Bodycam video from Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy Nathan Marshall shows a frantic family and a baby girl, bluish and limp. The call was for a baby unresponsive and not breathing.

“At that time, I just checked to see if there was anything blocking her airway,” said Marshall. “It seemed as if she was possibly choking on her tongue because of the heat seizure or whatever might have happened at the time. We didn’t really know what the scenario was.”

He’s holding her on his arm and patting her back repeatedly, doing CPR.

Then, eventually – happily – you can hear her cry, which is a great sign.

“She started to breathe again and then once she started crying, we knew that she was getting enough oxygen and air into her system,” said Marshall.

Corporal Aaron Sherwood’s bodycam capturesMarshall at the scene.

Marshall said he relied on all the training they get, plus more CPR training they just had a couple months ago.

“It definitely helped,” he said. “A good portion of the training was for dealing with infants, so it’s not every day that you have a call for that. Having that training and background – our lieutenant set that training up, and we all attended, and it was very good, very useful, for exactly this purpose.”

With the baby now breathing, the two men comfort her.

“It was for her as well as the family. Not many people have interaction with the police, and they only see one side of us, you know. We’re human too. We have families. We try to put ourselves in their shoes. Everything is stressful, high tempo, so we try to make sure everybody’s calm, you’re going to be okay, we’re here to help.”

Marshall is getting a lot of praise for his life-saving efforts, but he says it wasn’t him alone.

“Without all the pieces working together, it doesn’t work out as well as it did that evening, so it’s definitely a group effort. It’s the whole department.”

A little girl got the help she desperately needed.

“That evening I called the hospital to ensure that everything was okay, and we got the word back that they were released back home, and she was good,” said Marshall. “And I spoke to the family this morning and actually spoke to dad, and he said everybody is happy and healthy and at home and doing well.”