A newborn baby was on the brink of death before a New Jersey Transit Police Officer took life-saving measures to revive the infant. On July 14, 2020 NJ Transit police responded to Newark Penn Station and a found a woman in a restroom cradling her unresponsive newborn in her arms transit police said in a statement. The baby's skin was gray and the baby wasn't breathing, which is when Officer Bryan Richards sprang into action. Richards immediately began chest compression's on the newborn, who was wrapped in a sweater and called for an ambulance but soon realized the baby needed to be taken to a hospital immediately. Bodycam footage posted by transit police shows Richards moving quickly through Newark Penn Station carefully cradling the baby. Richards then got into a police car with Officer Alberto Nunes, who put on his sirens and rushed to University Hospital. The baby remained unresponsive as Richards continued CPR but slowly the baby began to show signs of life and even started crying. "There we go, good girl," Richards could be heard saying on bodycam footage. It was high stress and adrenaline, Richard's said in a press conference on Friday, "but once I had the baby crying it was a big sigh of relief." Richards the father of a 7 month old child said that the rescue hit home for him but that he was prepared for a moment like this , serving as a medical technician for the past 12 years. "An excellent job and another precious life saved by New Jersey Transit Officers," transit police said in a statement. (Credit Northjerseynews Anthony Zurita)