Fatality in Oklahoma County courtroom raises readiness questions

 
BY JAY F. MARKS
Published: December 2, 2008

A 67-year-old Checotah man died Monday after a heart attack in an Oklahoma County courtroom.

Attorneys and deputies could not revive John Wilkey after he passed out about 9:20 a.m. in District Judge Twyla Mason Gray’s courtroom. They performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and hooked him to a defibrillator, but it was not enough to save him, said Mark Myers , county sheriff’s spokesman. Wilkey was in...


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