MO - Dad alleges he was pepper-sprayed, cuffed by police as daughter, 16, lay dying

[CHERIE.T]

I hope charges are dropped. Such a sad story.
The deceased was beautiful, I pray she rest in peace.

 

[jjenny]

As I read the story, the father and son are the ones who put the girl on the gurney. It sounds to me as if, in their panic, her relatives plunked her down on the gurney that was in the process of being removed from the ambulance and started screaming at the EMTs, distracting them.

Sounds to me that way as well. When you hear that the girl fell of the gurney, that sounds pretty bad. But then of course we find out that apparently family members put her on this gurney before paramedics even got a chance to actually unload the gurney from the ambulance. So of course she is likely to fall off if she is being put on the gurney before the gurney is even unloaded.

 

[wfgodot]

http://www.kspr.com/videogallery/77553939/News/Video-His-daughter-killed-herself-at-a-park

video

Link "can't be found" now, for some reason. Here are links to the two-part KSPR story:

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/Jopl...ing/-/21051620/22191388/-/tildjt/-/index.html

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/Part...ied/-/21051620/22191304/-/qqu7x3/-/index.html

A Joplin Globe story from 2009, evidently about the same Kevin Russell (comment seems to indicate as much).

http://www.joplinglobe.com/joplin_metro/x212179448/Victim-spots-nabs-suspected-car-thief