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STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan ( WXYZ ) -- A Sterling Heights police officer is being praised as a hero after saving a 5-month-old baby's life at a local Walmart earlier this month.

Officer Edwar Talia, who has been with the Sterling Heights Police Department for seven years, was working special detail on the night of November 1 when he received an emergency call that would test his recently renewed CPR training.

"David 90, we have a child choking, report to customer service, so I rushed in there," Talia said.

At 8:30 p.m., Talia sprinted to what he described as a scene straight from a nightmare. Baby Jameson's mother, Bayley Simon, was nursing her son when the infant suddenly went blue and limp.

"He was like a wet noodle, there was nothing there, no

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