I bet Blizzard never saw this coming! Deckard and Griswold are probably rolling over in their graves, unless they're still in some level of hell...

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Police prove to teen that he is neither God, nor invincible to tasers...

EULESS - A teen-ager, zapped repeatedly with a Taser by police trying to subdue him, died at a Fort Worth hospital Tuesday morning.
The cause of death has not been determined.
Police said they were told that Kevin Omas, 17, of Grapevine had taken two Ecstasy pills and four doses of LSD at a party Sunday morning before friends dropped him off at an area elementary school on Ash Lane shortly before 5 a.m.
He was taken by ambulance to a hospital about 50 minutes later, but then went into a coma, officials said.
A relative expressed concern about paramedics' delay in getting the teen to the hospital.
"I'm not very happy with the way things were handled," said Jared Omas, 21, the teen's brother who anonymously called 911 seeking help. "He was dehydrated and he needed an ambulance."
Police, however, say that they were given a vague address and that it took time to identify which drugs Omas took so they could be counteracted.
On the 911 tape, Jared Omas reported that there were "some kids around Lakewood Elementary," and that one was "screaming really badly" and appeared "really, really high."
When asked by a dispatcher, Omas gave the name of the street and described the car the teen and a friend were in. "Last I saw," he told the dispatcher, they were sitting in the school parking lot.
When Jared Omas asked her to send an ambulance, she responded, "Here's what we are going to do: Since we don't know whether they are there or not, we are going to send police out first, and if we can locate them, then we'll send an ambulance."
Officers were dispatched to the school at 4:49 a.m., and an ambulance was sent 10 minutes later.

Officers found Kevin Omas standing in his boxer shorts and socks yelling "I am God," police said. When officers approached him, Omas attacked Sgt. Joe Foran, who fired a Taser three times before he and four other officers could hold Omas down, police reports show.
Omas continued to struggle after he was handcuffed and placed in leg restraints, police said.
Jared Omas, who was watching from a distance, said his brother lay on the ground vomiting for 20 minutes while paramedics were on the phone with emergency room doctors trying to figure out what medication to give his brother.
"Every paramedic should know what to do in that situation," Jared Omas said.
Police reports show that the ambulance was en route to the hospital about 45 minutes after it arrived at the school.
An initial investigation indicates that the officers and paramedics took the appropriate actions, Assistant Chief Harland Westmoreland said Tuesday.
As is routine, they called doctors for help in figuring out what Omas took so they could get him into the ambulance safely, Westmoreland said.
"If it's something outside the protocol," he said, "they don't just wing it, they get ahold of physicians."

1 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

If the brother wants someone to point the finger of blame at, he should point it at himself. What a shitty brother and shitty human being to stand by at a distance rather than tell the police everything he knew. He could have saved his brother's life.

6:21 PM

 

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