Michael Jackson's final moments?
June 24 PM In the early afternoon hours of Wednesday, June 24, Michael Jackson walked down the stairs of his rented mansion and sat down to eat with his children for the last time in their lives. Later that evening, he needed to rehearse, so he had to eat something light and hunger-stable. His personal chef, Kay Trice, prepared grilled tuna, an organic salad, a carrot and a glass of orange juice. "He smiled and crossed his arms and started praying," Trice said, "and he said thank you and God bless you." According to Trice's recollection, the singer looked good at the time, seemed energized and in a good mood. June 24 evening Around 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, Jackson left his eight-bedroom mansion at 100 North Main Street in Carrollwood Drive in Holmby Hills, a quintessential L.A. neighborhood between Bel Air and Beverly Hills. He got into the backseat of a dark blue Cadillac Escalade driven by bodyguard Farthing Mohammed, with his personal assistant, Mike Amir Williams, in the front seat. They drove downtown to the Staples Center, where Jackson and his team of musicians and dancers were doing final rehearsals before heading to London. A good number of people remember Jackson as being in great shape that night. "He was full of energy," said Dorian Holley, Michael Jackson's longtime vocal coach and a singer who was about to perform in the "This Is It" concert, "and it was hard to see any difference in his energy and size from earlier days. It's hard to see any difference in his energy and shape from earlier days." He performed several classic songs including "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Billie Jean," "Smooth Criminal" and "She's Out of My Life. Later that night, Jackson and his dancers performed "Thriller" for the first time in concert attire "The look on his face told people he was enjoying it." Kreis Grant, one of Jackson's hand-picked dancers, said. Night of June 24 At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, the rehearsal ended with a rendition of "Earth Song. Jackson hugged the dancers one by one, thanked the entire group and wished them a good night. "God bless you all!" Patterson and Grant remember what he said then. Jackson returned to Carrollwood Drive, where the car stopped and he briefly met with a small group of fans who had gathered outside the metal gates of his home. As they entered the driveway, Mohammed, the bodyguard, saw Dr. Murray's car parked outside the house, just as it had been a few nights before. Jackson's was escorted into the house by security and took off his shoes at the stairway. No one was allowed upstairs, except his children and Dr. Murray. Shortly after Jackson returned home, he began complaining of fatigue, and he expressed a need for sleep. early June 25 According to the police indictment, Murray noted Jackson's propensity to become addicted to isoproterenol, a powerful anesthetic commonly used in a special medical device operated by hand. He told police he tried to wean Jackson off his isoproterenol addiction and had gone two consecutive nights without giving him the drug. Around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, he began trying this again, giving Jackson 10 milligrams of Valium. The anti-anxiety medication didn't take effect immediately, and about half an hour later, the doctor put 2 milligrams of lorazepam in saline for an injection, another drug that has the same kind of effect as Valium. While Jackson remained awake, Murray added a 2-milligram dose of midazolam, another tranquilizer, at 3 a.m., then another 2 milligram dose of lorazepam at 5 a.m. By 7:30 a.m., Jackson was still awake, and Murray told police he injected another 2 milligrams of midazolam. Still, Jackson was unable to sleep and lay irritably on the white sheets of his Renaissance-style, flower-decorated bedstead double bed. On the morning of June 25, after a sleepless night, Murray said Jackson renewed his request for ipecac, a white liquid that he used like "milk. About 10:40 a.m. Thursday, Murray said he complied with Jackson's request and injected 25 milligrams of the drug into the IV. The information comes from a statement Murray took at the police station on June 27, although the doctor's attorney, Edward Chernoff, has said investigators have disputed his interpretation of the matter. Chernoff declined to comment for this story. According to the police statement, Murray continued with the calm singer for ten minutes before leaving to go to the bathroom. Less than two minutes later, Murray returned but found Jackson not breathing. Phone records show that Murray made at least three separate calls between 11:18 a.m. and 11:51 a.m. to his Las Vegas clinic, a patient and a friend. According to a statement obtained by The Associated Press, after Murray realized Jackson wasn't breathing, he called Jackson's assistant, Williams, and left a message at 12:13 p.m.: "Call back immediately, call back immediately." After Williams called back, Murray said, "Get to me right away, Mr. Jackson is having a bad reaction, he's having a bad reaction." Williams called Muhammad while Alberto Alvarez, Jackson's director of logistics, was outside the house in a security trailer. Alvarez told investigators he hurried upstairs and entered a bedroom, where he found Jackson then lying motionless on the bed with his arms outstretched and his eyes and mouth open. At his side, Murray was performing CPR with one hand. "Alberto, Alberto, get your ass over here," Murray said (according to the statement), "He's responding, he's having a bad reaction." Two Jackson children, Prince and Paris, came into the room and kept crying when they saw Murray trying to save their father's life. They were quickly escorted outside the room. Alvarez told investigators that Morey asked him to pick up several rubber-capped vials and put them in a bag. After Morey cleaned the vials, he told Alvarez to call 911. "I need an ambulance right away," Alvarez told the dispatcher, "We've got a gentleman here who needs help, he's not breathing." They put Jackson on the floor, then Mohammed rushed into the room and began helping with chest compressions while Murray was performing artificial respiration. June 25, noon By 12:27 p.m. Thursday, paramedics had arrived. They later write that Jackson was not breathing and had no pulse at 12:29 p.m. However, Murray said he could feel a pulse in Jackson's thigh area, Alvarez and Mohamed said. No one else felt it. An auxiliary report noted that emergency crews did two rounds of resuscitation attempts and were ready to stop treatment. But Murray said he would take responsibility and insisted on resuscitation attempts in the ambulance. After doctors tried a variety of first-aid resuscitation techniques, including once inserting a pumped balloon into the body to allow stimulation of Jackson's circulation, the star, who died suddenly, was transported to nearby Ronald?6?1 Reagan UCLA Medical Center at 1:07 p.m. Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. Williams told investigators that Murray began to cry when the death was announced. He told Jackson's children that their father had died and then asked to return home. "Is there any way I can go home, or take me to Jackson's house?" Murray said (according to Alvarez), "I want to get my car back, I'm hungry." Williams said it wasn't a good idea to let Murray go back to that house. He told Mohammed, and then they concocted a story that the police had taken all the keys to the car. Murray said he would take a cab back. Williams said he saw Murray leave the hospital through a side door. Williams told Mohammed to call the home security office and make sure no one entered the house. "Lock it up!" Williams said.