WCTV reported that, according to arrest documents, Brown told a county worker that she had killed her children. She was taken into custody and transported to the Apalachee Mental Health Center in Tallahassee.
"Before you pull the knife, I want him baptized," the frantic voice on the phone said. The caller was Gail Brown, the grandmother of the boy who was lying on the operating room table. Brown also happened to be a nurse at the hospital -- and she feared the worst.
"One boy had a pair of scissors through his ear, his left ear. Another boy had a knife through his neck, going up towards his head, in his brain," Soto said.
"The one thing that gave me hope, when I saw the youngest boy -- he had a scissor that was 6½ inches shoved into his ear, to the hilt -- and he was sitting there staring at an iPhone that was given to him by our child life specialist," Beaty said.
"Just like any child who zones out to technology, he was still very much aware," Beaty said. "Now, his older brother, who had the knife buried in from his jaw up into his brain, he was very much dead when we met him. He was in a deep coma. His pupils were not working. He had no signs of brain stem life."
The scissors in Guillermo Timoteo's ear moved an artery that supplies blood to the brain stem and spinal cord, so that artery needed to be repositioned.
The medical teams used coils and balloons to perform the surgeries without harming any other blood vessels and arteries. The teams relied on 360-degree live X-ray imaging to help guide them through the tiny arteries in the boys' bodies.
Both surgeries took place April 24, beginning in the late afternoon and ending late that night. The surgeries were successful, and both brothers survived.
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