Family questions DPD's response after kids found alive days after parents killed in apartment

[Demovictory9]

kids three years old and 8 months old.
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The Dallas Police Department (DPD) said the couple may have been killed Sunday night.

WFAA has learned from sources that on Sunday a neighbor called 911 at 11:58 p.m. She told police she heard four shots, followed by banging and what sounded like fighting. But officers weren’t assigned the call until nearly two hours later at 1:45 a.m., and officers didn’t get to the apartment until nearly 2 a.m. Officers knocked on the door and left.

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"Responding officers knocked on the door several times, and announced themselves as police. Officers also listened at the door for sounds coming from inside the apartment and didn’t hear anyone inside. There was no sign of a forced entry into the apartment,” said Dallas Police Department spokesperson Kristen Lowman.

Sources said police went back to the apartment on Wednesday, when a neighbor called and said the oldest child was walking around outside and they stopped to ask her where her parents were. She led them to the apartment.

David Stewart's mother wonders what if police had found them sooner.

"Did they just immediately pass away? Or did they suffer for a day? Or bleed to death? I don’t know. But I feel like if the police and ambulance would have gotten there, maybe they could have at least gotten them to the hospital,” said Latoya.

DPD said when the call came in Sunday night, they had more than a dozen other "priority 2" calls already holding and responded as soon as there were officers available.

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[Frasier Balzov]

1. Guns and ammunition in the hands of the public.

[Scrivener7]

2. Them Texas police sure do like to stand outside closed doors and ruminate, dont they?

Don't like to smudge their full body armor, I guess.

[harumph]

3. I get your point Scrivener - but keep in mind

the number of times officers have entered domiciles without knocking and
tend to shoot things up. There is no easy solution to this. So many guns,
so much desperation, little or no family/psych care. The cash rich owners of this
country are driving it into the ground deliberately so they can
both reshape it in their image and pick up tangible assets and real estate
at fire sale prices. It would be stupid to assume that conservative
think tanks haven't been employing game theory analysis to solve what they
see as social 'problems' and tacitly building the structures for permanent
white minority rule. While the rank and file of the movement are dregs
and unwitting dupes, the planners are smart and amoral.

I want to add the analogy of a parasite that changes the body chemistry of the host
so that the parasite can thrive. Our democracy is the host.