ONE OF THOSE VICTIMS IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE SHOOTER, 17 YEAR OLD DYLAN BUTLER, SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF. GOVERNOR REYNOLDS ORDERED FLAGS LOWERED TO HALF STAFF THROUGH SATURDAY IN SUPPORT OF ALL THOSE AFFECTED. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARRIVED WITHIN MINUTES OF REPORTS OF THAT SHOOTING, AND WE NOW KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW IT DEVELOPED THANKS TO POLICE RADIO DISPATCH CALLS DURING THE INCIDENT, KCCI SENIOR REPORTER TODD MAGEL HAS BEEN LISTENING TO THOSE RECORDINGS TODAY. TODD. STACY AND BEN, THE DISPATCH RECORDINGS SHOW A CALM BUT VERY CONCERNED LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORT TO DEAL WITH THIS SCHOOL SHOOTING. THE EMERGENCY RADIO TRAFFIC BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER 730, ABOUT 737 THIS MORNING. AND WHAT YOU WILL HEAR NOW IS A COMBINATION OF DALLAS COUNTY SHERIFF DISPATCHERS, DEPUTY AND EMS PERSONNEL. AS THE FIRST REPORTS GO OUT, ALL UNITS, DALLAS COUNTY, YOU’VE GOT AN ACTIVE, SERIOUS ACTIVATION AT PERRY HIGH SCHOOL. ACTIVE SHOOTERS ACTIVATION AT PERRY HIGH SCHOOL. IT’S GOING TO BE IN REFERENCE TO A POSSIBLE GUNSHOTS, POSSIBLE GUNSHOTS. AT PERRY HIGH SCHOOL START THAT WAY. DALLAS ONE DIRECT YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE CAMERAS. WE’RE GETTING PULLED UP NOW. WE GOT SOMEBODY DOWN IN THE HALLWAY. COPY. WE SEE SOMETHING ON THE WEST HALLWAY. WEST HALLWAY? WHAT CHANNEL AM I SWITCHING TO? THERE’S BLOOD. MALE SUBJECT DOWN IN THE HALLWAY APPEARS TO BE SELF-INFLICTED. GUNSHOT WOUND. I’M SHOWING ALL THE VICTIMS. DALLAS. SUBJECT THAT’S DOWN IS DECEASED. COPY. SUBJECT DOWN. DECEASED. LOCATION. WE ARE OUTSIDE OF ROOM 308. WE’RE GOING TO NEED MULTIPLE AMBULANCES, SO WE’RE GOING TO NEED BOTH OTHER EMS UNITS HEADED THAT WAY AS WELL. DO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF VICTIMS OR AN ESTIMATED NUMBER OF VICTIMS? COPY. WE’RE GETTING MULTIPLE REPORTS. DALLAS 519 THREE. LET’S GO AHEAD AND PUT BOTH THE HELICOPTERS IN ROUTE. ALSO, LET’S GET VERY CLEAR THERE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE LANDING ZONE AND WE CAN START TRIAGE PATIENTS IN OUR AMBULANCE. CAN YOU RESERVE A HELICOPTER FOR ME? ANY PATIENTS DO WE HAVE ON SCENE? UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME WE HAVE TWO IN OUR TRUCK. REPORTS OF MULTIPLE INSIDE DALLAS AND POLK COUNTY BEEN ADVISED TO ADVISE LOCAL HOSPITALS OF A POSSIBLE MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT. COPY. WE’RE CALLING THEM NOW. MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS BEEN, UH, CLEARED. UM, OFFICERS ARE DOING A SECONDARY SWEEP. WE’VE GOT TRIAGE AREA CURRENTLY, AND HE’S ADVISING NO OTHER INCOMING UNITS NEED TO COME INTO THE SCHOOL RIGHT NOW. I AM IN, UH, COMMAND OF EMS TRANSPORT. WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE OUR MOST CRITICAL OUT AND THERE YOU HEAR SORT OF THE ARC OF THE BEGINNING TO NEARLY THE END OF THAT WHOLE PROCESS WAS ABOUT AN HOUR LONG. OF COURSE, WE EDITED TO BE MUCH SHORTER, AND IT SEEMS CLEAR FROM THAT AUDIO THAT WE HEARD TWO PEOPLE CLEARLY INJURED WITH MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS AT THE TIME, AND THAT
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Dispatch recordings provide timeline of Perry High School shooting in Iowa
A Perry High School student killed a sixth-grader and wounded seven other people in a shooting inside Perry High School early Thursday as students prepared to start their first day of classes after winter break.Police have identified the shooter as 17-year-old Dylan Butler, and said he was found inside the school after the shooting, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Dispatch recordings show a calm but concerned law enforcement effort starting just after 7:30 a.m. this morning at Perry High School, to which more than 100 members of local, state and federal departments, among others, responded within minutes.Video above: What you'll hear is a combination of Dallas County Sheriff's dispatchers, deputies and EMS personnel as the first reports come in and the response begins.More coverage of Perry school shooting: Authorities identify 17-year-old shooter who killed 1, wounded 5 in Perry school shootingFamilies recount terrifying moments from inside Perry High School during deadly shootingPolice on massive response to Perry High School: 'No community is immune'Iowa leaders, elected officials react to Perry High School shootingResources available for families impacted by Perry High School shooting Perry High School principal Dan Marburger among 5 woundedFull coverage: Reactions from parents, students, police in wake of Perry school shootingPerry High School shooting timeline: Jan. 4, 20247:37 a.m.: Authorities receive first reports of an active shooter at Perry High School. Around the same time, 15-year-old Zander Shelley texts his father that he was grazed twice in the shooting and was hiding in a classroom.7:44 a.m.: Initial wave of first responders arrive at the high school. Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of Iowa DCI, later said Perry High School Dylan Butler, 17, carried out the shooting with a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun.According to Mortvedt, responding officers found Butler dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. In a subsequent search of the school, officers located a "rudimentary" improvised explosive device, which was disarmed without further incident or injury, he said. 7:45 a.m.: Erica Jolliff hears from her daughter, a ninth grader at Perry, who reported getting rushed from the school grounds. School officials and authorities used the McCreary Community Building as a reunification site for students and parents. 9:27 a.m.: The FBI and ATF confirmed that they were on the scene. 10 a.m.: Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante confirms during a brief news conference that there were "multiple victims" and that authorities had identified the shooter but declined to name them. He said they were still determining how many people were shot and declined to provide updates on the condition of those wounded, but did say there was no further danger to the public. Infante also said, “all (students) had been reunified already.”11:10 a.m.: Officials from the White House say President Joe Biden is following news of the shooting, and staffers have been in touch with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' office, according to CNN's Betsy Klein.11:30 a.m.: A law enforcement official tells the AP that the shooting suspect died from what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity. The official also said that at least one of the victims is a school administrator.Noon: Many elected officials from Iowa, law enforcement officers and others shared condolences for the victims and anger toward the suspect. 1:10 p.m.: "Our hearts break" for the families of the victims in Perry, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a daily press briefing in Washington, DC. "We're just a couple of days into the New Year, and we're talking about another shooting, and that is heartbreaking and heart-wrenching ... enough is enough," she said. 3 p.m.: Authorities identified the shooter who killed one person and injured seven others at Perry High School on Thursday morning. Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of Iowa DCI, said 17-year-old Dylan Butler was armed with a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun to carry out the shooting.Mortvedt said a sixth-grade student at Perry Middle School, which is connected to the high school, was killed in the shooting. Seven others, four students and three staff members, are being treated at local hospitals. One is in critical condition, Mortvedt said. None of the victims have been publicly identified.Get the latest headlines from KCCI
PERRY, Iowa —
A Perry High School student killed a sixth-grader and wounded seven other people in a shooting inside Perry High School early Thursday as students prepared to start their first day of classes after winter break.
Police have identified the shooter as 17-year-old Dylan Butler, and said he was found inside the school after the shooting, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Dispatch recordings show a calm but concerned law enforcement effort starting just after 7:30 a.m. this morning at Perry High School, to which more than 100 members of local, state and federal departments, among others, responded within minutes.
Video above: What you'll hear is a combination of Dallas County Sheriff's dispatchers, deputies and EMS personnel as the first reports come in and the response begins.
More coverage of Perry school shooting:
- Authorities identify 17-year-old shooter who killed 1, wounded 5 in Perry school shooting
- Families recount terrifying moments from inside Perry High School during deadly shooting
- Police on massive response to Perry High School: 'No community is immune'
- Iowa leaders, elected officials react to Perry High School shooting
- Resources available for families impacted by Perry High School shooting
- Perry High School principal Dan Marburger among 5 wounded
- Full coverage: Reactions from parents, students, police in wake of Perry school shooting
Perry High School shooting timeline: Jan. 4, 2024
7:37 a.m.: Authorities receive first reports of an active shooter at Perry High School. Around the same time, 15-year-old Zander Shelley texts his father that he was grazed twice in the shooting and was hiding in a classroom.
7:44 a.m.: Initial wave of first responders arrive at the high school.
Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of Iowa DCI, later said Perry High School Dylan Butler, 17, carried out the shooting with a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun.
According to Mortvedt, responding officers found Butler dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. In a subsequent search of the school, officers located a "rudimentary" improvised explosive device, which was disarmed without further incident or injury, he said.
7:45 a.m.: Erica Jolliff hears from her daughter, a ninth grader at Perry, who reported getting rushed from the school grounds. School officials and authorities used the McCreary Community Building as a reunification site for students and parents.
9:27 a.m.: The FBI and ATF confirmed that they were on the scene.
10 a.m.: Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante confirms during a brief news conference that there were "multiple victims" and that authorities had identified the shooter but declined to name them. He said they were still determining how many people were shot and declined to provide updates on the condition of those wounded, but did say there was no further danger to the public. Infante also said, “all (students) had been reunified already.”
11:10 a.m.: Officials from the White House say President Joe Biden is following news of the shooting, and staffers have been in touch with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' office, according to CNN's Betsy Klein.
11:30 a.m.: A law enforcement official tells the AP that the shooting suspect died from what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity. The official also said that at least one of the victims is a school administrator.
Noon: Many elected officials from Iowa, law enforcement officers and others shared condolences for the victims and anger toward the suspect.
1:10 p.m.: "Our hearts break" for the families of the victims in Perry, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a daily press briefing in Washington, DC. "We're just a couple of days into the New Year, and we're talking about another shooting, and that is heartbreaking and heart-wrenching ... enough is enough," she said.
3 p.m.: Authorities identified the shooter who killed one person and injured seven others at Perry High School on Thursday morning. Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of Iowa DCI, said 17-year-old Dylan Butler was armed with a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun to carry out the shooting.
Mortvedt said a sixth-grade student at Perry Middle School, which is connected to the high school, was killed in the shooting. Seven others, four students and three staff members, are being treated at local hospitals. One is in critical condition, Mortvedt said. None of the victims have been publicly identified.
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