Ex-Football Player’s Frantic 911 Call in Girlfriend Murder Trial

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Good morning, Ms. Barrett. Could you please state your full name for the record? [00:00:06] Jennifer Barrett: Jennifer Barrett. [00:00:07] Speaker 1: And Ms. Barrett, where are you employed? [00:00:10] Jennifer Barrett: The Department of Emergency Communications. [00:00:13] Speaker 1: What is your position at the Department of Emergency Communications? [00:00:17] Jennifer Barrett: I'm the custodian of records. [00:00:19] Speaker 1: And can you describe, as part of your duties, does that involve any calls to 911 or police dispatch? [00:00:28] Jennifer Barrett: Yes, both. [00:00:30] Speaker 1: And can you describe, when someone places a 911 call, what type of records are generated by the Department of Emergency Communications? [00:00:39] Jennifer Barrett: Well, when the phone call is taken, the call taker will create a CAD report, is what we call it, with all the information in there. [00:00:50] Speaker 1: And that information that would go into a CAD report, is that information inputted by the person who's answering the 911 call? [00:00:58] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:00:59] Speaker 1: And is it based off of the dispatcher's conversation on the phone with whoever's called in tonight? [00:01:06] Jennifer Barrett: Yes, they get the information from the caller. [00:01:09] Speaker 1: And are those calls reported? [00:01:11] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:01:12] Speaker 1: And are they specific to a timestamp where that is reported as part of the call? [00:01:18] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:01:20] Speaker 1: And anything in the CAD report that is different than what's in the actual audio of the call, would the audio be what you would rely on? [00:01:31] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:01:32] Speaker 1: Versus anything that's a tight note. [00:01:33] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:01:34] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:01:34] Speaker 1: Did you specifically review the Department of Emergency Communication records for any calls placed to 911 specific to this particular case? Yes. And specifically, did you pull and review a phone call made at 29, 38, and 58 seconds on February 25th of 2023? Yes. And I have that audio on a thumb drive, if I can ask if that be handed to this witness, along with a copy of the transcript. Yes, Ms. Barrett, did you actually review that 911 audio? [00:02:31] Jennifer Barrett: I listened to it, yes. [00:02:33] Speaker 1: Okay. Your Honor, at this time I would ask to admit the audio on the thumb drive as well as the transcript, and I should have seven copies and two steps to read. [00:02:50] Speaker 3: Okay. The exhibit 10. [00:03:03] Speaker ?: Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [00:03:33] Speaker 3: All right, again, ladies and gentlemen, the audio will be the transcripts to assist you. If there's any differences in the two, you have to rely on what you recall hearing. [00:04:03] Speaker 1: I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. [00:04:33] Speaker ?: I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. [00:04:42] Speaker 4: I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. I don't know if I have the actual thumb drive. 3, 20, 1, 30, 8, and 58 seconds. [00:04:55] Speaker 5: What is the location of your emergency? I'm not sure if I'm down to the park. I'm at a strange house, and I think she's having an electric reaction. Hold on, let's see. I guess I'll go. I'm just going to search. That way you can find her. I don't know. There's an apartment complex. Is there an apartment complex? Is there an apartment complex? Look, I'm looking around. It's just going to get that, and I'm looking around. I don't know what's going on. I think she just passed out. Give me one second. Are you on Donaldson, Mike, or are you on Lebanon? What are you here? Lebanon, Lebanon. Yeah, Lebanon. Is it apartment 107? Is it 1840? What's been playing? I don't know if I'm at Burger King. I do know that. Let me look. I'm going to the apartment building to get the condo flat apartment. Yeah, please don't get the name of it. I'm going to the front. Okay, is there a mouthful in the corner there, sir? Is there a what? A mouthful in the corner? I'm not sure. I'm going to pass it. I'm going to the Ontario 1522-1550-11 on pipe. The Ontario 1522-1550-11 on pipe. Yes, Ontario 1522-1550-11 on pipe. So the Ontario 1522, she's in apartment 107 and she left it over there? Yes, that's right. I don't know. I think she's having a, I think she's having a look. We actually were getting cookies and painting and she basically wasn't feeling good. And now I'm running back to the room and check on her. Okay, and what? And what's the, just in case we get disconnected while you're getting up there, what's the callback number in case we get disconnected? [00:07:04] Speaker 4: This number right here. Is it an agent number? How old is she? [00:07:12] Speaker 5: Uh, 23, 24. Okay. Is she awake right now? Yes. Um, and she was, do you think she's having a look at reaction to food? I don't know. We are cooking some pasta. I don't know what she's done. If she's done anything today or anything, but everything was fine. And then, I don't know what's happening because she's got someone out of her mouth and she's shaking. So, so, huh? So you think it's possible to be a reaction to none of the food is that right? I think so, I don't know. I don't think she's allergic to anything. I don't know if she is or not. It could be a new allergic reaction. So are you next door? Can I make sure it's cancer? [00:07:56] Speaker ?: Yes. Okay. Does she hear me breathing normally? [00:08:00] Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Does she have any difficulties following? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. No, no. Okay. Okay. Is she coming from? [00:08:16] Speaker ?: No, I'm hearing your questions. Yeah, she's awake. [00:08:19] Speaker 5: Okay. So can you just gently roll her on her side right now? Yes, she's on her side. Okay. Okay. Yeah, because if she's having my vomit or anything else, it's coming out right now. So you just keep her on her side right now and you can finger sweep any out. [00:08:41] Speaker ?: Only what you can see is her patient's bell. Okay. [00:08:46] Speaker 5: And you can microphone out. Okay. Hello, sir. Hello? Hello? Yeah, I'm in the top. I'm in the top. I'm in the top. I'm in the top. I'm in the top. I'm in the top. [00:08:58] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:08:59] Speaker 5: Okay. Can you ask? Is she able to answer? Excuse me if she's having difficulty swallowing or feeling any swelling if you're a bust of a throat or anything like that? No. I don't know what she's having difficulty swallowing or anything like that. I think one of my friends is on the way. Okay. [00:09:24] Speaker ?: I don't know what to do. Is there anything I'm supposed to be doing? [00:09:27] Speaker 5: Okay. And then does she have an epitaph? Do you have an epitaph? Do you have an epitaph? [00:09:36] Speaker ?: I don't think so. [00:09:37] Speaker 5: I don't think so. She's not responding. Okay. Other than her just feeling kind of weak and knocking out, does she have any other symptoms right now? [00:09:50] Speaker ?: No, she's. No. [00:09:53] Speaker 5: I mean, she's pretty relaxed this way on the side. Okay. Okay. Does she have any rash of her eyes anywhere in her body that you can see? Not that I can see. I don't see anything on her legs or on her own, so she looks fine. [00:10:09] Speaker ?: Okay. And does her condition look to be any worse? [00:10:15] Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't really know how to tell. No. I don't know. Okay. No, it's just because if she's having her reaction a lot of times in the garage, I don't know if it can be threatened. Or that offense is getting any worse. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. Okay. All right. So we already have help on the way. So just okay. Okay. So if I can stand on the line, what will I do? So do you need me to stand on the line with you and tell the paramedics to her, sir? Well, is there anything else I have to be doing? I don't know if they're just going to stop. I don't know if they're going to help. Yeah, so I don't know. [00:10:54] Speaker ?: Yeah, because if she's, so right now, because she's, she's awakened. I don't know if she's moving here freely. [00:11:01] Speaker 5: She's not traveling to breathe or wheezing or gun help or anything like that. No, but it looks like she's falling off some. Okay. Yeah, so you can move right from now. Okay. I do. Okay. Okay. Okay. She's really moving here. And what? Does it look like she's freely moving here? Yeah, yeah, she's breathing, she's breathing, yeah, yeah. Okay. So we're just going to keep her on her left side right now. We're just trying to keep her comfortable right there, okay? Okay. All right. So just for right now, nothing for the ear freak. Just keep her in a comfortable position right now. Just have her medication there for the paramedics. If she has any with her, make sure you put them on. I don't know if she has any medication. Maybe I'll follow her. No, keep her. And then just be at the door to let the paramedic in. And if you look around and see if there's a piece of mail, I just want to make sure because the building that they're describing has two separate addresses. But I want to make sure they're on a table. I don't see. I don't think she has any. I mean, she got a mailbox. I don't know. But it's not like it's an apartment, so it's not. I think it's more of a P.O. box. I don't see. I don't know if she keeps her mail home and over here a few times. I'm not sure. Are you in the, because it looks like, there's something you're serving. Are you in the main and large building or the smaller ones? [00:12:29] Speaker ?: I would guess the main larger ones. [00:12:31] Speaker 5: I mean, there's multiple, there's multiple floor and multiple floorings. Okay, because it looks like on the map I'm looking at, it looks like 1840 is for the large building. And 1622 or 1532 is the small ones that are right next to the street. [00:12:45] Speaker ?: You're the big one? [00:12:47] Speaker 5: You, you, you, uh, I'll, yeah, I think so. Yeah. I don't know. This is work. [00:12:55] Speaker ?: Wow. Okay. [00:13:00] Speaker 5: Uh, so, so it's all I want you to continue to monitor and review the local sponsors for any changes. So if anything else changes, the code is back. Uh, but they're all going to have to pick up party left on party over in urbanage. And, uh, excuse me, department 107. [00:13:15] Speaker ?: Cross your suspense on cliff way. It's complete at the Ontario. Okay. Yes. Okay. All right. So if anything changes before you run, give us a call there. Yeah. It should be right there. It's completely different. Okay. [00:13:30] Speaker 5: All right. I think I'm here on. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. You're welcome. [00:13:37] Speaker ?: All right. [00:13:42] Speaker 3: All right. You can pass those documents. All right. [00:14:04] Speaker 1: Thank you, Your Honor. Ms. Barrett, is that the only call that came in to 9-1-1 from that scene? [00:14:13] Jennifer Barrett: From that scene, yes. [00:14:14] Speaker 1: Were there subsequent calls that came in that were not anyone calling from that location or at that time? Yes. And were all three of those calls placed to ECC by somebody at the Interval Hospital? Yes. Thank you very much. I don't have any other questions. [00:14:43] Speaker 6: Good morning, Ms. Barrett. [00:14:48] Jennifer Barrett: Good morning. [00:14:49] Speaker 6: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not you on that call, right? No. So you're not the actual 9-1-1 operator. You work for emergency communications, right? [00:15:00] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:15:01] Speaker 6: So your role here is to kind of review the calls and pull the ones that are relevant to the case? [00:15:06] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:15:07] Speaker 6: So there's a whole, like, kind of team of people that kind of handle the numerous calls that come in on any sort of night. [00:15:14] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:15:15] Speaker 6: And they're trained, and answer this if you can, they're trained as to how to handle calls, how to deal with people in emergency situations. Is that fair? Yes. And I don't know, maybe you can help me or tell the jury, they're trained with either scripts or with very specific training as to how to walk people through emergency situations? [00:15:34] Jennifer Barrett: They have six weeks' worth of class to learn the computer and how to talk to people. However, they got three months of on-the-job training with a trainer sitting next to them, listening to their calls to help them know how to deal with things in an emergency situation. [00:15:55] Speaker 6: And I've got to imagine that these calls run a very wide range of kinds of things that people call 9-1-1 for. [00:16:04] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:16:04] Speaker 6: And anything from medical emergencies to, you know, shootings to everything in the middle. Is that fair? [00:16:11] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:16:12] Speaker ?: Right. [00:16:13] Speaker 6: And so the people handling 9-1-1 calls have trainings on how to deal with all sorts of different calls. Is that right? [00:16:19] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:16:20] Speaker 6: They have trainings on how to deal with the all kinds of, maybe the right word is temperament, or all kinds of reactions, or whatever the kind of state that the person on the other end is in. [00:16:32] Jennifer Barrett: The on-the-job trainer can help them when times when it comes up, maybe they haven't experienced it yet. So if they experience it, the trainer can coach them in what they need to do and say. Okay. [00:16:51] Speaker 6: Sometimes I guess it's fair that maybe almost no two calls are the same, that almost every call is different. Yes. [00:17:02] Jennifer Barrett: Is that fair? Okay. [00:17:04] Speaker 6: So you indicated that you pulled several calls related to this incident, is that right? Yes. Was this call that we just listened to the very first call that was made related to this incident? [00:17:19] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:17:19] Speaker 6: So in terms of the timeline, this was the earliest in time that was made related to the incident? [00:17:27] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:17:27] Speaker 6: And it was the only call that was made from that actual location? [00:17:33] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:17:34] Speaker 6: And I can't remember the exact address, like 1522 Lebanon Pike, is that right? Is that right? [00:17:40] Jennifer Barrett: As far as I can remember, yes. [00:17:42] Speaker 6: As far as you can remember, that's fair, I appreciate that. And we just heard the call and read the transcript. During that call, the individual calling, he's been identified as Mr. Taylor, provides some information and has sort of walked through some kind of instructions. Is that kind of fair? [00:18:06] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:18:10] Speaker 6: And based on sort of your review of other cases and lots of other calls, is that conversation fairly consistent with 911 call training? [00:18:19] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:18:21] Speaker 6: Early in that call, so the initial report is Mr. Taylor indicates that he thinks his friend is having an allergic reaction. That's kind of right at the beginning, right? Yes. And at some point, the call operator says, so it's the Ontario 1522, she's in apartment 107, and she's having an overdose. [00:18:49] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:18:50] Speaker 6: So something like that, where a call operator says, hey, I hear what you're saying, but he he or she changes on their own, that it might be an overdose. Is that part of the training? [00:19:07] Jennifer Barrett: No. [00:19:09] Speaker 6: So is there a circumstance where the call operator may listen to what's being described and say, this doesn't sound like an allergic reaction, it sounds like objection, Your Honor, it's speculation. [00:19:20] Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, you're asking her to your opinion about what the operator was saying? [00:19:25] Speaker 6: No, no, no, I'll clarify the question. I'm asking about training. Is there, is it part of call operator training that they might listen to symptoms as described by someone calling and say, I'm going to change either in the cat or in the dispatch, what type of call this is? No. Do you know why in this call? And if you don't, you don't. She would know why. Okay. [00:19:56] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:20:10] Speaker 6: So based on this call, well, let me ask this question. Does emergency communications maintain a separate CAD report from the metro national police department? [00:20:28] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:20:29] Speaker 6: So you have like your own CAD that generates information that's provided to dispatch? [00:20:35] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:20:38] Speaker 6: And so those reports have to be requested from emergency communications. [00:20:42] Jennifer Barrett: I'm sorry, say again. [00:20:44] Speaker 6: To get those reports, those have to be requested from emergency communications. [00:20:48] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:20:48] Speaker 6: As opposed to when police are dispatched, those are requested from the police department. [00:20:53] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:20:54] Speaker 6: And those indicate the communications between emergency and the fire department or the EMS. [00:21:02] Jennifer Barrett: Yes. [00:21:17] Speaker 6: Thank you. [00:21:24] Speaker ?: Thank you. Thank you.