Wisconsin Man Dies of Asthma attack after Police stop speeding car that was taking him to Hospital

A Wisconsin man died of a severe asthma attack after the speeding car rushing him to a hospital was pulled over for running a red light, police said.

Now, the man’s girlfriend, Leah Hryniewicki, says the Chippewa Falls, Wis., police department is ultimately responsible for letting a distressed Casey Kressin, 29, die early Sunday morning. But the town’s police chief says she backs the officer who made the stop, claiming the cop followed proper protocol and called for an ambulance when he discovered a medical emergency was playing out.

The couple and Hryniewicki’s young daughter were just three miles — a five-minute drive — from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls about 2 a.m. when a cop pulled over Hryniewicki’s car.

A reeling Kressin exited the car and kneeled to the ground and asked for his inhaler as he wheezed away, police said. Hryniewicki also jumped out and “yelled to the officer that the man was having an asthma attack and that he needed to get to the emergency room,” police said in a statement.

The officer called for an ambulance, which arrived about six minutes later, cops said. Kressin became unresponsive and died at the hospital.
“I just hope we can prove making casey sit out on the side of the road suffering a asthma attack and watching the pain he was going through with Noone (sic) doing anything anyone knows every minute of a asthma attack matters and in the freezing cold made his lungs clapsed (sic),” Hryniewicki wrote on Facebook.

Chippewa Falls Police Chief Wendy Stelter says she stands by her officer, who followed protocol.

“What the officer was thinking was that this man was sitting there and I am going to keep him calm until the ambulance arrives,” Stelter told WEAU-TV. “The officer feels that he did what he should have done and I support him in that, yet the family has lost a family member and that's sad.”

Hyrniewicki planned a funeral for 1 p.m. Thursday.
“I miss him so much and I don't understand why God took him from us,” she wrote on Facebook. “The pain he went through waiting for that ambulance and the amount of care he didn't get from the cop's (sic) and emt I feel there was more that could of been done. It's done now and the best man and friend of my life is gone.”