Re: 911:: Police dispatcher murdered in Los Angeles

[Guest guest]

So sad....what a waste. The family and dept will be in my thoughts and prayers.

Kim

> Yesterday, Damaris " Didi " Quiles, 35, a police dispatcher with the Los

> Angeles City General Services Police was murdered by her estranged

> husband.

>

> The man fatally stabbed Quiles and her mother during an argument,

> then drove to a bridge and jumped to his death Thursday before a

> police officer could stop him, police said.

>

> After the stabbing, police locked down a nearby elementary school,

> fearing the man may try to come for their 6-year-old son. Police took

> the boy off campus, LAPD Lt. Ted s said.

>

> The man apparently never went to the school, s said. The man

> was identified as Walter , 38, LAPD Detective Pat Barron said.

>

> Earlier in the morning, had gone to a home in Tujunga,

> northeast of downtown Los Angeles, and confronted his girlfriend,

> Barron said. His girlfriend had a restraining order against him.

>

> The woman's mother heard the argument and came outside to intervene.

> became angry, stabbed the girlfriend with a knife and then

> stabbed her mother, Carmen Quiles, 73.

>

> Her mother died at the scene and his girlfriend died later at a

> hospital, Barron said.

>

> The man drove east to Pasadena, where he jumped from the Colorado

> Street Bridge, s said.

>

> A caller reported that a man had climbed over a fence along the

> bridge and was on the outside railing, said Pasadena police

> spokeswoman Janet Pope Givens.

>

> " The officer got there within a minute. The subject jumped before the

> officer had time to negotiate with him, " she said.

>

> The 150-foot-high bridge, built in 1913, is a historic landmark known

> locally as " suicide bridge " because dozens of people jumped from it

> over the years. The bridge spans the Arroyo Seco south of the Rose

> Bowl.

>

> Damaris Quiles' brother, Edwin, said his sister and had lived

> together for several years. Their relationship had been strained in

> the past, but he did not think his sister was at risk, he said.

>

> " We knew something was going on, but we didn't think this would

> occur, " Quiles said.

>

> Quiles was a Communication Operator III for the General Services

> Police in Los Angeles, (an agency separate from LAPD) which provides

> law enforcement services for city buildings, parks, libraries, the Zoo,

> Convention Center, and other municipal facilities.

>

> Quiles was with the department for over 2 years.

>

> More at

> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tujunga11jan11,1,6024762.story

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> Harry

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