Bodycam Footage Shows Paramedic Disputing Hulk Hogan CPR Claim

Newly released bodycam footage from the emergency response to Hulk Hogan’s final medical call has shed light on differing accounts of the life-saving efforts performed before paramedics reached the scene.

Video obtained by Law&Crime Network captures occupational therapist Justin McCamey describing the moments leading up to the 911 call. According to McCamey, Hogan showed no signs of breathing or circulation when he checked on him, prompting an immediate emergency response. He said,

“No rise and fall of the chest. Try to get pulse. Try to get blood pressure. Nothing. She came in. Realized it together. Really called 911. Down to the floor. He started compressions. And that’s but basically he wasn’t breathing. When I saw it, I didn’t believe it cuz he’s such a big guy. So, getting a pulse, getting all that stuff is sometimes difficult.”

However, a responding paramedic provided a different version of events while speaking on bodycam footage. He explained that Hogan was already lying on the floor beside a chair when emergency personnel entered the room and said he was told CPR had supposedly been underway for approximately eight minutes before they arrived. He said,

“When I walked into the room, he was on the floor next to a chair. The therapist, the guy in the room with the scrubs, said he was doing CPR for 8 minutes. He was not doing CPR for 8 minutes. Because when I started CPR, I’m the one that broke his ribs. If he was doing CPR, he was doing poor CPR.”

Rib fractures are a known consequence of forceful, properly administered CPR, and the responder suggested that earlier chest compressions either had not been performed or were ineffective before EMS arrived.

The bodycam footage also revealed that emergency personnel initially believed they might need to move Hogan from a chair to the floor based on information relayed over the radio. By the time they reached him, that was no longer necessary. That person said,

“I think on the radio they said they were having trouble getting him out of the chair to the floor. So, we were thinking we were going to have to get him on the ground, but he was on the ground when we got there.”

Despite the conflicting recollections about the timeline and quality of CPR, the official findings remain unchanged. Authorities ultimately ruled Hogan’s passing an attended natural death caused by cardiac arrest following an extensive review, and investigators reported no evidence of foul play or criminal activity.

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