By MailOnline Reporter A quick-thinking police officer who saved a baby girl from choking to death 20 years ago has attended her wedding. Shammarah Hamideh, 20, calls Sergeant Joseph Barca her 'second father' after he revived her in her Yonkers, New York, home in December 1993 when she was just two months old. Barca has never missed Hamideh's birthday. On Sunday, he watched her walk down the aisle. Scroll down for video Moving: New York Sergeant Joseph Barca (right) said he was elated to attend the wedding of Shammarah Hamideh, 20, in Chicago on Sunday. Barca saved Hamideh's life when she was just two-months-old and they have been close ever since
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Sgt Joseph Barca cleared 2-month-old Shammarah Hamideh's airway in Yonkers, New York, in December 1993
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Barca has become extremely close with Hamideh and her family
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Barca and his wife Helen, who live in Buffalo, attended Hamideh's wedding in Chicago on Sunday
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The cop plans to retire from the force this fall
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