'Please, Joe, Get Up': 911 Tape Recounts Discovery Of Judge's Cocaine Death
From the Belleville News-Democrat
With his friend and fellow judge Joe Christ lying unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a hunting cabin, St. Clair County Judge Mike Cook called the Pike County Sheriff's Department's 911 dispatcher at 6:18 p.m. on March 10.
A copy of the 911 audio tape shows that Cook's voice ranged from initial calm to anguish to tears as he struggled unsuccessfully to pull his close friend Christ from the confines of the bathroom and turn him over onto his back to administer CPR.
At one point during the call of about 20 minutes, Cook tells the female dispatcher, "I love him like a brother."
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From the Belleville News-Democrat
With his friend and fellow judge Joe Christ lying unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a hunting cabin, St. Clair County Judge Mike Cook called the Pike County Sheriff's Department's 911 dispatcher at 6:18 p.m. on March 10.
A copy of the 911 audio tape shows that Cook's voice ranged from initial calm to anguish to tears as he struggled unsuccessfully to pull his close friend Christ from the confines of the bathroom and turn him over onto his back to administer CPR.
At one point during the call of about 20 minutes, Cook tells the female dispatcher, "I love him like a brother."
Read more in our daily News Update...