Less than a year after Anthony Killinger attended a CPR course in his school gymnasium, his mother was at the door of his bedroom saying she thought her husband was dead.

Running downstairs, Killinger found his stepfather, Mike Reese, unconscious on the ground making a snoring sound.

With a prayer to God to “take the wheel,” the Lancaster teen executed what he had been taught.

“I call 911 and the dude on the phone is telling me start doing CPR. I did it for like 8 minutes and then he started breathing again,” Killinger told WIVB 4 in Buffalo . “I had to check his pulse, but it kept fading.”

Those 8 minutes prolonged not only Reese’s life, but his brain, as cardiac arrest deprives the brain of oxygen rich blood, often leading to neurological tissue damage. The EMS arrived to relieve K

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