Many news outlets have chosen not to broadcast these 911 calls out of some sort of misplaced sensitivity to the parents who lost children at Newtown. I highly disagree with this kind of thinking because what happened there was very much a public event. The Newtown Massacre is part o American history that needs to be examined thoroughly to figure out why it happened and hopefully arrive at some solutions to prevent such an event from happening again. It serves no purpose to sweep it under the rug.
And before anybody accuses me of be callus of those who have lost a child. I know what it feels like because it happened to me and my wife. There’s no greater pain in the world, in my opinion, than losing a child. I would gladly trade with any of the Newtown parents to get 5 or 6 years with my child. We couldn’t get one minute!
USA Today reports a community still reeling from last December's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre relived its horrors Wednesday as police released audio tapes of the chilling 911 calls made by frightened survivors as the shooting unfolded.
"I believe there's shooting at the front glass,'' school custodian Rick Thorne tells a Newtown Police dispatcher, providing authorities an initial glimpse into the carnage wrought by Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old who killed his mother, Nancy at their Newtown home before breaking into his former school, killing 20 students and six staffers with a semi-automatic assault rifle before taking his own life Dec. 14.
"I keep hearing shooting, I keep hearing popping…Now it's silent…There's still shooting going on, please," says Thorne, who serves as the real-time eyes and ears of the one of the most heart-wrenching mass shootings in U.S. history.
An unidentified woman shot in the foot also calls, telling a dispatcher in an eerily calm voice that she's hiding in a classroom with children and two adults, unable to lock the door. The dispatcher urges her to apply pressure to the wound. Asked if she's ok, the woman responds; "For now, hopefully."More here
