Dealer Leaves Heroin OD Victim Lying in Clinic Lot

A heroin dealer showed a little sense of compassion when he at least took his overdosing customer to a medical clinic and paused to tell someone – before driving off and leaving the man lying and near dying in the parking lot.

Police were called at 7 p.m. Thursday to the Aurora Health Clinic at 4025 92nd St. for what was first reported as a suicide attempt.

The first police officer on the scene was from Milwaukee, and he found the victim lying on the pavement and not breathing. He told Tosa Fire Department paramedics, who arrived shortly, he was pretty sure he was looking at a narcotics overdose.

They immediately administered Narcan, an antidote to the effect of opiates on the neural and respiratory systems, and the man's life was saved.

The Aurora employee who called 911 then told police he'd been with a patient when he heard someone knocking loudly on the door. He went to the door and found an unknown man standing there who told him someone was down in the parking lot and needed help.

The Aurora staffer looked outside and saw the victim lying on his back, at that time gasping for air. The man at the door was, at the time, also talking on a cell phone, and asked the Aurora worker for the address.

The staffer didn't know it offhand and had to run to the desk to get it. When he returned, he saw the stranger putting the cell phone down on the chest of the gasping victim and then run to a black sedan. He drove off quickly and the witness could not get a license number.

In the hospital, the overdose victim told police he was a substance abuser and had been in treatment, but that afternoon he had "a sudden urge to get high."

He called his "buddy" who has sold him heroin and arranged to be picked up later near Burleigh Avenue and Lilly Road in Brookfield. In the meantime, he said, he took some Valium and drank some liquor.

After he was picked up, his "buddy" sold him a bag of heroin and they drove to the 9500 block of Silver Spring Drive in Milwaukee, where he shot up. He soon began to feel "drowsy" and the next thing he knew was when he woke up in the back of a Tosa Fire ambulance.

A criminal records check of the heroin user's good buddy showed he has prior convictions for possession of a controlled substance, and police were seeking him for questioning in the matter.