Two 12 Year Old Boys Allegedly Dropped Cart On New York Mother
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Marion Salmon Hedges, a 47-year-old mother of two, was out in East Harlam, shopping for Halloween candy for underprivileged children on Sunday.
She was with her 14-year-old son. The New York Daily News reported that Hedges, described as a wealthy Manhatten real-estate agent, is a volunteer at the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center and also very active in her church.
According to reports from the New York Post, Hedges was walking outside a Target store with her son when two 12-year-old boys allegedly dropped a shopping cart four stories and struck Hedges in the head.
The New York Post also reported that Gaurav Patel and his wife, Susan Mahoney, witnessed Hedges being struck in the head and heard her young son screaming. Patel sprung into action and performed chest compressions on Hedges who was in cardiac arrest. After Patel worked on her, she became responsive.
An emergency response team transported the real-estate agent to Harlem Hospital where she remains in a medically-induced coma. The husband of Hedges told the Post, “it’s still too early to tell with neurological issues,” he told the newspaper. (more…)