How was marlena cantu the victim of mistaken identity?”
How did a hospital mix up the identities of who survived a horrific car accident? Late Monday, “Early Show” National Correspondent Hattie Kauffman reported, officials from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix tried to explain how they mixed up two young women. Kauffman said the hospital got it wrong when they originally told family members that Marlena Cantu lived, and her best friend Abby Guerra died. Suzanne Pfister, of St. Joseph’s Medical Center, told reporters, “We interviewed family members that evening and asked for any discernable visual information that could help us make that positive identification.” But on “The Early Show” Tuesday, Abby’s aunt Dorenda Cisneros said the family wasn’t given the opportunity to identify a body. She said, “That’s one thing that’s so upsetting especially when we hear it on TV just like everyone else because we found out about the accident occurred what we’re told about 8:30 in the evening and we were told approximately 11:50 that evening that Abby ha
The families of two young women are in shock after a tragic case of mistaken identity. Six days after a fatal car accident, one family learned their daughter was still alive while another family realized they were holding a bedside vigil over the wrong girl. The family of Abby Guerra spent the last week mourning their daughter, even holding a car wash to raise money for her funeral expenses. Authorities told the Guerra family that Abby was killed at the scene of a car accident, but this past Saturday they learned there was a mix-up. Abby was alive and in critical condition at the local hospital, while the family of another passenger, Marlena Cantu, was standing over Abby’s bedside thinking Abby was their daughter. In a tragic mix-up, it turns out that it was in fact Marlena, not Abby, who died at the scene.
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