Lake Highlands Patrol Officer Joseph McCoy was taking it easy on his day off, napping at his apartment complex, when he was awakened by screaming from the pool below.
McCoy raced downstairs and found an unconscious, five-year-old boy who had just been pulled from the pool.
McCoy immediately performed CPR and is credited with saving Lake Highlands resident Stephen Wilson’s life.
“He was determined to bring that boy back to life,” says Carmen Hernandez, assistant manager at the Madison Apartments at LBJ and Jupiter.
“He just wouldn’t let him die.”
Officer McCoy was recruited by the Dallas Police Department six years ago from a community college in Lansing, Michigan.
McCoy was born and raised in Houston and moved north to go to college for a change of pace, he says. He patrols the Skillman and Park Lane areas during the day and says he enjoys the social aspects of his job.
“I like meeting a lot of different people,” McCoy says. “And I like being a role model for small children.”
And he was just that for the children at the pool who were standing over McCoy as he brought Wilson back to life.
“We were very thankful Officer McCoy was there, because that little boy was dying,” Hernandez says.
