Shannon Price: 911 call for Gary Coleman

I just looked closer at the 911 call made by Shannon Price when Gary Coleman was mortally injured. She is an interesting person because she is so cold, callous and unwilling to help Gary. It stands out like a sore thumb. Instead of helping him, she’d rather talk about how she is sick, how she can’t be traumatized, how if she is stressed she will seize, how she can’t help him because he is lethargic, etc. It’s nauseating.

Read moreWhat stands out to me in this 911 call outside of her callousness, is her lack of details about what happened. In the beginning when she talks to the operator, she says:

“Um…um….I just found my… ah..I just had my husband go make me something downstairs, he just got home, I heard this big bang. I went downstairs. Blood everywhere.”

Yet later, she says:

Head is bloody. There’s blood all over the floor. I don’t know what happened. I really don’t know what happened. I just heard this bang and I went down there, and he is on the floor and I….

In her third recollection, she recalls different details:

I just asked him, “Can you go make me some food, you know, and he’s like yeah, yeah, and I….and he hit his head and I don’t know…I know its from his head, though, cuz I looked at the back of his head, and its all bloody and gross and, you know.

And here is her last recollection:

I don’t know if he had a seizure, I don’t know if he just hit his head and fell, cuz I mean he was kind of like… he wasn’t like convulsing or anything.

How come one time she has a clear recollection and the another times she doesn’t know anything? In the third version, there is absolutely no recall about Gary going down the stairs. This is highly notable. In the third version, she also seems to know conclusively he hit his head, too. How does she know that all of the sudden?

She also has a notable amount of false starts…that is she starts to say something and then stops, pauses and changes what she is about to say. In her first version of events, she says, “Um…um….I just found my… ah..I just had my husband go make me something…” In her third recollection, she starts to say “and I…and he hit his head.” I wonder what she self-censored out here? In the last version of what happened, she almost tells us what he was like… but stops herself. Why?

Why doesn’t she describe any of the details of hearing the bang, calling out for Gary, asking if he is okay, not getting a response and running down to find him in a pool of blood? Why are all these details missing?

You would think this would all stand out in her mind, because many people hear bangs and call out and ask a loved one, “Are you okay?” And when we don’t hear a response, we jump up to investigate. Our heart skips a beat until we know things are okay! How many times have you experienced a false alarm and gotten mad at your spouse for the lack of a response–for making you worry needlessly? We remember the lack of a response, but Shannon doesn’t. Why? This time it wasn’t a false alarm!!

How did Shannon know it was so serious without calling out? I mean, wasn’t she sick in bed? As she tells us she could barely stand, but she quickly ran down to check on Gary without calling out? I’m not buying it. You don’t forget these details, when you are honest. She might condense them at times, but she wouldn’t entirely change the facts, would she?

I also would expect her to have emotions of a person who discovered this gruesome scene. I would expect to hear shock, fear, terror, etc., but I don’t. Why?

All of the details of what happened are eerily missing. Shannon gives us tidbits, but nothing of substances. It’s highly notable.

I am stunned by the lack of emotional stress, too. Her voice is devoid of any fear, stress or concern. It’s lackluster considering her circumstances. I would expect her to have some form of an adrenaline rush, but I hear nothing. I heard a little heavy breathing early on, but that dissipated quickly. I hear her talk as if she is almost bored at times, and other times it appears as if she is whining and others she sounds angry and frustrated. I would not expect to hear that from a partner who just found their significant other in a pool of blood, unconscious, as she says.

Then later, when she tells us he is moving around and again, we don’t hear any hope, excitement, surprise, stun — nothing. It’s highly notable. It’s almost as if she is complaining about it. She says, “He’s just sitt’n there. He’s sitting up now up now…” as if it is no big deal! The word just jumps out at me like a waving flag.

The way she says her name when the operator asks for it, it is unbelievable. It’s like she is giving her name out for winning the lottery! It blew me away. She sounds almost chipper! You’d never know just hearing this that she was in the middle of a life and death crisis. It’s like she flipped a lid on her behavior, for a second. People who are panicked, afraid, or fearful don’t do this…

I also noted that she didn’t use pronouns when she described things– in the key time she should have a clear memory and when details should be there: “Head is bloody”–“Blood is everywhere.” People who are often deceptive leave off pronouns. I’ve seen it many times.

Next, she tells the operator she can’t help Gary for a variety of reasons, but one excuse is because if she gets stressed out she will have a seizure. Yet she had no problem, though, looking at the back of Gary’s bloody head. She says, “I know its from his head, though, cuz I looked at the back of his head, and its all bloody and gross and, you know.” Why didn’t that stress her? She also didn’t seem to have any stress going back to Gary several times. Isn’t that inconsistent?

Why does she yell at Gary, “What’s wrong?” as if he is perfectly fine? It’s like he is annoying her by doing something. She tells us she thinks he might die, and then she yells what’s wrong at him?? You hear anger in her voice when she says this. Why is she angry with him? Is that how you would feel if your loved one is gravely injured? She does not love this man or care if he dies, frankly. I don’t think it takes any special talent to see this.

The timing of when she tells us Gary’s wound is on the back his head is questionable, too. I was shocked she knew this information because she told us she couldn’t handle being with Gary, but yet she strangely knew where his injury was. If he was all bloody and bleeding all over, how would she know where the injury was–especially if she couldn’t handle the blood? Wouldn’t she be afraid if she looked, she seize? Also, when did she discover this??? We never heard. Why? I would think that would be traumatic to see that, wouldn’t you? In the first part of the 911 call, she didn’t seem to know, then all of the sudden she did, yet we hear no trauma in between of discovering this. It’s very strange!

Here are the excuses Shannon uses when she is asked to help Gary:

1. Operator: Is there any way you can go down there at all?
   Price: ….I’ll try, I don’t know, I mean…I can’t….
   

2. Operator: Can you tell him to put pressure on the wound?
   Price: No, its on the back of his head.

3. Operator: Can you go where he is and help him?
   Price: He’s lethargic, I can’t really …help him. I just need help quick.
   

4. Operator: Can you tell him to try to put pressure on the back of his head?
   Price: No, can’t. It’s like all bloody and I’m not trying to do….He…He’s not with it.

Do these support a woman who is concerned about someone who is injured?

I also found this statement very odd, “I’m just panicked. I don’t know what to do…I’m dragg’n (?). I just frick’n.…crazy person….hold on….” Why does she have all these false starts? Why does she say I just frick’n…What did she just do to call herself a crazy person? I don’t even want to guess…

When I listen to this 911 call, my alarm bells are blaring that something isn’t right. There are too many things that don’t add up, that don’t support what Shannon wants us to believe — that Gary accidentally fell and she has no clue what happened. Shannon’s behavioral evidence (my new term) suggests she knows more than she is telling us…. She is flat out inconsistent on too many levels to be believable, unless she is flat out mentally ill and unstable.

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