Diner at sandwich shop, Seattle police come together to save life of overdosed man

SEATTLE — A diner in a Seattle sandwich shop helped Seattle police save the life of a man who overdosed in the shop’s bathroom Friday.

A 29-year-old man purchased a cookie and asked for the shop’s bathroom code. Shortly afterward, people heard what ‘sounded like a body falling onto the restroom floor,’ police said.

An employee entered the bathroom and found the man lying on the floor. A diner at the shop helped check the man for a pulse, found none and instructed another diner to call 911.

Police say the diner who checked for a pulse performed CPR on the collapsed man.

When Seattle police bike sergeant Rob Brown arrived, Brown administered the overdose drug naloxone.

The man had a pulse within 20 seconds and was soon breathing on his own.

Police say the man, once he was able to open his eyes and sit up, admitted to using heroin in the bathroom.

Seattle police say the incident marks the 17^th time the life-saving overdose drug naloxone has been used by their department to save an overdose patient.

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