Trial board hearing today for DC lieutenant accused of not helping dying man
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The D.C. fire lieutenant at the center of a controversy involving a dying man outside near a fire station will get to tell her side of the story to the department’s trial board Wednesday.
On Jan. 25, 77-year-old D.C. resident Medric Cecil Mills collapsed, and later died, after suffering a heart attack at the Brentwood Shopping Center directly across the street from D.C. Fire Department Engine 26 in northeast Washington.
An official report found that, despite repeated, desperate attempts by family members to summon help from the fire station, no one there responded.
The officer in charge, a 30-year-veteran DC Fire Lieutenant, has been on administrative leave with pay since then.
The Fire Department’s Trial Board, which consists of two Battalion Chiefs and two captains, will hear evidence, determine guilt or innocence, and recommend a punishment.
