When 'oops' or 'my bad' just doesn't quite cover it

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He died after the family took him off life support. Then he walked through the door

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Yeah I know the headline makes no sense but wait.

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The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother

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It had been years since Brooks and Bennett-Johnson had been in touch with their sibling, Alfonso Bennett. And as the sisters recently told WBBM, through the injuries and medical contraptions, they did not recognize the man slipping away at Mercy as Alfonso.

"They kept saying [Chicago Police Department] identified this person as our brother,” Bennett-Johnson told the station.

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Then, amid the family’s grief, a miracle dropped.

A member of the family called to report that Bennett — alive and well — had just walked through her front door.

“I almost had a heart attack,” Bennett-Johnson said.

The sisters’ hunch at the hospital had been correct. Unfortunately, they had signed off on a stranger’s death.

“It’s sad that it happened like that. If it was our brother and we had to go through that, that would have been a different thing,” Bennett-Johnson told WBBM. “We made all kinds of decisions on someone that wasn’t our family.”

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And this little gem was buried at the bottom of the story with no rebuttal:

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In a statement to the station, Mercy noted, “The family did identify this patient as their brother.”

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That didn't happen; the cops said it was their brother.

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