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- wheelchair out. They.. .they just said “I’m sorry...
we don’t.. .we just don’t have an extra stretcher
right now. I said “Well”.. .you know.. .“Hey, look... this is serious”. They.. .they weren’t quite grasping that this was a serious situation at that point. So
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they came out with the wheelchair. We put her in the
wheelchair. To me, at that point it did not look like
.you know.. .she was. . .she was not breathing.. .1 cOuld
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not see any.. .any motion. . .you know. . . any motion that
she was breathing.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. How was her skin color?
Johnson:
Well. . .you know. . .it was this funny fluorescent kind
of light. We all looked funny.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. But you couldn’t tell if she had any breathing
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Johnson:
No. She didn’t look.. .1 mean.. .liké blue.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Alright. -
Johnson:
But she didn’t. . .there was no obvious motion either.
Det. Sudler:
So she didn’t have a gray cast or.. .you know...
JohnsOn:
- No. . .no. -
,Det. Sudler:
And at that point she was just taken right into the
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ER? - -
Johnson:
Uh Huh. ‘ - -
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Det. Sudler: Okay. Alright. When.. .1 guess. . .did Dr. Minkoff
tell you in person that she had died or how did you find out about -that?
Johnson:
Well, -the.. .the ER nurse was asking us for information
and. . .you know. . .1 was. . .1 did not have a whole lot of information.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. -
- - Johnson:
I hadn’t even thought to. . .to. . .to pick up. .to pick
up her’purse. ..to find her purse there in the room.
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‘ - So I didn’t have her address or.. .you know. . .her

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