Three-year-old Michigan boy saves mother’s life with quick thinking after she has seizure

Cody James Williams used facial recognition to call for help as his mother suffered medical emergency

Authorities in Michigan are saying a three-year-old boy is a hero after he managed to unlock his mother's phone using her face while she experienced a severe epileptic seizure and then summoned life-saving help on a video call.

Cody James Williams' actions serve as a good reminder for all parents that you should talk to your kids [about what to] do in an emergency", the Oakland county sheriff, Michael Bouchard, said at a 14 October news conference where he honored the boy by symbolically deputizing him as a junior member of his office.