07-06-2023, 08:48 AM
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
48 minutes ago
DENVER (AP) — A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said Tuesday that she called 911 but that police did not respond until about an hour later, by which time he had been shot and killed.
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officers responded to a report of a shooting there at 2:09 p.m.
Talija Campbell said she called 911 just after 1 p.m. when her husband, a father of two, l texted his location and a photo of a man sitting next to him in his car. Then he sent messages saying “911” and “Send Please!”
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there was no sense of urgency, Campbell said, so she drove to the location herself.
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Campbell said she decided to open the door to try to save her husband, who had been bleeding, but found no pulse on his neck or wrist.
“I shouldn’t have been the one there, the first person to respond,” she said.
https://apnews.com/article/911-hostage-c...89c19667fc
48 minutes ago
DENVER (AP) — A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said Tuesday that she called 911 but that police did not respond until about an hour later, by which time he had been shot and killed.
......
officers responded to a report of a shooting there at 2:09 p.m.
Talija Campbell said she called 911 just after 1 p.m. when her husband, a father of two, l texted his location and a photo of a man sitting next to him in his car. Then he sent messages saying “911” and “Send Please!”
......
there was no sense of urgency, Campbell said, so she drove to the location herself.
......
Campbell said she decided to open the door to try to save her husband, who had been bleeding, but found no pulse on his neck or wrist.
“I shouldn’t have been the one there, the first person to respond,” she said.
https://apnews.com/article/911-hostage-c...89c19667fc