Overview
- Body camera video shows officers moving 75-year-old Phillip Amico to the floor at the Old Westbury Diner, starting chest compressions, and delivering a shock with a defibrillator until he began breathing and speaking.
- Amico, a grandfather from East Williston, later reunited with the responders and thanked them for giving him what he called a second chance.
- Officer John Kassebaum led the initial CPR effort, with Officer Michael Avelin and Detective Michael Brown assisting, according to the reports.
- The Old Westbury Police Department said every patrol car carries an automated external defibrillator, a policy it says made the rescue possible.
- Medical experts quoted in the coverage note that fast CPR and early defibrillation can double or even triple survival odds in sudden cardiac arrest.