Prince 911 call transcript released: ‘Yes, it's Prince’
Entertainment icon Prince died Thursday at the age of 57 after being found unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park Studios complex in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Thursday night, the Carver County Sheriff's Office released the full transcript of the emergency call an unidentified person made to 911 at 9:43 a.m. ET. Prince was declared dead at 10:07 a.m.
The male caller struggled to give the dispatcher an address at first, saying simply "we're at Prince's house" when asked to give a specific location.
As the CCSP dispatcher tried to extract better address information, the caller described the person he was with as "dead" and mentioned a frantic scene in which people were "distraught."
A cause of death hasn't been announced. An autopsy is expected Friday.
Read the full transcript below:
911 Call
CARVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Transcript of 911 Call For Service
EC: Emily Colestock, CCSO Dispatcher
KM: Kayley McGarry, CCSO Dispatcher
S: Shirley, Ridgeview Ambulance Dispatcher
UM: Unidentified Male
UF: Unidentified Female
(04-21-16 at 9:43 a.m.)
EC: 911, where is your emergency?
UM: Hi there, um, what's the address, here? Yea we need an ambulance right now.
EC: Okay
UM: We have someone who is unconscious.
EC: Ok, what's the address?
UM: Um, we're at Prince's house.
EC: Okay, does anybody know the address? Is there any mail around that you could look at?
UM: Yea, yea, okay, hold on
EC: Okay, your cell phone's not going to tell me where ~u're at, so I need you to find me an address.
UM: Yea, we have um, yea, we have um, so, yea, um, the person is dead here.
EC: Okay, get me the address please.
UM: Okay, okay, I'm working on it.
EC: Concentrate on that.
UM: And the people are just distraught
EC: I understand that they are distraught but
UM: I'm working on it, I'm working on it
EC: Okay, do we know how the person died?
UM: I don't know, I don't know,
EC: Okay
UM: um, so we're, we're in Minneapolis, Minnesota and we are at the home of Prince.
EC: You're in Minneapois?
UM: Yea, Minneapolis, Mnnesota.
EC: You're sure you are in Minneapolis?
UM: That's correct.
EC: Okay, have you found an address yet?
UM: Yea, um, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I need, I need the address here?
UF: 7801
UM: 7801
EC: 7801 what?
UM: Paisley Park, we are at Paisley Park
EC: You're at Paisley Park, okay, that's in Chanhassen. Are you with the person who's ..
UM: Yes, It's Prince
EC: Okay
UM: the person
EC: Okay, stay on the line with me
UM: Okay
(Phone ringing)
S: Ambulance, Shirley
EC: Carver with the transfer for Paisley Park Studios, 78
S: Paisley Park Studios, okay
EC: 7801 Audubon Road,
S: Okay
EC: We have a person down, not breathing.
S: Down, not breathing
EC: Yup
UM: He's, he's
EC: We're going to get everybody, go ahead with the transmittal sir
KM: Dispatch Kayley
S: Yea Kayley this is Shirley at Ridgeview, you can cancel anybody going to Audubon, confirmed DOA.
KM: Okay, thank you.
S: All right, thanks, bye.
(INADVERTENT ERRORS AND/OR OMISSIONS MAY HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE TRANSCRIBING OF THIS CONVERSATION.)
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