OVIEDO, Fla. – A Port St. Lucie man is alive today thanks to the quick actions of an Oviedo police officer who used an AED and CPR to bring him back from a heart attack — and the two reunited Wednesday for the first time since that life-saving moment.
Doug Black and his girlfriend, Kathy Joy Saunders, were in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church in Oviedo on April 26 when Black suffered a heart attack. He had arrived intending to attend the 9:30 a.m. service but wasn’t feeling well. He told Saunders to go inside without him, but she refused to leave.
“She stayed with me the entire time and helped me get through this,” Black said…