Summary: <hr> <p>This Emergency Audio episode includes the audio from the 911 call made by an unnamed female kidnapping victim of Shawn Grate, who has since [been tied to as many as five homicides][11]. I drastically reduced the volume of the ear-shattering “beeeeeeps” authorities inserted to censor personal information and compressed the audio to remove clipping.</p> <p>The transcript is included below.</p> <p><code>Dispatcher: 911, What is the address to your emergency?</code></p> <p>**Victim: (Inaudible)**</p> <p>D: What is it?</p> <p>**V: (Inaudible) Fourth Street laundry mat**</p> <p>D: What’s your name? How do you spell your last name? Who abducted you?</p> <p>**V: Shawn (Inaudible)**</p> <p>D: You said John Green?</p> <p>**V: Shawn Grates**</p> <p>D: Where’s he at now?</p> <p>**V: Asleep**</p> <p>D: Where’s he sleeping at?</p> <p>**V: In the bedroom**</p> <p>D: In what bedroom?</p> <p>**V: There’s two houses right by the laundry mat and it’s in one of those houses**</p> <p>D: But you’re at the laundry mat?</p> <p>**V: No, I’m in the bedroom with him**</p> <p>D: What color is the house? If I’m looking at the laundry mat, which way is it?</p> <p>**V: If you’re looking at the laundry mat it’s the one of the left of the two**</p> <p>D: You don’t know what color the house is?</p> <p>**V: No. I’m sorry.**</p> <p>D: Does he have a car?</p> <p>**V: (Inaudible)**</p> <p>D: So you think it’s a yellow house?</p> <p>**V: I think so**</p> <p>D: It’s an apartment?</p> <p>**V: No it’s a house**</p> <p>D: Does he own the house?</p> <p>**V: No he broke in**</p> <p>D: Does anybody actually live there?</p> <p>**V: No it’s been abandoned**</p> <p>D: And his name is Shawn Grate?</p> <p>**V: Yes**</p> <p>D: Does he have a weapon?</p> <p>**V: He’s got a Taser**</p> <p>D: Where do you live? What does he look like? Is he a white man or black man? Is he 6’ or is he shorter than that? Do you know how much he weighs?</p> <p>**V: Maybe 6’ probably 175**</p> <p>D: Are you injured?</p> <p>**V: A little**</p> <p>D: What color is his hair?</p> <p>**V: Brown**</p> <p>D: Do you know what color his eyes are?</p> <p>**V: No**</p> <p>D: What is he wearing?</p> <p>**V: Nothing right now**</p> <p>D: OK stay on the phone with me. Stay on the line with me, OK? Is he still sleeping?</p> <p>**V: Yes**</p> <p>D: where did he take you from?</p> <p>**V: My apartment, I mean I was walking with him**</p> <p>D: You were walking with him?</p> <p>**V: Mhmmm**</p> <p>D: Where were you walking to?</p> <p>**V: I’ve known him for like a month and a half**</p> <p>D: Is there any way you can get out of the building?</p> <p>**V: I don’t know without waking him and I’m scared**</p> <p>D: Is there a bathroom in the house?</p> <p>**V: His bedroom is closed and he made it so it would make noise**</p> <p>D: If you told him you had to go to the bathroom he would do something to you?</p> <p>**V: Yeah. Because he had me tied up**</p> <p>D: Are you tied up now?</p> <p>**V: Yeah but I kind of freed myself**</p> <p>D: Is he in the same room as you?</p> <p>**V: Yes**</p> <p>D: Is it his phone you have?</p> <p>**V: Yes. Are they on the way?**</p> <p>D: OK. We have officers we’re sending</p> <p>**V: Please send them now**</p> <p>D: OK if you’re worried you don’t have to talk you can set the phone down OK? Are you upstairs or downstairs</p> <p>**V: We’re downstairs. There’s a side door on the right of the left house and that’s where we enter. There’s a kitchen and right off is the bedroom**</p> <p>D: Do you need an ambulance? Are you bleeding?</p> <p>**V: Not anymore**</p> <p>D: What were you bleeding from? You don’t have to talk if you don’t need to, OK? Do you know where he lives?</p> <p>**V: No. Oh (expletive). Oh (expletive), I just woke him up.**</p> <p>D: OK set the phone down.</p> <p>_(Long silence after what sounds like a third voice)_</p> <p>D: Are you still there?</p> <p>**V: How much longer**</p> <p>D: Do you hear any officers outside? They’re in the area</p> <p>**V: Do you t</p>
