GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — It was February 26th, 2021, a Friday. It was the night shift. It was supposed to be a normal call.
It seemed like one. A shoplifting call at Walgreens on Mason Street just after midnight. But as Officer Shawna Coron, a young police officer with two-and-a-half years of experience under her belt, was dealing with the female suspect, someone started…honking.
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They drove around the block, pulled into the Walgreens…and kept honking.
“A male came out of the vehicle, and then they ran to the passenger side,” Coron recounted to WTAQ. “I thought maybe an overdose was happening, or some sort of something was going on that was weird. They ran over there, and I was informed that the female was in labor.”
It was an east Green Bay man and his very pregnant wife, on their way to Bellin Hospital. Her water had broken not 20 minutes earlier, but this baby wasn’t waiting around for another minute.
This crime scene just became a delivery room.
Officer Coron sprang into action.
“I asked her ‘is the baby coming?’ and she said ‘yeah’,” Coron said. “So I got on my latex medical gloves, and as soon as you know it, the baby’s coming out.”
Officer Coron caught the baby, while another Officer, Officer O’Donnell, kept the newborn and mother warm to wait for help to arrive.
It was emotional.
“After the call, I actually called my fiance and I said ‘Hey, I just delivered a baby’,” said Coron. “He couldn’t believe it. He was really excited for me.”
Officers Coron and O’Donnell got to meet the baby, a boy given the name “Andres”, last week.
“I got to hold him, which is very cool,” Coron said. “And he was very cute.”
Sixteen years from now, perhaps young Andres will drive past the East Mason Street Walgreens and think, “that’s where it all began.”
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