911 Under Investigation After Student’s Death

Ok, I first saw this a few weeks ago and have been keeping tabs it. Just today Atlanta News Station Channel 2 released shocking evidence about Antoine Williams, a 16-year old high school student, who lost his life during school back in October.

At 3:21 p.m, Atlanta 911 received calls of a school student who grabbed his heart and passed out while in school. They immediately dispatched police, paramedic, and fire for a cardiac arrest.  The student ended up dying because of a very lengthy response time from EMS personnel.

Over a month later, a local news station started asking questions. That’s when they heard the 911 dispatch tape for the first time. They realized that at 3:29 p.m., the Atlanta 911 dispatcher accidently canceled Fire and Paramedic response to the call that day. The 911 tape that was released shows how dispatchers meant only to cancel the police response because there were already resource officers at the school. But instead, they also canceled the fire and paramedics.

Ok, so you made a mistake and canceled the wrong guy’s. FIX IT!!! The 911 dispatcher waited until someone called 911 again, another 35 minutes later, before re-calling the firefighters and paramedics. I would hate to be in that dispatchers shoes at that point.

I’m looking for more info on the call. I’m not pointing blame at anyone at this point. Maybe it wasn’t the dispatchers fault. Who know’s. I’ll post more information as soon as I can find some.