Man Dies Under Car, Cries of “Help” Don’t Bring Help

The Michigan State Police are investigating how a series of 911 calls were handled by a dispatcher after learning that no one responded after a caller reported hearing agonized screaming for help somewhere in a neighborhood of Wyoming city. Forty minutes later the next-door neighbor of the caller discovered her fiancé dead in the garage, crushed when his car fell off a repair jack. The coroner says the man died quickly, and that an immediate response would not have saved him. However, the man’s family is wondering why no police were dispatched to investigate the yells for help. The caller couldn’t pinpoint the location of the yelling, even though he toured the neighborhood in his car. The calls for help stopped within one or two minutes, the caller said. Read about the controversy here, and listen to the series of 911 call. here