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What Started as a Call From a 12-Year-Old When Her Father Attacked Her Mother Ended With Her Father Dead
The Luke tragedy
Angela and Daniel’s daughters watched in horror as their father viciously beat up their mother.
What had started as a peaceful Sunday evening quickly escalated into a night of terrors.
Angela and Daniel’s twelve-year-old daughter frantically called the police.
Dispatcher: 911, Where is your emergency?
Daughter: My dad’s being really mean to my mommy.
Dispatcher: What’s he doing?
Daughter: He’s hitting my mom and he’s banging her into the ground.
Dispatcher: How old are you?
Daughter: Twelve.
Dispatcher: Do you know what they’re fighting about?
Daughter: Everything…Please hurry! My dad broke my mother’s arm?…Oh my God!
He pushed her. He pushed her really hard and she fell again. We’re all outside.
My mom really hurt her arm. Dad! Get off me. Get off my mommy…. Are you guys almost here?
Dispatcher: Yes honey, they’re coming, ok? They’re on their way.
Daughter: We’re pulling out of the…
