Velma
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I am well-versed in the very document you've cited there. Based on the testimony from the EMS responder, it seems an incident report would not be required on initial thought here. EMS was likely released from the scene once PD arrived. It is standard practice for the Coroner to attend and pronounce if the patient is not viable. With no interventions started, WM was obviously deceased on sight, and had been for some time.
Suicides, even by gun, are witnessed all too frequently in this profession and I would suspect that with the PD automatically ruling it a suicide, that it wasn't much more than a standard arrive and clear on behalf of the EMS crews, which would make the event rather unremarkable ... of course, until details on the circumstances came to light.
I'd need/like to read more on the EMS response times / reports, though, so if anyone has links to those I could weigh in more.
ETA* Incident Reports and Ambulance Call Reports are NOT the same thing ... the latter of the two are filled out for every call an EMS crew is sent on, but Incident Reports are not necessitated for every call for service.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, this answers the question I asked earlier on in this thread. It makes sense that, although many of us find the scene gruesome, it was just one of many calls to the EMS and they would think little of it.