Opinion ID: 2593661
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Heading: pamela mead's death

Text: ¶ 3 Several neighbors heard screaming from the backyard of David and Pamela Mead's house just after 11:00 p.m. on the evening of August 15, 1994. At least two people called 911, and Michael Marsh, a neighbor, went to the Meads' house to investigate. Marsh found David Mead in the house, inconsolable. Mead rushed him to the unlit backyard. Another neighbor, Scott Christianson, ran into the backyard at the same time with a flashlight. Christianson and Marsh discovered Pamela Mead's lifeless body lying on the ground next to a crudely constructed fish pond. She had white foam coming from her nose and mouth that hampered Marsh's futile attempts to resuscitate her. All the while, David Mead was screaming, You've got to help her! Following Marsh's failed efforts at resuscitation, Mead leapt into the fish pond and angrily began to dismantle it, yelling that it had killed his wife. Officers Sam Tausinga and Michael Jensen of the Salt Lake City Police Department arrived and attempted to calm Mead. Eventually, they removed him from the pool, handcuffed him to keep him under control, and had him sit in their police car. ¶ 4 The fish pond was four to eight feet across and three to three and a half feet deep. It was surrounded by a two to three foot loose brick collar and was lined with black polyethylene. Mead had begun building the pond in the late spring or early summer of 1994; however, it took some time to complete. Marsh had provided the bricks for the collar only two or three weeks prior to Pamela Mead's death, and, at the time of Pamela Mead's death, there was a fresh pile of excavated dirt still beside the pond. The pond had been filled with water only about four days earlier.