A Pevely Elementary School parent suffered cardiac arrest Tuesday morning (Dec. 19) at the school, authorities reported.
“There was a medical emergency on the parking lot at Pevely Elementary involving a parent at 9:44 a.m.,” Dunklin R-5 Superintendent Stan Stratton said.
He would give no further details.
This afternoon (Dec. 20) district spokesman Matt Lichtenstein described the parent as a 38-year-old woman from Herculaneum, but he would not release her name or comment on her condition.
Pevely Police Capt. Tony Moutray said his department could not provide information because the Dunklin R-5 School District formed its own police department in 2013 and is handling the case.
Pevely Elementary is part of the Dunklin School District, which released a written statement Tuesday that said the Joachim-Plattin Ambulance District, the Pevely Police Department, the Dunklin Fire Protection District and the Dunklin school resource officer responded to the emergency.
“We responded to a call for a person in cardiac arrest,” said Curt Stueve, the JPAD administrator. “We got there and found (the patient) in cardiac arrest. We administered advanced life-saving measures and transported (the patient) to Mercy Hospital Jefferson.”
Without a name, the hospital could not provide information about the patient.