A Detroit woman was found to be very much alive after she was declared dead and taken to a funeral home on Sunday.
The 20-year-old woman was declared dead by paramedics after she went into cardiac arrest at her Southfield home, reported Local 4. Paramedics with the Southfield Fire Department said she was unresponsive and not breathing when they arrived at her home around 7 a.m. Sunday. They spent 30 minutes trying to revive her and performing CPR, but "she did not have signs of life," the fire department said in a statement.
Since authorities didn't think a crime was involved with the woman's "death," she was released to the family so they could start planning her funeral, the fire department's statement continued. The department said that's standard procedure.
The woman was taken to James H. Cole Funeral Home on Schaefer Highway around noon. Employees there noticed that she was still breathing and called 911. She was taken to a nearby hospital.
Sources told Local 4 that Southfield police officers noticed that the woman was breathing and moving before she was taken to the funeral home. Officers called paramedics back, but paramedics said that it was a side effect of the medications they used.
The Southfield Fire Department did not release the woman's name to protect her privacy. She was later identified as Timesha Beauchamp, and she is alive and on a ventilator at a local hospital, according to Geoffrey Fieger, a lawyer for the Beauchamp family.
Beauchamp's mother said that she's devastated about what happened to her daughter and wants answers about what happened.
The Southfield Fire Department announced on Monday afternoon that it opened an investigation into what happened.
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