Cops revive shopper
after collapse at mall
BY MATT AUERBACH
Staff Writer
EDISON — Three officers assigned to the recently opened Menlo Park Mall substation were called upon to save a life Saturday.
At approximately 5:30 p.m., officers Charles Zunder, Michael Perrotti and Robert Dudash received a call reporting that an unresponsive male had collapsed on the second floor of the Nordstrom department store.
When they arrived on the scene, they were joined by Patrolman Michael Carter.
There, they found two civilians, whom police declined to identify at their request, attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Alan Mandell, 62, of East Brunswick, according to Dudash, a spokesman for the Police Department.
Mandell, who was bleeding from the head due to a fall, had no pulse and was not breathing when the officers arrived.
The officers took over CPR and hooked Mandell up to a defibrillator. They shocked him four times while continuing to administer CPR.
As a result of their efforts, Mandell regained consciousness and began breathing on his own, Dudash said.
Paramedics arrived and stabilized Mandell before taking him to John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Edison.
He was then transferred to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, where he remained in intensive care on Monday, according to police.