(Editors Note; I am posting this story because of the “lessons learned” on how a average call and trying to do the right thing can go wrong.)
YOUNGSTOWN — A medical alert call button can be a lifeline for a person who can’t reach a phone in an emergency, but what if a murderer answers the door and tells the emergency medical technicians res-ponding that everything is fine?
The question isn’t hypothetical.
A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court jury was seated Monday to decide if the ambulance company that responded to Erika Huff’s home Nov. 6, 2015, should be held liable for just that scenario. The ambulance company’s lawyer, though, maintains the emergency medical technicians had no right to insist on coming into the house and no reason to suspect they ought to.
Huff was murdered and her mother badly beaten that night by now-death row inmate Lance Hundley, convicted in May 2018 of aggravated murder, attempted murder, felonious assault and two counts of aggravated arson.
