Jul 24, 2008 10:25 am US/Eastern
K-Swift's Memorial Service Details Announced
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
Memorial plans are finalized for well-known 92Q DJ K-Swift.
A viewing will be held Thursday from 3 p.m.- 8 p.m. at the Joseph H. Brown Funeral Home on 2140 N. Fulton Ave.
A viewing followed by a memorial service will be held Friday from 2-8 p.m. at New Shiloh Baptist Church on North Monroe Street.
On Saturday, another viewing followed by a home-going service will be held at Morgan State University, beginning at 10 a.m. The service will be in the Murphy Fine Arts Center on E. Cold Spring Avenue.
The medical examiner's office ruled that the drowning death of K-Swift was an accident.
Mary Bubala has more on her final minutes.
The autopsy shows K-Swift died from a broken neck after diving into her swimming pool, but friends and fans must wait to find out whether alcohol played a role in the groundbreaking DJ's death.
Fans would love to hear her voice one more time, but tapes, grief and memories are all 92Q listeners can cling to after Khia "K-Swift" Edgerton died early Monday morning.
The Baltimore medical examiner is calling her death an accident. An autopsy shows the 29-year-old's neck was broken when she hit her head while diving into the water during her backyard party. Friends pulled her out, but CPR wasn't administered until an ambulance arrived.
Eyewitness News learned the call for help went out at 12:20 Monday morning. A medic was dispatched two minutes later to 4312 Arizona Avenue. It arrived at 12:28 and departed 14 minutes later.
Fans rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital. About an hour-and-a-half later, officers were called in for crowd control.
Outside of her fans' personal loss, K-Swift's death represents a major loss for the segment of the music industry she helped pioneer.
"Swift had a hand in with Unruly to bring Baltimore club to the states and outside the country," said Johnny Doswell.
Doswell, known to his listeners as Pork Chop, says he wouldn't be doing radio if it weren't for K-Swift. He called her the club queen, the only female mix show coordinator in the nation.
The medical examiner is waiting for blood test results before determining what, if any, role alcohol played in her death. That could take a few weeks.
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