Audio: Dispatcher details McBride shooting callOralandar Brand-Williams and George Hunter
he Detroit News
November 12, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Dearborn Heights — The Detroit News has obtained audio of a Dearborn Heights police dispatcher sending officers the morning of Nov. 2 to a house on West Outer Drive after the 54-year-old homeowner there dialed 911 to report he’d just shot a person he didn’t know on his porch.
The shooting happened at a home in the 16800 block of Outer Drive near Warren, and the homeowner contacted police around 4:45 a.m. Police say the person shot on the porch was 19-year-old Renisha McBride.
The shooting of McBride, an African-American woman, by the white homeowner, who claimed through his attorney that he fired his shotgun because he feared for his life, has ignited a national firestorm about Michigan’s version of the “Stand Your Ground” law. The man is not in police custody, and prosecutors are investigating whether to bring charges.
While police dispatches are radioed to officers before an investigation has been conducted and sometimes contain erroneous information, the audio obtained through Broadcastify provides a glimpse into the events of that morning.
“Just received a 911 call from a male (who) thinks he just shot someone on his porch,” the female dispatcher said at about 4:46 am. “Then he hung up; we’re trying to call back.”
About a minute later, the dispatcher radioed: “Units responding: We have the male on the line. (He) states he doesn’t know this person. Trying to get further (information).”
A responding officer told the dispatcher: “There’s somebody down on the porch ... it appears it’s going to be a black female.”
Two minutes after the initial dispatch, an officer reported: “Rescue 10 is on scene.”
Also Tuesday, the Detroit Police Department released a detailed timeline of a single-car accident at Brammell and Majestic in which McBride is believed to have been involved a couple of hours prior to being fatally shot.
The crash occurred in a Detroit neighborhood a mile northwest of the Dearborn Heights home where McBride was killed.
According to information released by Detroit police, the accident occurred just before 1 a.m. Nov. 2, and Detroit’s emergency dispatch center received a 911 call around 12:57 a.m. saying a “female hit a parked car (and) the driver of the vehicle fled the location.”
In the initial call, there was no report of injuries.
When police arrived at the scene at 1:40 a.m., the driver, thought to be McBride by her family, was no longer there. EMS also was dispatched and did not find the driver at the scene. By 2:50 a.m., police remained at the scene writing a report on the incident and making preparations to have the car towed.
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