Recordings of 911 calls released Wednesday show a lapse in time before officers arrived at the scene of a rampage in broad daylight in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday, in which three people were killed, the Associated Press reported.
More than ten minutes passed between the first call placed by a woman who reported seeing a man with a rifle walk down her street and the second call that he had shot a bicyclist to death, the calls show.
Disptachers prioritized the call as a burglary, but officers were busy with other calls.
The caller, Naomi Bettis, believed officers should have responded sooner. Police defended their handling of the case.
The suspected gunman, Noah Jacob Harpham, shot and killed two people sitting on a porch. He was killed in a shoot out with police.
