Early Sunday, Tommy Hanson was asleep and snoring in a basement room in his friends’ Coweta County home. One of the homeowners went downstairs early to let Hanson’s barking dogs outside, she told a 911 operator.
It was one of those dogs that sent Clare Jordan back downstairs, where she noticed Hanson didn’t look right.
“I just came down here again because one of his dogs was barking and I wanted to make sure everything was OK,” Jordan told the operator. “And he just didn’t look right.”
Jordan’s frantic call to 911, released Friday, offered few clues to what may have caused the former Braves pitcher to lose consciousness and later die, the following night, at Piedmont Hospital.