Cops made a last-minute resc🔜ue of a suicidal woman who was sitting in her carbon 😼monoxide-filled BMW by tracking her cellphone — which only had 6 percent battery life left.
Wayida Smalls, 39, had been reported missing by her husband Wednesday evening after she sent him several texts during the day saying that she was༒ going to kill herself.
The frantic husband hadn’t seen his wife since she left their Harlem apartment that🌜 morning and tried desperately to find her himself. When his efforts failed, he called police around 7:30 p.m.
Cops from the 32nd Precinct went to the couple’s home, but realizing that time was short, they contacted the department’s Technical Assistance Response Unit, who also showed up and began trying to ping her cellphone.
“Initially, they weren’t getting a ping,🌟 bu♛t then after a while, we finally got a signal and found the vicinity of her location,” said NYPD Sgt. Mario DiLeo, who helped in the search effort.
Cops then raced to her on Fifth Avenue near West 132nd Street. They saw Smalls reclined and unresponsive in the driver’s seat of he♑r locked BMW — which had a T-shirt stuffed in the tailpipe.
“She was slouched back ༺with the chair fully reclined. She was semi-coꦑnscious,” DiLeo said.
The cops were just about to smash the windo🌃w before they saw Smalls ⛎begin to move.
“We s♈aw her hand reach for the handle, and we were able to pry it open, and 🅘then she fell unconscious again,” the sergeant added.
The cops opened all the doors and shut off the car before rushing her to Harlem Hospital, where she is recoveri🅘ng and in stable condition.
When cops lookedಞ at the woman’s phone, they no๊ticed the battery life was at just 6 percent.
“We were lucky we found the car when we did. Otherwise, if th🌠e phone had died, this might have turned out differently,” DiLeo said.