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Trial against Dr. Conrad Murray brings up painful image of Michael Jackson’s children watching him die

Published on January 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM

(HMG Celebrity News) – The manslaughter hearing to determine whether Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, will stand trial in the pop star’s death, continues since it’s start on Tuesday.  So far a bodyguard gave testimony that Dr. Conrad Murray asked him to collect medical vials and an IV bag in Michael Jackson’s room before calling 911.    Jackson’s former security chief shockingly testified that Murray seemed not to know how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation as he waited for paramedics to arrive at the singer’s house.  Faheem Muhammed said he and Alberto Alvarez saw Murray crouched next to Jackson’s bed “in a panicked state asking, ‘Does anyone know CPR?’”

According to a security guard Alvarez, Michael Jackson’s two oldest children, Prince and Paris, looked on horrified from a bedroom doorway as Dr. Conrad Murray tried to revive their father .

“Paris screamed ‘Daddy!’ and she started crying,” Alvarez testified.

“Dr. Murray then said ‘Get them out, get them out. Don’t let them see their father like this,’” Alvarez said. “I turned to the children and I told them ‘Don’t worry, children, we’ll take care of it. Go outside please.’”

Alvarez also testified that Dr Murray ordered him to place medicines into a brown canvas bag before he was told to call an ambulance.

“He just grabbed a handful of bottles, or vials, and he instructed me to put them in a bag.”

Murray’s attorney, Ed Chernoff, suggested to Alvarez on Wednesday that the doctor could have intended to bring the medication to the hospital, or set it aside to make room for the paramedics.

Prosecutors claim Murray gave Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol and other sedatives in the bedroom of his rented mansion before he died on June 25, 2009.  In his opening statement on Tuesday, Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said Dr Murray had waited as long as 21 minutes before paramedics were called and that Mr Jackson had died before help was summoned.  The cardiologist was hired by the singer as he prepared for a 50-date concert series in London. Murray, is facing four years if convicted of involuntary manslaughter, has pleaded not guilty.

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