GRAPHIC: Dispatch transcript from Colorado Springs birthday party shooting
Published: May. 10, 2021 at 6:43 AM MDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
Warning: The following is real-time scanner traffic from the Colorado Springs Fire Department and EMS dispatch center while responding to a deadly shooting with seven victims (six plus the gunman) at a birthday party at 12:40 a.m. on May 9. Some of the content may be graphic and difficult for some viewers.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) -
“2828 Preakness Way for a gunshot victim.”
“Fire dispatch AMR 59 is responding with Engine 11.”
“Call taker got the address from the GPS, not sure if it’s the exact, sounds like there are several people on scene.”
“PD is en route to the location. Stage when you get close to the area.
“Sounds like more shots are still being fired. Keep your distance.”
“We’re looking like we have multiple victims. Why don’t we start a few more ambulances code 2 for a total of three and an additional engine company.”
“2828 Preakness Way. Possible multiple gunshot victims.”
“Police are on scene advising that there are four victims and you are clear to go in.”
“Six victims now, police, police. Engine 11 copies. Total of six.”
“We have one critical, red, and five black. I don’t think we’re gonna need all of these additional resources that are coming.”
“They’re all in the same address.”
“AMR has sent six ambulances. Three are on scene and three are still en route.”
“Updated triage. We have that one critical that’s already been transported and six black.”
“Total of seven. Six black. One red that has been transported.”
Click here to read the full story.
Warning: The following is real-time scanner traffic from the Colorado Springs Fire Department and EMS dispatch center while responding to a deadly shooting with seven victims (six plus the gunman) at a birthday party at 12:40 a.m. on May 9. The content may be graphic and difficult to read.
www.kktv.com
---------------------------
The incident was Colorado's worst mass shooting since a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder supermarket March 22. The killings appear to be the deadliest gun-slaying in Colorado Springs history, and are tied for the deadliest mass murder in Colorado Springs history, said Colorado Springs Police Department historian Dwight Haverkorn.
The party celebrated the birthdays of Nubia Marquez, 28, and her brother, Melvin Perez, who would have turned 31 this week, as well as their mother, Joana Cruz, who would have turned 54 this week, Nubia Marquez said on Sunday.
"My mom had always liked celebrating them together," said the woman, who had attended the party with her husband, Freddy Marquez.
Had the couple not left around 10 p.m., their fates might have been different. When they departed Joana Cruz's home, "everybody was calm," Freddy Marquez said. "Everybody was good."
Both Melvin Perez and Joana Cruz were killed. Also among the deceased were Nubia Marquez's other brother, Jose Guttierez, 21; Melvin Perez's wife, Mayra Perez, 32; and Mayra Perez's sister Sandra Ibarra and brother Jose Ibarra, the couple said.
Freddy Marquez identified the suspected shooter as Sandra Ibarra's boyfriend and described him as "quiet" and "serious," and said he always carried a gun. He had met the alleged gunman only once and said "there was nothing out of the ordinary" about him. The couple knew the man only by the the nickname "Junior."
Freddy Marquez described his mother-in-law, Joana Cruz, as "loving" and "hard working."
"She was always laughing," he said of the mother of four.
Her sons were "just like their mom," he added. "They were all great people."
For hours Sunday, Freddy and Nubia Marquez huddled with relatives outside crime tape, about 200 feet from where their loved ones died. Freddy Marquez wrapped his arm around his wife's neck and she rested her head on his chest, blocking her view of crime scene technicians outside her mother's home.
A woman who lives nearby in the mobile home park said she awoke to the sound of what she believes were gunshots and eventually heard crying outside. Two young children were put in the back of a patrol car.
"And on Mothers Day," said the woman, who did not wish to be named.
More:
A gunman killed six members of an extended family Sunday at a birthday party at a mobile home in Colorado Springs before turning the gun on himself, police said, in
gazette.com