Kelly Elementary teacher s first-time use of Heimlich training de-escalates pretty scary choking incident. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 5:26 pm, Jan. 11, 2021 ×
Cullen Capes, 10, a fourth-grader at J. Nelson Kelly Elementary school in Grand Forks, is photographed outside of his school with his teacher, Jo Miller, who performed the Heimlich maneuver on Cullen last week when he was choking on a small piece of candy in the classroom. Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
Jo Miller will not soon forget the look on Cullen Capes’ face when he was choking on a piece of candy last week in her fourth-grade class.
“It was just a look of sheer panic, like, it’s bad,” she said of the incident that took place Wednesday, Jan. 7, in her classroom at Kelly Elementary School. “He was clutching his throat, and I could tell that something had lodged.”