A pregnant Oklahoma City woman named Mason was driving home with her fiancee when she went into labor four weeks early. Panicked, the couple quickly pulled into the nearby truck stop and called 911.
But right there on the front seat of their Honda, their daughter was born. Mason's relief turned frantic when she realized her baby girl wasn't breathing. She screamed out for help as she watched her baby's face turn blue.
That’s when a homeless man stepped into the family's life, and did the unthinkable.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a drifter who the couple had never met before took the phone and let the 911 dispatcher walk him through medical instructions. Everyone surrounding the couple was frantic, yet the mystery man remained cool, calm, and collected. He took the baby by the need and freed her of the tightly wrapped umbilical cord, tying it off and rubbing the baby's back as she began to breathe.
The mysterious man's confidence and unexpected skills helped keep Mason calm. "I would describe him as kinda like looking like Jesus," a truck stop employee told KOTV. “He had the long hair, the long beard. Just a very nice gentleman."
Mason and her fiancee are eternally grateful to Gary for saving their newborn daughter. Had this homeless hero not taken the phone and did what he did, she may not be alive today. "He was our angel that night, that’s for sure," Mason said.
The man, who has since been identified as Gary Wilson, was gone by the next day after bystanders treated him to a meal and a place to sleep. He told people he was heading to Jacksonville, FL from Montana. Experts say he did everything perfectly right that fateful day at the truck stop.
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