Resident repeatedly handles firearm during argument, Upshur County WV
WeaponsA caller reported an argument in a residence near Munich Street where an individual was repeatedly handling and cocking a firearm. The caller moved upstairs for safety while the armed individual stayed downstairs.
Audio|Source: Upshur County Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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One zero nine, that's one zero nine Munich street.
00:03
Suspicious activity, possible subject with a weapon.
00:16
One-fow-three dispatch, good.
00:24
I'm on the line with an individual at near Munich Street.
00:27
He's advising he's upstairs and there's a male subject downstairs.
00:31
We've received multiple nine-one-one hang-up calls from this individual.
00:34
I finally got him telling me that he is advising that the owner of the residence has a firearm and the residence, he keeps taking it in and out of the gun safe and he keeps cocking it.
00:43
I'm still trying to get additional now.
00:47
Is that responding units? I inquired with the subject if the owner of the residence still had the firearm when he went upstairs.
00:54
He said he thinks so, but he's not sure.
00:56
I asked him how he was not sure and then he ended up on me.
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0109.
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Dispatch responding.
01:21
I've tried two or three different times to public service that caller back with a negative answer.
01:27
And the caller said that they were involved in an argument.
01:44
Negative. We weren't getting a whole lot of information.
01:46
He would public service in and then hang up, and then he did that two or three different times.
01:51
Then we would call him back.
01:52
And then when he answered the phone, we realized it was 911, then he would disconnect with us.
01:56
We finally got him to talk to us, and all he could advise was that the owner of the residence was (name withheld) at near Minix Street and that he was living there with him, and that (name withheld) was cocking the gun and kept taking it in and out of the safe, so then (name withheld) went upstairs, and (name withheld) was still downstairs.
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Upshur County, WV
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