September 20th. Dim Capitol Hill street luminaires Gary Dziekan drove to the northeast 8th street, dressed in Lederhosen, walking home from the Oktoberfest party, which he held together in five quarters. Dziekan passing the Zeek crossed at the intersection with the C street, zero on a short iron gate separating the colorful row of two -story houses from the quiet Washington, DC, the street.
Just a few steps from the Skinny Green Rowhouse, where his wife and two young sons were asleep, turned in the footsteps through the Zeek crossing asphalt.
Zeek, a DC firefighter on duty, turned to find a masked man pointing at him. The man tried to rob him, causing a fraud, which ended with Zeek Shot, lying on the ground, collecting 911. Zeek waited for three minutes – squeezing his bleeding wound – not responding from the emergency number until he called his fireplace, praying for help.
His unanswered call denotes the latest Capitol Shipping System, Zeek, which works with DC 911 Daily as the first answer, said. The DC’s Unified Communications Bureau (OUC), which carries out 911 operations in the city, has long been upset by staff deficiency, recruitment difficulties and excited dispatches of dispatchers with dangerous conditions for some callers over the years.
The shooting also occurs, as reported in crime throughout the Capitol, when Trump’s administration began a wide range of police, August. Federal law enforcement floods on the streets of DC.
Members of the US National Guard Patrol in Washington, DC, August 14 – Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Although Zeek saw the National Guard’s army and other agents patrolling around his neighborhood earlier, he was alone on Saturday night – without federal protection or 911 help – forced to take things into his own hands.
“Give me your cell phone,” said the robber when Zeek turned around.
“Take everything here,” said Zeek, offering your phone and bag wearing your wallet, sunglasses and Bluetooth speaker. The robber lifted the phone into the face of Zeek to unlock it, and when the digital wallet failed to open, he disarmed the pistol barrel at the chest of Zeek.
“He killed me,” Zeek told CNN. “100 % will shoot me in my chest, just a few feet away from my door.”
So the Zeek instantly twisted and pushed the barrel as the country, but the robber grabbed his shoulder by shooting a shot that broke through the silence. The bullet passed through the robber’s fingers and the zeek chest and shoulder.
Sagittarius bolt by dropping the gun, bag and phone. Zeek crushed on the pavement, wearing his Lederhosen belts so he could use his shirt to press the bloody wound.
He grabbed his phone, collected 911 on the speaker and placed it next to him. It sounded three minutes without an answer as the firefighter was lying on the street bleeding.
The Zeek was still enlarged and bleeding when it returned to the robber’s hammer in the footsteps, crossing an automated voice by phone.
It is clear that the man returned to kill him, Zeek grabbed a gun lying near the sidewalk where he was dropped. He loaded fresh wheels and shot a shooter running into him, forcing him to flee forever.
When a neighbor went to the rescue, he offered to call 911, Zeek ordered him to call a different number – a direct line to the fire station he worked, Engine 18 Truck 7, just six blocks. Zeek’s voice is spreading through a neighbor’s phone when the station replied, “It’s Zeek. I was shot and I need help. I am in the 8th and C northeast.”
Bus stop on the corner of the 8th street and C street in the northeast Washington, DC, just a few steps from the 20th of September. At night, a non -on -call firefighter Gary Dziekan was shot. – Danya Gainor/CNN/CNN
Within minutes, emergency lights from its fire and dancing from metropolitan police cars on the 8th of the 8th street queue windows. Medics-some of their friends-tear the Zeek-stumbled suit, tied his hand and his chest and attacked him to the hospital.
Two days later, Zeek was home with his family again, and bullet fragments were still on the shoulder between the nerves and the main blood vessel block. Doctors said it was too risky to eliminate the bullet and think he was lucky, that he did not do more harm.
Looking back, Zeek said he never talked to anyone in 911. At night of shooting.
“I always had this idea at the back of my head if something happened not that I know if I called the fireplace, I would greet faster (911),” Zeek said. “But I didn’t think I would ever be in this position.”
Updated calls for accountability few employees DC911
OuC received more than 20 calls to 911 in the 8th street within 10 minutes from the incident on the 8th street, at night of shooting at night, a typical call volume sphere and dispatchers processed them “as soon as possible,” said OUC director Heather McGAFFIN.
DCs to 911 calls are answered so that they are collected. The OUC says the first invitation to shoot, which the dispatchers responded to, was taken immediately after 22:11, but it is unclear how long the caller was detained until the OUC replied. The call magazine on the Zeek phone shows that it dialed a three -digit number at 10:10 pm, disconnecting after no one selected for three long minutes.
“We acknowledge that some callers are scratched at the time of the events that increase the volume of calls, and the calls collect the necessary information and provide a rescue direction to other callers,” McGaffin said in a statement.
The 911 call spikes are as casual as the emergency situations that encourage them, so it is impossible to plan the call centers of any city for them and the staff accordingly.
However, the OUC was already missing on September 20th. At night, CNN said an OUC spokesman. Night shifts have a minimum target of personnel – 17 calls, but only 16 people – six of whom worked overtime – worked for the night that night.
All 16 employees called after 22 hours when Zeek was shot, an OUC spokesman said.
The fire and EMS were sent to the Zeek location after 10:12, and the MPD was sent after 22:13, according to the OUC shared dispatch magazines. The crew of the Zeek Fire Station was the first to arrive at 22:17, while others are closed.
A screenshot of the Zeek call magazine from the night it was shot. – courtesy of Gary Dziekan
Usually, the OUC was trying to control the call volumes because the agency faces the big, many years of staff challenges, reporting less than 57% of its shifts on personnel’s goals in August. Last year, the agency offered menstrual bonuses to employees who show all scheduled shifts, CNN branch Wusa9 said earlier.
Zeek said “this is not a shocking”, his 911 call remained unanswered.
“I see it at work every day – there are problems every day,” he said. “Then I’m not on duty, I need OUC and I don’t even get an answer. It’s really despicable.”
While working as a firefighter in the city, Zeek called the clarity of the expulsion of OuC staffing “absolutely horrible”, leaving his crew aimed at specifying. According to him, the dispatchers transmit the wrong addresses almost daily for them, very carefully postponing their reaction to emergencies.
“If the address is wrong with a computer and sends you in the wrong direction, it is someone’s life in balance,” he said. “It causes a serious citizens’ security problem, and Ouc just refuses to have their own mistakes.”
The Agency “cooperates closely” with the city’s public security partners to “to ensure that each answer is timely and well-aligned,” said McGaffino’s report.
Teenage suspect faces
On the other side of the DC public security, police officers and federal agents – working together with President Donald Trump’s dealing with crime in the capital – was and arrested a high -school student who allegedly robbed and shot Zeek that night.
“FBI agents, along with federal partners and MPD, aggressively detained the topic, took it in custody, and participated in many interviews,” said Darren Cox, director of the FBI Washington Field Bureau at the FBI Washington Field Bureau.
In the court documents, the suspect found that 17-year-old Marcelus Dyson, Jr. CNN contacted his lawyer to comment.
Running from the shots, Zeek fired at him, allegedly Dyson approached a witness on one street, saying she had been shot and needed help, according to a written letter. The witness walked in Dyson to a nearby hospital, stopped by officers before answering them and detained a teenager.
Initially, a tall student was arrested for the assault to rob, but now he is facing the power of the highest district prosecutor, former Fox News, Jeanine Pirro, a president’s claim for intensive persecution with Gust.
Jeanine Pirro on August 12 He is holding a press conference in Patrick Henry building in Washington.
Her office is seeking stricter accusations or time in prison, even for low -level offenders. The case is flooded with the courts, and the Local Criminal Court of DCs usually lasts late at night, and federal prosecutors woke up to new cases.
Pirro announced that Dyson will be tried on Monday as an adult, according to Title 16, as he is threatened with renewed allegations of armed robbery, storing a firearm during violence crime and aggravating assault in armed.
At the Friday’s preliminary hearing, the court rejected the defense request to release Dyson. Another appearance of his court is scheduled for 7 October.
On the same day, Pirro called Zeeku when she announced new charges to the suspect, the firefighter said.
“I’m 100% behind her,” he said. “Something must be an example.”
Zeek, who raises his 13 and 10-year-old son Rowhouse on 8th Street, said the city should have consequences that have violence to deter others.
“If it stops another person to rob, shoot, attacked, everything – great. And I think it will be,” he said.
Although, in his opinion, deployment of federal execution agents helped DC make more safer, he could not shock anxiety that the 17-year-old left him with a weapon just in the steps from his own door.
“By Saturday, I was more than happy living where I lived,” he said. “But it made me wonder what my family living in the city looks like.”
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