Associated Press
August 25, 2020
DETROIT -- A young woman who was declared dead at her
suburban Detroit home opened her eyes at a funeral home as she was about
to embalmed, a lawyer said Monday.
"They would have begun draining her blood to be very, very frank about it," Geoffrey Fieger told WXYZ-TV.
The Southfield
fire department acknowledged it was involved in a bizarre set of events
Sunday that began when a medical crew was summoned to a home where a
20-year-old woman was unresponsive.
Paramedics tried to revive the woman for 30 minutes and consulted an emergency room doctor, the department said.
The doctor "pronounced the patient deceased based upon medical information provided" from the scene, the department said.
The Oakland
County medical examiner's office said the body could be released to the
family without an autopsy, according to the fire department.
But then came a
startling discovery at the James H. Cole funeral home in Detroit: The
woman was still alive more than an hour later.
"Our staff confirmed she was breathing" and called a emergency medical crew, the funeral home said.
Fieger, who was hired by the family, identified the woman as Timesha Beauchamp.
"They were about
to embalm her, which is most frightening, had she not had her eyes
open. ... The funeral home unzipping the body bag — literally — that's
what happened to Timesha, and seeing her alive with her eyes open,"
Fieger said.
Fieger didn't
return a message from The Associated Press. Beauchamp was in critical
condition Monday night, said Brian Taylor, spokesman for Detroit Medical
Center.
"My heart is so
heavy. Someone pronounced my child dead, and she's not even dead,"
Beauchamp's mother, Erica Lattimore, told WDIV-TV.
Southfield said it's conducting an internal investigation but insisted that the fire and police departments followed procedures.
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