Officer Johnny Castillo saved the life of 2-month-old Adelyn Pena-Fernandez after she stopped breathing Tuesday morning.
Vision Zero saved a young life Tuesday morning — not on the streets, but in a Bronx apartment.
A cop trying to catch speeding drivers as part of the mayor’s traffic initiative raced into a nearby Fordham Manor apartment building to revive a 2-month-old girl who had stopped breathing, authorities said.
Officer Johnny Castillo, 38, was using a radar gun to look for lead-footed motorists near East 196th Street and Grand Concourse at 11:40 a.m. when word of the unconscious baby came over his radio, according to cops.
Castillo, a four-year NYPD veteran who also served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Army Ranger sniper and received a Presidential Citation, rushed to the sixth floor apartment and performed CPR on little Adelyn Pena-Fernandez, police said.
“The baby was blue, not breathing, unconscious,” Castillo said.
Pena-Fernandez opened her eyes and began breathing on her own before responders took her to Montefiore Medical Center, where she is in stable condition.
“Nothing that I’ve ever done in my life, in my military career or on this job can compare to what happened to me today,” the hero cop said.
“I felt like it was my kid,” said Castillo, himself a father of five. “I just told myself, ‘Don’t be nervous. Don’t be scared. Just take care of this little girl.’”
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