Updated - Murder On Lakeland Ave.

[Jim O'Bryan]

July 17, 2015

Report # 15-004204

On July 17, 2015 at 3:18am the Lakewood Police Department received a 911 hang-up call from 1431 Lakeland Ave. As is done with all 911 hang-up calls a call back is made to the phone number the call was received form. This was done and the dispatcher spoke with the resident. A female answered the phone call. When told that a 911 hang-up call was received from the home the female replied that she had been sleeping and someone must have called by accident. The dispatcher told her we just wanted to make sure everything was ok. There was no indication during the call back form the female or in the background of any problems in the home.

At 3:33am a second 911 call is received from 1431 Lakeland. The female caller requested officers to respond to the home. When ask what the problem was the female stated her son had stabbed himself and he was bleeding to death. As the dispatcher inquires further there is a disturbance wherein the female and a male yell out and the call ends.

Lakewood Police and Fire Units respond. Upon entering the home officers found a female on the kitchen floor with a wound to the chest. Officers search the home for other victims or suspects and find a male standing on the second floor. The male had also sustained a wound to the torso. The male, 21 years old was arrested.

There were no other perosns located in the home.

The female was transported to Fairview General Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 5:07am.

The male was transported to Metrohealth Medical Center to be treated for his wound.

This case is being investigated as a homicide.

The name of the victim will be released upon notification of next of kin.

UPDATE
July 17, 2015 @ 2:30pm

The victim is identified as Kathleen A. Meany 56 yrs.

The male arrested is the victim’s son. His name will be released upon charges being filed.
He is currently in stable condition at Metrohealth Medical Center.


UPDATE
July 17, 2015 @ 3:15pm

Sean C. White 21 yrs old has been charged with Murder in this case.


UPDATE

July 23, 2015 @ 7:30am

Sean C. White has been transferred from Metrohealth Medical Center to Lakewood City Jail.

His initial appearance in Lakewood Municipal is not known.


Sean C. White was transferred from Metro health Medical Center to Lakewood City Jail on 7/22/15. He is being held on a $500,000. 00 bond. (Photo attached).

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[Marguerite Harkness]

This is a terrible thing to happen in our community (or any community).
The wounded woman was transported to Fairview, rather than down the street to Lakewood. Lakewood has a very low incidence of "puncture wounds" (knife, bullet) so the Community Health Needs Assessment doesn't consider this to be much of a need in our community; thus a Level 2 Trauma center at Fairview is considered to be "sufficient." But is it?
His wound was apparently less-serious and he was taken to Trauma 1 Metro. Her wound was (apparently) more serious and she was taken to Trauma 2 Fairview. Both are miles farther than Lakewood Hospital, through narrow streets and lots of intersections.
I know I can not second-guess what the medical result might have been, had this lady been taken to Lakewood and stabilized or treated there.
But I wonder if there is a government agency that reviews such cases to determine whether the additional travel time was detrimental, or whether her wound was so debilitating that the result would have been the same, regardless of which hospital they went to.
It is important to raise these questions in our community at this time.
This is a "practice run" of what life and death will be like in Lakewood, if we lose Lakewood Hospital.

[Valerie Molinski]

This is a terrible thing to happen in our community (or any community).
The wounded woman was transported to Fairview, rather than down the street to Lakewood. Lakewood has a very low incidence of "puncture wounds" (knife, bullet) so the Community Health Needs Assessment doesn't consider this to be much of a need in our community; thus a Level 2 Trauma center at Fairview is considered to be "sufficient." But is it?
His wound was apparently less-serious and he was taken to Trauma 1 Metro. Her wound was (apparently) more serious and she was taken to Trauma 2 Fairview. Both are miles farther than Lakewood Hospital, through narrow streets and lots of intersections.
I know I can not second-guess what the medical result might have been, had this lady been taken to Lakewood and stabilized or treated there.
But I wonder if there is a government agency that reviews such cases to determine whether the additional travel time was detrimental, or whether her wound was so debilitating that the result would have been the same, regardless of which hospital they went to.
It is important to raise these questions in our community at this time.
This is a "practice run" of what life and death will be like in Lakewood, if we lose Lakewood Hospital.

Just so I am clear... a week is the proper amount of time passed for it to be ok to politicize the details of this woman's horrific death at the hands of her son?

[Lori Allen _]

First, I want to say that this is a very tragic event and my prayers are with the family.

However, I must say that I agree with the comment that Ms. Harkness made. Most physicians will say that with serious injuries such as the one that this poor lady suffered, the sooner the victim gets to a hospital, the more likely they are to survive. I myself have training in the medical field.

I don't think that Marguerite meant for her post to be political. I think her point was that this lady may have had a higher chance of survival had she gotten to a hospital sooner.

Just my opinion.