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Colorado woman shot dead while on phone with 911
for 13 minutes
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A Denver woman called 911 when her husband began
to hallucinate and speak of "the end of the
world. For 13 minutes, the wife spoke of fear --
for herself, their three scared children, her
husband. Richard Kirk wanted his wife to shoot
him, she told 911. She screamed when he went to
the family safe and grabbed a gun. The 911
operator heard what sounded like a gunshot. The
wife went silent on the 911 call. Responding
police found her dead Monday in the family home
with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Kirk
admitted that he killed his wife -- "without
questioning," a police document says. Those
harrowing events, provided by authorities, are
now being investigated by Denver police, who are
looking at how 911 handled the 13-minute
emergency call and whether Kirk was using
marijuana or another drug, authorities said
Wednesday.
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