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on August 12th 2024 officers with the
Fitchburg Police Department in Wisconsin
responded to a residence after a 911
hangup call 911 what's the address of
the emergency hi uh
someone there's an issue though we have
no contact
orders and we saw each
other and he tried to break my neck
where did this happen
you never mind what follows is a welfare
check that goes horribly wrong and
you'll never guess who placed the
initial phone
call pitchburg police Kevin you need to
come to the door we aren't
leaving someone was screaming for help
you need to come to the door we're going
to force our way in
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remember if they speak Spanish or
uh only speak Spanish I think he speaks
English okay I recall correctly all
right Fitchburg police come to the door
coming in here is not going to be good
cuz there's all along here is that
door open yes no that one yeah no it's
locked
38 go
ahead try call that number a few times
more what the collar was yeah I have a
last time I called it it went right to
voicemail Kevin or you need to come to
the
door we need to make sure you guys
aren't
hurt n it just goes the voicemail
again it rang that time though
Fitchburg police Kevin come to the
door no neighbor said or uh
answered yeah I talked to the
woman she didn't hear anything
okay yeah well the servants happened out
here in the parking lot right yeah and
that's why she saw and they and then
they both went back back in here mhm
okay she was really worried about him
cuz cuz he looked really
panicked you haven't seen anybody in
there no there's one bedroom that the
blinds are pulled you can't see we could
see in the other bedroom MH but I think
oh D say those blinds are closed now
too they both speak English don't they
yeah I didn't know they both still lived
here it's been a oh yeah it's been a
minute we do have a third room too can't
remember his name it's probably in there
but it is um so Odell why don't you go
grab the 40 out of my back of my car
okay I don't know if this is going to be
movable we'll have to see you do a non's
clamp and then Lisa and JP you guys are
hands team going back you guys
up Fitchburg
police Kevin come to the door you got to
talk to us we're going to be coming in
fitzburg
police to check your welfare so you need
to come to the door now or we are coming
in are you in there it's fburg please
final warning we are coming
in if you hear us let us know that you
hear us and that you're coming to the
door so get the Kevin you need to come
to the door we're coming
in bitburg please
L of
oh this is on a
chain Fitchburg
please Kevin Kevin are you in here
bitburg
Place Kevin need to come to the door
right now make yourself
known for
place come on
out he's
coming I'm going to have you go all the
way outside or do you need an ambulance
all right go all the way outside US you
okay Kevin is he back there or
no is he is he go okay come okay come
with me m come me go what's his name
Kevin you want to take back I'm going to
stay with no justay stay there for now
Okay
Kevin hold one one at a time here let's
take the bathroom
first go J
clear clear all right hold therein Clint
Kevin are you in
here Kevin
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inside the
closet Kevin come out of the closet
now I got taser here
too this closet door's closed over here
Kevin come out got him quit playing
games here man it's closet door is
closed though Kevin come we'll take one
more in here with us
all
right Lisa which bedroom is he in the
one that we were in or the one in the
back AC unit on in there there's no AC
unit in there so see in here it's got to
be in here all right all right hold
on Kevin if you're in here make yourself
known hold on one they clearing in there
people just okay we're going a hold here
Che bed quick okay
yeah all right so all right
Kevin we know you're in the closet you
need to call out to us right
now moving we got movement
Kevin
Kevin stand up right now with your hands
raised you got on the left side yeah
left side over here okay Kevin right now
stand up with your hands
raised
here do you have a knife on you
Kevin Kevin do you have a knife yeah
right do stop right there stop Hands Up
Now drop the knife stop drop it drop it
now from this point on the audio from
all all three body cameras provided by
the Wisconsin Department of Justice cuts
out almost entirely knif drop it drop
the knife over
the down kin the suspect identified in
the video as Kevin received three
gunshot wounds to the chest officers
immediately began the process of
extricating Kevin from the apartment and
began giving life-saving measures he was
taken to the hospital where he died from
his wound 3 Days Later his obituary
listed a pulmonary embolism as the cause
of death according to ismus an
independent local news source out of
Madison Wisconsin friends and family
identified Kevin as the individual who
placed the initial call to 911 the
Wisconsin Department of Justice division
of criminal investigation concluded
their investigation of the incident and
found that the officers involved were
not criminally
liable trying to save your life

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