The recordings made to 911 by one of the brothers attacked
by the tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on December 25 were released on Tuesday.
The caller, who wasn’t identified, screamed at the
dispatcher: “It's a matter of life and death!”
One of the Dhaliwal brothers, Paul or Kulbir, made the call
from the cafe zoo and asked if it’s possible for a helicopter to be brought
into the zoo to rescue his brother, the Associated Press reports.
At the end of the recording which lasts seven minutes,
Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, was already killed by the Siberian tiger.
Around 5:27 p.m., four minutes after the call made by the
brother to 911, an officer said into the radio "At the cafe, we have the
tiger! We have the tiger attacking the victim!"
The recording was from police dispatch traffic.
One minute later another call on the radio says to stop the
shooting.
An officer says: "We have the cat. We shot the cat. The
victim is being attended to."
According to another 911 recording, a call made by a zoo
employee showed that zoo employees didn’t believe that the cat was escaped. The
male employee was talking with colleagues on a two-way radio.
He called around 5:05 p.m. at the sayings of another female
employee who said that two brothers outside the café said that a cat had attacked
them.
The woman can be heard on employee’s radio saying: "I
don't know if they are on drugs or not. They are screaming about an animal that
has attacked them and there isn't an animal out. He is talking about a third
person, but I don't see a third person. He is saying he got attacked by a
lion."
The male employee says that it can’t imagine that the man
was attacked by a lion and that if that was true they could have seen it. The female
employee says that the man is agitated and believes he is on drugs.
The man employee says to dispatcher: "They don't know
if he got attacked by a lion. They are both very agitated and they might be on
drugs."
On another line one of the two brothers is saying that his brother
is dying there and is asking if it’s possible to fly a helicopter there.
It is possible that the victim on the phone was Kilbir, the
older brother, who was the last one to be attacked by the tiger.
At 5:10 p.m. after the male employee finds out that the cat
really got out, he evacuates the zoo.
On Tuesday the police said that it had a warrant to search
the cell phones and the car of the Dhaliwal brothers. Police investigators
believe that there is evidence that can prove the three have taunted the animal
before escaping its den.
Dhaliwal brothers’ attorney, Mark Geragos, said that the
three didn’t taunt the tiger.
According to some sources, Paul was drunk when the accident
occurred, Kulbir was drinking and that both of them consumed marijuana, San
Francisco Chronicle informs.
On Wednesday a hearing was scheduled in order to see if the
city attorney’s office can search the items in another case, a civil one.
