Logging Tapes Posted Of Wisc. Mass Shootings

A routine Sunday morning in Oak Creek (Wisc.) was interrupted by gunfire, sending police officers to a local Sikh mosque where they found six people shot dead, three wounded, and then came under fire themselves from a deranged man. Logging tapes created by a scannerist Web site documented the incident and were available almost immediately. One officer was seriously wounded by the suspect’s gunfire but is expected to survive. The gunman then confronted a second arriving officer, and was killed by the officer’s return fire. The incident develops quickly and with minimal radio traffic, according to the logging tapes, as the dispatcher handles 911 calls and officers confront the suspect. According to tapes, originally posted from RadioReference.com, the first 911 call reported only a disturbance at the mosque, located in a mostly suburban area of a town south of Milwaukee. However, additional callers reported gunfire at the scene and provided the description of a bald man in a white T-shirt. Radio traffic quickly turned from routine to emergency when an officer reported, “Officer’s down.” Listen to the radio traffic here (Several channels were being scanned to create the tape, so routine traffic on other channels is interspersed with the main channel’s emergency traffic.). Update: The Milwaukee County sheriff later released the logging tapes of 911 calls that they handled separately from the Oak Creek PD.