A Chicago Lyft driver is hailed a hero after he alerted authorities to a disturbing plan of a father who shared that he wanted to sacrifice his son during a ride.
When officers responded to Jeremiah Campbell’s home on the 7700 block of South Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, the 29-year-old father was in the process of drowning his 2-year-old son in a bathtub.
Officers forced entry to the home when they didn’t receive an answer after they knocked at the door. Through a window, they could see the man kneeling over the bathtub.
“They brought the child out and he was just drenched and coughing,” a neighbor recalled.
The police’s intervention that saved the toddler’s life came after the Lyft driver contacted 911 to report that Campbell talked about sacrificing his child to Jehovah during a ride to his home.
Campbell was on probation for a 2021 case of aggravated assault resulting in bodily harm and domestic battery.
