Crowell likely counts herself lucky that Florida Deputy Jeremie Nix crossed her path on May 9, in the middle of rush-hour traffic. Nechole was en route to the hospital, alongside her sister and her nonresponsive three-month-old baby Kingston, when she spotted Jeremie's cop car and flagged him down.

He had just finished his shift and was on his way home, but dashcam footage shows the fast-acting officer making a U-turn before pulling on the side of the road to meet the desperate family. He took the baby out of her arms and put him on the ground.

"I just kind of panicked and started crying, and I was just like, 'Tell me that he is breathing,'" Nechole recalled in an interview with NBC affiliate WESH News.

After attempting several lifesaving measures on the child and not seeing any improvement or any sign of an ambulance, the officer ran back to his patrol car, the baby still in his arms. He's heard radioing in to dispatchers, "I'm not waiting on medics . . . I'm heading to the emergency room with the baby."

The nail-biting footage shows him driving the half-mile to Ocala Regional Medical Center, where he then delivered the child to medical personnel.

It wasn't long before Kingston showed signs of recovery.

"I remember praying, thanking God for putting me in the right place, at the right time for the right reason," Nix told reporters Thursday. "This was the most emotional day I've ever had in my career. It was also the scariest and the most rewarding."

Kingston was discharged from the hospital the next day and is expected to make a full recovery. Doctors said that it's because of the deputy's actions that Kingston is alive.

Jeremie joked that he "gave the kid his first police pursuit ride," but Nechole knows he gave her son so much more than that.

"I'm grateful," she said. "He's a hero in my book, and I'm sure when King is old enough to know the story, he'll feel like he's a hero as well."