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June 2019
- Edition 34
Is
Your Gated Community Equipped to Avert
Disaster?
Chris Clingan, 22, died from multi-
ple stab wounds on June 16, 2013,
after pleading with 911 operators
and waiting nearly 10 minutes for
first responders to save his life.
“I want you to help me please, some-
body hurry please, I don’t want to die.”
Bexar County deputies, EMS, and fire
Chris Clingan, pictured here with his Mom
fighters responded but couldn’t get
past the gate.
“I need a gate code,” a dispatcher said.
The 911 call captured the first respond- “We already have people there, we’re
ers’ desperate attempt to reach Clingan. just needing the gate code to get in.”
(Learn More. Courtesy of ABC KSAT 12.)
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