‘The shooter is upstairs now’: horrific transcripts of emergency calls made by Florida shooting victims’ are released
Transcripts and recordings of emergency calls made by the victims of last month’s Florida high-school shooting have been released to the public – providing a chilling insight into last month’s mass murder.
The calls, from teachers and pupils who were trapped in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz, provide one of the most comprehensive accounts yet on what happened that day.
In one call a student in Room 1216 of the freshman building says that three of her classmates were shot in the room at 2.22pm, and that there are “holes in the wall”.
There’s a kid, I think he’s dead
“There are a lot of people around us who are injured, people are bleeding,” she says. “Please, [the shooter is] upstairs now,” she says. “Please, oh my God.”
She continues: “Stoneman Douglas High School. There’s a shooting at a school. Please, please, please. Please hurry.”
“Do not hang up the phone,” the Coral Springs dispatcher says. The girl whimpers.
Between 2pm and 4pm on February 14, Coral Springs received 115 calls to the 911 emergency line from students, teachers and their parents.
“Please, please, there are people here they are all bleeding, they are going to die,” the student in Room 1216 tells the dispatcher.