Mother died while boy’s 911 calls dismissed as jokes

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Robert Turner’s mother had collapsed on the floor, and he was scared, but he knew what to do. He called 911 for help.

Even so, the Detroit boy was twice scolded by a dispatcher who told him to stop playing around.

Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, calling the mishandling of 911 calls in Detroit an “endemic” problem, says he’ll file a lawsuit today over the death on February 20 of Sherill Turner, whose enlarged heart took her life at 46.