By EMS1 Staff
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A man was arrested after allegedly putting a paramedic in a chokehold in the back of an ambulance while he was being transported to the hospital.
Click Orlando reported that an EMS crew responded to a stroke call and were transporting David Parsons to the hospital when the paramedic who was driving saw in the rear-view mirror that Parsons had gotten off the stretcher and was assaulting the paramedic in the back.
The driver pulled over and found that Parsons had placed the paramedic in a chokehold, according to officials.
Police said the driver then placed Parsons in a chokehold to subdue him, but Parsons ran into oncoming traffic and stopped a vehicle.
Parsons then began wrestling on the ground with a paramedic who stepped in between him and the vehicle, according to police.
Deputy Micah Stoltz said he found Parsons straddling one of the paramedics when he arrived.
“Let him go. Let go of him now. Let go of him now,” Stoltz can be heard saying in body cam footage before deploying his TASER.
Parsons was transported to the hospital before being booked into jail and charged with two counts of aggravated battery on an emergency care provider.