Albuquerque, N.M. — (KOB) A dispatch worker for the Albuquerque Fire Department has been removed from the dispatch center and placed on administrative assignment after hanging up on a 911 caller who was trying to get paramedics to the scene in which teenageer Jaydon Chavez-Silver was shot and killed.
Matthew Sanchez is accused of hanging up on the caller after she became agitated while talking to dispatch.
Sanchez hung up on her after she cursed on the phone while talking to him.
The partial transcript of the conversation can be see below:
Sanchez: Is he not breathing
Caller: Barely. (inaudible) Stay with me. Stay with me, ok. Good job Jaydon.
Sanchez: Is he breathing
Caller: He’s barely breathing. How many times do I have to f—ing tell you
Sanchez: Ok, do you what ma’am You can deal with yourself. I’m not going to deal with this, ok.
Caller: No, he’s going to die.
The call ends there.
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