** Suicidal Illinois EMS patient sought after attacking EMT, fleeing ambulance now in custody
** New York EMT pair pulled from duties after declaring live patient dead
UNITED STATES NEWS
** Illinois police in Evanston have apprehended a suicidal EMS patient who exited an in-transit
ambulance Friday after first punching the attending female EMT in the nose. CBS Chicago (November 15)
said Jurnal Lipscomb, 32, made his daring escape while being taken from Skokie to an Evanston
hospital around 4:35 p.m. According to the newspaper, Lipscomb, who hails from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, may have followed his getaway with a purse robbery at a local grocery store a short time
later. Police continue to investigate. The extent of the injuries suffered by the EMT Lipscomb attacked,
meanwhile, is not known.
** A pair of New York EMTs have been suspended from EMS duties after accidentally declaring a
live patient dead Thursday. That is the word from the Daily Mail
(Imogen Calderwood/Kiri Blakeley/November 15) which said Brittany Fragala and Oren Silvers
are now being investigated for the incident. According to the newspaper, the two Jamaica Hospital
practitioners responded to the home of Diana Rodriguez, 32, after she had shot herself in the head
following an argument with her boyfriend. The duo did not detect a pulse, but police heard breath
sounds an hour after the woman was declared dead. Rodriguez was immediately transported to
hospital, but she died nine hours later.
