What was supposed to be a routine medical appointment turned into an unimaginable nightmare for Adrienne Jones-McAllister when her husband, 61-year-old Keith McAllister, was killed in a freak MRI accident in Long Island, New York. On July 16, 2025, Keith had accompanied his wife to Nassau Open MRI for a knee scan. After the scan was completed, Adrienne needed assistance getting off the table, prompting the technician to bring Keith into the MRI room—a decision that would prove fatal.

Keith, who was wearing a 20-pound metal chain around his neck, was pulled violently into the active MRI machine by its powerful magnetic force. Adrienne, still lying on the table, could do nothing but watch in horror as her husband was yanked into the machine and went limp in her arms. “I was screaming, begging them to turn off the machine, to call 911—anything,” Adrienne recalled. Despite their efforts, Keith remained pinned to the equipment for nearly an hour until emergency responders arrived.

Keith suffered multiple heart attacks during the ordeal and passed away the following day in the hospital. The incident sparked outrage online, particularly after Adrienne’s daughter, Samantha Bodden, took to Facebook to clarify the public narrative. “He wasn’t a patient,” she wrote. “He was brought in by staff to help my mom, and she had to witness him being strangled to death.” She also accused the clinic of downplaying their responsibility in what she called a preventable tragedy.

Since the story gained national attention, the family has received both support and online harassment. Samantha, who admitted she and Keith didn’t always get along, defended her mother fiercely: “She didn’t deserve to witness this. No one did.” A fundraiser has since been launched to help cover funeral costs. As the investigation into the accident continues, the McAllister family is left with the haunting memory of a man who died simply trying to help the woman he loved.