'Call for everything': Police scanner recording reveals early moments of Newtown tragedyYou can find a collection of videos for this on YouTube
By Tracy Connor
NBC News
Police radio traffic from the Newtown school shooting shows emergency responders initially thought there might be two gunmen on the loose and were not aware of the extent of the carnage inside Sandy Hook Elementary School.
But as the horrific event unfolded, first-responders can be heard asking for more support: "Call for everything," one says. The communications were not officially released, but were posted on YouTube by a scanner monitor and authenticated by police. Some of the dialogue is encrypted or garbled, but the transmissions that can be heard – with the sound of sirens blaring in the background — provide a glimpse of how Friday’s massacre unfolded through the eyes of police and paramedics.
The recordings begin at 9:35 a.m. with a dispatcher calmly reporting a 911 call about “somebody shooting in the building,” followed two minutes later by the chilling update that a caller was “continuing to hear what he believes to be gunfire.” One dispatcher notifies responding officers that a teacher reported seeing “two shooters, running past the gym.”
“Make sure you have your vests on,” a voice cautions officers in the early minutes.
At 9:49 a.m., an officer described what may have been (the shooter) shooting himself with one of his handguns as cops swarmed the building.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
It took 14 minutes to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary
14 minutes to hit 26 people with multiple bullets that killed them and wounded two more adults. That's how fast this shooter was able to do it.
I got an email from a friend thinking I have changed my views on guns. I haven't. I still believe there are responsible gun owners out there, not only able to use a gun but ready to if they should ever need to. I feel just as comfortable around them as I do with anyone else.
ReplyDeleteMy issues are, and probably always will be, with assault weapons and irresponsible owners.
I know a woman who lives alone and she is a tiny woman. She keeps her handgun by her bed at night and grabs it every time her dogs start to bark. Totally understandable. The problem is during the day, she carries the gun in her purse in case she is robbed. That made no sense to me at all since a robber will grab the purse, run away with it. Not only will the robber have her wallet with her address, cash and credit cards, he will have the keys to her house and her gun. Once I told her that, she started thinking it wasn't such a good idea to keep it in her purse.
People always assume the easy and not the complicated things that can happen. The Sandy Hook Elementary shooter's Mom must have not thought about her son getting his hands on her weapons and doing what he did including killing her. The complicated thing happened and the report that it took him only 14 minutes from start to finishing off 26 lives drove this point home to people around the country.
What if the assault weapons were just regular guns. There was a chance to stop him before he killed a few of the teachers and the kids would have had a better chance of running from him.
Some gun experts, and I am far from that, said teachers should have been armed but then again, there is a complication because the teacher would have to carry the gun on them all the time and that opens the possibility of a rather large parent taking it in the heat of a moment and using it on the teacher. A large student overpowering a teacher could do the same thing. Plus you'd have to factor in teachers went into teaching and not law enforcement for a reason.
I really hope that real experts will finally take all of this seriously enough that they do something before it is too late for some other innocent people being killed and before the stores run out of guns because of all the fears other people have. The problem in this country is not that there are too many gun owners but the wrong kinds of guns in the wrong hands.