![]() ![]() Philip had signed a Living Will many years before, stating he did not want to be kept alive by machines if he were ever in such a situation. The doctors told us he would die but it might take several hours, and that he would probably have a heart attack. Signing those papers was the hardest thing we ever did. When we had gone in there that night to tell him goodnight we did not expect him to live through the night because we had signed papers around 1:00 pm on July 31, 1993, to have his life support system discontinued. He could not talk, sit up, walk, or do anything for himself. It took several days for him to completely wake up. He began coming out of his coma around 12:30 am on August 1, 1993. The nurses were constantly changing the towel that was under his head because it was completely covered in blood.ĭuring his stay at CFRH, Philip had over 30 units of blood transfusions. Blood was pouring out of his mouth and nose. He looked dead lying there with tubes everywhere. We were not prepared for what we saw when we walked into Philip’s room. ![]() Some of the nurses had teenage children and later told us it could have been their child. We knew it must be bad as we walked into ICU and saw tears in the eyes of the nurses. He said Philip had respiratory failure, liver failure, renal failure, cerebral edema, acute pancreatitis, anoxic brain damage, seizures, major blood loss, gastritis with GI bleed and on and on he went. ![]() Scanlon believes Philip suffered a heatstroke from being in the trunk of his car where the temperature reached 130-135 degrees. It was determined that the car had been driven approximately 150 miles during the afternoon before the police stopped it in Maitland, FL with 3 teens inside – 2 males and 1 female.ĭr. We told the doctor that we believed Philip had been placed in the trunk. We explained what we knew or suspected because the police had found his car and it looked like some type of activity had gone on in the trunk. They were baffled about what had happened to him. Kevin Scanlon told us about Philip’s condition saying he was in a deep, deep coma. ![]() We didn’t know what to expect, but certainly nothing like what we found when we entered the hospital.ĭr. We were told his condition was serious and to come right away. We were notified at 2:30 am Sunday morning that Philip had been found and was in a hospital in Sanford. They Identified Philip from the picture I had given them when we reported him missing. Someone saw the missing persons report on the news and called the Sheriff’s office. The doctors did not expect him to live through the night. Philip was admitted as a John Doe to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, FL in a coma. A security guard saw Philip in the parking lot and called 911. They left him there to die as they drove off in his car. They removed Philip’s comatose body from the trunk, head first, onto the hot pavement, then stomped on his chest and kicked him several times. The last time they opened the trunk was around 5:30 pm in the parking lot of a community college in Debary, FL. Another time they robbed him of his allowance – $7.00, and his driver’s license. Once when they stopped they opened the trunk and told him to be quiet. They stopped the car several times during the five hours, but never to let him out. They drove behind a shopping center and put Philip in the trunk where he remained for the next five hours or so. When they arrived at Georgetown, instead of getting out of the car they pulled a gun on Philip and forced him in the back seat of his car. They said they lived in the Georgetown Apartments which was a very short distance away. He thought he recognized one of them from school, and being the nice guy that he is, Philip agreed to give them a lift. As he was headed to his car in the parking lot after getting his hair cut, he was approached by two teenagers who asked for a ride home. On Saturday, July 17, 1993, Philip (16 yrs.) went to the barbershop around eleven o’clock. ![]()
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