She said her husband's uncle, who also went to the scene, called police to report that Qualin Campbell was dead. “I shouldn’t have been the one there, the first person to respond,” she said. As other people gathered around, they debated whether they should open the car door after seeing a gun on the lap of the other man, who appeared to be unconscious but did not have any visible injuries, she said.Ĭampbell said she decided to open the door to try to save her husband, who had been bleeding, but found no pulse on his neck or wrist. She said when she saw her husband slumped over inside the car alongside another man, she fell to her knees and started screaming. When she arrived Campbell said she immediately recognized her husband's company car in a parking lot. The dispatcher said an officer would check it out and get back to her but there was no sense of urgency, Campbell said, so she drove to the location herself. The first dispatcher briefed the second dispatcher on what Campbell reported, she said, before Campbell said she explained what she knew again to the second dispatcher. She was then transferred to a dispatcher responsible for taking Colorado Springs calls. Campbell is calling on police to explain why they failed to respond to her 911 call for help.Ĭampbell said she told one dispatcher that she believed her husband had been taken hostage, described his car and his location, which was about a mile away from the headquarters of the Colorado Springs Police Department. Dan Boyce/CPR News Civil rights attorney Harry Daniels speaks at a press conference in Colorado Springs on Thursday, June 8 on behalf of Talija Campbell, whose husband was killed during an alleged hostage situation. Then he sent messages saying “911" and "Send Please!” She called the emergency number. when her husband, a father of two, texted his location and a photo of a man sitting next to him in his car. Talija Campbell said she called 911 just after 1 p.m. It said the officers responded to a report of a shooting there at 2:09 p.m. On its online police blotter, the Colorado Springs Police Department said it found two deceased adult males on Friday at the location that Talija Campbell said she feared her husband Qualin Campbell was being held by another man. "They didn't respond at all to her call, for help for hostage, they responded after 'shots been fired'," Daniels said during a press conference in front of the police department's headquarters on Thursday, June 8. Harry Daniels, an attorney for the family, said Campbell's wife Talija had called 911 an hour earlier, saying her husband had been taken hostage in his work vehicle. Qualin Campbell, 32, was killed in what police are investigating as a murder/suicide just one mile from the police dispatch center. The family of a man who was shot and killed in Colorado Springs last week is asking the city's police department why it didn't respond to a 911 call reporting the man had been taken hostage.
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