WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. By John F. Bailey. September 24, 2003 UPDATED, September 25, 2003  10:30 P.M.: It was a routine morning for Councilman Glen Hockley. He was driving down Longview Avenue between 7:30 and 8 o'clock Wednesday morning in his light blue Volvo station wagon, when he noticed a woman he knew holding her throat and appearing to be choking on the side walk. He recognized her as Rosalind Keyes, a resident of Winbrook. Within minutes, Mr. Hockley took a hand and did God's work. He got her into his car and whisked her two long blocks to White Plains Hospital Medical Center. It saved her life.

Councilman Hockley said he visited Ms. Keyes and found that she had apparently been suffering from pneumonia which had congested her lungs to where she could not breath. He said she was O.K. today, and being treated for the illness.

Councilman Glen Hockley

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WPCNR learned about Mr. Hockley's stepping up to the plate because he arrived late for the special session of the Common Council scheduled for 8 A.M. Wednesday morning.

Mr. Hockley said that Ms. Keyes could not stop choking, and as he helped her into his car, she went into convulsions. He immediately sped to White Plains Hospital Medical Center with Ms. Keyes experiencing seizure and convulsive symptoms, gagging and loss of breath, according to Mr. Hockley.

He said he drove into the White Plains Hospital emergency room parking lot and was met by about 10 emergency room personnel. They at first thought Ms. Keyes was dead, he said, and could not find a pulse.

"They immediately started working on her," Hockley reports, "and I heard them cry we've got her pulse back. I tell you I am really shaken up over this."

What was a routine morning turned into an event that brought Mr. Hockley together with Ms. Keyes at the moment she needed someone to help. And Mr. Hockley did. Hockley said she appeared to be o.k., when he left the emergency room to head for City Hall. He praised the emergency room workers who instantly moved to his and Ms. Keyes' aid before a paper form was signed.

"Someone asked me why I didn't call 911," Hockley told WPCNR in the City Hall rotunda, "but there was no time. I didn't think to do that. I had to get her to the hospital."