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Dec 7, 8:22 AM (ET)
By SOPHIA TAREEN
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - For almost 30 harrowing minutes, Jodi Longmeyer recounted to a 911 dispatcher what she could see and hear of a teenage gunman's deadly rage in a mall department store - and then broke down, she said Friday.
As she told the dispatcher she could see Robert A. Hawkins' body lying next to a gun, her voice cracked, and she began to cry - a mixture of sadness and relief that the crisis was over. Nine people, including the gunman, were dead.
"I had seen more than I wanted to see," Longmeyer told NBC's "Today" show Friday, describing the call.
Longmeyer, who is a human resources manager at Von Maur, agonized with the operator while barricaded in an employee locker room at the store. Tapes of her 911 call were released Thursday, a day after the tragedy unfolded.
She saw the gunman step off the mall elevator on the third floor. He was dressed in dark clothes. She saw his gun, watched him open fire.
Then she hit the floor.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif If she had a hand gun and knew how to use it, I wonder how different the story would have ended???
By SOPHIA TAREEN
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - For almost 30 harrowing minutes, Jodi Longmeyer recounted to a 911 dispatcher what she could see and hear of a teenage gunman's deadly rage in a mall department store - and then broke down, she said Friday.
As she told the dispatcher she could see Robert A. Hawkins' body lying next to a gun, her voice cracked, and she began to cry - a mixture of sadness and relief that the crisis was over. Nine people, including the gunman, were dead.
"I had seen more than I wanted to see," Longmeyer told NBC's "Today" show Friday, describing the call.
Longmeyer, who is a human resources manager at Von Maur, agonized with the operator while barricaded in an employee locker room at the store. Tapes of her 911 call were released Thursday, a day after the tragedy unfolded.
She saw the gunman step off the mall elevator on the third floor. He was dressed in dark clothes. She saw his gun, watched him open fire.
Then she hit the floor.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif If she had a hand gun and knew how to use it, I wonder how different the story would have ended???