ALBUQUERQUE — A 911 caller said Wednesday she was panicked about a friend being shot but stayed as calm as possible before a dispatcher told her to “deal with it yourself” and hung up.
Seventeen-year-old Esperanza Quintero said she wished dispatcher Matthew Sanchez had done more to help after Jaydon Chavez-Silver was shot in June. He later died.
In the recording, Quintero snaps at Sanchez for repeatedly asking whether Chavez-Silver is breathing.
Quintero said she tried to stop the 17-year-old Chavez-Silver from bleeding and gave him CPR.
“I am keeping him alive!” Quintero is heard saying.
Sanchez asks, “Is he not breathing?”
The caller responds, “Barely!”
The caller is then heard frantically encouraging Chavez-Silver to keep breathing.
“One more breath! One more breath!” Quintero tells him. “There you go, Jaydon. One more breath! There you go, Jaydon. Good job! Just stay with me, OK? OK?”
Sanchez then asks again, “Is he breathing?”
Quintero responded, “He is barely breathing, how many times do I have to (expletive) tell you?”
“OK, you know what, ma’am? You can deal with it yourself. I am not going to deal with this, OK?” the dispatcher says.
It seemed from the tape that Sanchez hung up on the caller in midsentence.
