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JOPLIN, Mo. — A distraught father who was arrested during a spat with emergency medical workers who were attending to his suicidal daughter is still battling charges, as is his son, six months later.
Kevin Russell’s nightmare began on March 17 when his wife found their 16-year-old daughter, Brooke, unconscious with a single gunshot wound to her head in a park near the family’s Joplin, Mo., home. Russell declined an interview with ABCNews.com, but he spoke this week to ABC News’ Springfield, Mo., affiliate KSPR-TV about his experience.
“I remember saying, ‘Oh my God.’ I threw my phone down while I was on with 911 and I ran to her,” Russell told KSPR. “I checked for a pulse but didn’t feel a pulse and there was just a little mark. I really couldn’t tell, the back of her head ... and I looked into her eyes, and her eyes were halfway open like she was sleeping with her eyes open.”
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