Off-duty DC firefighter was shot and dialed 911. After minutes with no response, he took matters into his own hands

On September 20, under Dim Capitol Hill street lamps, Gary Dziekan moved towards the northeast of the 8th Street wearing Lederhosen and walked home from the Oktoberfest party five blocks away. Dziekan, who passed with “Zeek, was passed at the intersection with C Street and reset to the short iron gate and separated a colorful order of quiet Washington, DC, two -storey house from the street.

Just a few steps away from the skinny Green Rowhouse, where his wife and two young sons sleep, hit the asphalt at the pedestrian crossing behind the intelligence.

Zeek, an out -of -duty DC firefighter, returned to find a masked man targeting him. The man tried to rob him, and he called 911, who ended with Zeek shot, called 911. Zeek waited for three minutes – holding the bleeding wound – he did not respond to the emergency number without calling for his own fire brigade, begging for help.

The unanswered call points to Zeek’s latest critical false step, which works with DC 911 as Capitol City’s first responder. The United Communication Office (OUC), which manages DC’s 911 operations in the city It has been saddened for a long time With the shortage of personnel, recruitment difficulties and dangerous conditions for some callers for years.

The shooting is the crime reported in Capitol City fallen Since the Trump administration started a sweep Seizure of policingIn August, the flood of the federal law enforcement officers on the streets of DC is revealed.

While Zeek saw the national guard troops and other agents who had previously patrolled in the neighborhood, on Saturday night – without federal protection or assistance of 911 – without federal protection or assistance.

“Give me your mobile phone,” the robbery asked when Zeek turned.

“Here, take everything, Z Zeek said, a bag with his phone and wallet, sunglasses and a Bluetooth speaker. The robber lifted the phone to Zeek’s face to open his lock, and when the digital wallet was not opened, he pushed the barrel of the gun against Zeek’s chest.

“He was going to kill me, Z Zeek said to CNN. “100% will hit me on your chest, just a few meters away from my door.”

Thus, suddenly, Zeek twisted and pushed the barrel aside, but he grabbed the robbery shoulder and fired a shot that hit the silence. The bullet passed through the robber’s fingers and to Zeek’s chest and shoulder.

The shooter bolted, dropped the gun, the bag and the phone. Zeek was wrinkled on the sidewalk, pulled the belts of Lederhosen, so that he was able to use his shirt to press the bloody wound.

He held his phone, called the speaker 911 and put it next to him. The firefighter rang for three minutes without answering while bleeding on the street.

When the rush feet of the robbery came back, Zeek was still spread and bleeding and broke the automatic sound on the phone.

Zeek, who was sure that the man was back to kill him, caught the weapon near the sidewalk he fell. He loaded fresh bullets and fired the runner running to him and forced him to escape for good.

When a neighbor went out to help, Zeek, who offered to call 911, told him to call a different number instead of it – direct line to the fire station, the engine 18 Truck 7, just six blocks away. When the station answered, Zeek’s voice cracked on the neighbor’s phone: “I hit and need help.

Within a few minutes, the emergency lights from the fire department and metropolitan police cars were dancing in the windows of the 8th Street’s quiet home row. The Medics-Bazise tears his friends-Zek’s blood wetted costume, bandaging his arm and chest, and took him to the hospital.

Two days later, Zeek was at home with his family again, the bullets were still placed on his shoulder between a nerve block and the main blood vessel. Doctors said it was very risky to remove the bullet and think that it is lucky to have no damage more damage.

When we looked back, Zeek said he didn’t talk to anyone in 911 on the night of fire.

Zeek said, “This idea was always behind my head, and if something goes wrong, I will call (more than 911) service by calling a fire department, Z Zeek said. “But I didn’t think I would actually be in this position.”

Calls for accountability in renewed DC911

Ouc received more than 20 calls in 10 minutes after the incident on the 8th Street on the night of the firing, an increase in the typical call volume and the officials committed them as “as quickly as possible”.

In DC, 911 calls are answered in order of searching. Ouc is not clear how much the caller is waiting before the Ouc replied that the first call for the assignments responded to the first shooting call, but before the Ouc replied. Zeek’s Call diary on his phone shows that he is calling the three -digit number at 22:10 and no one has taken the connection after not taking it for three minutes.

McGaffin’s statement, “Call volume during the events that created an increase, some callers were placed in the queue, the call areas collect the relevant information and other callers give life -saving direction,” he said.

The 911 Call is sprayed as spraying as the emergencies that want them, which makes it impossible for the call centers in any city to plan themselves and for personnel.

However, in a statement to an Ouc spokesman CNN, Ouc was already inadequate on the night of September 20. Night shifts have a target of at least 17 call buyers, but that night only six of them overtime – only 16 people were in the staff.

Ouc spokesman said 16 workers received a call after 22 o’clock when Zeek was shot.

Fire and EMS were sent to Zeek’s position after 22: 12, and MPD was sent after 22:13 according to the shipping diaries shared by the OUC. Zeek’in fire station crew, 22:17 at 22:17 and other intervention teams left behind.

In general, Ouc struggled to manage the call volumes of the agency as the agency met Important, years of personnel difficultiesNotifying less than 57% of its shifts Personnel Targets During August. Last year, the agency went so far enough to offer monthly bonuses to all planned shifts, employees showing CNN Affiliate. WUSA9 has been reported earlier.

Zeek said that the 911 call was unanswered.

“Every day I see at work – there are problems every day,” he said. “Then I’m out of duty, I need Ouc and I can’t even get an answer. This is really inferior.”

Zeek, who works as a firefighter in the city, described the clarity of posts from the Ouc staff as “absolutely terrible ve and directed the crew. Dispatchers said to them the wrong addresses almost every day, dedi he said, he greatly delayed their responses to people with emergencies.

“If an address is incorrectly put on the computer and sends you in the wrong direction, this is the life of someone’s life,” he said. “This causes a serious problem for the safety of citizens, and Ouc refuses to have their own mistakes.”

McGaffin’s statement, the Agency, “Each response to ensure that the timely and good coordination with the city public security partners” working closely “.

The young suspect encounters Trump administration with raised charges

On the other side of public security in DC, police officers and federal representatives – President Donald Trump works together as a result of the result Crime Pressure In the capital – he found a high school student who was allegedly robbing Zeek that night and was arrested.

“FBI agents, Federal partners and MPD caught the issue in an aggressive way, detained him and participated in a series of interviews, Dar

Court documents, 17 -year -old Marcellus Dyson, defined JR. as a suspect. CNN reached his lawyer for a comment.

According to the declaration, Zeek said that after escaping from the shooting of Zeek, Dyson approached a street and was hit by him and needed help. The witness was walking Dyson to a nearby hospital before the officers stopped them and detained young people.

The high school student was initially arrested for an attack with the intention of undressing, but now he faced the power of the region’s best prosecutor’s office, former Fox News presenter Jeanine Pirro, who made the president’s intense prosecution. With Gusto.

Even for low -level criminals, the office is forcing for more harsh accusations or imprisonment. The cases keep the courts inundated, the trials at the DC’s local criminal court remained routinely late at night, and the federal prosecutors woke up for new cases.

Pirro Announced on Monday Dyson had been attacked by the armed robbery, which was faced with raised charges of armed robbery, which would be tried as an adult, and was attacked during the crime of violence.

At a preliminary hearing on Friday, the court rejected the defense request to release Dyson. The next court view is planned to be held on 7 October.

The firefighter said he was looking for Zeek on the day Pirro announced the new charges for the suspect.

“I’m 100% behind him,” he said. “Someone needs to be an example.”

Zeek, who raised his 13 and 10 -year -old sons in Rowhouse on 8th Street, said that young people in the city should have violent consequences to deter them others.

“The next person is robbed, shooting, being attacked, anything – great – great. And I think it will be,” he said.

While the deployment of federal enforcement agents helps to make DC safer, he cannot disturb the armed 17 -year -old child because he abandoned him with just a few steps from his front door.

“I was very happy to live where I lived until Saturday,” he said. “But it made me wonder what my future with my family living in the city looks like.”

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