19 minutes after a 911 call for an ambulance, police showed up
EVERETT — Around the time Matthew Teague first saved his mother’s life, she’d bought a car.
The second time, he smashed out the window.
The car was gray, with four doors. Later, he learned it was a 2002 Toyota Echo. That seemed important when Teague had the window repaired. It seemed less critical to him when he thought his mother was going to die.
Theresa Jones woke her son at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 11 to tell him she was going to the doctor. Teague went back to bed in the fourplex on Rockefeller Avenue. The mother of his child arrived about an hour later. She banged on the door and alerted Teague that his mother was in the driveway, barely breathing, slumped over in the locked, running car. Teague grabbed a coat hanger and called for an ambulance.
Teague began in a calm voice, in 911 recordings obtained by The Daily Herald through public record requests.
“Um, my mom is in the car, passed out,” he said.
“Who is?” the dispatcher asked.
“My mother.”
By the end of the conversation Teague, 34, was yelling, cursing and telling the dispatcher he didn’t have time for “stupid” questions about the car, or how to spell his name.
Instead of medical aid, the dispatcher first sent police. She’s since been disciplined for how she handled the emergency.
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