HARTFORD: Sunday Geneva County 911 dispatched Hartford Police to a suspicious persons call.
According to the best information available to RSN at this time, the person was disorderly with the Hartford Police Officer and a physical altercation took place, the suspicious person being the aggressor towards the Hartford Police Officer.
It is UNCONFIRMED but based on the best information available the officer deployed a taser. The subject had produced a box cutter. The suspect is reported to have slit his own throat with the box cutter. Additional law enforcement from Slocomb Police, Geneva County Sheriff Department and Hartford Police were responding.
Slocomb Fire – Rescue Chief Kyle Hovey had left his family on Easter to travel to Enterprise to pick up a Slocomb EMS crew who transported one to Enterprise. They were going to leave the ambulance for service at Enterprise Rescue shop. Chief Hovey, traveling in Slocomb Fire – Rescue Emergency Response vehicle was coming through Hartford at the time of this incident. Chief Hovey responded, as did Hartford Fire – Rescue.
Emergency Medical Care, quality emergency medical care, was being rendered. The suspect was still combative and disorderly. The patient was placed in the Hartford Ambulance, with Slocomb Fire – EMS Chief Hovey and the Slocomb Police Officer for transport with emergency, trauma alert, to a Dothan hospital.
During transport, due to the suspect hitting vital veins and arteries when he self-inflicted slit his throat with the box cutter, the subject coded, in that he stopped breathing. The medics initiated CPR during transport to a Dothan hospital.
Shortly after arrival the medical director at the hospital gave orders to discontinue CPR and the subject was pronounced dead.
Geneva County Coroner Donny Adkinson was, or should have been, notified.
Normal protocol would be for ALEA – SBI to be notified of the death. This was a great team effort with Slocomb Fire – Rescue, Hartford Rescue and Slocomb Police riding in on the ambulance.
