Inside linebacker Jovan Belcher #59 of the Kansas City Chiefs watches from the sidelines during his final game against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium on November 25, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.(Photo: Jamie Squire, Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan
Belcher pleaded with 911 dispatchers and her son's dying girlfriend
after he shot Kasandra Perkins on Saturday morning.
Cheryl
Shepherd called for emergency assistance as Perkins, 22, was bleeding on
the bathroom floor of the couple's Crysler Avenue home. In 911 audio obtained by KCTV in Kansas City, Shepherd is heard asking dispatchers to send an ambulance to the home.
"She's still breathing but barely," Shepherd says on the tape. "Please hurry."
As
Shepherd tries to answer questions from dispatchers, she pleads with
Perkins. Shepherd told the dispatchers that Perkins could hear her and
responded when she spoke to Perkins.
The couple's infant daughter, Zoey, is heard crying in the background as her grandmother pleads for help.
"Kasandra,
stay with me," a frantic and distraught Shepherd says on the tape. "The
ambulance is on the way. You hear me? You hear me? Kasandra! Stay with
me."
Audio obtained by the TV station also includes a request for
medical attention at the Chiefs' training facility, where Belcher
fatally shot himself after he shot Perkins.
"It's a self-inflicted
shooting," says a dispatcher on the tape. "They said it's a done deal.
They've got a player who shot himself."
Shepherd was in the home
when an argument between Belcher and Perkins, his longtime girlfriend,
escalated to a violent end just before 8 a.m. on Saturday.
Shepherd does not give any indication on the tape what the couple argued about.
On
Tuesday, Kansas City police released more information about Belcher's
whereabouts on Friday night. Officers responded to a 911 call at 2:50
a.m. CT about a suspicious car and occupant on the 700 block of East
Armour Boulevard.
They found Belcher, 25, asleep in his Bentley.
He was cooperative when they woke him and said he was waiting for his
girlfriend in the building. Officers asked him to call her, and a woman
came to the door of the six-story brick building to let him in.
KCPD
did not inquire about her identity. Neighbors identified her to the New
York Post as Brittni Glass, who told the newspaper that she was with
Belcher that night.
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