Matt Spillane

mspillane@lohud.com

YONKERS - First responders saved DMX's life after the rapper was found lifeless outside a city hotel Monday night.

Yonkers police and Empress Ambulance personnel responded, said Detective Lt. Patrick McCormack, who would not confirm the patient was the recording artist.

"Basically it was an excellent job by our ESU officers," McCormack said. "They saved this individual's life."

Hari Shukla, a manager at the Ramada Inn, confirmed that DMX, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, had a medical issue Monday night at the property. He said DMX had returned to the hotel Tuesday morning.

The rapper's attorney, Murray Richman, told The Journal News on Tuesday that Simmons was out of the hospital and said he was doing fine.

"The police did a wonderful job," Richman said.

McCormack said police rushed to the hotel on Tuckahoe Road at 6:22 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about an unresponsive man in the parking lot. A witness told police that the man may have ingested some substance before falling to the ground.

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The 45-year-old man, who McCormack would only identify as a Mount Kisco resident, was on the ground next to a parked car in a "lifeless condition" with no pulse, McCormack said.

He was not breathing, so officers from the Emergency Services Unit performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and administered air through a bag valve mask, McCormack said. He began breathing slowly after about a minute.

McCormack said Empress personnel then arrived and gave the man Narcan, which is typically used to reverse the effects of an overdose on heroin and opiate-based prescription drugs, such as oxycodone.

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The man was semi-conscious as he was taken to a local hospital, McCormack said.

He said no drugs were found and no criminal charges had been filed against anyone at the scene.

Daniel Abraham Chekottu, the night clerk at the hotel, was on duty when police arrived Monday night.

“I saw police cars coming, and along with that an ambulance was coming," Chekottu said.

Chekottu said he saw Simmons leave the hotel on Monday, but had yet to see him since returning to work Tuesday afternoon.

"He was very quiet. He was very nice," Chekottu said of his interactions with the recording star.

Chekottu said Simmons, who had checked in alone to the hotel without an entourage, still was registered as a guest at the hotel as of Tuesday afternoon.

Richman, the rapper's lawyer, said Simmons has asthma and believes he may have had an asthma attack.

Asked if Simmons told him whether he had taken any drugs Monday night, the lawyer replied, "No comment."

​Simmons made headlines recently in Westchester after a series of arrest warrants were issued in connection with an ongoing Family Court divorce and child-support case. His lawyer said at the latest court hearing, in December, that the rapper was on tour trying to earn a living and meet his child-support obligations, chalking up his failure to appear in court to a misunderstanding..

Simmons had other legal troubles in 2015 as well. He was accused of robbery at a Newark gas station after a performance in April, and was sentenced to six months in a Buffalo jail in July for failing to pay $400,000 in child support. He was released in September.

He also made an appearance on an ABC sitcom, "Fresh off the Boat," in December.

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Staff writer Michael D'Onofrio contributed to this story.