Day One: Paramedics in such a hurry, supplies left in street

Daniel Yates, the Kunkel paramedic, who was at the scene of Neilson Street the night Officer Lindsey was shot, is now on the stand.

He says that Lindsey wasn't breathing at the time they had reached the scene, but that he did have a pulse. He says they put Lindsey on the heart monitor, and put a breathing tube down Lindsey's throat.

He said they noticed that Lindsey DID have a weapon on him, still in his holster. The gun was removed for the safety of the paramedics.

On the way to the hospital, Yates says they were ventillating him to facilitate breathing, as he was not breathing on his own.

Upon reaching St. Elizabeth, Yates said he stuck around even though Lindsey was then handed over to the care of doctors at the Medical Center. He says doctors worked on Lindsey for an hour before they pronounced him dead.

Yates was shown a photograph of the scene, which included blankets they used at the scene for covering Officer Lindsey. He describes Officer Lindsey's body as being about 5 feet away from the police car. From the photograph, that 5 feet appears to be around the middle of the street.

Paramedics were in such a hurry, Yates said, that they actually left medical supplies behind on the street, which were shown in the photograph.

The prosecution says they have no further questions, and defense has no questions, so Yates is excused.