He then realised Jackson?s daughter Paris, then aged 11, and son Prince, who was 12, were just outside the room on the landing near the doorway.
Mr Muhammad said: ?Paris was on the ground balled up crying and Prince was standing there. He just had a shocked, slightly crying look on his face.?
He took the children downstairs to a ?secure location where they couldn't see what was going on.? as Mr Alvarez helped Dr Murray with CPR.
Mr Muhammad?s testimony came on the second day of the trial of Dr Murray who is accused of causing Jackson?s death by giving him propofol and other sedatives. Dr Murray denies a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Jackson's personal assistant Michael Amir Williams also gave an emotional account of the moments after the singer's death, describing how Dr Murray left a frantic voice message for him. In the message he said: ?Call me right away call me right away. Thank-you.?
Mr Williams phoned back two minutes later and, in a 35-second call, was told by Dr Murray: ?Get here right away. Mr Jackson had a bad reaction Get somebody here immediately.?
Dr Murray did not asked him to phone the emergency services. Mr Williams said: ?When I hear 'bad reaction? I don?t think that?s fatal. And he didn?t ask me to call 911,? he said.
The assistant rushed from downtown Los Angeles to Jackson?s home.
He said: ?When I got there they were beginning to bring the gurney down. It was real frantic. I remember seeing Dr Murray coming down. I saw him talking to medics.?
Dr Murray was looking ?frantic? and told him: ?I?m riding with the ambulance.?
Mr Williams followed the ambulance in a car along with Jackson?s three children Prince, Paris and Blanket, the court heard. There were ?cameras everywhere? and he tried to shield the children with his jacket.
After he got in to the hospital where Jackson was being treated Dr Murray approached him in a corridor.
?He said there was some cream in Michael?s room that he wouldn?t want the world to know about,? Mr Williams said. ?He suggested I, or someone, give him a ride back to get the cream that Michael wouldn?t want the world to know about.?
Mr Williams rejected the request and told other staff to ?lock down? Jackson?s mansion so that Dr Murray could not get back inside.
In a search of Jackson's home after his death, police found two types of skin cream commonly used to treat vitiligo, a skin condition in which there is a loss of brown pigment, resulting in white patches.
According to the personal assistant Dr Murray often stayed the night at the mansion and it had become common to see oxygen tanks there.
The jury was shown a photograph of the inside of a security trailer where various oxygen tanks were kept.
Mr Williams also said he would ?very regularly? drive Jackson to see other doctors including Dr Arnold Klein.
He said that when Jackson came out of Dr Klein?s office he would sometimes be talking more slowly. He said: ?I can definitely say he?s come out and he?s a little slower.?
That evidence was backed up by Mr Muhammad who said at one point Jackson was visiting the office of Dr Klein almost every day.
Jackson told his head of security he had to make the visits because he had a skin disease.
Earlier, the court heard that Dr Murray had asked the promoters of Jackson?s planned comeback tour for life saving equipment days before his death.
A lawyer who drew up a ?contract of services? between Jackson, Dr Murray and promoters AEG Live, said the request was for a portable cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) machine.
Kathy Jorrie said Dr Murray had also asked for an assistant physician to work with him. Miss Jorrie described how she had been surprised by the request for a CPR machine. She said: ?I asked Dr Murray why you need a CPR machine because I wanted to make sure Michael Jackson was healthy and didn?t have a heart condition.
?He said when Michael Jackson was performing he would be putting on an extraordinary performance. We talked about his amazing abilities. He said that, given his age and the strenuous performance, he needed to be sure that if something went wrong he would have the machine.?
She added: ?Dr Murray told me repeatedly Michael Jackson was perfectly healthy and in excellent condition, don?t worry about it he?s great.?
The machine and extra doctor were not delivered because Jackson had not signed the contract before he died.
Miss Jorrie said she also passed on to Dr Murray a request from insurers to see Jackson?s medical records. The doctor told her he had been the singer?s personal physician for three of the previous five years, but there had been no major health issues so his medical records would be ?tiny.?
Miss Jorrie said she had spoken to Dr Murray on the phone the day before the singer died. Dr Murray told her he had watched Jackson rehearsing and that he looked ?extraordinary.?
According to music executive Paul Gongaware, who witnessed the singer practicing on the two days before his death, Jackson appeared ?strong? and ?full of energy? at rehearsals.
Mr Gongaware, joint chef executive of AEG Live, said he had appeared ?fully engaged.?
The executive also said Dr Murray had a ?friendly and caring? relationship with Jackson. Mr Gongaware said he had ?no idea? the doctor was giving Jackson nightly doses of propofol.
Under cross-examination Mr Gongaware acknowledged that AEG is being sued by Jackson?s mother Katherine for alleged negligent supervision of Dr Murray when he worked with the singer.
The trial continues.
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