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Brooklyn Family Sues After EMT Ignored Asthma Attack

A Brooklyn family is suing the City of New York for wrongful death after their pregnant daughter died of an asthma attack in a local bakery. While the woman struggled for breath, two off-duty EMTs who were eating lunch at the shop did not administer help. Her family says that the two trained emergency responders should have done more to save the young woman’s life.

According to AOL News, 25-year-old Eutisha Rennix was in an Au Bon Pain bakery in downtown Brooklyn when she suffered a medical emergency. Also at the bakery was a couple, off-duty EMTs 32-year-old Jason Green and 23-year-old Melissa Jackson, who were on their lunch break. When the emergency occurred, Jackson called a dispatcher but did not administer aid. The woman died a few hours later of the attack, along with her prematurely born baby.

While Green was killed in a nightclub shooting in the months after the incident took place, Jackson will stand trial for wrongful death. Rennix’s lawyer will argue that the EMTs had a duty to help save the woman and that all EMTs should lawfully be required to administer help when they are at the scene of an emergency. Jackson’s lawyer will argue that Jackson did indeed help by calling a nearby dispatcher and sending for an ambulance that contained the tools and medicines needed to save the woman.

Jackson faces up to two years in prison for official misconduct.

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