A Greene County detective filed charges against Leon Price, of Waynesburg, in the July 2020 death of Diania Kronk, based on Price's reluctance to dispatch help without getting assurance that she would go to the hospital.
A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces a rare charge of involuntary manslaughter for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding a day later, despite a plea from the woman's daughter that without medical help "she's going to die."
Price was arraigned June 29 and released on bail. He did not reply to messages left at a home number listed in his name, and officials said a defense lawyer has not contacted district court. Price said he would send an ambulance but then added that "we really need to make sure she’s willing to go." When Titchenell and her three children arrived at the house, she said, Kronk was nude on the front porch and talking incoherently. She got her mother to put on a robe.
"We all deserve equal protections, and we all deserve access to medical services," Russo said in an interview. "I have a major concern as to the safety of the community in regards to this."