ACTOR Gary Coleman’s death last week is now under investigation, according to a report today a few hours after the grisly 911 call was released.
Although the scene at Gary Coleman’s home the day he died was “nothing suspicious”, according to the police report obtained by TMZ today, a report at RadarOnline said the late child star’s body was turned over to medical examiners for investigation.
Coleman, 42, died last Friday from a brain haemorrhage after reportedly falling while leaving to prepare his wife some food.
“The state medical examiner’s office looks at cases to determine answers to questions,” Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank told Radar. She declined to elaborate further.
The 911 call from his wife Shannon Price was released earlier, painting a picture of the scene after Coleman’s fall. He was “bubbling at mouth,” Price told the dispatcher.
“There’s blood all over and I can’t do anything,” Price said.
Price resisted the Utah emergency dispatcher’s instructions on treating Coleman because she herself was gagging. At one point she said “I can’t deal.”
Later today TMZ reported Price and Coleman divorced two years ago, citing Coleman’s divorce lawyer. It was not immediately clear if she had legal power to make medical decisions for Coleman.
The official police report, also obtained by TMZ, noted that when Officer K Johnson arrived at the Utah home one week ago, there was “blood on the floor” but the late actor was still able to speak from the ground with a towel on the back of his head.
The call was made by Shannon Price on May 26, two days before Coleman died of a brain haemorrhage at age 42 after being removed from life support.
“I just don’t want him to die,” Price tells the female dispatcher during the nearly six-minute call. “I’m freaking out like really bad.”
In the call Price said she’s not sure whether Coleman had a seizure or whether he hit his head and fell. She said he was going downstairs to make some food and that she then heard a “big bang”.
“Send someone quick because I don’t know if he’s like gonna be alive cause there’s a lot of blood on the floor,” Price said.
Coleman is lethargic and Price says she “can’t really help him” and can’t drive because she has seizures.
“I don’t even know what happened. … I looked at the back of his head and it’s all bloody and gross,” Price said, later reporting to the dispatcher, “He’s conscious but he’s not, like, with it.”
During the call Price can be heard calling out to Coleman and telling him not to move and to sit down.
The dispatcher asks Price to get a towel for Coleman to apply pressure to the back of his head.
“I’m just panicked I don’t know what to do,” Price said. “When are they (emergency services) going to be here, do you know?”
Coleman was conscious at the hospital that day but slipped into unconsciousness on Thursday and was taken off life support Friday with family at his side.
Funeral services are planned in Salt Lake City this weekend, though an exact day hasn’t been announced and it’s not clear whether the services will be private or public.
Coleman starred for eight seasons on the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, starting in 1978. The tiny 10-year-old’s “Whachu talkin’ ’bout?” was a staple in the show about two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white man. Coleman played Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two brothers.
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