The First Cocktail in London by Tom Conrad

Murray then instructed Alvarez to administer chest compressions to Jackson, while Murray performed mouth-to-mouth. Alvarez also told the court that Murray attached a heart monitor to Jackson’s finger. He’s pumping his chest, but he’s not responding to anything.”Īlvarez further trestified that, as he and Murray shifted Jackson in the bed, Alvarez noticed that a tube was connected from a bag hanging on the IV stand to Jackson’s leg, which Conrad removed. We’re trying to pump him, but … he’s not conscious, sir.”Īlvarez made the operator aware of Murray’s presence, saying, “We have a personal doctor here, but he’s not responding to the CPR or anything.”Īsked by the operator if anyone had seen what had happened, Alvarez responded, “No, just the doctor sir. In the call, which was placed at 12:20 p.m., Alvarez is heard telling the 911 operator, “We have a gentleman here who needs help he’s not breathing. Thursday morning, jurors heard the 911 call that Alvarez placed on the day of Jackson’s death. On cross-examination, Alvarez conceded that he hadn’t told police about removing the IV bag on the day of Jackson’s death, and didn’t reveal that fact until August 2009.Īlvarez, who was the first security person on the scene, made the 911 call that day.

According to Alvarez, the bag had a bottle inside of it, and a “milky-white substance” at the bottom.Īlvarez testified that the bottle in the saline bag appeared to be a bottle of Propofol.Īlvarez said that there was another saline bag hanging from the IV stand without a bottle in it, which Murray did not instruct him to remove.Īsked why he thought Murray was asking him to collect the items, he replied, “I thought we were packing to get him ready to go to the hospital.” “While I was at the foot of the bed, he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials and said, ‘Here, put these in a bag,’” Alvarez said.Īccording to Alvarez, after Murray placed the vials in a plastic bag, the then instructed Murray to put them in a brown bag.Īlvarez says Murray also told him to remove a saline bag from an IV stand in Jackson’s room and stash it in a blue bag. “When I came into the room he said, ‘Alberto hurry, we have to take him to the hospital we have to get him an ambulance,’” Alvarez recalled.Īlvarez also testified that Jackson was hooked up to a catheter, and there was tubing attached to his nose.

He described Murray’s frenzied state as he entered the bedroom that day. Conrad Murray’s manslaughter trial Thursday, Michael Jackson’s former security guard, Alberto Alvarez, testified that Murray instructed him to collect a number of vials and stash them in numerous bags, along with a saline bag.Īlvarez (left) said that, when he arrived in Jackson’s bedroom the date of his death, the singer was lying on his back and Murray was administering chest compressions to him.

The First Cocktail in London by Tom Conrad