Moonlight, Murder, and Small Town Secrets by K C Hart

Author:K C Hart [Hart, K C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blood Sweat and Tears Publishing
Published: 2020-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Laney’s face was turned away from view. Katy called her name but did not get an answer. She immediately dropped to her knees and rolled the woman on her back to check for a pulse. There was none.

“Trudy Mae, call nine-one-one!” She removed her face shield from her bag and gave a couple of rescue breaths. “Trudy Mae get in here!” Katy was positive the woman had been dead a while; she felt stiff. She tilted her head back with a lot of difficulty to give rescue breathing. “Trudy Mae!”

“I’m coming girl, what the…” Trudy Mae stopped in the doorway and put her hand over her mouth. She had dialed nine-one-one while running down the hall. When she reached the doorway and saw why Katy was screaming, she immediately requested an ambulance and the police.

“Look, lady, I got to get off the phone and help with this CPR. Yes mam, I’ll just lay the phone down, but I gotta go.” She dropped to her knees beside Katy and began to assist with two-man CPR. “Lord girl, this is Laney.” She gave two rescue breaths as Katy pumped on the young woman’s chest. “Look at that girl’s eyes. They’re fixed. She’s either with Jesus or the devil, but we ain’t gonna bring her back. She’s been gone a while.”

Katy kept pumping. “I know, but I didn’t know what else to do. I’m sure she’s a full code and we’re nurses. I had to do something.”

Trudy Mae gave more rescue breaths. “I know, I know. Well keep pumping one more round and then we’ll switch. That ambulance will be here in a minute.”

They continued working on the ice-cold body for what seemed like hours but was only a few minutes. They traded positions and Trudy Mae was doing compressions when the ambulance finally arrived.

The younger paramedic placed leads on Laney’s chest while the older man asked questions and examined her pupils. The defibrillator showed no rhythm and the code was called immediately. “Have the police and coroner been notified?” he asked.

Katy looked at Trudy Mae who remembered she still had nine-one-one on her cell phone. “Oh yeah, I asked them to send the police when I told them I needed an ambulance. I guess they’re on their way.” She picked up her phone and talked to the dispatcher then continued. “They should be here any second.”

The paramedics disconnected the leads from the electrodes on Laney’s chest and began gathering up their equipment. “Ladies, if you don’t mind, the older paramedic said, taking out his clipboard, “we’re going to step into the other room to write all this down. There’s nothing more we can do here except turn this over to the coroner.”

“I hate to leave you in here by yourself,” Trudy Mae said, looking at Katy, “but I need to check on Momma. I’ve got to call Helen and have her come take her to my house. Thank you, Lord, that she decided to stay on the front porch. God was sure looking out for her this morning.

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