A 911 operator who did not send an ambulance to a caller was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Leon Price, a 911 operator in Pennsylvania, was charged with reckless endangerment, official oppression, obstruction, and involuntary manslaughter because he did not send aid to a woman suffering from internal bleeding, according to the Greene County district attorney.
“I believe she would be alive today if they would have sent an ambulance,” the woman’s daughter told the Associated Press.
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When Diania Kronk’s daughter, Kelly Titchenell, called 911 in July 2020 to request an ambulance for her mother, who needed hospital treatment for internal bleeding, Price refused to send an ambulance because he allegedly believed it would be a “waste of resources,” according to WPXI.
Because Titchenell made the call while en route to her mother’s house, Price asked her to call back from the house once she verified her mother would be willing to go in an ambulance, the report said. But Titchenell had no cellphone service from the residence, and the landline phone could not be found, the outlet added.
“This is unheard of to me. I mean, they’ll send an ambulance for anything. And here I am telling this guy that my mom’s going to die. It’s, like, her death, and she doesn’t get an ambulance,” Titchenell said.
Kronk died the next day at her home from internal bleeding. No ambulance arrived, reports said.
Dave Russo, the Greene County district attorney who filed the lawsuit, said he wanted to understand Price’s actions.
“Ms. Kronk was denied services. There was a policy in place where they need to respond to these services. We believe his actions were reckless and he endangered her welfare,” Russo told a CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh. “I want to know why this happened in my county.”
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A representative for the district attorney’s office did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
