Police arrest 4 in connection to hyperbaric chamber fire that killed 5-year-old Michigan boy: report

Police successful Troy, Michigan, person arrested 4 radical successful transportation to the decease of a 5-year-old lad who was wrong a hyperbaric enclosure erstwhile it exploded astatine a aesculapian installation successful January, including the proprietor of the facility, according to reports.

FOX 2 successful Detroit reported that Tammi Peterson, the laminitis and CEO of The Oxford Center successful Troy, was arrested astatine her location connected Monday greeting conscionable earlier 7 a.m. for the decease of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper.

Peterson is expected to beryllium charged with second-degree execution and manslaughter, the presumption reported.

Her institution owned and operated the hyperbaric enclosure that Cooper was wrong erstwhile it exploded.

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Thomas Cooper died erstwhile the enclosure helium was wrong exploded successful Michigan. (Family of Thomas Cooper)

In summation to Peterson, 3 others are expected to beryllium charged with the aforesaid crimes, portion 1 of those 3 volition besides beryllium charged with falsifying aesculapian records.

FOX 2 reported that the names of the different 3 individuals person not been released.

The Detroit Free Press reported that each 4 are scheduled to beryllium arraigned successful territory tribunal connected Tuesday.

The Troy Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for further accusation and comment.

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When reached for comment, an lawyer for the Oxford Center issued a connection to FOX 2, saying they are afloat cooperating with investigators, though they are disappointed successful the charges.

"The timing of these charges is surprising, arsenic the emblematic protocol aft a fire-related mishap has not yet been completed. There are inactive outstanding questions astir however this occurred. Yet, the Attorney General’s bureau proceeded to prosecute charges without those answers," the connection reads. "Our highest precedence each time is the information and wellbeing of the children and families we serve, which continues during this process." 

On the time of the deadly explosion, the boy’s mother, Annie Cooper, was sitting successful a waiting country portion her lad received attraction for attention-deficit/hyperactivity upset (ADHD) and slumber apnea.

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Thomas Cooper died erstwhile the enclosure helium was wrong exploded successful Michigan. (Family of Thomas Cooper)

Thomas was receiving attraction that consisted of 100% oxygen connected Jan. 31 astatine The Oxford Center, located astir 24 miles northbound of Detroit.

"She was successful the waiting country and was alerted that … thing incorrect had happened. She rushed backmost to wherever her lad was, and she tried and tried and tried to get him retired and … was incapable to," James Harrington of Fieger Law told Fox News Digital. "She sustained serious, important burns successful that effort to rescue her child."

Fieger Law is investigating the incident, and Harrington believes The Oxford Center "was understaffed and did not person the resources for an exigency similar this."

The Oxford Center stated connected its website: "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is an alternate attraction which volition alteration inflammation, oxygenate the full body, stimulate the maturation of caller steadfast humor vessels, and merchandise stem cells, up to 800% much aft 20 sessions. Studies person reported betterment successful concentration, communication, moving representation and sleep."

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When Troy constabulary and occurrence officials arrived connected the scene, Thomas was dormant wrong the enclosure portion Annie suffered injuries to her arm.

Annie and her husband, Thomas' father, James Cooper, buried the 5-year-old connected Feb. 13. Thomas "was known to each his friends, family, and teachers arsenic a curious, energetic, smart, outgoing, and thoughtful small boy," his obituary stated. 

Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.