Maya Kirk News Today

The family of a Chicago man wrongly pronounced dead by paramedics is a step closer to receiving a $5 million settlement from the city. Members of the City Council’s Committee on Finance voted Monday to recommend the settlement for the family of Whitfield Marshall Jr. Marshall died in February 2019 shortly after he was hospitalized following paramedics’ incorrectly determining he was already ...

Whitfield Marshall was mistakenly reported as “dead on arrival” by two EMTs. Hours later, his grandson found him alive in the West Side apartment. Marshall then suffered a heart attack on the way to Stroger Hospital. Three days later, Marshall’s family decided to take him off life support.