Rabble rousers cause heart trabsplant to be wasted
Apr 1, 2015 08:11:23 #
hprinze
Loc: Central Florida
A troubled teenager who received a controversial heart t***splant less than two years ago died Tuesday after he lost control of his car during a high-speed chase with Roswell police.
Anthony Stokes, 17, of Decatur, was also a suspect in a failed burglary and a carjacking, which police believe were linked to the fatal crash of the black Honda Accord on Ga 9, Officer Lisa Holland said.
Stokes made international news in August 2013 after a story in The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston had not put him on a t***splant list. The hospital ruled he was a bad candidate for the organ because of his background that suggested he would be uncompliant in treatment and had brushes with the law.
Teen suspect who died after Roswell police chase was heart recipient photo
Authorities were investigating after a burglary, a pedestrian hit and a car crash in Roswell on Tuesday afternoon. (Channel 2 Action News)
His mother, Melencia Hamilton, then told The AJC that hospital officials stereotyped her son, who wore a court-ordered monitoring device, as a troubled teen.
It just seemed they decided hes a troublemaker, and thats not true, she said in August 2013.
Attempts to reach Hamilton for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Anthony Stokes gets a new heart photo
Channel 2 Action News
Anthony Stokes, 15, has an enlarged heart and needs a t***splant, his family said in 2013.
Stokes suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, in which the hearts main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, fails to pump enough blood.
People who receive t***splants must adhere to strict medication regimens to keep their bodies from rejecting the organs. A person can be disqualified if hospital officials think the patient wont stick to that regimen, has no support system or an inability to pay for expensive anti-rejection medicines.
At the time Stokes was diagnosed, doctors said he would die within six to nine months without a t***splant, Hamilton said. The hospital reversed course and Stokes received a heart after his mother and critics from civil rights organizations contended he was denied the heart because he was poor, black and had trouble with the law, which his mother said was for fighting.
Channel 2 Action News reported Tuesday night that it had confirmed that Stokes was the same Anthony Stokes who died after fleeing police following a carjacking and a burglary. An elderly Roswell woman told the news station Stokes shot at her pointing to bullet holes in her walls after he kicked in her door and found her inside watching television.
His Facebook page had pictures of him showing off a pistol, the news station reported.
The Honda was reported carjacked in Dunwoody, Holland said. Police responding to a burglary call on Alpine Drive spotted it and pursued after noting it matched the description of the car that fled the burglary scene, Holland said. Stokes crashed while approaching Hembree Road.
He clipped a car in the intersection and then jumped the curb and hit a pedestrian before colliding with a SunTrust Bank sign, Holland said.
He lost control and there was a long set of skid marks, she said.
The driver of the other car was uninjured, the injured pedestrian was doing well at the scene, Holland said. Stokes died after rescue workers cut him out of Honda, Holland said.
The pedestrian, 33-year-old Clementina Hernandez, is stable and in good condition in North Fulton Hospital, Lindsey Harber, spokeswoman North Fulton Hospital, told Channel 2.
Police are still trying to connect the car to the burglary, which occurred a couple of minutes before the car chase, Holland said.
Police arent sure whether a gun was fired, Holland said. The burglar fled in a black car. We havent really connected that he was the person who did the burglary, she said. He may have been running from something else.
The crash is being investigated by the Georgia State Patrol.
Anthony Stokes, 17, of Decatur, was also a suspect in a failed burglary and a carjacking, which police believe were linked to the fatal crash of the black Honda Accord on Ga 9, Officer Lisa Holland said.
Stokes made international news in August 2013 after a story in The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston had not put him on a t***splant list. The hospital ruled he was a bad candidate for the organ because of his background that suggested he would be uncompliant in treatment and had brushes with the law.
Teen suspect who died after Roswell police chase was heart recipient photo
Authorities were investigating after a burglary, a pedestrian hit and a car crash in Roswell on Tuesday afternoon. (Channel 2 Action News)
His mother, Melencia Hamilton, then told The AJC that hospital officials stereotyped her son, who wore a court-ordered monitoring device, as a troubled teen.
It just seemed they decided hes a troublemaker, and thats not true, she said in August 2013.
Attempts to reach Hamilton for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Anthony Stokes gets a new heart photo
Channel 2 Action News
Anthony Stokes, 15, has an enlarged heart and needs a t***splant, his family said in 2013.
Stokes suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, in which the hearts main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, fails to pump enough blood.
People who receive t***splants must adhere to strict medication regimens to keep their bodies from rejecting the organs. A person can be disqualified if hospital officials think the patient wont stick to that regimen, has no support system or an inability to pay for expensive anti-rejection medicines.
At the time Stokes was diagnosed, doctors said he would die within six to nine months without a t***splant, Hamilton said. The hospital reversed course and Stokes received a heart after his mother and critics from civil rights organizations contended he was denied the heart because he was poor, black and had trouble with the law, which his mother said was for fighting.
Channel 2 Action News reported Tuesday night that it had confirmed that Stokes was the same Anthony Stokes who died after fleeing police following a carjacking and a burglary. An elderly Roswell woman told the news station Stokes shot at her pointing to bullet holes in her walls after he kicked in her door and found her inside watching television.
His Facebook page had pictures of him showing off a pistol, the news station reported.
The Honda was reported carjacked in Dunwoody, Holland said. Police responding to a burglary call on Alpine Drive spotted it and pursued after noting it matched the description of the car that fled the burglary scene, Holland said. Stokes crashed while approaching Hembree Road.
He clipped a car in the intersection and then jumped the curb and hit a pedestrian before colliding with a SunTrust Bank sign, Holland said.
He lost control and there was a long set of skid marks, she said.
The driver of the other car was uninjured, the injured pedestrian was doing well at the scene, Holland said. Stokes died after rescue workers cut him out of Honda, Holland said.
The pedestrian, 33-year-old Clementina Hernandez, is stable and in good condition in North Fulton Hospital, Lindsey Harber, spokeswoman North Fulton Hospital, told Channel 2.
Police are still trying to connect the car to the burglary, which occurred a couple of minutes before the car chase, Holland said.
Police arent sure whether a gun was fired, Holland said. The burglar fled in a black car. We havent really connected that he was the person who did the burglary, she said. He may have been running from something else.
The crash is being investigated by the Georgia State Patrol.
Apr 1, 2015 09:06:35 #
hprinze wrote:
A troubled teenager who received a controversial h... (show quote)
Well, as the'Church Lady' would say, "Isn't that special?"
Apr 2, 2015 12:33:50 #
Apr 2, 2015 13:08:51 #
boatbob2 wrote:
It does my heart good,to hear that another THUG,bit the dust...
Too bad he didn't get a working brain.
Apr 2, 2015 19:31:20 #
rocketride wrote:
Too bad he didn't get a working brain.
Too bad a good heart was wasted.
Apr 2, 2015 19:33:47 #
Apr 2, 2015 22:17:07 #
hprinze
Loc: Central Florida
righty wrote:
and what exactly was the point of posting this article??
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As information.
But you can take it any way you like.
Apr 3, 2015 14:01:17 #
Apr 3, 2015 14:05:04 #
This post is to show that some people never appreciate,the heart t***splant by behaving themselves.And another THUG bites the dust !!!!!!
Apr 3, 2015 16:34:53 #
rocketride wrote:
Yeah, that too.
The sad part is that someone who would have appreciated the gift of life is now dead. The person who was bumped down the list to get that heart.
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