Denver 911 response reportedly captured recordings of a police response to a woman killed while on the supposedly life-saving call. The woman involved in the Denver 911 response allegedly died after 13 minutes on the phone with a 911 operator.
According to Denver Post, the police dispatcher directed the police officers to an Observatory Park home after the Denver 911 response operator received a call from a woman reporting of domestic violence. The call that prompted the Denver 911 response sounded like so many others that police often receive. Unfortunately, that day was different.
As the events relating to the Denver 911 response of Monday night unraveled, the woman who called 911 died of a gunshot wound.
The main suspect for the death of the woman who called for the Denver 911 response: her husband. The husband is now in custody and police are still investigating why officers took too long to make the Denver 911 response.
The woman's home is just one mile from the nearest police station, and police are wondering why it took at least 15 minutes for officers to arrive at the home and make the Denver 911 response. Despite the Denver 911 response being recorded, police have declined to release the audio where the woman, Kristine A. Kirk told a 911 operator that her husband was hallucinating, talking about the end of the world and asking her to kill him.
According to police, Kirk spent 13 minutes on the phone with 911, and later rather than sooner was the Denver 911 response. Though the Denver 911 response recording wasn't released, the audio of four police-dispatch exchanges with officers Monday night have managed to capture police actions on the night of Kristine Kirk's death.
The Denver 911 response dispatched and alerted two police officers that night regarding a domestic violence report at the Kirk home on the 2100 block of South St. Paul Street at 9:32 p.m. Kristine, 44, the woman who prompted the Denver 911 response said her husband had been smoking marijuana and was terrifying the couple's three young sons. There was a handgun inside their home but it was locked away.
10 minutes passed and an officer who was making the Denver 911 response en route the Kirk home, was also using his laptop to read notes the 911 operator was taking from Kristine. According to a probable-cause statement that the police filed, Kirk had already grabbed the gun and Kristine screamed and a shot was heard. The line went silent after that.
The Denver 911 response led to a "Code 10" alert, the highest-level standard alert, to all officers around 9:45 p.m. due to a possible shooting at the home.
As one of the officers who made the Denver 911 response asked dispatch to get Kristine back on the phone, the dispatcher said, "Technically, she's still on the line." However, as it was, Kristine wasn't responding any longer. At 9:47 p.m., one of the officers who made the Denver 911 response radioed that they arrived at the home, and at 9:50 p.m., an ambulance was called for a victim with a gunshot wound. But 12 seconds after that, a voice said, "We're going to need homicide."
According to the Denver coroner, Kristine died at the scene of the crime from a single gunshot wound to the head.
The husband and apparently also the killer, Richard Kirk, is now facing a first-degree murder charge. Richard, the husband of Kristine Kirk, the woman who prompted the Denver 911 response, made his first appearance in court Wednesday morning where he waived his formal advisement and will remain in custody.
As of Wednesday night, Richard was already given a public defender and formal charges had not yet been filed. 47-year-old Richard, who killed her wife who prompted the Denver 911 response, went into the courtroom in hand chains and ankle restraints wrapped around the waist of his gray scrubs.
According to the probable-cause statement, Richard Kirk told investigators he shot his wife. A police spokesman said investigations are ongoing to find out whether marijuana prompted caused the shooting.
Denver 911 response which caused Kristine Kirk's death is now garnering attention in the news. Meanwhile, The Denver Police Department and the city's Combined Communications Center are investigating the incident response. Chief Robert White has blamed the long response on decreasing staff and budgets.
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