Newly released 911 transcripts reveal the chilling final words of an Arizona teen who was gunned down by a mysterious intruder while sleeping in her apartment in 2022.
“I’ve been shot,” Rachel Hansen, 19, gasped to a Gilbert Police Department dispatcher on June 4, 2022. “Someone broke in and shot me.
“Please hurry,’ the mortally wounded teen pleaded,” according to KTVK-TV News. “Oh [redacted], I’m bleeding. I’m bleeding.”
Hansen’s killer has yet to be caught.
According to the transcript of the teen’s final call, the dispatcher tried to keep the dying victim on the phone to help her.
“Do you have any kind of clean cloth there that you can apply pressure to it? Is there anybody there with you?” the dispatcher said. “Are you close to any kind of cloth or a shirt or a towel that you can use?”
“No,” Hansen replied.
“There’s nothing near you? Rachel, I need you to talk to me, OK?” the emergency operator said.
“I can’t,” Hansen replied.
First responders had difficulty mapping Hansen’s address at first but were still able to get to her in under 5 minutes. The teen was later pronounced dead at the hospital, the outlet reported.
Now two years later, “It’s been extremely difficult to continue life, to do what we need to do every day, without Rachel in it and not having any answers,” her mom, Kim Hansen, told KTVK.
The family has hired a private investigator to try to help solve the cold case.
In addition to the 911 transcript, Gilbert police released blurred video of their response to Hansen’s call.
Still, her family said it had hoped that the actual audio recordings would be released.
“We wanted to hear our daughter’s voice and her last words that she spoke, so we are disappointed it was a transcript only,” Kim Hansen told the outlet.
The watchdog group Silent Witness is offering a $7,000 reward for the killer’s capture.
