Two Days After Deanna Cook Made Horrific 911 Call, Family Members Found Her Dead in a Bathtub

By Eric Nicholson Wed., Aug. 22 2012 at 7:33 AM

Deanna Cook

On Sunday morning, with their knocks and phone calls unanswered and water pouring from beneath locked doors, family members broke into Deanna Cook's home. They found the 32-year-old dead in her bath tub.

Two days before, police had been called to a domestic disturbance at the home. Dallas police knocked on the door but received no answer, then checked the perimeter windows and spoke to neighbors, who reported nothing out of the ordinary. Then, they left.

Police arrested Cook's former husband, 35-year-old Delveccio Patrick, and charged him with murder, but questions are being raised about what appears to be another inept response by the city's 911 system.

Rebecca Lopez at WFAA is reporting on just how horrific that 911 call was. According to sources, you could hear Cook begging and gasping for help as Patrick threatens to kill her. The call lasts 11 minutes.

Police released a statement on Monday detailing the response to the call. The call was made from a cell phone, and it took about nine minutes to locate an address, at which point officers were dispatched.

"The department is seeking to determine if the nature of the call was sufficiently communicated through each step of the process to the responding officers and appropriateness of their response based on the information provided," the statement said.

Lopez reports that officers knew only they were going to a domestic disturbance call, not that the caller is being attacked.

Update at 5:45 p.m.: Police say they are still investigating the handling of Cook's 911 call but have created a new call classification in response to a preliminatry review. The new classification alerts officers that there is an ongoing disturbance involving imminent serious bodily injury or death and requires an emergency response.

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rufuslevin

I think the PROBLEM here is with ole Delveccio the black punk murderer....NOT THE POLICE.

lets blame the guilty, not the law enforcers. you hang around with sorry trash, you get hurt. Police can't protect stupid.

rufuslevin

what is with all of this killing in bathtubs lately....has everyone turned into violent plumbers?

PepperoniCalzone

Why did the cops go investigate a burglary en route to the domestic disturbance call? Doesn't protecting a person's life take priority over protecting a person's property?

Myrna.Minkoff-Katz topcommenter

@PepperoniCalzone Hey, the cops pursue jaywalkers with more enthusiasm than they do murderous lunatics, unless you count unarmed Black men, which are always in open season for Dallas cops.

Myrna.Minkoff-Katz topcommenter

Dallas cops just keep going from bad to worse by the day.

KillYourselfMyrna

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz stupid bitch

rufuslevin

@KillYourselfMyrna @Myrna.Minkoff-Katz now THAT makes perfectly good sense to me.

bradnitschke

@TCFV_President tragic, but also totally unacceptable. looking to @Mike_Rawlings and @griggs4dallas for accountability.

JoeBlow

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Not sure how the information was conveyed to the responding offers, but I doubt it would have made a difference. This was a lose/lose for the cops. When they arrived at the home, they found absolutely no evidence of a crime being committed. All they have is an phone call that may or may not have come from the house (it was a cell). They look in the windows and ask the neighbors if anything out of the ordinary happened and the answer is "no." If they kick in the door and surprise an innocent home owner, they are accused of being jackbooted government thugs who violate the constitutional rights of homeowners in a minority neighborhood based on unreliable, unsubstantiated 911 calls. Even worse, they risk having a situation that requires use of deadly force if someone in the home is (legally or illegally) armed when they kick in the door. If they don't and something like this happens, they are accused of being indifferent to victims in minority neighborhoods.

GuitarPlayer topcommenter

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@JoeBlow The police are not the problem, its 911. There needs to be an investigation into the dept. Its not being run correctly.

gmit

@GuitarPlayer Seems that since the phone isnt wired to our kitchen wall, 911 doesnt work quite as well. Why dont these reporters point out the obvious ?

...because it would make their jobs seem way less important !

pak152

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proof that the police aren't there to protect but rather to clean up.

GuitarPlayer topcommenter

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Dallas has a serious 911 problem. They have been lucky for years but its starting to creep up on them.

CelebrateDivershitty

Celebrate the countless amazing benefits of Divershitty and Affirmative Action hires! Way to go, 911 dispatchers!

oakclifftownie

From now on if I post #1 it will easily show that I am suffering from white libtard guilt .

Look up SWATTING

They didn't break down the door because they remember the last time someone SWATTED some one A poor misguided urban youths life was extinguished from our earth.\

No signs of a break in No Doors get kicked in.

Eric Get a Scanner they are inexpensive and will enlighten you to how the police operate .

Fresh in their minds ..........

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