By Larry Celona, Leonard Greene and Susan Edelman
The New York Post
NEW YORK — A disgraced EMT who last year allegedly ignored a dying pregnant woman’s pleas during his break — and was gunned down last week during a street brawl — will get a funeral with full FDNY honors, sources said yesterday.
“I’m stunned he’s having an honor guard,” said an EMS insider angry over the outcome. “He died in a street fight over a parking spot. You’re giving him a sendoff with honors?
“He watched a woman die in a coffee shop. That should not warrant the pipe and drums corps,” the source said.
The development came as cops were questioning three men in Green’s slaying.
He was gunned down outside a SoHo nightclub Sunday after getting into a fight with several men, possibly over a parking spot.
Last year, Green and his girlfriend, Melisa Jackson, who is also an EMT, allegedly refused to help pregnant Au Bon Pain worker Eutisha Rennix, 25, after she suffered a seizure during their break at the coffee shop in Downtown Brooklyn.
Tuesday’s burial for Green is set to feature the FDNY Emergency Medical Services Pipes and Drums unit, sources said.
“The family wanted the honor guard. They wanted the pipes and drums and the lineup of people in uniform when the casket went into the hearse,” an FDNY source told The Post yesterday.
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