What did UNC Student Courtland Benjamin Smith tell a dispatcher when he called 911?
Just before he was shot to death by an Archdale police officer early Sunday, a distraught UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity president called an emergency dispatcher for help and talked about 17 minutes. Courtland Benjamin Smith, 21, a junior biology major from Houston, told the dispatcher that he had a 9 mm pistol in his back pocket. In response to a question from the dispatcher, Smith, who spoke sluggishly, said he’d been drinking. Guilford Metro 911 released the recording this afternoon. The Randolph County District Attorney’s Office got a court order Monday to prevent the release of the 911 recording during an early phase of the investigation into Smith’s death, but asked a judge to lift the order today. Smith, president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, was shot about 5 a.m. after police, responding to the 911 call, pulled over his vehicle. According to a news release from the Archdale Police Department, Smith then got into a confrontation with an officer. The two officers at the sce
UNC student told dispatcher he had a gun BY JAY PRICE, STAFF WRITER Just before he was shot to death by an Archdale police officer early Sunday, a distraught UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity president called an emergency dispatcher for help and talked about 17 minutes. Courtland Benjamin Smith, 21, a junior biology major from Houston, told the dispatcher that he had a 9 mm pistol in his back pocket. In response to a question from the dispatcher, Smith, who spoke sluggishly, said he’d been drinking. Guilford Metro 911 released the recording this afternoon. The Randolph County District Attorney’s Office got a court order Monday to prevent the release of the 911 recording during an early phase of the investigation into Smith’s death, but asked a judge to lift the order today. Smith, president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, was shot about 5 a.m. after police, responding to the 911 call, pulled over his vehicle. According to a news release from the Archdale Police Department, Smith then g
Just before he was shot to death by an Archdale police officer early Sunday, a distraught UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity president called an emergency dispatcher for help and talked about 17 minutes. Courtland Benjamin Smith, 21, a junior biology major from Houston, told the dispatcher that he had a 9 mm pistol in his back pocket. In response to a question from the dispatcher, Smith, who spoke sluggishly, said he’d been drinking. Guilford Metro 911 released the recording this afternoon. The Randolph County District Attorney’s Office got a court order Monday to prevent the release of the 911 recording during an early phase of the investigation into Smith’s death, but asked a judge to lift the order today. Sources: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1663267.
