Michael Jackson Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in Home Part II

On June 25, at 1222 hours, or 12:22 pm, EST, Los Angeles Fire and Rescue responded to a 911 emergency call at 100 North Carolwood Dr., the location of Michael Jackson’s rented luxury estate.

[Link] to 911 call.

According to Captain Steve Ruda, Los Angeles Fire Department, paramedics were dispatched within 41 seconds, arriving at Jackson’s home in 3 min., 17 seconds. Paramedics spent 42 minutes treating Jackson at the scene before departing to UCLA Medical Center, arriving in three minutes.

At 5:20 pm, PST, the site, TMZ reported that a “source” claimed paramedics found Jackson “dead” when they arrived at Jackson’s home after receiving the 911 call at 12:22 pm.

According to TMZ, Jackson had “suffered a cardiac arrest”. Paramedics found Jackson didn’t have a “pulse” and that, they “never got a pulse back”. When hospital staff tried to “resuscitate” Jackson from “cardiac arrest”, Jackson was “unresponsive”.

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest is the “sudden, abrupt loss of heart function”. In short, the heart is no longer functioning, causing a loss of consciousness, “normal breathing”, and a loss of “pulse” and blood pressure. Within four-six minutes, after symptoms of cardiac arrest appear, brain death and permanent death start to occur, leading to Sudden Cardiac Death, or “Sudden Death”.

“Brain death and permanent death start to occur in just 4 to 6 minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest can be reversed if it’s treated within a few minutes with an electric shock to the heart to restore a normal heartbeat. This process is called defibrillation. A victim’s chances of survival are reduced by 7 to 10 percent with every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation. Few attempts at resuscitation succeed after 10 minutes.”

“It’s estimated that more than 95 percent of cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital. In cities where defibrillation is provided within 5 to 7 minutes, the survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest is as high as 30–45 percent.”
-American Heart.org

According to LAPD Search Warrant and Affidavit documents released on August 25:

-”On June 25, 2009, Los Angeles Fire Department Fire and Rescue Ambulance (RA) 71 responded to an emergency call at 100 North Carolwood Drive, in the city of Los Angeles.

-The caller stated a “50-yr-old male was not breathing” and “CPR was in process”.

-Upon the paramedics arrival, they were “met by Dr. Conrad Murray”.

-Murray informed paramedics the patient “had stopped breathing” and that Murray had “continuously applied CPR” until the paramedic’s arrival.

-Murray told paramedics he’d given Jackson Lorazepam or “Ativan” before Jackson had “stopped breathing”.

-Paramedics began treating Jackson then transported both Jackson and Murray to UCLA Medical Center.

-Upon arrival Murray met with Dr R. Cooper, “physician in charge of the emergency department”. Murray stated to Cooper that he had given Jackson “2 separate 2mg doses of LORAZEPAM (Ativan) during the course of the night”.

-”Cooper and her team attempted to revive Jackson with negative results.”

-Cooper pronounced Jackson’s death at 1426 (2:26 pm) hours.

-”Murray refused to sign the death certificate and the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office was summoned to the hospital.”

-Los Angeles LAPD Robbery Homicide Detectives were assigned to “assist Coroner’s office investigators to conduct a death investigation”.

-”Upon arrival, neither the coroner’s investigators nor detectives could locate Murray to re-interview him. Repeated attempts at contacting and locating Murray were unsuccessful.”

Source-MSNBC.com

Above is the “timeline” Dr. Conrad Murray purportedly gave investigators on June 27 during a three hour interview with LAPD investigators and which were noted in the August 25 official search warrant affidavit documents. A timeline of the medications Murray stated he administered to Michael Jackson beginning at 1:30 am in order to allegedly treat symptoms of Jackson’s chronic insomnia. Medications which corresponded with coroner’s office “list” of drugs which contributed to Jackson’s cause of death.

In the official affidavit, investigators cited that Murray stated:

-That at “approximately 10:52 am” Murray discovered Jackson “no longer breathing”,

-Murray started CPR,

-”Administered .2mg of Anexate”-(a drug that counteracts the effects of sedatives),

-Then used his cell phone to contact Jackson’s personal assistant Michael Amir Williams.

-Murray stated that he “reached” Williams and that Murray requested Williams “send security upstairs for an emergency”.

-Murray stated he continued CPR, and, after a “few minutes”, when the security detail had “failed to respond”, Murray “left Jackson” and went downstairs to the kitchen.

Aside from the affidavit, it’s worth noting-if statements are proved to be true-that Murray, a cardiologist, who should be well informed on the small “window of opportunity” in treating a patient presenting symptoms of cardiac arrest, opted to instruct Williams to “contact security” to come upstairs for an “emergency”, instead of directing Williams to dial 911.

What’s also worth noting: whether the upstairs bedroom that contained “oxygen tanks” and other assorted medical equipment, contained a defibrillator? If so, whether there’s evidence a defibrillator was used before paramedics arrived.

Gleaned from the details supplied in the affidavit, Murray bypassed a second opportunity to ask an adult in the Jackson home to contact 911 during the crucial period of time Jackson was under duress, when Murray went downstairs to the kitchen and found the chef. Both the affidavit and Murray’s attorney stated Murray stopped performing CPR on Jackson and went downstairs in order to “get help”. Both the affidavit and Chernoff stated Murray came in contact with the “chef”.

According to the affidavit, “after a few minutes without the security’s response”, Murray “left Jackson” then went downstairs to the kitchen.

According to the affidavit, once downstairs, Murray “asked the chef to send up Prince Michael”.

-Murray stated he went back upstairs, where he “continued CPR” on Jackson.

The affidavit stated: “P Jackson responded upstairs and summoned the security detail.

-Alberto Alvarez “went to the aid of Murray” and dialed 911 using his own cell phone.

-Murray performed CPR on Jackson while awaiting the arrival of the ambulance, “assumed care from the paramedics then accompanied them to the hospital”.

According to a statement released June 29 by Murray attorney, Ed Chernoff, during an interview with People, Murray’s version of what occurred was quite different from the affidavit released on August 25.

Here’s an excerpt of Chernoff’s June 29 statement on Murray’s “version of events” from People.com:

On June 24, he says, his client was asked by Jackson to spend the night at the singer’s house following Jackson’s rehearsal for his new tour at the Staples Center. The next day, when Jackson did not emerge from his bedroom before noon, Murray entered the room and found the singer unconscious – but with a faint pulse.

“Dr. Murray began performing CPR for several minutes as he tried to revive him, unsuccessfully,” Chernoff tells PEOPLE.

Chernoff says Murray – who met Jackson in 2006 when he treated one of his children in Las Vegas and did not become the singer’s personal physician until May – tried to call 911, but because of security arrangements at the house, was unable to get a line out. Murray thought of using his cellphone, but realized he didn’t know the address of Jackson’s house, according to Chernoff. Instead, he screamed for help.

Murray then stated:

“With Michael still on the bed, he put one hand under Michael’s back for support and compressing with his other hand. He continued to check the pulse, and the pulse remained,” says Chernoff.”

Chernoff stated next:

“When nobody replied to his urgent cries for help, Murray located a chef in the kitchen. A member of Jackson’s security detail finally called for help.”

Chernoff stated:

“After the ambulance arrived, says Chernoff, Murray spoke to doctors at UCLA, who instructed the paramedics to administer an epinephrine shot directly to Jackson’s heart in an attempt to revive him.

“Michael continued to have a pulse,” says Chernoff, even as he was taken out of the house and put in the ambulance for the trip to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:26 that afternoon.”

In Chernoff’s version, Murray “thought of using his cell phone” but didn’t “know” Jackson’s address. Missing from Chernoff’s version of events, Murray using his cell phone to call Michael Amir Williams. Also missing, any mention of Prince Michael, Jackson’s 13-yr-old son.

Woven throughout Chernoff’s narrative are the recurring themes of Michael Jackson’s “pulse”, Murray performing CPR on Jackson, and “time”:

The “pulse” and “CPR” themes began with Murray allegedly finding his patient “unconscious – but with a faint pulse”. Murray “applied CPR” then “continued to check the pulse, and the pulse remained strong”, until Jackson, who according to Chernoff’s statement, “continued to have a pulse”, “even as” Jackson was “taken out of the house and put into the ambulance”.

In short, according to Murray’s attorney, Michael Jackson was “still alive” up until the moment Jackson was transferred to the care of the LAFD paramedics.

The “time” theme began around “noon” with:

-”When Jackson did not emerge from his bedroom before noon, Murray entered the room” where,

- “Dr. Murray began performing CPR for several minutes as he tried to revive” Jackson.

When Murray, who was allegedly performing CPR on Jackson, realized he “couldn’t remember Jackson’s address”, Murray “screamed for help”. When no one responded to Murray’s “urgent cries for help”, “Murray located a chef in the kitchen”, then, “a member of Jackson’s security detail finally called for help”.

According to ABC News, Jackson’s professionally trained chef, Kai Chase, was at Jackson’s home the day of Jackson’s death.

Chase claimed that when she arrived that morning at Jackson’s home she saw Murray carrying oxygen tanks “down the steps”. Chase claimed she knew “something was amiss” when Murray failed to come downstairs to retrieve Jackson’s breakfast of “juices and granola”. According to Chase, shortly after Chase began to prepare lunch, Murray-at between 12:05 and 12:10-ran down the steps and screamed loudly, “Go get Prince!”

*UPDATE*

A sharp-eyed reader (hattip: Nathan) posted a link to a Larry King interview with Chase. In the interview, Chase stated Murray never asked Prince Michael to “go upstairs” and that Prince Michael remained downstairs with Chase and Jackson’s two other children.

“…at between 12:05 and 12:10….”

On June 30, during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, Murray’s attorney, Ed Chernoff stated that Murray performed CPR on Jackson for a period of “25-30 minutes”.

Another topic not mentioned in Chernoff’s statement and stated in the affidavit, the drugs Murray allegedly told investigators he used to “treat” Michael Jackson during the early-mid morning hours of June 25, beginning at “approximately 1:30 am” and ending at “approximately 10:42 am”.

According to the affidavit, Murray stated to investigators that the last drug he administered to Jackson, “2mg of propofol”, occurred at approximately 10:42 am.

According the affidavit, Murray “monitored” Jackson for “approximately 10 minutes”, then took a short “2 minute” bathroom break.

In the affidavit, investigators cited that, through Murray’s cell phone records, Murray had three “separate callers” for “approximately 47 minutes”, starting at 11:18, and ending at 12:05. Investigators noted in the Aug. 25 affidavit, “Murray didn’t mention this to investigators.” What wasn’t mentioned in the affidavit, whether cell phone records showed Murray had placed a call to Michael Amir Williams during the period Murray claimed he was performing CPR on Jackson.

The chef claimed that it was in between 12:05 and 12:10 that Murray appeared downstairs.

According to the affidavit, the 911 call made from Jackson’s residence occurred at 12:22 pm. Alberto Alvarez was stated as the person who dialed 911. (An estimated 12-17 minutes after Murray “ran downstairs”, according to the timeframe given by the chef.)

According to an article published by Radaronlinecom, Michael Amir Williams was Jackson’s chief of staff while Alvarez was one of Jackson’s security guards. According to Radar, Alvarez was “in the room” with Jackson and Murray during the “crucial moments before the ambulance arrived” and that Alvarez had made the 911 call.

* Continue reading at Michael Jackson’s Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in Home Part III

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