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Associated Press
RENO -- A police emergency operator is under investigation after someone hung up on a 911 caller who sought to report the shooting of a friend at a Reno apartment complex.
Communications director Gale Bowen said she would look into the report of the hang-up.
"At this point, there is no way for me to confirm that because I have not listened to that tape," she said, adding the recording of the emergency call has been sealed as evidence in a murder case.
At a preliminary hearing in the case last week, two women testified that an emergency operator hung up when one of them tried to report the March 11 shooting of Richard Harding, 19, who later died.
Danielle Purdy and Allison McInerny were in a Woodside Village Apartments unit with several other people when someone knocked on the door, then fired shots through it, striking Harding.
Following the Reno Justice Court hearing, Clyde Benjamin Cordova, 19, was bound over for trial on a first-degree murder charge.
At the preliminary hearing, a police detective said Cordova told investigators he had met people in the apartment earlier in the night and returned with a gun because he felt they were whispering about him.
Bowen said she was unaware of the reports of the 911 hang-up until she read a newspaper article about the court hearing.
If police officers were told about a hang-up, that information was not passed on to her, she said.
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