Elderly person threatens overdose during domestic dispute, Salem OR
Police responded to a verbal domestic dispute between two elderly people near Oakcrest Drive. One person threatened to overdose and later requested medical assistance. The situation involved possible dementia and suicidal ideation with refusal to eat.
Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch
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Transcript:
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At 2.28, are you still on the bus side? I have a domestic on Oak Crest Drive.
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228 just coming over the bridge right now.
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I can flip around.
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Hi, Copy. We've got a home health nurse just arrived to a domestic of Oak Crest.
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It's the history of physical domestics.
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Right now it's verbal and one party threatening to overdose.
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Center Liberty.
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And 161, both of the dispatch.
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And for info, they're still verbal, both parties are in their 80s.
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That sounds like,
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they're not quite an issue.
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Go ahead.
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I may be mistaken, but I think that is like a dementia issue or something that affects.
01:05
I remember this call from last week or the week before, just that's my eye.
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Thank you.
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Dispatch,
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228161. The complaint call back requesting medics now, they're being tapped out.
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G20, I copy you.
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Do we know for what reason?
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He's suicidal and refusing to eat, but no further on that.
01:39
Just in for the complaint was also referred to 988 for all this with decline.
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I copy thank you.
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I'll be there just a minute.
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Location mentioned:
Oakcrest Dr NW, Salem, OR 97304
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