Becci Starr: Yeah, please send somebody. An armed man just broke into my house. I was hitting him
with a baseball bat, my husband
911: OK honey. OK calm down. OK? I have the neighbors that have already called.
Starr: OK, now that you know that, I've got to go make sure my husband's OK.
911: OK, but wait. Stay on the line with me.
Starr: Why?
911: Has somebody been stabbed there?
Starr: Yes, the guy that came. He broke in, well he didn't break in, I opened up the door.
911: OK. Does your husband have a weapon or anything?
Starr: Well he took the knife away from him, and then I was hitting him over the head, like I must've hit him 20 times.
I have a baseball bat at my front door, and the guy kept coming at me. And then my husband came, and he tried to cut him up.
And this guy is like, I mean I am telling you I've seen a lot of movies, but boy it takes a lot to beat somebody down.
911: All right. OK, don't hang up with me, but I want you to make sure your husband is OK. See where the guy is and see
if you can get the knife. You need to get the knife away.
Starr: My husband's got the knife.
911: OK.
Starr: But he stabbed this guy. Let me tell you something, I have never felt so violated in my life. You know? And this
guy, and, you know, now I see the gun is a plastic gun that he held up to me. I thought it was somebody kidding. I thought
it was somebody kidding, I swear to God. But you know I really have to check my husband, OK?
911: All right, don't hang up. But just go check on him and let me know how he's doing.
Starr: OK.
55-second time lapse
Starr: Hello?
911: Yes
Starr: My husband's OK, but this guy is bleeding really bad.
911: Where's he bleeding from?
Starr: I have, I mean, are you kidding me? This guy, he's still violent.
911: Was he stabbed several times?
Starr: Multiple stab wounds, I'm sure of it, because I'll tell you something, I mean my husband was in a rage. I hope it's
not like a bad thing. I mean this guy came into our house. I'm really freaking out now you know because he's (expletive) dying
in my front yard. ...
911: Right. OK.
Starr: You know?
911: OK, so he's outside in the front yard?
Starr: Yeah, well he's right outside my door. I mean I pushed him out the door with a baseball bat while I was screaming
for Scott. Anyway. What?
911: But your husband is OK, he wasn't hurt at all?
Starr: Everybody's OK, except for this guy who's bleeding to death.
911: Is he breathing?
Starr: He says he's having difficulty breathing.
911: But he's conscious?
Starr: Do I care? I mean this (expletive) guy came into my house.
911: Was he alone?
Starr: I don't think there was anybody with him. Now see what happened was, I started screaming. My husband came running
up and we were like, I am not kidding you, we were both, both of us - and trust me we're not small people - were trying to
subdue this guy, you know. And he brings out this knife and he starts like flailing it around. And the next thing I know,
and I am screaming and so is my husband. I mean we're screaming, 'Get out of here,' you know, stuff like that.
911: OK, yeah because you know the neighbors called us.
Starr: I know and then I heard my neighbor. And Dale goes: 'What's wrong? What's going on?' and I said 'Call 911,' but
I'm not sure if he took me seriously for the first like two minutes. So I don't know how much time has passed, but let me
tell you, I feel like I was just in an action movie and I watch a lot of films. It was like so unreal.
911: So the knife was his - the bad guy's?
Starr: Oh yeah, I mean we don't have weapons. Except I have this baseball bat. Thank God I have a metal baseball bat at
my front door.
911: So did he break in your door or your window, what happened?
Starr: No, he rang my doorbell. Now what it was, was I didn't know where my husband was. I thought he might be outside.
My daughter had just left like 10 minutes ago to go home. She lives in town and she was up here doing her laundry. And she
was just leaving and I don't know, maybe five minutes had passed. And when the doorbell rang, I automatically assumed (explains
that her front door opens from the inside but when it closes it's locked). So I thought my husband had walked her out to the
car or maybe it was my daughter coming back.
So the doorbell rings and I go up and he goes, 'Boulder County police.' And I thought, 'Oh great, it's Scott. He's just
making a joke.' I open the door. And he pushed me back, and his face was covered. The other thing is that I took a street-wise
class, and even though I didn't use any of those things, I still felt empowered. So I was pushing him away and saying, 'Who
are you? This isn't funny.'
And I went to pull this mask off his face and suddenly I knew that I did not know him. And he went to put it back on and
was pointing the gun. And I'm still saying to him, 'Look, you don't want to do this. What are you, crazy? Get out of here.'
He said, 'How many people are in the house?' I said, 'There's half a dozen people in here.'
And when I started screaming, that's when Scott came running up. But by that time, I had already reached for the bat and
maybe taken a couple of swipes at him. I am so incredulous that I hit this guy so many times and he kept on coming. I couldn't
even believe it.
911: OK. Good. Well, good for you.
Starr: But there's nobody here yet.
911: They're on the way. You know you realize you're a way's up.
Starr: I know but I don't see anyone coming up the canyon. I'm so terrified he's gonna die. I don't want that on my life,
you know?
911: There's somebody up in the area now. They're probably just down the street.
Starr: OK, I see somebody coming now. There they are.
...
OK. Thank you so much.
From the Boulder Daily Camera
The 911 Call http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_4148717,00.html
New details from warrant http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_4154397,00.html
The initial story http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_4133544,00.html
