20-year-old Detroit woman pronounced dead at hospital, comes back alive at funeral home

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Employees at a Detroit funeral home discovered a 20-year-old woman alive and breathing, just hours after she was declared dead by paramedics and was sent to the mortuary by her grieving family, authorities said.

The woman, whose name has not been released, was found alive on Sunday at the James H. Cole Funeral Home and taken to a hospital, authorities said.

“While it is our practice not to comment on open investigations, we can confirm that on Sunday, August 23, 2020, we received a call to pick up a Southfield woman who was deceased,” the mortuary said in a statement to ABC News on Monday. “Upon her arrival at the funeral home, our staff confirmed she was breathing and called EMS.”

The woman was declared dead after paramedics responded to a home in the Detroit suburb of Southfield around 7:34 a.m. on Sunday on a call of an unresponsive female, Chief Johnny L. Menifee of the Southfield Fire Department said in a statement.

Dave Fornell, deputy commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department, told ABC News.

Fornell said the call the fire department received from the funeral home was for a person having difficulty breathing and that an emergency medical services crew didn’t know the full story until they arrived.

“I talked to our medical people and they said she was breathing, she had a decent heart rate, she had decent blood-oxygen,” Fornell said. “But she was definitely alive when we got here there.”

Timesha Beauchamp is in critical condition at Sinai Grace Hospital and is on a ventilator.