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APD releases office shooting audio

Callers document terror-filled moments

Updated: Friday, 23 Jul 2010, 12:10 AM MDT
Published : Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 3:34 PM MDT

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Breathless voices to emergency operators describe the shots fired at an Albuquerque business where a gunman last week stormed through a courtyard and then inside the building, killing two people and wounding four others before killing himself.

Albuquerque police on Thursday released 911 tapes from the July 12 shooting at Emcore Corp.

In one, a man tells an operator two or three people have been shot, but he doesn't know who shot them and didn't see the shootings.

Another caller tells a dispatcher there are reports of shooting at the solar panel manufacturer, but the dispatcher loses the caller after that.

Police have said they believe Robert Reza's target was his ex-girlfriend, Adrienne Basciano. She was seriously wounded, but a spokesman for University of New Mexico Hospital said she was released Thursday.

Police say Reza bought the gun May 6 at an Albuquerque gun shop.

Here is some of the transcript of five of the 911 calls.

CALLER ONE

Operator: Where is your emergency?
Caller: There's a gunshot
Operator: Where at?
Caller: A gunshot at 1600
Operator: 1600 what?
Caller: Eubank

Operator: Did you witness it?
Caller: No I heard it.

Caller: I'm hiding behind a desk
Operator: You're hiding? Is it in the company?
Caller: Yes, you can hear the shots. (Inaudible) It's a suicide.

Operator: How many shots did you hear?
Caller: About 10.

Operator: Your other employees are calling.

Caller: (Breathing)


CALLER TWO

Caller: We just ran out the building

Caller: We were at a desk and someone ran through and said someone was shooting.

Caller: There are still shots being fired.
Operator: Ok shots are being fired

Caller: Jeez what the hell.

CALLER THREE

(Noise)
Operator: Sir hello? Hello?
(Noise)

CALLER FOUR

Caller: I have no idea what is going on.

Operator: They've been shot?
Caller: I have no idea I just heard someone running through the hallway screaming that someone is shooting. We ran outside the back.

Caller: I don't know where everyone else went, I just came to a place where I know I'm ok right now.

Operator: I am going to go ahead and answer the other lines because we have several more people, employees from your business, calling in.


Caller: (heavy breathing)

CALLER FIVE

Operator: Are you hiding?
Caller: Yes.


Caller: I'm locked in the bathroom.
Operator: You're locked in the bathroom.

Caller: (Crying)
Operator: Take a deep breath.


Caller: Somebody I think is shot in the lobby.

Caller: He's coming back (crying).

(gunshot)
Caller: I hear more shots.
Operator: More shots? Another shot was fired?
Caller: Yes

Caller: They are yelling for a medic.

Caller: I’m in here.
(yelling)
Someone: Come out come out
Caller: (crying) Ok.


Caller: Let me call my husband.
Operator: I can call him for you what's his name>


Operator: (To Husband) She's been involved in an incident.
Husband: Wait, wait, wait, what happened?

 


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