COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Two Colorado Springs Police officers appear to have saved the life of a 20-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin Thursday evening.
The woman's mother called police to say her daughter had injected heroin in a van near Lexington Drive and Union Boulevard in the city around 6:14 p.m.
Officers arrived when the mother told them her daughter was not breathing and did not have a pulse. Officers Adam Sandoval and Jon Sharketti arrived to find the victim blue in the face.
The two officers performed CPR until medical personnel arrived, at which point the woman began breathing again.
Medical crews transported the woman to Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for the overdose.
Officers said the woman was conscious and breathing in the hospital and would be released.
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