Good thing she didn’t have a gun. He might have taken it from her and used
it against her. Or the situation could have needlessly escalated, and
someone could have gotten hurt.

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Sadly she believed the official propaganda stating that self defence is bad
and that she should trust her life to the official protecters. Restraining
orders are the way to go…..yeah right, when has one ever stopped a bullet
? When in danger call 911, the properly trained and armed folks will be
there instantly to save you…….yeah right. No cop is faster than a
speeding bullet.

Regrettably, there are many millions who would act just as she did under the
same circumstances.

Education. More individual responsibility.

Unfortunately her ignorance and trust proved fatal.

http://www.a-human-right.com/RKBA/dependonothers.html

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From today’s Chicago Tribune:

3 calls to 911 didn’t save woman’s life

By Shia Kapos, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Sabrina Miller
contributed to this report
Published May 9, 2002

Ronyale White was a take-charge person who did what women are encouraged to
do after her husband allegedly hit her and threatened her three young
children–she obtained an order of protection.

And on Friday night after her husband, Louis Drexel, showed up at her house,
she called 911 and in a calm voice, reported he was violating the order.

That calm demeanor may explain why emergency communications officials
decided to ask follow-up questions before dispatching police officers to her
home.

Officers found White, who made two more 911 calls asking for help, fatally
shot when they arrived at her home in the 10600 block of South LaSalle
Street 17 minutes after the first call at 11:40 p.m.

Drexel, who police said fled to his mother’s home and attempted suicide, has
been charged with first-degree murder, and Chicago police and the Office of
Emergency Communications are conducting an investigation to determine why
they didn’t respond fast enough.

“Our concern [is] that the response may not have been as timely as it should
have been,” said First Deputy Supt. John Thomas, who said there are no time
limits for responding to a call.

It took 2 1/2 minutes to dispatch a car to White’s home, well within policy
guidelines, said a spokesman for the OEC.

White’s 911 call was considered a Priority 1A, which requires the call-taker
to dispatch information “as fast as possible” but within 10 minutes after
the call is received, said OEC spokesman Larry Langford. It is up to the
call-taker to decide whether to send the information to a dispatcher before
the call is complete, said Langford. White’s information was sent at the
completion of the call.

“It’s a judgment call,” he said, adding the call-taker’s goal is to “give
officers as much information as possible.”

Leslie Landis, a spokeswoman for the mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence,
said a Priority 1A call should get “immediate” response.

In the first call, White said Drexel was in the house, there was a
protection order against him and that she wanted him out, authorities said.
Follow-up questions included whether weapons or alcohol were involved or if
children were in the house.

White’s children were with other family members that night.

“He was entering the home with a key,” said police spokesman Pat Camden.
“Her demeanor was very calm.”

A car was dispatched as soon as the call was complete, Langford said.

In the second call, at 11:45 p.m., White said Drexel had gone outside and
was puncturing the tires of her Dodge Durango, prosecutors said.

In her third call, at 11:50 p.m., White was almost whispering, according to
prosecutors, and she indicated Drexel had a gun and was threatening her.
Cars were dispatched after each call.

Two police cars were on the scene a few minutes later. Officers found White
shot multiple times. And they recovered a 9-millimeter gun and a mini-tape
recorder.

White and Drexel had been married 20 months, say family members. They had
purchased a home, friends said.

White obtained two orders of protection against Drexel in the past year.

In July, she said, “My husband has hit me [and] has threatened me and my
daughter,” according to records filed with the Cook County circuit clerk’s
office.

On April 15, a similar order was obtained and it was served on Drexel April
22, according to the clerk.

White and Drexel were to have appeared in court Monday.