Witness: Jackson's Daughter Wept Outside Bedroom As Singer Died

Los Angeles - Michael Jackson's young daughter was crying on the floor outside the singer's bedroom the day he died, while his personal physician was administering CPR on the entertainer's apparently lifeless body, the head of Jackson's security detail testified today.

Testifying in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the singer's June 25, 2009, death, Faheem Muhammad said when he went into Jackson's bedroom on the second floor of his rented Holmby Hills mansion, he saw security officer Alberto Alvarez pacing nervously, and Murray performing CPR on Jackson.

Muhammad said he talked to Alvarez, who told him, "It's not looking good."

The security chief testified that he moved toward the bed and saw Jackson's face, noting "that his eyes were opened, and his mouth was slightly open."

"Did he appear to be dead?" Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked.

"Yes," Muhammad answered.

Muhammad said he realized that Jackson's two oldest children -- son Prince, then 12, and daughter Paris, then 11 -- were just outside the singer's bedroom.

"Paris was on the ground, balled up, crying," he said, adding that Prince "had a shocked look."

Muhammad said he went to the children, talked to them and walked them downstairs, calling for help from a nanny.

He went back to the second-floor bedroom, and at some point, Murray asked him and Alvarez if either one knew CPR. Muhammad said he asked Alvarez if anyone had called 911, and Alvarez said yes.

Muhammad testified that he later went back downstairs and helped put Jackson's children into a vehicle so they wouldn't see their father's body being brought outside and loaded into an ambulance. Once they arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, photographers were trying to swarm the paramedics and ambulance, and members of the security team used their jackets to shield Jackson's body and the kids, he said.

"There was a lot going on, with his family arriving and people trying to sneak in," Muhammad said, adding that the children were taken to a separate room at the hospital.

Murray, 58, faces up to four years in state prison if convicted of the felony charge stemming from Jackson's death at age 50.

The cardiologist found the singer unresponsive at his rented mansion, where he was staying while rehearsing for a series of 50 sold-out concerts in London dubbed "This Is It." The singer, who was pronounced dead later that day at the hospital, died of acute propofol intoxication.

Prosecutors claim Murray gave Jackson the powerful sedative propofol and then failed to monitor him, leaving the singer's bedroom for 45 minutes to make phone calls and send emails. Defense attorneys insist Murray was weaning Jackson off the medication, but the singer "self-administered" a larger dose of the drug that killed him after the doctor left the room.

Prosecutors also allege that prior to calling 911 or asking anyone else to do so, Murray collected vials of propofol and other equipment from Jackson's bedroom.

Earlier today, Jackson's personal assistant testified that after the singer had been pronounced dead at the hospital, Murray asked to be driven back to the Holmby Hills estate to get some "cream."

"He said that there's some cream in Michael's room ... that he (Jackson) wouldn't want the world to know about," Michael Amir Williams testified.

Williams said he declined to take Murray back to the house and lied to him that police had taken his keys. He testified that he then instructed Muhammad to "make sure security doesn't let anyone in or anyone out" of the home.

Murray later approached him with a request for a ride to get some food, Williams said, noting that he shrugged off the request.

Williams testified that he first learned there was a problem after he listened to a voice mail at 12:13 p.m. the day of the singer's death. In the message, Murray asked him to call back right away.

Jackson's personal assistant testified that he returned the doctor's call two minutes later, and Murray told him that "Mr. Jackson had a bad reaction" and to "get somebody up here right away."

"Were you asked to call 911?" Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked.

"No, sir," Williams responded.

He said he didn't consider it to be an emergency situation at the time.

"When I hear someone had a bad reaction, I don't think anything fatal," Williams told jurors.

Williams testified that he contacted one of the singer's security employees and gave him authorization to enter the house and go upstairs to Jackson's bedroom.

Williams said an ambulance was already at the house when he arrived about 30 to 40 minutes later and Jackson was brought down on a gurney to be taken to the hospital. He said he could tell from the doctor's physical condition that he was "frantic."

"We got them (Jackson's three children) in the car to get ready to follow the ambulance," he said. Under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward Chernoff, Williams acknowledged that he did