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[Music] Sheriff's Office Shelly and what kind of car do you drive okay sir I've advised
my troopers if you're okay stay right there I'm gonna have an officer come meet you
[Music] July 23rd it was about 11:30 at night what is the address of your emergency
I'm in front of Davis High School you have no idea what kind of a calls coming in my next bleeding I need help quick
okay what happened I tried to commit suicide you told me the minute I turned around and says this females tried to
cut her own throat there's a great urgency how much are you bleeding that means she's losing blood quickly
okay anybody with you Tiffany my husband done my son I then asked to speak to her husband do you have a dry
clean cloth that you can apply pressure sore neck well we need something are you
playing pressure there isn't anything in your car that you can put against her neck your shirt your son's shirt you
know I couldn't understand why isn't he in more of a urgent manner to put pressure on her throat
this is about where I was driving when I was dispatched I can see the ambulance on the side of the road by the
intersection I grab my paramedic equipment out of the back and I approached her car Tiffany was sitting
in the driver's seat her baby was in the backseat and her estranged husband was pacing back and forth on the sidewalk
next to the car telling me over and over that she's crazy that she had tried to kill herself he had no shirt on I
noticed he had blood all over his hands she's just sitting right in her driver's
seat of her vehicle with her hands on her neck like that with what I found out later was his
shirt but I knew she was in really bad shape it was a really severe wound tell me where it was it was straight across
her neck all the way across how could she still talk so her trachea had not been damaged and so you're able to talk
the blood all over the car was just it was unbelievable I'm looking at this and I'm like there's no way that somebody's
gonna be able to survive this usually when people stab themselves their injuries aren't very significant she was
critical when she came in she just about cut off her head there was no way that she could have done that to herself and
not that deep I knew that it was called in as an attempted suicide I'm thinking what am I looking at here did you ever
expect the case to take you where it did no not in a million years

A young mom calls 911 claiming she cut her own throat in front of her estranged husband and her child. Doctors say there’s no way she did it to herself. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates, Saturday, June 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Brief Summary

A paramedic recounts a critical suicide attempt response and the investigation that followed.

Key points

Emergency Call for Help. A frantic call reveals a life-threatening situation involving a suicide attempt.
Paramedic Arrives at Scene. The paramedic encounters a critical situation with a severely injured woman.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I need help quick!

A desperate call for assistance during a crisis.

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