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911 location of the emergency?
Okay. And is that a house or an apartment?
Can you repeat the address to make sure that I have it right? I'll talk to you guys. We live at the White, so we're next to them. I need someone to repeat the address for verification. The address, 1122 King Road. And what's the phone number that you're calling from? What's your phone number? And tell me exactly what's going on.
One of the roommates has passed out and she was drunk last night and she's not waking up.
Oh, and they saw some man in their house last night. And are you with the patient? Okay, I need someone to keep the phone. Stop passing it around. Can I just tell you what happened pretty much? What is going on currently? Has someone passed out right now? I don't really know, but pretty much at 4 a.m. Okay, I need to know what's going on right now if someone is passed out. Can you find that out?
Yeah, I'll come. Come on, let me go check.
Hello? Okay, I need someone to stop passing the phone around because I've talked to four different people. Okay, sorry, they just gave me the phone. Is she breathing? Hello? Is she breathing? No.
I have already sent the ambulance and law enforcement. Stay on the line. If there is a defibrillator available, send someone to get it now and tell me when you have it. Say that again? There's a police here right now. Okay. If there is a defibrillator available, send someone to get it now and tell me when you have it. Do you have a defibrillator? Yes, we have one. Are you talking to the officer?
Yes. Okay, I'm going to let you go since he's there with you and can help you. Okay, thank you. Bye. Okay.
And which apartment? Uh, apartment 3406. Okay, is she missing from 3404 or 3406? 3404, Amy. There's not an apartment number? It's 34, uh, no, no. It's not like an A or B? No, uh-uh. And what's your name? Harold Degree. Your phone number, Harold?
So you don't know if she got dressed or if she still got on her bedclothes or what? We don't know. Was the door open or anything?
Okay. All right, Harold. I will get an officer to get in touch with you just as soon as possible. If you do happen to locate her, please call us back and let us know, okay? Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye.
I don't want to sound recorded. Where's your emergency?
Hello?
34 Fairview?
Okay. Is he blue at all?
Okay. What's going on? Is he face down?
Okay. And who's that in the background? Is that someone related? That's his girlfriend.
46?
Okay. Can you just try to ask him? I know it's tough, but we already have the fire department going. I just got to know if he's breathing. Okay.
Okay. Do they know how to do CPR? Do they want to attempt CPR?
Okay. They don't feel comfortable doing so?
All right. We have the fire department and the police department on the way. If everyone's declining CPR, then I'll hang up with you, and if anything changes, you can give us a call back. Where are you guys outside?
I know, honey, I know, I know.
Do you know if there was any alcohol or drugs involved?
Okay, is there any bleeding or anything? Maybe he hit his head out?
Okay, bleeding from the face? All right. Yes. And how big is the pool of blood, if there is any?
Okay, one of the women is doing CPR? Yes. Yes, they're both working on him. All right, if she's doing CPR, just give us a call back and we'd become as responsible, right? But we're on the way.
Please explain to me what's going on, okay? There's a note left and our daughter is gone. A note was left and your daughter is gone? Yeah. How old is your daughter? Six years old. She's gone. Six years old. How long ago was this? I don't know. I just found the note. And my daughter is here. Did you say who took her? I don't know. There's a ransom note here. It's a ransom note? It says SBTC.
I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sending an officer over, okay? Do you know how long she's been gone? No, I don't. Please, we just got out and she's right here. Oh, my God, please. Okay, well, I am, honey. Take a deep breath for me, okay? All right, hurry up. Taxi, taxi, taxi.
I need an ambulance quickly to 905 Moravia Street. They found this man over there in the car they saw.
I need an ambulance quickly. I need an ambulance quickly to 905 Moravia Street. I have no access.
Tell me exactly what's going on with him.
Okay. Did he get pushed over or did he?
Okay. Okay. Are you with him right now? Put it down. Put that down. He got a sludge. Put it down, please. What did he have? A sludge hammer. Please put it down.
Is he breathing? Yes. He said he's breathing heavy, though? Yes.
But it's, you know, she was a good person and I know I didn't do it.
911, what is the location of your emergency?
Norman, 911, what is the location of your emergency? Yes, I accidentally dialed the wrong number. First emergency call by accident. Everything is okay there? Yes, there is. Everything's fine. All right.
And he pushed me down from the door all the way to the couch. And when they come here, they'll see how far that is. He threw me across the room. And I was very startled. I was laying on the floor. Okay. All right. And I killed him. Okay. Ma'am, this is what I want you to do, though. Ma'am, you're sure he's not breathing at all? No, that's okay.
They actually have someone who's outside almost right now, but I'm going to stay online with you, okay? When they tell me to, what I'm going to do. hands up because we want you to come out safely, okay? So that's why I'm standing on the line with you. Ma'am, I'm just a dispatcher. I'm nothing but a dispatcher, so I can't tell you.
My job is to keep you on line, make sure my officers get there safely and nothing happens to them, okay? Ma'am, and then because he was twitching and I knew he was going to die anyway and he was making funny noises, I shot him a couple more times just to kill him because I knew he would have been killed. I'm sorry, you said you shot him a couple more times after that? Yeah, I saw him.
Yeah, I did come back.
We were going to die anyway. Okay.
He was pretty mad. He was like, he just was switching. I mean, he was pretty much dead, and I saw him just when he stopped switching.
Yeah, I did come back. We were going to die.
Can you see out front of your apartment at all? I can't see out front. I can't see to the back, but not the front. Do I walk? Which way do I? Oh, I can hear. Do I walk out the front door? Nope, nope, nope. I want you to stay right where you're at. I have to give them a key to let them in. I actually have to walk all the way down there to let them in. Okay.
Is he out front?
Ma'am, what I want you to do is I want you to set the phone down, but I do not want you to hang it up. I want you to go to your front door. I want you to open it up, walk outside the door with your hands in front of you. Okay, I will. And your hands open. The officers are at the top of the steps, but set the phone down. Okay, I'm going to do it. Okay. Okay, I set the phone down.
Set the phone down and put your hands in front of you. Are you there? Are you there? I'm here.
Kimmel County 911. Ma'am, I have, I have an, um, um, well, I, I killed my boyfriend in South Des Moines. Okay, where are you at? I'm at 12 Meadow Lane, Highland Heights, Kentucky. 41076. Okay, 12 Meadow Lane. Are you in a house or an apartment there? It's an apartment. It's apartment Suite 10. Is it Meadow, anything else? Meadow View or something? No, 12 Meadow Lane. Me and my children and stuff.
Okay, okay, okay. Tell me again, tell me again what unit you're in. It's not showing on my computer. It's 10, I see the 10. Okay, you're at 12 Meadow Lane, unit number 10. Okay, hold on, hold on. What did you kill him with? A gun, a loaded gun in the house. Tell me where the gun is right now. My gun is in the house. Where at though, ma'am? Tell me where it's at. I laid it on the bookshelf.
10 or 15 minutes ago? Yeah. Okay, what's your name? My name is Shana Michelle Huber. I'm sorry, what is it again? Tell me. Shana, Shana Michelle Huber. Huber? Huber, H-U-B-E-R-S, Huber. Okay, what's your name again? Shana or Shana? All right, Shayna, I'm just having a hard time hearing you. Okay, all right. You're going to stay on the line with me, okay, because this is what we're going to do.
The officers don't want me to stay on the line with you, so when they get there, they're going to want to know where that gun is, and we want you to get out safely, too, okay? Ma'am, I don't know what they'll do. We're going to send them out. I'm going to stay on the line with you, okay? I mean, I'm not a murderer, ma'am. I just killed myself. What happened exactly? What happened?
He beat me and tried to carry me out of the house, and I came back in to get my things, and he was right in front of me, and he raced down and grabbed a gun, and I grabbed it out of his hand and pulled the trigger. Okay. All right. Do you need an ambulance? Have you been injured? I'm not injured, ma'am. I was thrown into the side of the couch. Okay, and how old is he? He's 29.
He would have been 30 on December the 30th. All right, what's his name? Ryan Carter Poston. He's an attorney in Cincinnati. Okay, have you had a history of domestic violence with him? Yes. Okay, and is this your gun? No, this is his gun. He keeps loaded guns in the house. So he slammed you into the couch, but you don't have any injuries? I don't have any injuries. I was just very frightened.
He's a lot bigger than me. He's 6'3", 200 pounds. I'm 5'8", 120. And he picked me up and was carrying me out of the house. And I said, let me get my things at least if we're going to break up. And he wouldn't let me get my things. And when I reached around to try to get my thing, I can hear myself echoing in the background, ma'am. It's just this phone system. This phone system has got a delay.