A Lisbon EMT medic is accused of stealing from a dead man.

Heartbroken and shocked, the man’s daughter is still processing it.

“How could anybody do this to a man that just lost his life?” April Curfman asked.

Her father, Mel Bricker, was test driving a truck in his backyard when the accelerator got stuck. He crashed into trees and died.

Hours later, Curfman received more bad news.

“A fireman had seen him put my dad’s money clip in his pocket,” she said.

The firefighter was referring to the medic moving Bricker’s body. The police report says deputies found the money in the medic’s pocket.

“I mean, the worst night of my life and then on top of it, somebody stealing from my dad just made it even worse,” Curfman said.

Columbiana County Sheriff Ray Stone said he expects the medic to be charged soon, but that’s not what Curfman wants people to think about when they remember her father.

“He was my world, he was my rock. I want people to remember him as the corny, ornery man — the one that would help anybody.”

As for that night, Curfman chooses to remember the dozens who helped her, not the one man who didn’t.

“I made one phone call. Before I knew it, there were tri-county members everywhere. And one phone call is all it took,” she said.