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EMT Accused of Ignoring Dying Woman Sought Anonymity
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John Del Signore
Published Dec 24, 2009
Modified Dec 25, 2009
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Published Dec 24, 2009
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After allegedly responding to an Au Bon Pain employee's pleas to help a dying coworker with, "We're on our break, so there's nothing we can do," an EMT placed a call to her dispatcher to report a woman with "difficulty breathing." But according to a source who's heard a recording of the call, EMT Melisa Jackson was more concerned with covering her ass than getting help for pregnant 25-year-old Eutisha Revee Rennix. "Don't put my name in it!" Jackson allegedly told the dispatcher.
A source tells the Post Jackson was "blasé" and "laid back" during the call, which was placed eight minutes after she was first approached for help, while waiting for her bagels.
Rennix's mother is now requesting that her daughter's body be exhumed so the medical examiner can determine the cause of death. If the ME determines that Rennix might have been saved if Jackson and her partner/boyfriend, Jason Green, had immediately aided her, prosecutors will try to charge both with reckless manslaughter, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. They've both been suspended from their jobs pending the outcome of the investigation.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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