A Queens woman, who emergency medical workers declared dead after she shot herself in her home, was rushed to the hospital on Thursday, PIX 11 News reports, when police realized that she was still alive almost an hour later.

The 32-year-old woman shot herself in the head with a rife while on the phone with her boyfriend, the New York Daily News reports, at home on 115th St. near 103rd Ave. in Richmond Hill.

PIX 11 reports that she was on the phone with relatives who don’t live in New York, not her boyfriend:

Her relatives notified authorities, and when EMTs from Jamaica Hospital Center arrived, they declared the woman dead.

Because it was classified as an unattended death, police were called in as standard procedure.

Just over an hour later, at 10:42 a.m. detectives arrived on the scene and saw what trained EMTs did not as they “observed sounds coming from the victim’s body”— the woman’s vital signs were still present. She was alive.

The woman was in critical condition late on Thursday, the Daily News reports.

A spokesperson for the hospital, Michael Hinck, told PIX 11, “We’re currently investigating” the EMTs who thought the woman was dead.

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