Police release Halverson’s 911 call (with audio)

Transcribed by Mary Manning

Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 | 1 p.m.

The audio of a call that Judge Elizabeth Halverson made moments after police said her husband beat her with a frying pan has been released.

The attack happened shortly before 11 p.m. on Sept. 4. The couple live in the 3100 block of Oxnard Circle near Tropicana Avenue and U.S. 95.

As the call unfolds, Elizabeth Halverson asks for someone to rescue her while asking her husband for ice for her swollen eye. The 911 call lasted 11 minutes.

Here is a transcription from the 911 tape:

Recorded: Sept. 4 at 10:49 p.m.

Dispatcher: Do you have a police, fire or medical emergency? Hello? Hello?

Hello? Hello?

Elizabeth Halverson: Are you going to help me because I'm bleeding a lot.

Ed Halverson: Where?

Elizabeth Halverson: From my head.

Ed Halverson: Oh.

Elizabeth Halverson: I'm bleeding a lot from my eye. I can't see. I think you broke my jaw and my hand, definitely.

Dispatcher: Hello?

Elizabeth Halverson: I can't see from this eye. There's going to be a big mess from all the blood.

Dispatcher: Hello? Hello?

Elizabeth Halverson: I can't see out of this eye.

Dispatcher: Hello? Hello?

Elizabeth Halverson: Please help, please help, come. Please help me, please help me.

Dispatcher: What is going on there?

Elizabeth Halverson: He is beating me with a frying pan.

Dispatcher: Beating you with a what?

Elizabeth Halverson: I am bleeding to death. Please help me. Please help me. I can't see out of this eye.

Ed Halverson: Fix that.

Elizabeth Halverson: I was thinking ice, maybe.

Dispatcher: We have medical on the way, too.

Elizabeth Halverson: Please hurry. I won't be able to go to the door. He's going to kill me. Please hurry.

Dispatcher: Is he black, white, Spanish or Asian?

Elizabeth Halverson: White.

Dispatcher: How old is he?

Elizabeth Halverson: 49.

Dispatcher: What color shirt and pants is he wearing?

Elizabeth Halverson: I don't know. I can't see. Please hurry.

Dispatcher: Does he still have the frying pan?

Elizabeth Halverson: I don't think so.

Did you get ice? Did you see the eye? It is this one.

Ed Halverson: Oh yeah, the right eye. Put it on your eye. Oh, man, that's terrible.

Elizabeth Halverson: We've got dogs in the backyard. Please help me. He's trying to kill me.

(Elizabeth Halverson then describes her husband to the dispatcher)

Dispatcher: Do you have any guns in the house?

Elizabeth Halverson: What? No, he's an ex-con.

Dispatcher: Hello? Hello?

Elizabeth Halverson: He's going to come after me again.

Dispatcher: We've got medical and officers...

Elizabeth Halverson: Did you bring ice?

Ed Halverson: Ice?

Elizabeth Halverson: Yeah. (gasping)

Ed Halverson: Here you go.

Elizabeth Halverson: Ice for my eye.

Ed Halverson: You've got a washcloth. Use it.

Elizabeth Halverson: Well, you tried to murder me. Why did you do that? Why did you do that?

Metro Police officers arrive:

Police! Open the door!

Walk to me! Walk to me! Walk to me!

Elizabeth Halverson: Please come in. Help me, please. Help me. Help me please.

Officer: Roll medical! Expedite medical, severe head injury. Got get one of the trauma kits, trauma pads out of the ambulance, patrol car.