ANTIOCH, Tenn. (WKRN) – The Antioch Waffle House shooting that killed 4 people took place in less than one minute.
According to Metro Police and the 911 Emergency Communications Center, 42 seconds elapsed from the time of the first shot outside the Waffle House to when the shooter fled from the building.
The shooter was inside the restaurant for just 27 seconds.
When calls started coming into the 911 center, the first five callers were on cell phones and could not give an exact address for their location.
As News 2 reported last week, there are two Waffle House restaurants on Murfreesboro Rd. and police were originally dispatched to the wrong location.
In the wake of that report, The EEC released this account of the first 5 calls:
3:24:33 Initial call answered—Caller does not know the street address and is unable to verify the cross street.
3:24:44 2nd caller – does not know the address, but into the call gives the numerical of 3532 Murfreesboro Pk
3:24:49 4th caller cannot give street address, but further in the call gives 3571 address (call taker sends up the call to South)
3:24:50 5th caller does not know the address (call taker sends up the call to Hermitage)
The EEC says the call taker handling the 5th call used a computerized “criss-cross directory” to find the correct address. But the only location provided was the long-established restaurant at 816 Murfreesboro Pike. The site of the shooting was more than 8 miles away at the Waffle House at 3571 Murfreesboro Pike, which opened as a new location in late 2017, was not listed in the “criss-cross directory.”
It took more than 2 minutes to determine the correct address and dispatch police to the Antioch Waffle House.