Youth Called 911 Before Killing Officer, Tape Shows : Violence: Christopher Golly told police ‘I’ll see you when you get here’ after saying he had shot his father to death.

Moments before killing a rookie police officer, 17-year-old Christopher Golly called 911 to say that he had just killed his father and that “I’ll see you when you get here,” according to a dispatcher’s tape released Friday.

In a chilling omen of the bloody ambush that followed, Golly ignored the dispatcher’s repeated requests to put down his weapon and to stay on the phone until police arrived.

Golly’s call came immediately after a call from a woman who had been in the house and had taken a cellular phone outside.

When Los Angeles police got to the Amestoy Avenue house in Northridge about 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, the troubled methamphetamine user was hiding outside with a loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. He sprayed the three squad cars with bullets, killing rookie Officer Christy Lynne Hamilton, 45, with one shot that pierced her chest through an armhole of her bulletproof vest.

Police said the 911 tape reinforces statements that Golly made to a friend hours before the shooting: that he planned to kill his father and then ambush officers responding to the crime. The friend told police about Golly’s statements after the shootings.

“In hindsight, knowing what we know now . . . , it appears very ominous,” said Lt. John Dunkin, a police spokesman. “Knowing now everything that went on, (including) his conversation with his friend, it lends a different meaning of, ‘I’ll see you when you get here.’ It’s almost eerie.”

Until they released the 911 tape late Friday, police had not disclosed that Golly had tried to make sure the ambush would play out as he planned by calling police himself.

Even with the indications on the tape that an armed killer may have been waiting for them, police said they had no idea of the troubled teen-ager’s intentions to open fire. They continued to defend the tactics of the officers who inadvertently pulled up in front of the house, making Hamilton a vulnerable target.

Dunkin said officers responding to the home were aware that someone had been shot and that a gunman could still be there. He said officers followed tactical procedure, thinking they were stopping several houses away to assess the situation before acting or calling in a Special Weapons and Tactics unit.

Dunkin said Hamilton’s slaying was the result of several factors that were beyond the control of the responding officers. It was too dark to see the numbers on the houses, police said, and the Golly home was on a corner, despite the address leading officers to believe it was in the middle of the block, where they saw a woman waving to them.

In addition, a police helicopter that could have helped authorities see Golly hiding behind a brick wall was grounded because of high winds, Dunkin said.

“Every officer wants to make it home at night. Who in their right mind would pull up right in front of a house where there is a guy inside with a gun?” Dunkin asked. “They certainly did not do that intentionally.”

Sgt. Michael Albanese, a SWAT unit supervisor, confirmed that department policy calls for SWAT members to be called only after patrol officers have responded and verified that a gunman is inside a house.

After patrol officers were deployed and after Hamilton was shot, Albanese said he and other SWAT team members were called. Shortly before 6 a.m., SWAT officers fired tear gas canisters into the house, entered and found the bodies of Golly, who had shot himself to death, and his father, Steven.

In the 911 call, Golly sounded flippant as he told the police dispatcher what he had done.

“Uh, yes, I’d like to report a murder,” he said.

“What happened,” the dispatcher asked.

“I shot my dad,” Golly said, adding that he had thought “it would be nice” to shoot him.

When asked where the gun was, he said: “It’s . . . on my shoulder right now.”

The dispatcher asked him to put the gun down. Golly responded, “Nah.”

Later, a Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic is patched into the call.

“Put the phone down, I mean put the gun down. . . . We’re not playing around,” the paramedic said.

“Right,” Golly answered.

Several minutes later, Golly said: “I’ll see you guys.”

The operator asked him to stay on the line and to put the gun where police could see it.

“Nah,” Golly replied again. “I’ll see you guys when you get here.”

“No, no, no. Chris?” the operator asks. But by then, Golly had hung up.

Police said Golly went to the side of the house and waited for the officers.

Hamilton stopped her squad car behind two other police vehicles on Septo Street, which intersects with Amestoy in front of the Golly house. Although it was not clear if Golly had fired any shots before Hamilton left the car, she was crouching behind her door and reaching for a portable police radio when she was shot, her father said Friday.

Kenneth Brondell, Hamilton’s father, said he has talked to his slain daughter’s partner about what happened. Brondell, a 30-year LAPD veteran, said his daughter had put herself at risk by doing what officers are trained to do.

“Even if someone is lying there in wait, the officers can’t stand a block away and wait,” Brondell said. “Someone has to move up. It just has to be done.”