Long Island Police say Keith McAllister defied orders to stay out of the MRI room, but his family tells a much different story.

The family of Keith McAllister, 61, is speaking out a week after an MRI machine sucked him up by his metal chain, subsequently killing him on July 17.

A man is in critical condition after being sucked into an MRI machine when he walked into a room where a scan was in progress while wearing a metal chain, authorities say.