** New York woman charged after biting medic, drawing blood
** Mother of flight paramedic killed in New Mexico air ambulance crash in July creates scholarship for
EMT students
UNITED STATES NEWS
** A pre-Christmas rampage at a New York hospital, in which a Stapleton woman bit the arm of an EMT, has
resulting in police laying a whole host of charges against the assailant. That is the word from the Staten Island
Advance (John M. Annese/December 27) which said the December 21st incident, in which the attacker drew the
medic’s blood, played out after the subject first went berserk at a Tompkinsville deli. According to the
newspaper, Sheree Young, 35, choked a deli worker before tossing a beer bottle around the restaurant. She then
kicked and spat on police officers attempting to restrain her. Once at Richmond University Medical Center in
West Brighton, she set upon an EMT during transfer from the EMS stretcher to the hospital gurney. She has
now been charged with second-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal mischief, third-degree attempted assault,
second-degree menacing, resisting arrest, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, trespass and
second-degree harassment. Young’s next court date is January 12th.
** The mother of a female New Mexico flight paramedic, who died July 17th in an air ambulance crash, will
soon be launching a scholarship in her daughter’s name. The Northern Valley Surburbanite
(Svetlana Shkolnikova/December 26) said Harriet Haberman, mother of Rebecca Serkey, hopes to have the
fund in place by September of next year. According to the newspaper, the scholarship will be given out to
students studying paramedicine at New Jersey’s Rockland and Bergen Community Colleges. The former is
Serkey’s alma mater. Fundraising for the initiative began earlier this month. A major fundraiser for the
Rebecca Serkey Memorial Foundation is also set for September 12, 2015.
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