It’s the question that has been burning in people’s brains since the fateful day this past June:
How did Michael Jackson die?
With the release of the autopsy and information coming from investigations of both MJ’s personal physician and dermatologist, a timeline of events has been compiled to better understand how and when the world lost the King of Pop. This sequence was outlined in the search warrant affidavit and confirms that Dr. Conrad Murray gave MJ a mixture of various powerful drugs in order to revive the popstar. This cocktail may have ultimately led to his death.
As we understand it, three days before MJ’s death, Dr. Murray gave him “25 milligrams of propofol along with the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam”. This mixture aided MJ to sleep.
The following day, Murray provided the same drug combo to Michael, but without the propofol, hoping to wean him off it. Again, Michael was able to fall asleep.
Now, here is the sequence of events that followed on June 25th, 2009, the day Michael Jackson died:
June 25: At about 1:30 a.m., Murray again tried to get Jackson to sleep without propofol and gives the singer a 10-milligram tablet of Valium, but Jackson is unable to sleep.
├óΓé¼┬ó Around 2 a.m.: Murray injects Jackson with two milligrams of lorazepam, pushed slowly into the singer’s IV. But again, Jackson can’t sleep.
• Around 3 a.m.: Murray then gives two milligrams of midazolam to Jackson, also pushed slowly into the IV. Jackson remains awake.
├óΓé¼┬ó Around 5 a.m.: Murray gives the singer another two milligrams of lorazepam but Jackson still can’t sleep.
├óΓé¼┬ó Around 7:30 a.m.: Murray administers another two milligrams of midazolam. Murray claims he is continuously at Jackson’s bedside, monitoring the singer with a pulse oximeter [connected to Jackson’s finger] and measuring his pulse and oxygen statistics. But Jackson remains awake.
• Around 10:40 a.m.: Murray gives Jackson 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine to keep Jackson sedated after repeated demands for the drug by the singer. Jackson finally falls asleep, and Murray continues to monitor him.
├óΓé¼┬ó After 10 minutes: Murray states he left Jackson’s bedside to use the restroom and is gone for no more than two minutes. Upon his return, Murray finds Jackson not breathing. Murray begins CPR, and gives Jackson 0.2 milligrams of flumazenil, an antidote for certain overdoses. Using his cell phone, Murray calls Jackson’s personal assistant, Michael Amir Williams, and asks him to send security upstairs for an emergency.
Murray continues CPR ├óΓé¼ΓÇ£ and before security arrives ├óΓé¼ΓÇ£ he leaves Jackson and runs to the hallway and downstairs to the kitchen, where he asks the chef to send up Jackson’s 12-year-old son, Prince Michael I. Murray continues CPR. The boy arrives upstairs and summons security.
• At 12:21 p.m.: Jackson staff member Alberto Alvarez dials 911, and the Los Angeles Fire Department responds on the scene shortly thereafter. Murray waits for the ambulance while conducting CPR, and later accompanies Jackson to the hospital.
How very sad.
We can’t believe anyone could really withstand having so many different drugs in their system like that! We can’t believe a doctor would administer so many drugs like that at one time!
Plus, we’re no medical professional, but if he wasn’t breathing for over 5 minutes, wouldn’t that be the time to call 911?
What do U think?
[Image via WENN.]
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