Off duty corrections officer saves infant and family from car wreckage after hearing the baby's screams

This is a sad story, but its good to see black men being portrayed doing something positive.

An off-duty correction officer doing yard work yesterday heard a baby’s wail and sprang into action — scooping the injured child from the wreckage of a two-vehicle crash and then helping to rescue her parents and brothers.

Russell Simplice, 36, who works at Rikers Island, said he was raking leaves outside his home in Cambria Heights, Queens, around 1:30 p.m. when he heard the 2-year-old tot’s distressed cries about a block away at 225th Street and 118th Avenue.

Rushing to the scene, he saw the little girl trapped in a green van with Pennsylvania license plates along with her parents and two brothers, as the vehicle lay pinned sideways against a tree by a black Toyota Sequoia SUV.

The toddler was lying on the broken side window, crying and coughing up blood, he said.

“I felt this adrenaline rush and just ran in there and grabbed her,” he said. “A neighbor gave me a white towel to wrap her in, and I handed her to my wife. Then I went back in to help the parents.”

Mr. Simplice may not see himself as a hero, and perhaps he’s not. He is a man that did what he felt was right at the time. There are black men doing good deeds everyday, let’s continue to support them!

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