At noon 12, 2 1 minute and 4 seconds local time, an emergency call was made to the 9 1 1 distress center, claiming that a 50-year-old man was not breathing. Five minutes later, fire engines and rescue teams rushed into the mansion, only to find that Michael Jackson was unconscious. After the scene rescue failed, the medical staff immediately wanted to announce Jackson's death, but Conrad Murray, a private doctor, insisted on taking Michael to the hospital and screamed: "He can't die!"
In the afternoon 1 afternoon 14, Jackson with cardiac arrest was rushed to the medical center. The doctor gave him a cardiac pacing for 42 minutes, and even gave him a shot of adrenaline directly into his heart. At 2: 26 pm, the doctor pronounced Michael Jackson dead.
When the nurse told Michael the bad news, his agent frank Dileo almost fainted. When Michael's sister Latoya Jackson stumbled to the hospital, she saw her mother and Michael's three children crying. "I screamed,' Is this true?' She said,' Yes, he's gone. I started crying. I've been screaming, and so have the children. My mother sat there with three children in her lap, all crying. "
Soon after, Jackson's daughter Paris asked to see her father for the last time. La Toya grabbed the hands of the three children and walked from the emergency room to the small room with Michael's brother randy jackson. Michael was lying inside, still warm to the touch.
"He has a towel on his face. I held it up and the children saw him. Paris said, "Oh, Dad, I love you."
"We hugged and kissed him, and the children grabbed his hand. He really doesn't look like he's gone. His eyes were half open, as if he were sleeping. He is not cold at all. The children had been screaming and crying before, but when they came into the room and saw Michael, they were quiet. We prayed for him. I asked them,' What do you want to say to dad?' So they leaned into his ear and whispered a few words to him, "Latoya recalled. Then they sat around the bed until she signed the death certificate.
King of pop music: unfortunately passed away
On August 25th, the Los Angeles Coroner's Office announced the preliminary conclusion of Michael Jackson's death: the king of pop music died of an overdose of powerful anesthetic propofol. The coroner, laxman Nan Sasia Vagiswaran, said that they came to this conclusion after judging the report of poison in Jackson's blood.
It was this report that led LAPD to issue several search warrants against Jackson's personal doctor, Connard Murray. A law enforcement official said that the coroner's office determined that Jackson's death was manslaughter and was actively investigating. In a 32-page court document, Murray told the detective at that time that he spent six weeks treating Jackson's insomnia, and every night he injected Jackson with 50 mg of propofol and mixed it with another local anesthetic lidocaine.
"I'm worried that Jackson might be addicted to drugs," said Dr. Houston, who tried to get Jackson to quit propofol. He reduced the dose of propofol to 25 mg and mixed it with many other drugs to help Jackson sleep, and achieved results two days before his death.
However, on June 25, other drugs no longer worked. At about 1: 30 in the morning, Murray gave Jackson 10 mg of diazepam; At 2 am, he injected Jackson with 2 mg of diazepam, an anti-anxiety drug; At 3 o'clock in the morning, he injected Jackson with 2 mg of midazolam; At 5: 00 in the morning, inject diazepam 2 mg again; At 7: 30 in the morning, Murray continued to inject 2 mg of midazolam into Jackson and monitored the oxygen content in his blood in front of an instrument. At 0: 40 am/kloc-0: 00, Jackson was injected with 25 mg of propofol at "repeated demands and requests".
"Jackson finally fell asleep," Murray said. Then, he continued to monitor for about 10 minutes, and then left Jackson to relax in the lounge. Murray claimed that the singer had stopped breathing when he went back to see Jackson two minutes later at most.
Connard Murray, a native of Texas, has clinics in Las Vegas and Houston and often serves celebrity clients at home. His friends and patients said that his Zen-style cultivation, comprehensive analysis of medical problems and chopra-style spiritual communication skills made him a friend of Jackson. Perhaps because of this friendship, rather than his major, Jackson chose him as his resident personal doctor for his performances in London. In May, he signed a contract and began to get a monthly salary of $6.5438+$5,000 from AEG Live Entertainment Company, although his initial asking price was $6.5438+$5,000.
In June 2005, Jackson, who was acquitted in the child molestation case, left the United States and went into exile in Bahrain and Ireland, where he was received by local nobles and celebrities. At the end of 2006, the pop star ended his exile and returned to Las Vegas to prepare for his comeback. It was during this period that Connard Murray met him: one day, when his daughter Paris was ill, Jackson asked the bodyguard if he could find a doctor to see him at home. His bodyguard said he knew someone, and that was Murray.
It was this huge sum that made Murray decide to tour with Jackson. 80-year-old Floyd Williams is Murray's friend. According to him, Murray's career is booming. When practicing medicine in Las Vegas, doctors can fly to new york and Washington for family service. Three years ago, Murray joined the mysterious organization * * * Aid Society, and this new social network made his business more prosperous. However, the clinic he opened in Houston, because it is located in a low-income area, often makes ends meet. In order to keep the clinic, he borrowed a lot of money. Therefore, with the encouragement of patients, Murray, who was in urgent need of money, decided to accept Jackson's invitation.
According to the lawyer, when Murray found the singer in a serious coma on the morning of June 25th, he quickly gave Jackson CPR in bed-which was one of the reasons why he was criticized the most later: as a cardiologist, he should know that CPR should be performed on a hard floor instead of a soft bed. In this regard, his lawyer first argued that the bed was a hard bed, and then said that the doctor put one hand under Jackson's body and the other hand on CPR-however, standard CPR requires two hands to be pressed together.
When Murray realized there was nothing he could do, he thought of calling for help. The landline outside the room has been cut off for safety reasons. And he firmly believes that he can't use his mobile phone because he said that he "doesn't know the exact address of this mansion". Finally, he rushed downstairs and shouted for help. He found the chef, who went to the security guard Alberto Alvarez and dialed the famous 9 1 1 telephone number. Just as Murray returned to Jackson's room to continue CPR, 30 minutes had passed.
Just like the deaths of legendary celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Monroe, Kennedy and Bruce Lee, even with the official statement, Michael Jackson's death is still shrouded in mystery.
On the day when King Song died, the police found a terrible fact in his rented mansion in Barelare: there were all kinds of drugs in his room, especially propofol, a powerful anesthetic that can only be used in hospitals. According to the report, Jackson, who has suffered from frequent insomnia under pressure for many years, needs this medicine to help him sleep. In court documents, Murray bluntly said that he was not the first doctor to inject propofol into Jackson.
In the court documents, the names of five other doctors and a nurse were also listed. They all prescribed or injected sedatives or anesthetics for Michael Jackson, including Jackson's dermatologist Arnold Klein.
"The agent believes that various prescription drugs prescribed by several doctors ... led to his death." Court documents say.
As a cardiologist, Murray was immediately questioned by many medical experts-a non-professional anesthesiologist, did he have the corresponding monitoring and first aid equipment to prevent accidents when injecting propofol into Jackson?
Propofol is very effective, even a little mistake in dose calculation can lead to suffocation, even a sudden drop in heart rate and even death. John dombrowski, a board member of the American Anesthesiologists Association, explained. Therefore, patients can only be injected by professional anesthesiologists in places with complete medical equipment. So finding this medicine in Jackson's house is a big problem.
"I can't imagine such a situation. It's not for home use," said Dr. David Zvara, president of the Anesthesiology Association of the University of North Carolina. The guidelines issued by the American Association of Anesthesiologists in 2004 clearly pointed out that doctors who use propofol must have "professional educational background and training", and they must constantly monitor patients. If there are signs of danger, first aid facilities must be put in place immediately.
Zewala said that ordinary doctors without special training are not allowed to use this drug.
However, rather than negligent death, the Jackson family and many fans prefer to believe in a broader conspiracy theory. In their theory, Murray is just a pawn to kill. Michael Jackson's father, joe jackson, and his sister, La Toya, have repeatedly claimed that Michael must have died of "murder" and conducted a second autopsy on Jackson's body. The interest groups around Jackson escaped suspicion.
Just after Jackson's death, Connard Murray disappeared. It doesn't happen until you need to ask the police. In fact, according to the investigation, Murray's 10 internal medicine certificate expired in June last year. He has no medical license in California and has never been certified as a cardiologist.
"This is very suspicious," said Reverend Jesse Jesse Jackson, a black civil rights activist. "He fled the scene."
Initially, he was called a "cooperative witness" by the police and was not listed as a suspect. However, on July 22nd, the police raided Murray's office in Houston and seized a computer, two hard disks and a contact list. On July 27th, according to an anonymous law enforcement informant, it was Murray who injected Jackson with propofol 24 hours before his death. His lawyer previously claimed that Murray did not inject or prescribe any dangerous drugs for Jackson. The next day, the police searched Murray's home and office in Las Vegas. On August 1 1, Murray's pharmacy was searched again. However, his lawyer refused to respond to "rumors, hints and anonymous revelations" and asked people to wait patiently for the autopsy report. However, because the police criminal investigation has not yet ended, Jackson's autopsy report has been delayed. According to the news on August 22nd, investigators tried to sue Murray for second-degree murder, but the evidence they have found so far is only enough to prove that he is "manslaughter". On August 18, he posted a video on YouTube thanking people who care about him, and expressed his concern that he would become a "scapegoat" in an interview, but did not elaborate.
AEG Live Entertainment Company is suspected of forcing Jackson to death for commercial interests, because "Michael initially promised to give ten concerts in London, but when he woke up, he was forced to give fifty concerts," joe jackson reprimanded on CNN TV. It is said that in preparation for the performance, Michael Jackson's weight plummeted from 150 kg to 120 kg, making it difficult to sleep every night. Some fans even claimed to hear Jackson complain tearfully in the rehearsal field, saying that he "doubted whether he was fit for the performance". However, according to the performance contract leaked by RadarOnline.com, Jackson promised that he had no "health problems and injuries" that might affect his performance in London, and explicitly agreed to perform at least 365,438+0 performances, instead of the previously rumored "only 65,438+00 performances". In addition, the contract also stipulates that his average number of performances shall not be less than 3.5 times every seven days, and each performance shall be at least 80 minutes.
Latoya claimed that greedy consultants and employees with ulterior motives around Michael Jackson killed him. She said Jackson was under drug control and vowed to sue all those responsible. At the same time, June Gatlin)8, Jackson's spiritual adviser, appeared on NBC TV on August 24th, proving that Jackson was very afraid of this financial adviser named Dr. Tohme Tohme. This mysterious figure introduced by Jackson's third brother Jermaine suddenly appeared in Jackson's life and took over all the affairs of the singer at the last stage of Jackson's life.