Trooper, deputy help deliver baby at Navasota Shell station

It has been a dark and difficult week in Texas, especially for the brave men and women who wear the badge.

So this good news really delivers at the right time.

State Trooper Dylan Duke was assisting Grimes County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven Siracusa in a routine traffic stop around 7 p.m. Saturday when they heard a dispatch that a woman was in labor at a Shell gas station in nearby Navasota, a town about 25 minutes southeast of College Station. An ambulance was enroute, but they were closer.

So Duke and Siracusa dashed over to the parking lot to help.

They made sure the woman was comfortable in the backseat and they called nearby St. Joseph’s hospital, where staff members helped walk them through the steps of delivering the baby.

Oscar Jr. was born at 7:19 p.m., healthy and loud, the officers said.

Soon after, an ambulance arrived and took the family to the hospital.

DPS posted the story on Facebook on Monday, and it was flooded with positive comments.

Duke told KBTX in College Station he was nervous about delivering a baby, but he had been trained at the academy on the procedure and he said those skills kicked in.

He also said the timing of this happy-ending story couldn’t be better, as the police community continues to grieve for the five officers killed in an ambush-style shooting in Dallas on Thursday.

“This was a light to the darkness that's been going on recently,” Duke said, “so this is definitely something that we needed.”

This story was originally published July 12, 2016 at 10:42 AM with the headline "Trooper, deputy help deliver baby at Navasota Shell station."