A Riverside officer and a school administrator saved a trustee whose heart stopped

Officer Grant Gooselaw and Deputy Superintendent Tim Walker were honored on November 5 for helping Riverside Unified trustee Dale Kinnear after his heart stopped during a school board meeting, The Riverside Record reported. The meeting was October 15. Kinnear lost consciousness and slumped in his chair. Gooselaw was working a voluntary overtime assignment that Police Chief Larry Gonzalez described as usually routine. He called paramedics, gave chest compressions, and used an automated external defibrillator. Walker gave rescue breaths until paramedics arrived and took Kinnear to Riverside Community Hospital.

Kinnear told the November 5 meeting that he has no memory of that night or the days he spent in the hospital afterward. He said doctors told him a new medication had caused his heart to stop. Gonzalez said the department gave Gooselaw a medal and Walker a chief's commendation. The school board also gave each of them a plaque. Kinnear thanked both men and said he was glad to be back.