According to news updates; Recordings of 911 calls from last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were released Wednesday, and they not only paint a picture of anguish and tension inside the building, they also show Newtown dispatchers mobilizing help, reassuring callers and urging them to take cover.
According to police report that one of the first callers to Newtown police was a woman who said in a trembling, out-of-breath voice: “I think there’s somebody shooting in here at Sandy Hook school.”
She also told that because somebody’s got a gun. I caught a glimpse of somebody. They’re running down the hallway. Oh, they’re still running. They’re still shooting. Sandy Hook school, please.
Another woman, who was shot in the foot, calmly reported that she was in a classroom with children and two other adults, but that there was no way to safely lock the door.
By the reports; within 11 minutes of entering the school, Lanza had fatally shot 20 children and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle. Lanza killed his mother in their Newtown home before driving to the school. He committed suicide as police closed in.
Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott said that allow the public to consider and weigh what improvements, if any, should be made to law enforcement’s response to such incidents.
911 Calls Show Tension Response to Newtown Elementary School Shooting
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