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SUPPLEMENT/CONTINUATION
FL0520300/Clearwater Police Department
Report No.
95-29158
Offense
Death Investigation
DateofReport
3/6/97
Pemberton: Umm. .pulls up. There’s the victim and three females present. I took a wheelchair out. Willie Burdette, one of the technicians, went out with me.
Det. Carrasquillo:
Okay.
Pemberton:
Because we were gonna... they needed help getting this
person out of the car. And immediately looking at her, I
suspected that things weren’t so good because she was very
pale. Her eyes had this really hazy look to them and she wasn’t breathing. So we immediately rushed her back to Room 2, which is our CPR room. And we then initiated CPR at that time.
Det. Carrasquillo:
What was your conclusion.. .when you first looked at her in
the van, what did you conclude?
Pemberton:
She looked like she was dead to me.
Det. Carrasquillo:
Okay. And you felt no pulse?
Pemberton:
No, there was no pulse and no respiration.
Det. Carrasquillo:
What about... .to the touch, was she cold?
Pemberton:
She was cool.
Det. Carrasquillo:
She was cool to the touch?
Pemberton:
And very pale.
Det. Carrasquillo:
So from your experience, you kinda figured she was dead?
Pemberton:
Yes, especially in retrospect.. .you know.., after you’ve had
time to process that image of looking at her. There’s no question in my mind now that she was definitely before she ever got here.
Det. Carrasquillo:
So you take her out of the van?
Pemberton:
Uh Huh.
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