Long Island Rookie Officers Help Deliver Baby Girl In Rainstorm On Highway

LONG ISLAND, NY — A trio of rookie police officers on Long Island helped safely deliver a baby girl in a car on the side of Sunrise Highway on Monday evening.

Officers Joseph Lacey, Brendan Nappi, and Jonathan Verity, who all graduated from the police academy on Friday, responded to a 911 call of a woman in active labor inside a Honda Accord on the shoulder of Sunrise Highway, near William Floyd Parkway in Shirley, during heavy rain just after 6 p.m., police said.

Once there, the officers, who are assigned to the 7th Precinct in Shirley, helped the 37-year-old
Mastic Beach woman deliver the healthy baby girl, and wrapped her in a blanket, before Shirley Community Ambulance arrived shortly after and took the mother and her baby to Stony Brook University Hospital, police said.