“She noticed a twitch, and she jumped into action,” said Chris Thomas, the chief administrative officer at the Knox County Regional Forensics Center
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- A person who was thought to be dead in Tennessee was revived by a medical investigator who had arrived to assess their death, according to local officials
- Kenzie Sellers, a medicolegal death investigator in Knox County, is now being hailed a “hero” for helping revive the individual using life-saving measures
- “This is not something that occurs in the daily routine of a death investigator,” said officials with the Knox County Regional Forensic Center
A medical investigator has helped save the life of a person who was originally thought to be dead.
The incident occurred on Friday, July 25, after the Knox County Medical Examiner’s Office was informed that a person had died at a home in Knoxville, Tenn., according to the Knox County Regional Forensic Center.
Medicolegal death investigator Kenzie Sellers was conducting her examination of the individual “when she noticed that the individual was not actually deceased,” officials said…