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 A Milwaukee man was pronounced dead in his home Tuesday — and then he started moving. 
 
 Police went to the 46-year-old man's home just after noon after his girlfriend said she hadn't been able to reach him. He had last exchanged text messages with his girlfriend Sunday night, which was also the last time he had been seen alive. 
 
 The apartment manager let police into the man's unit. A team from the Milwaukee Fire Department arrived soon after and found the man "cold to the touch and in rigor" at the foot of his bed, according to the report from the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office. They did not attempt to resuscitate him. 
 
 An investigator from the medical examiner's office arrived at 1 p.m., and the man was pronounced dead at 2:10 p.m. 
 
 But as authorities prepared to transport the man to the medical examiner's office, he began breathing and moving his left arm and right leg. Firefighters were called back to the scene, and the man once again had a heart rate. 
 
 He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital and admitted into an intensive care unit. No update on his condition was available Friday. 
 
 The man's brother said he had seen his brother two weeks before the incident. He told the medical examiner's office his brother's gait was "terrible" at that time, the report noted. The brother also told medical examiners that the man had a history of occasional cigar smoking and beer drinking but was not involved with street drugs. 
 
 The Milwaukee Fire Department is conducting an internal investigation to ensure that proper protocol was followed. Assistant Chief Gerard Washington declined to comment because the investigation is ongoing but said it should be concluded by the end of next week. ||||| A Milwaukee man was declared dead Tuesday, and his family was notified, but as he was about to be transported to the morgue, he started to move. 
 
 
 
 First responders are still trying to figure out what happened. 
 
 
 
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 Police were called to his high-rise apartment at 11th and Wells streets Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 The 46-year-old man's girlfriend was worried because she couldn't reach him, and he has an ongoing serious medical condition. 
 
 
 
 An officer got in his apartment, found him collapsed at the foot of the bed and called for paramedics. 
 
 
 
 According to the medical examiner’s investigation report obtained by 12 News, a fire crew from Engine 1 arrived on scene just after noon. 
 
 
 
 "They found him cold to the touch and in rigor," the report said. "They did not attempt to resuscitate him." 
 
 
 
 "Death was pronounced," and firefighters called the medical examiner, according to the report. 
 
 
 
 The medical examiner’s office called for a transport. An hour later, the transport crew arrived, and just as they were starting to take him away, there was a shocking turn of events: The man began to breathe and move his right arm and leg. 
 
 Firefighters had already left the scene, so the medical examiner's team called 911. 
 
 
 
 The Milwaukee Fire Department crew returned and found he had a heart rate. They quickly took him to an area hospital. 
 
 
 
 The victim remains in the Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital Intensive Care. 
 
 
 
 The report said there were no signs of street drug use or alcohol abuse. 
 
 
 
 The man's brother told WISN 12 News his brother is "not out of the woods yet." He is in the ICU. 
 
 
 
 The brother said his brother has a thyroid problem, which put him in a rare coma and dropped his body temperature to 84 degrees. the man's neck and jaw were stiff, and first responders thought rigor was setting in. 
 
 Bohr asked the Milwaukee Fire Department about the case. Assistant Chief Gerard Washington told him, "We're doing an internal investigation to make sure that everything we did followed protocol. It's an active investigation, so I can't comment in detail." 
 
 
 
 AlertMe ||||| MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man was pronounced dead after collapsing at his Milwaukee apartment, but began to move his limbs as he was about to be taken to the morgue, authorities say. 
 
 The girlfriend of the 46-year-old man had not been able to reach him for two days, and called police Tuesday asking for an officer to check on him. An officer went to the man's home and entered his apartment with the building manager. The man, identified by relatives as Thomas Sancomb, had collapsed at the end of his bed, according to the heavily redacted report from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner. The officer called 911. 
 
 Paramedics from the Milwaukee Fire Department said Sancomb was "cold to the touch and in rigor," and they did not attempt to resuscitate him, the report said. 
 
 Sancomb was pronounced dead at 2:10 p.m. at the apartment, forensic investigator Genevieve M. Penn wrote in the report. Penn then called Sancomb's brother, John Sancomb, to inform him of the death and the brother requested an autopsy to determine the cause of death. 
 
 A transport team arrived to take the body to the morgue, but at about 3 p.m., Thomas Sancomb had "spontaneous respirations" and began moving his left arm and right leg, but no pulse was evident, Penn wrote. She summoned paramedics back to the apartment and called the family. 
 
 Sancomb's pulse returned and he was rushed to Columbia St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee. His diagnosis at the hospital was redacted from the report. Hospital spokesman Evan Solochek said no information could be disclosed because of federal privacy laws. 
 
 John Sancomb told the medical examiner that his brother had a drink and a cigar every once in a while, but did not use street drugs. Sancomb said he last saw his brother two weeks ago and was concerned that he wasn't walking well, the report said. 
 
 He told The Associated Press that his brother is improving every day. 
 
 "Thomas' health is the most important thing we're focusing on right now," he said, declining to talk further about the incident. 
 
 The medical examiner's office declined to comment on the case. The Milwaukee Police Department said only that officers responded to a welfare check and found the man unresponsive in a bedroom. Milwaukee Fire Department Lt. Mark Stanmeyer referred questions to fire officials, who rejected a request to speak to the lieutenant who responded to the apartment.
– Another entry for the not-dead-yet files: A man who had been pronounced dead in Milwaukee began moving around as a medical team was preparing to take him to the morgue, reports WISN. The strange tale of 46-year-old Thomas Sancomb began earlier this week when his worried girlfriend called 911 because she couldn't reach him. A crew from the Fire Department got into his apartment and found him collapsed near the foot of his bed, "cold to the touch and in rigor." He seemed so clearly dead that they didn't try to resuscitate, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. An investigator from the medical examiner's office showed up, and Sancomb was pronounced dead. Authorities called his brother with the news. At that point, a crew from the medical examiner's office arrived to take the body to the morgue when, lo and behold, Sancomb had "spontaneous respirations" and started moving his limbs, reports AP. Paramedics then returned to the scene and took him to the hospital instead of the morgue. His brother says Sancomb is doing better every day, but didn't go into detail. As for the blown medical call: "We're doing an internal investigation to make sure that everything we did followed protocol," says an assistant fire chief. "It's an active investigation, so I can't comment in detail." (This woman actually woke up in the morgue. As did this guy. And this one.)