The family’s attorney Geoffrey Fieger said at a press conference on Tuesday that,

“The funeral director called the family, was very upset about it,” Fieger said. “Timesha was eventually rushed to Sinai-Grace Hospital, where she’s been treated ever since. There is no specific diagnosis at the moment, [but] we understand she’s in critical condition.”

The Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office, said that Timesha was declared dead by the ER doctor due to her heartbeat and breathing. She has cerebral palsy and requires breathing treatments, thus an autopsy wasn’t carried out due to her history. However, her godmother, who works as a registered nurse, was adamant she was still breathing and tried to let officials know, but they still took her to a funeral home.

“She indicated that she had seen Timesha breathing and she felt that Timesha had a pulse,” Fieger added “And the police did not respond to her statements that she did not believe her goddaughter was dead… She was in the room, she was there with the police and the EMS and she told them that she had been moving, she saw movements. They told her they did not believe the movements were volitional, that the movements were involuntary, they were related to the drugs they had administered to Timesha, and that it did not change their opinion as to the fact that they felt she was dead.”

An investigation is currently underway, as Timesha needed serious medical attention and was instead taken to the funeral home.