PD Chief: Ore Hospital Tried To Aid Man Outside ER

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland's police chief has stepped back from criticism officers leveled at a Portland hospital where a 61-year-old man was dying in a parking lot last week and officers were told to call 911.

Chief Mike Reese appeared at a press conference Tuesday with Portland Adventist Hospital officials who said medical workers did everything they could and should have done - except communicate well with the officers.

Reese says it is clear hospital workers were "preparing a response" to help Birgilio Marin-Fuentes, who was initially thought to have been a car crash victim.

He suffered a heart attack while driving to the hospital and died just feet from an emergency room.

Hospital officials replayed surveillance camera video they said showed an emergency room charge nurse dispatching a paramedic within a minute of being notified the man was in trouble.