Police found Hakiakat Singh Pannag, 59, and his wife, Parmjit Kaur, 62, in their apartment at 4562 Wyndtree Drive with their daughter, Shalinderjit Kaur, 39 and Parmjit Kaur’s sister, Amarjit Kaur, 58, Sunday evening with gunshot wounds in the Wyndtree Drive apartment.
In the three clips, each between 2 and 3 minutes in length, officers are seen driving to the complex and getting out of cruisers to run toward the building.
“Are you the caller?” one officer calls out to the first person he sees.
“No,” the person says, and officers continue to the building.
Another person at the complex tells a responding officer his wife called 911 because someone was banging on doors.
Officers come upon a man in a red shirt outside of the building where the incident happened kneeling down, and they place him on his stomach and handcuff him. He was later identified as the man who called 911 after discovering the victims, who he said were his family members.
“It is important to clarify that in the video you will see an individual placed in handcuffs at the scene. The individual was not placed under arrest by West Chester Police,” the township said in a statement released with the videos.
“It would be standard procedure, in a case such as this, to secure individuals involved while the scene is assessed.”
The audio is turned off for large parts of the clips. All of the clips stop before the officers enter the apartment.
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In the frantic 911 call Sunday night, a man tells dispatchers, “My wife and my family are on the ground bleeding.”
The dispatcher asks how many people are down, and the caller screams, “four, four, four.” He says the victims are bleeding from the head and he does not know if they are breathing.
The man is then heard screaming and pounding on doors for help. The dispatcher asks the caller if did anything to his family.
“No, I just got home,” he says.
Two additional 911 calls were placed by female apartment complex resident who said a man was banging on doors asking for help.
“Some guy is running around banging on all the doors saying help me,” one of the callers told the dispatcher.
Herzog said the first 911 caller is a relative who made the discovery. He said the man was never taken into custody.
“He was questioned as far as a witness of what occurred,” Herzog said.
Two of the four family members shot to death in a West Chester Twp. apartment were found in the living room in “a good amount of blood,” according to emergency radio traffic released Wednesday.
In the last piece of audio, one officer says, “We have four victims, there’s no signs of life.”
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