his bid for re-election after 17 years of service. his successor, chris shea, promised to reevaluate the charges. i may need to get a good look at whether we should have an independent prosecutor. the case was later transferred about 90 miles away to snohomish county. the fact that there were feelings for dr. turner in the community makes it very difficult for us. this particular issue and the issue of the death of this child and the causation of the death of this child of the child is rather unique for us. dr. turner was not the only doctor who would claim his life was changed as a result of connor s death. just six weeks after the infant died an emergency room physician on call at olympic memorial hospital that night also made headlines. yesterday authorities found debbie rowan dead in the family station wagon. dr. bruce rowan had observed dr. turner s efforts and had questioned his ashgsz especially his decision to wrap the infant
while marty and michelle mcnerney were getting ready for their son connor s funeral, over at olympic memorial hospital, anguished nurses, doctors, administrators and lawyers were struggling with connor s unusual death. the cause was still unknown and the action of his position, dr. eugene turner were in question. the hospital s executive committee decided to report the incident only to washington s medical quality assurance commission, not to the police. a letter was approved and mailed. but before that letter ever reached its destination, someone who wasn t even in the hospital when connor died brought the case into a very public spotlight. my assumption was a crime had occurred.
miracle and that miracle was prevented. is that what you believe? yes. that it was a miracle. that connor came back? yeah. is it possible that dr. turner believed that your son was brain dead? i don t know what he was thinking. is it possible that he thought he was ending connor s suffering? if he was suffering that would mean he s alive. and you believe what should have happened in that case? first, they should have called us back. we wouldn t have let them stop a second time. there s no way. it wasn t his choice to make. it was ours. coming up, what caused connor mcnerney to stop breathing in the first place? it s unusual for a baby who is previously full term, happy, healthy and at home to suddenly have a cardiac arrest or to stop breathing.
i just wanted him back. you don t expect that to happen three days after the best day of your life. michelle jumped in the backseat of the ambulance to ride with connor. i just heard him yell back and forth to tell the hospital, but i could aren t understand what they were saying. connor was delivered to a very busy emergency room at olympic memorial. the full code team went to work and an iv was inserted into connor s arm and medications to revive him were started. the nurse noticed that at first he looked dead and blue, but as the steady rhythm of the bagging and the artificial breathing began, he regained a normal pink color and nurses could detect a pulse. his frantics were worried about what had gone wrong with their seemingly healthy baby. it was a mystery to doctors. did anyone come and say this
what s it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we ve got to be smart about this. it s a smart way to go. while marty and michelle mcnerney were trying to come to term of losing their son connor, an equally unexpected sequence of tragic events were unfolding in the emergency room they had just left thinking their son was no longer alive. because the e.r. was bursting with patients needing immediate attention, connor s body was left wrapped in a blanket and put aside in a small examining room until nurses had time to get him red for the morgue. a dispatcher called olympic memorial. the weather cleared and it was 12 minutes after canner was