By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-26 21:07:04 | Updated at 2024-11-26 23:37:02
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A heroic cop happened to be in the right place at the right time and saved a sleeping man from plummeting off the edge of an Oklahoma bridge.
Officer Reyes of the state's city police department was responding to a welfare check of a man that was reportedly fast asleep on a bridge at S. Pennsylvania and Exchange Avenue earlier this month.
But the routine welfare check quickly turned into a rescue mission that was all captured on dramatic bodycam footage.
The man - who was sound asleep and lying flat on his back in a red sweatshirt - began to roll to the side and off the thin ledge of the bridge.
Just as he was about to fall over, Reyes was captured as he quickly reacted to the nearly-catastrophic accident and narrowly grabbed the man by his sweatshirt in just the nick of time - single-handedly keeping him from dropping into the waters that lay hundreds of feet below.
A good Samaritan also halted his run to assist the officer in the rescue once he was aware of what was happening.
Reyes held a powerful grip on the man's arm - who was then alert and awake - while the passerby helped in hoisting the grunting man back on safer grounds.
'You alright, buddy?' Reyes said in the released footage once the man was successfully rescued.
The man was not injured from the heart-dropping incident and was cleared by medical staff - he was simply just asleep. Reyes eventually gave him a ride back to his family.
Newly released bodycam footage captured a heroic Oklahoma police officer saving a man sleeping on the thin ledge of a bridge
The man was seen beginning to roll over on his side - but just as he was about to plummet into the waters below, the officer reacted in the nick of time and narrowly grabbed the man by his sweatshirt to hoist him back up on safer grounds
