911 Caller Describes Family Massacre

When a Gilbert (Ariz.) dispatcher answered a 911 call last week, she was immediately swept into an horrific murder-suicide that took five lives, with the lone survivor on the phone hiding in a bedroom and sobbing uncontrollably. Over the next eight minutes the unnamed dispatcher worked to obtain information from the 19 year-old caller, whose mother, sister and two other relatives lay dead at the front of the house of gunshot wounds. Also dead was Jason Ready, who killed himself. On the dramatic logging tape of the call, the dispatcher tries to balance the safety of the caller and the need for information as officers arrive. The dispatcher’s questions move from basic to specific, eventually leading to what Ready looks like and what he’s wearing, as officers arrive and need to confirm the shooter is dead. The call ends as it began, with the caller crying and sobbing, being led from the house by an officer. Listen to the daughter’s 911 call here, and also a dispatcher’s call-back to a neighbor who dialed 911 to report that he heard gunfire.