EXCLUSIVE: Bobbi Kristina is 'taken off life-support' five days after she was found face down in a bath tub at home and left in a coma
- Doctors at Emory University Hospital in Georgia ended life-support to the 21-year-old today
- Her father Bobby Brown is at the hospital with friends and relative - today is his birthday
- Daughter of Whitney Houston found face down in a bath-tub at the home she shared with partner Nick Gordon on Saturday
- Brown - who had red eyes and appeared tired - told Access Hollywood: 'We're praying.'
Bobbi Kristina Brown's life-support has been turned off, DailyMail.com has learned.
The
21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston was found face down in a
bath-tub at the Roswell, Georgia townhouse she shared with partner Nick
Gordon on Saturday.
Her
father Bobby Brown, whose birthday is today, is at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta hospital with friends and relatives.
'The plug on Bobbi Kristina has been pulled,' a police source with knowledge of her medical condition told DailyMail.com.
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Tragic: Doctors have turned off Bobbi
Kristina Brown's life support, DailyMail.com has learned. Pictured: The
21-year-old and her partner Nick Gordon, who found her face-down in a
bathtub at their home on Saturday
It is possible for a patient to survive despite artificial assistance being withdrawn.
Earlier today Brown told Access Hollywood: 'We're praying.'
He appeared tired and his eyes were red as if he had been crying, the program reported.
Bobbi's
'devastated' grandmother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, mother of
Whitney, was also seen arriving at the hospital, according to Radar Online, having flown in from her New Jersey home.
'Cissy was so traumatized losing Whitney and the pain is still raw from that,' a source told the website.
'Watching
Krissy in the hospital and in the coma is almost more than she can
handle. This is almost too much sadness for her to bear.'
Bobbi
was moved to the Atlanta hospital from North Fulton Hospital on
Monday. She had been placed in a medically-induced coma and was reported
to be breathing with the help of a ventilator.
During tests for brain activity, she briefly opened her eyes and doctors found 'minimal' improvement in her brain function.
Houston
died in a bathtub from an 'accidental' drug overdose almost exactly
three years ago, in tragically similar circumstances.
Authorities
found a dozen prescription drug bottles in her Beverly Hills Hotel
suite and listed heart disease and cocaine use as contributors, but
concluded that she accidentally drowned.
A doctor told the family that nothing more could be done for her, People magazine reported.
'Everyone is coming to the hospital to say goodbye,' a family member told the magazine.
'Bobby has been crying nonstop since yesterday,' the source added. 'We are grieving.'
Heartbreaking: Her father Bobby Brown is seen leaving Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Thursday
Staying positive: Brown, pictured
giving a 'thumbs up', has remained hopeful that his daughter will pull
through, according to sources, but on Thursday it emerged that his
daughter's life support was removed
Support network: Bobby Brown, right, and his wife Alicia Etheredge, left, leave the hospital on Thursday
Sadness: Brown held on to a bear as he left his youngest daughter's hospital bedside on Thursday
At her side: There has been a steady stream of visitors to the hospital since the 21-year-old was admitted
The
devastating news comes as a friend of Bobbi Kristina's claimed he was
the one who called 911 after finding her in the bathtub on Saturday -
not her 'husband' Nick Gordon.
Max
Lomas, who has previously been arrested on drug distribution charges,
claims Gordon was 'elsewhere in the residence' and it was he who removed
her from the tub.
Lomas' lawyer told Access Hollywood on Wednesday that it was his client 'who began the process of hopefully helping her recover.'
'Max
was actually the one that found her and he's the one that removed her
from bathtub and called 9-1-1, and Max is the one who began the process
of hopefully helping her recover,' said Phillip Holloway.
According to Holloway, the experience was traumatic for his client.
'He
was terrorized. It was absolute pure panic, and he was frightened for
his friend, his close friend who was not breathing and did not appear to
show any signs of life. He's petrified,' Holloway said. 'And he wanted
to get her the help that she so desperately needed at the time.'
According
to Holloway, Gordon arrived in the bathroom he started CPR on Bobbi
Kristina as Lomas did not know how to conduct life-saving measures.
'Max
assisted in the best of his ability - he's not trained in CPR – but
he's the one who removed her from the bathtub and called 9-1-1,'
Holloway said.
Vigil: Gordon was pictured outside the North Fulton Hospital, where Bobbi Kristina was first taken, on Sunday
While
the Roswell Police Department is no longer commenting on the incident,
Holloway said Lomas is considered a witness, not a suspect, and is
cooperating with authorities regarding the case.
'He's
absolutely not in hiding, no,' Holloway told Access. 'In fact, we're
doing all we can to cooperate to find out exactly what happened to Bobbi
Kristina, and under what circumstances. That's everybody's goal,
including Max.'
Lomas
was arrested on January 15 and charged with weapons offenses, marijuana
possession and possession of an anxiety drug. Holloway says Lomas
pleaded not guilty and the arrest is unrelated to the discovery of Brown
in the tub.
It
has also emerged that police are looking into the possibility that
eye-witnesses may have fled the scene after Bobbi Kristina was found.
Roswell
Police Detectives are investigating whether people fled before officers
arrived and have been asking local businesses if they saw anything
suspicious that morning, E! News reported.
Nearby bank employees told detectives they saw nothing but police have requested surveillance footage, sources told the website
Questions
still remain over what part drugs - if any - played in Saturday's
incident; police reportedly found narcotics in the home during a second
search last weekend.
Bobby
Brown has had his own share of drug troubles, including how he admitted
to using 'an awful lot' of cocaine after marrying Whitney Houston in
1992.
Bobbi's famous mother Whitney Houston
died in a bathtub from an 'accidental' drug overdose almost exactly
three years ago, in tragically similar circumstances
Together: Bobbi Kristina is pictured in her younger years with her mother Whitney Houston and father Bobby
'I
think I was bored,' he previously told VH1's Behind the Music. 'I had
just gotten married and things weren't right. Unfortunately, I turned to
alcohol and drugs.'
He
was also previously arrested for drug possession, including in 2002
when he was found carrying marijuana while speeding - just months after
he was taken to hospital by his concerned wife and friends.
Max Lomas claims he was the one to call 911 after finding Bobbi Kristina unresponsive in her bathtub
In
2000, he also spent 26 days in a Florida jail for violating probation
on a 1996 drunken-driving charge by not submitting to a drug test.
Other,
more recent troubles have included a 2012 arrest for DUI and a stint in
rehab in August of that year for alcohol addiction - before being
arrested for another DUI just three months later.
In 2013, he served just nine hours behind bars after pleading no contest to suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
On Tuesday, he spoke out through his lawyer to correct reports that his daughter had married Gordon.
Following
Houston's death three years ago, Bobbi entered into a relationship with
Gordon - a sort-of step-brother after her mother welcomed him into
their home when he was 12.
Then
last January the couple announced that they had got married, and Bobbi
Kristina posted photos of their 'wedding rings' on social media.
But
on Tuesday a lawyer representing Bobbi's father released the following
statement: 'We are currently investigating the events that led to the
hospitalization of Bobbi Kristina.'
'To
correct earlier reports, Bobbi Kristina is not and has never been
married to Nick Gordon,' added Christopher Brown of Brown & Rosen
LLC.
Relations
between Gordon and other family members have been rocky and he remains
subject to a protective order barring him from being within 200 feet of
Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Patricia Houston.
Bobby
has five children; LaPrincia, 24, is his daughter with Kim Ward, from
who he split in 1991. Bobbi Kristina is his only child with Whitney
Houston, whom he divorced in 2007.
