14 DAY TRIAL // A tape appearing to contain the first time that Michael Jackson’s death was announced this summer has surfaced online, The Sun says. Whether the recording is genuine or a fake has not yet been determined, though, should it prove the former, it will weigh heavily in the trial against Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray, who said the singer was alive when he got into the ambulance.
On the tape a man can be heard calling ahead at a hospital to let them know they’re coming in and bringing “pop star Michael Jackson,” who is neither breathing nor has a pulse. The man is believed to be a Los Angeles Fire Department medical worker, who called the UCLA hospital to announce an ambulance was on the way. He’s clear about Michael’s condition, of whom he says he’s not responsive in any way, which would come to contradict Murray’s claim that the star was warm and had a pulse when he escorted him into the ambulance.
“Patient is Michael Jackson, the pop star singer. No pulse, no breathing. Unresponsive. Tried to resuscitate him. Unsuccessful. We’ve done everything we can. We should be there in five minutes. It doesn’t look good. It doesn’t look good,” the man says on the tape that emerged on a web forum for ambulance workers. If it’s not a fake, it will not only be used as evidence against Dr. Murray, but it will also be the first time Jackson’s death was announced.
“If genuine, the tape may be vital evidence in Dr Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial later this year. It contradicts the claims of Dr Murray who says the star was still warm and had a pulse when he found [Jackson] and put him in the ambulance. The timeline of events will be crucial to his trial. He has admitted giving [Jackson] a cocktail of drugs including powerful sedative Propofol,” The Sun writes.
As we also reported on countless occasions, though Dr. Murray claimed to have been absent from Michael’s bedside for about two minutes, police investigators determined he was actually gone for almost two hours, judging by the time of death and the time he made the 911 call.