Police officers deliver baby in car

Three Suffolk County Police officers helped safely deliver a baby girl in a car on the side of Sunrise Highway in Shirley on Monday.

Seventh Precinct Officers Joseph Lacey, Brendan Nappi, and Jonathan Verity 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, during heavy rain at 6:11 p.m. 

Upon police arrival, Officers Lacey, Nappi and Officer Verity—who graduated from the Suffolk County Police Academy on Friday—assisted the 37-year-old Mastic Beach woman to deliver the healthy baby girl and wrap her in a blanket.

Shirley Community Ambulance arrived shortly after and transported the healthy mother and baby to Stony Brook University Hospital.