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New York Post
19-07-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Wife of Long Island man killed in freak MRI incident breaks silence: ‘His body went limp'
The wife of the Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident this accident has broken her silence, suggesting the imaging machine's technician is to blame for her husband's premature death. 'His body went limp,' a grieving Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island through tears. 'He went limp in my arms and this is still pulsating in my brain.' Advertisement Keith McAllister, 61, was fatally injured in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury. 3 Adrienne Jones-McAllister said her husband was instantly pulled into the machine. news12 3 Jones-McAllister said the Nassau Open MRI technician knew her husband was wearing the chain. news12 Advertisement Adrienne Jones-McAllister was at the MRI center to have an image of her knee taken, she told the outlet. Her husband, who she said usually wears a massive 20-pound chain around his neck, normally comes into the MRI room at some point during her appointments to help her get from the table to her feet., she said But on Wednesday, tragedy befell the couple. Adrienne McAllister was laughing with the MRI technician as they entered the room, she said, and 'in that instant, the machine switched him around, and pulled him in.' Advertisement The panicked wife and the MRI technician both tried prying Keith Jones-McAllister from the machine, Adrienne Jones-McAllister said, but were unable to free him. 3 Keith McAllister died after suffering several heart attacks. Brigitte Stelzer She said the technician dropped the ball. 'That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain' on her husband, she said. 'They had a conversation about it before.' Advertisement Her husband was wearing the bulky chain as part of his weight training, the grieving wife said. The strong magnetic field created by an MRI machine can cause metal objects to be pulled in with force. They can also heat up metal objects, potentially burning a patient. Adrienne Jones-McAllister said her husband suffered several heart attacks as a result of the incident, which ultimately led to his death.
New York Post
05-06-2025
- New York Post
Cop kills bear in suburban Westchester, horrifying neighbors as state questions story: ‘Moaning and groaning'
They couldn't bear it. A jumpy suburban Westchester County cop shot a black bear roaming around a residential neighborhood — drawing outrage from horrified locals and wildlife experts who said the lost animal didn't need to die. Harrison Police Department officials tried to tamp down the furor with a Facebook post contending they couldn't get tranquilizers or trapping help, so they made the difficult decision to 'humanely euthanize the bear in the interest of public safety.' But scores of neighbors responded, bearing a grudge against the cops for the dreadful spectacle they — and their kids — witnessed. 'You shot it out of a tree and it fell pretty far to the ground!' one neighbor posted. 'It was moaning and groaning as it was dying by the base of the tree! We live right there. We heard it. My kids heard it.' 'There was nothing humane about this,' another wrote. A bear was shot and killed by cops in Westchester County. news12 Harrison Police Department officials drew outrage for killing the bear. news12 The cops' contention that they had no choice but to kill the bear also came under fire. State Department of Environmental Conversation officials told News12 that the bear 'posed no immediate threat to residents and had access to reasonable escape routes to nearby wooded areas.' Harrison cops claimed that DEC police 'were unable to provide any type of assistance whatsoever.' The TV news outlet also reported that local wildlife expert Jim Horton offered to help police tranquilize the bear — and served up a recording to prove it. 'You know, it's just frustrating that I could have helped the bear and, you know, unfortunately, now it's deceased,' Horton told News12.
