(WWJ) A Southfield woman who was wrongly declared dead by paramedics at her home back in August has died in the hospital.
Timesha Beauchamp, 20, opened her eyes just before she was about to be embalmed at a Detroit funeral home, a couple of hours after emergency responders said she didn't have a pulse and was not breathing.
As a funeral home employee unzipped the body bag to prepare Beaushamp for embalming, he discovered that she was breathing, and very much alive.
The young woman was taken to Sinai Grace hospital, then transferred to Children's Hospital where her family's attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says she died peacefully on Sunday -- eight weeks after "nightmare" ordeal.
Fieger said Beauchamp death was as a result of "massive brain damage" she suffered when paramedics didn't give her "much needed oxygen."
“Our whole family is devastated," Beauchamp's family said, in a statement released Monday. "This is the second time our beloved Timesha has been pronounced dead – but this time she isn’t coming back.”
Fieger has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Southfield EMS in the case claiming Beauchamp's civil rights were violated. He said precious time was wasted taking Beauchamp to the funeral home rather than the hospital, where she could have been receiving critical medical treatment.
Beauchamp was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant.
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