A Tufts dining employee collapsed last night in the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall, ostensibly from a heart attack, sources familiar with the incident told the Daily. As of press time, the Daily was unable to confirm the name of the deceased.
"He had a heart attack," sophomore Kenny Burris said. "He … fell on the ground. Everybody said it was fine, [that we should] get out. They put him on a stretcher and they said he had a heart attack."
The Tufts University Police Department declined late last night to comment, referring questions to Captain Mark Keith.
Sophomore Kevan Mamdouhi said he saw officers and medics arrive at around 7:30 p.m. "[They] kept yelling, ‘Stay clear! Stay clear!' As we walked out, we saw them in the ambulance doing compressions," he said.
Senior David Kudlowitz, TEMS' director of operations, confirmed that members of the student emergency medical group responded to the incident, but declined to provide further details.
Sophomore Emily Edwards-Bourdrez said that she and her friends saw the normally upbeat atmosphere at Dewick turn chaotic as emergency responders rushed into the hall. "We were walking out and we saw a few people wearing emergency medical clothing coming into Dewick and one of them started yelling at us to, ‘Get out of the way! Get out of the way!' We really didn't think anything of it. We just thought that something had gone wrong with the cooking materials," she said. "Then we saw a gurney pulled through … and they really started yelling."
