FORT WORTH, Texas — The heroic efforts of Forth Worth police officers who performed lifesaving CPR on an infant at the scene of a crash were all caught on body cam video. The two officers described the chain of events that led to the outcome they desperately hoped for.
According to police, on Oct. 23, 2025, a 1-year-old baby and her mother were ejected from a car during a horrific rollover crash on Interstate 30 between Eastchase Parkway and Cooks Lane in Fort Worth.
As fate would have it, one officer, Edwin Bounds, said he was on the highway when it happened.
“I watched the whole accident happen. I watched the rollover,” he said.
Bounds, Sgt. Ryan Nichols and bystanders rushed to the scene, where Nichols discovered the baby was pinned under the car. During a press conference on Oct. 28, Nichols and Bounds recounted what became a mad race to save a tiny life.
“We began to work, just praying on the inside that the Lord was going to work the problem for us,” said Nichols, who administered CPR on the infant with help from Bounds.
After what seemed to be a long and frightening silence, the video captured the first signs of hope. The officers discovered the baby had a pulse, and finally, their prayers were answered when they heard her cry.
“Just hearing that first little cry was the sweetest thing I could hear,” said Bounds.
That small cry didn’t just bring them relief. It was personal. Both officers are fathers of three children.
“When your child’s born, and the doctor’s working, you take him, and he finally starts crying and shows that sign of life. You’re like, ‘Okay. Things are gonna be okay.’ That’s kind of how it hit,” described Nichols.
Police Chief Eddie Garcia applauded their efforts.
“Far too often, these things go unnoticed,” Garcia said. “At the end of the day, we are dads. We are moms. We are brothers. We are sisters.”
When answering a call of duty, they’re also often called heroes. But if you ask the officers, they’ll tell you the real heroes are often the people they protect and serve.
They reflected on the bystanders who had helped lift the car and checked on the baby’s mother.
“Just the humanity in the situation of everybody knowing what needed to be done and just finding somewhere to fit in, it was real encouraging,” said Nichols.
Bounds said there were possibly 20 to 30 people helping at the scene.
“From people just talking to the mom to helping us lift, there’s good people in this world that want to do good things,” he said.
Police say both the mother and baby are expected to fully recover.