The District Attorney has this afternoon released three documents related to the Campbell Shooting: The Grand Jury transcript, the 911 transcript, and the medical examiner’s report in Campbell’s death. News media are poring through them as I type, but if you want to download and read the documents for yourself you can go here, where I’ve archived them online.

At first glance the documents reveal the following.

โ€ขCampbell’s relative was very concerned about him being suicidal. “He done already tried to kill hisself,” she told the 9-11 dispatcher, but also asking for the police to “do a welfare check,” not shoot him in the back. “I can also tell you just proceed with caution,” she said. “Because he already wants the police to kill him…” “When she called me earlier she said he had put the gun to his head but the gun wouldn’t fire. The four times he tried to shoot hisself and it wouldn’t fire,” reads the transcript.

โ€ขThere doesn’t appear to be any toxicology information in the autopsy.

โ€ขThe Grand Jury transcript is 454 pages long.

More later.

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.

6 replies on “Campbell Shooting Documents: “He Done Already Tried To Kill Hisself…””

  1. They should have released the transcripts of the grand jury hearing after the release transcripts of the grand jury hearing into Adams and Breedlove.

  2. Take note heathens of blogtown. 40% stenosis of one of the main arteries to the heart muscle, age TWENTY FIVE.

    Ain’t no terrorists going to do us in. We’re all committing suicide with food.

    “When your passion is pizza”, just remember, the cheese on cold pizza is exactly like the debris that clogs up our coronaries.

  3. Gonetorio, I didn’t read the transcript, so I don’t know exactly what you’re referring to, but arterial stenosis in a man of 25 is most likely due to a congenital heart condition, not pizza. Mr. Campbell’s brother died at a young age, due to a heart condition that he was born with.

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