“OK, well, the only thing to do...
“OK, well, the only thing to do is just call us if he comes over there.... I mean, what can we do? We can’t have a unit sit there and wait and see if he comes over.”
--Los Angeles County sheriff’s dispatcher to Maria Navarro, who called the Sheriff’s Department’s 911 line to say that her estranged husband was on his way over to a birthday party to shoot her. She and three other women were killed.
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