A police report offers more details into the on-duty death of a Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) paramedic last month in Arkansas.
Dean Douglas was holding onto the roll cage while riding a bike to an emergency call at the Little Rock Marathon when he was pulled under the vehicle and fatally injured, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Douglas, 50, later died at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from severe head trauma.
Douglas is the first MEMS responder killed in the line of duty since the organization was started nearly four decades ago. Gov. Asa Hutchinson ordered flags to be flown at half-staff throughout the state in honor of Douglas.
On Nov. 21, according to the report, Douglas and two others were dispatched to a call about a marathon runner in need of medical assistance prior to the race.