An off-duty Kansas City police officer saved a young boy’s life at Royals game
Kansas City police officer Matt Deloux took his son to last Thursday’s Royals-White Sox game at Kauffman Stadium and ended up saving a life.
The KC police department shared the story of Deloux’s quick thinking on its Twitter account.
Thursday was “School Day at The K,” and Deloux was in the Truman Sports Complex parking lot with his son before first pitch.
“This kid ran to me and grabbed my arm,” Deloux said in the Twitter account. “I thought he was playing at first, but then I saw he was in distress and not making any sounds. He was choking.”
The KCPD said Deloux estimated the boy was about 10 years old, so he didn’t want to use the Heimlich maneuver because he might injure the child.
“Deloux bent the boy over, put his arm across the boy’s diaphragm and started striking his back. It took a full minute and several strikes to dislodge the food. Turned out, it was a chocolate bar that was stuck,” the police department wrote on Twitter.
The boy, whose family lives in Platte City, is doing fine.
“I didn’t know him at all,” Deloux told the KCPD Twitter account. “I asked him why he came up to me and he said it was because I looked the most professional.”
Here is the KCPD Twitter thread on Deloux’s quick-thinking actions.
