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Trumbull 911 releases audio of call about man’s death
By Ed Runyan
HOWLAND
Police were not releasing any additional information Thursday on the death of a man in a house on Basswood Avenue.
The death was discovered Wednesday as a result of a 911 call from a woman saying she was the man’s girlfriend.
Howland police said they did not have an initial report available on the death as of Thursday afternoon because they still were trying to confirm the dead man’s identity.
The Trumbull County 911 Center in Howland released an audio recording of the woman’s 911 call, however, and the woman said she feared that the dead man was her boyfriend, Martin Reed, 42.
In the call, made about 10 a.m., the woman said she was Nicole O’Shaughnessy and that she was outside of her boyfriend’s Basswood Avenue home, which is about a third of a mile west of the Delphi Packard Electric plants on North River Road.
“I need an ambulance. I think my boyfriend’s dead,” the woman said, sobbing throughout the nine- minute call.
“The window’s broken, and I looked through the window, and there’s blood everywhere. There’s blood on the walls,” she said.
A dispatcher asked the woman various questions, such as whether she had gone inside, whether she could get inside and whether her boyfriend was inside.
“The window’s broken, but I’m scared,” the woman said, indicating she didn’t want to go inside.
The woman said her boyfriend was supposed to come to her house at 5 p.m. Tuesday and never arrived.
“I’ve been trying to call him the whole time,” she said.
The woman said she has a 7-year-old son and was unable to check on her boyfriend because she fell asleep Wednesday evening, so she sent two friends to check on him around 10 or 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
They drove by the house, saw a light on in the kitchen and figured the man was sleeping, she said.
The man, whose vehicle was in the driveway, wasn’t having any problems with anyone and had not been depressed, she told the dispatcher.
Near the end of the call, a neighbor could be heard telling the woman that he had just come from inside the house but had not seen the man’s body.
“Is he dead?” the woman asked the neighbor.
“I think so,” the neighbor said.
The neighbor said he didn’t continue all the way into the house because, “There’s so much blood, and I didn’t want to step on anything.”
The dead man’s landlord said Thursday he knew the man as Keith, but he has since learned that the man had identification inside the home with other names on it.
The landlord said he leased the home to Keith on a month-to-month basis starting last December.
Keith said he sold cars across the United States for a living and originally was from California.