Newtown 911 Recordings Are Released

Newtown 911 Recordings Are Released, The female caller’s voice is shaking, the call lasts just 24 seconds, and there are few details she can provide. Within moments the Newtown Police Department was inundated with calls, all reporting some version of the same nightmare: a shooter was inside the elementary school.

There was a teacher who remained remarkably calm as she described what was unfolding around her.

“It sounds like there are gunshots in the hallway,” she said, adding that she was with her students in a classroom. “The door isn’t locked,” she said. “I have to go lock the door.”

There was a custodian who stayed on the line with police for nearly the entire duration of the shooting while trying to ensure that it was locked down.

“I keep hearing shooting,” he said. “I keep hearing popping.”

And there was the woman who was shot in the foot, telling 911 where in the school she was as the operator told her help was on the way.

“We have people coming,” the operator told her.

Those are some of the 911 calls placed on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza killed 20 first graders and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The recordings were scheduled to be released at 2 p.m. but several Connecticut newspapers uploaded the audio earlier.

The release of the recordings comes a little more than a week after the release of the findings of the Connecticut State Police investigation into the massacre.

That report offered a vivid and disturbing portrait of the shooter, Mr. Lanza, 20, who also killed his mother and himself....READ MORE