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A cellphone video emerged Sunday of the chaotic scene as cops and emergency workers desperately tried to save Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
The mortally wounded cops can be seen lying on either side of their patrol car in Brooklyn just as some of the first responders begin arriving to aid them.
The video, taken from an apartment window directly across the street, shows the efforts to administer CPR in a vain effort to revive the men before they are loaded into ambulances that are escorted by police cars with their lights flashing and sirens blaring.
The first EMT to treat the officers returned to the scene Sunday and recalled how one of the men struggled to tell her his name before losing consciousness.
Paramedic Tantania Alexander was one of the first to respond to the call at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues.
“I took charge of both patients. First was the driver [Ramos]. He was in the car, his face was pushed to the side of the door and he was not moving,” said Alexander, 23, a member of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
“The second, the passenger [Liu], he was slumped toward the passenger window,” she said. “We call their names and no response.
“[Ramos] was shot in the head, the chest and the thigh. [Liu] was only shot once in the head.”
Alexander said she and her team lifted the men onto back boards before beginning CPR. That’s when Ramos, fading in and out of consciousness, used some of his last breaths to speak to the woman trying to save his life.
“He tried to tell me his name, and then he just went out,” she recalled.
Alexander said she rode in the ambulance with Ramos.
“For me, it’s still an open wound,” she said. “I wanted to make him all right.”