Cpl. James Streeter, 37, said he was at home cleaning around 9 a.m. when his doorbell rang. He opened the door to find Pastor Greg Ball’s wife Bobbie on his porch very upset. Streeter said he is friends with the couple and attends Destiny Church.
Bobbie Ball told Streeter that she and her husband had been jogging in their neighborhood when he suddenly collapsed. She said she knocked on the doors of several neighbors in an attempt to get help, but nobody was home.
That’s when she saw Streeter’s patrol car parked in his driveway and rang his doorbell.
Less than a mile into the run, Greg, who had turned 48 the day before, collapsed. “We usually jog to the left and this time we jogged to the right,” says Greg. “We made a jog around and from that moment on, I really didn’t remember anything that happened. My wife said I took off running, got about a hundred yards ahead of her, and just dropped.”
Streeter said he called Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Communications Center and then drove a quarter of a mile to where Ball was on the ground.
Ball wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse.
Streeter removed the AED from his patrol car, hooked it up to Ball and gave him one shock. Streeter then administered CPR until Ball started breathing on his own.
Paramedics arrived shortly after and transported Ball to a local hospital.
“The next thing I remember,” says Greg, “was waking up in the hospital and hearing the amazing story of what God did for my life.”
