Two Victim Families Unite for National Standard

Just weeks after the family of Florida murder victim Denise Lee went national with their goal for standardized dispatcher training, the family of a Colin County (Tex.) accident victim says they’ve teamed up with the Lee’s to pursue the same objective. Michael Cantrell’s one year-old son died in 2007 when he became entangled in a backyard soccer net, and strangled. The family has sued the county and the city of Murphy Police Dept. because they failed to provide any emergency medical instructions that they say might have saved the boy. The family also claims arriving officers didn’t attempt to revive the boy, but simply taped off the house as a crime scene. Now the Cantrell family will join with the Lees to press for a single national training standard for dispatchers. Read more here.