Rico Priem, a 9-1-1 crew member who died in a car or truck accident previous thirty day period, was killed by a heart attack.
An autopsy report from the Los Angeles County Health care Examiner’s workplace, attained by Assortment, verified the 66-calendar year-old’s cause of demise on Tuesday, June 18.
Priem, who experienced worked a 14-hour change on set of the ABC sequence just prior to the incident, died on Could 11 when his Toyota Highlander left a Los Angeles freeway and flipped onto the roof.
The autopsy report established that Priem died of a “sudden cardiac dysfunction,” and that there were “no fatal traumatic injuries.”
On top of that, a toxicology report came back unfavorable for alcohol or other medicine.
Us Weekly has achieved out to the Examiner’s place of work for further more remark.
The outlet also claimed that Priem, a grip and crew member of the Global Alliance of Theatrical Stage Staff (IATSE) Local 80, was driving property at all over 4:30 a.m. soon after his shift finished at 4:06 a.m.
He traveled for 20 minutes until finally his SUV “drifted off the 57 freeway, strike a tree, went up an embankment, and flipped over.”
Priem was pronounced lifeless at the scene and his identity was unveiled by the Los Angeles County Professional medical Examiner. His demise was also verified by IATSE.
The group released a assertion in gentle of the tragedy.
“We are fully committed to the security and the well-currently being of all our associates and categorical our heartfelt condolences to the member’s family members,” the assertion read. “Workers have a reasonable expectation that they can get to get the job done and come home safely and securely. No a single should really be place in unsafe instances though hoping to gain a dwelling.”
Priem’s previous colleagues, which includes Angela Bassett, carry on to mourn him.
“The studio, 9-1-1, we all lengthen our deepest condolences to his buddies to his spouse and children,” Bassett, 65, instructed Entertainment Tonight in an interview printed on Could 14. “It was just a pretty, very unhappy minute. We’re all rocked by it, definitely.”
Bassett, who portrays Los Angeles Police Department patrol sergeant, Athena Grant-Nash, on the show, famous that in the course of her time on the sequence, the solid and crew have experienced “births” and “weddings” with each other, but this is their first time dealing with reduction.
The actress included that time was taken on established at 9-1-1, which has just wrapped its seventh time, to honor Priem and “so quite a few lovely phrases ended up spoken of him.”
Priem’s fellow crew member, Nina Moskol, who also will work as a grip on 9-1-1, also compensated tribute to her friend.
“He was on the cusp of retirement, with his paperwork submitted. He had his already rich lifetime prepared for retirement, together with paying out time with his spouse, seeing his grand-nephew grow, driving his beloved Harley, and even gripping nevertheless to continue to be related to his good friends,” Moskol wrote on May well 12, for every the Crew Tales Instagram account. “He was so jazzed about what he had discovered about retiring, he needed to teach the ins and outs of retirement at the neighborhood.”
Union users have very long been outspoken about the size of output shifts, heading on strike in 2021.
The union eventually gained a 54-hour weekend rest interval, with the goal of curbing late Friday shifts that prolong right until Saturday morning. The union’s present contract is up on July 31.