Michael Jackson’s doctor stopped performing CPR on the stricken star and didn’t call medics until he went on a frantic mission to collect vials of potentially incriminating prescription drugs, according to a bombshell report.
Dr. Conrad Murray was doing chest compressions with one hand when he suddenly stopped and began grabbing vials with rubber tops — ordering a Jacko aide to stuff them, along with a partially filled IV bag, into two canvas carrying cases, the worker, Alberto Alvarez, told investigators.
“[Jackson] had a reaction, he had a bad reaction,” a shaken Murray told Alvarez, whose statements were obtained by The Associated Press.
At one point, two of Jackson’s kids, Prince and Paris, apparently hearing the commotion, hurried into the room and freaked out when they saw Murray and Alvarez desperately trying to save their dad .
The crying kids were quickly whisked away by a nanny.
Alvarez told investigators that he rushed to Jackson’s room at 12:17 p.m. on June 25 after Murray called aides and told them the singer was in trouble.
When he walked in, Alvarez saw Jackson lying in bed with his mouth and eyes wide open with no apparent signs of life. An IV needle was attached to his leg.
Murray was performing CPR on the star with one hand at the time, Alvarez said.
Just then, the doctor stopped the life-saving measures and started grabbing nearby vials, the statement said. He told Alvarez to get him a bag and the logistics director picked up a plastic bag off the floor. Murray put them inside and then instructed Alvarez to put the plastic bag into a brown canvas carrier, Alvarez told probers.
The cardiologist then allegedly told Alvarez to take the IV bag with a milky substance in it from the stand next to Jacko’s bed and put it in a blue carrier.
A coroner has ruled that Jacko, 50, died of an overdose of the hospital-grade anesthetic propofol, a milky substance, and two other sedatives.
Alvarez told investigators that Murray waited until the vials and IV bag were put in the canvas bags before telling him to call 911.
“I need an ambulance as soon as possible,” Alvarez told the dispatcher, according to the statement. “We have a gentleman here that needs help, and he’s not breathing.”
Bodyguard Faheem Muhammed rushed into the chaotic room and started doing chest compressions while Murray performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Murray, 57, allegedly told the men that he had never performed CPR before, a claim his lawyer, Ed Chernoff, said was false.
Alvarez said Murray then placed a dark brown machine with wires, possibly a pulse and blood oxygen meter, onto Jacko’s fingers.
Paramedics arrived at 12:27 p.m. and two minutes later said the singer had no pulse and wasn’t breathing.
But Murray insisted that he felt a weak pulse and demanded resuscitation be continued en route to the hospital, where Jackson died at 2:26 p.m.
The statements indicate that Murray left the hospital to get a cream from Jackson’s house “so the world wouldn’t find out about it.”
Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the case and the Attorney General’s office is looking to yank his medical license.
Chernoff, scoffed at the idea that the doctor was trying to cover up anything that day.
“[Alvarez] didn’t say any of those things, then two months later, all of a sudden, the doc is throwing bottles into the bag,” Chernoff said. “[His] statement is inconsistent with his previous statement.”