Day One: UPD Comm Center calls played for court

Trooper Kupec, who was working the UPD Communications Center the night of April 12, 2007, has verified the evidence brought up by the D.A. - a recording of the civilian calls coming into the Communications Center that night.

A power point presentation on the disk shows a subtitle of the actual phone conversation.

After verifying the authenticity of the recording and the transcription, it is asked to be played by the D.A.

The recording is played and a woman by the name of Christine Cole is the caller. This call came in 9:23 p.m., before Officer Poccia's calling in of "Officer Down." Cole, a Neilson resident, called in that she heard shots fired near Neilson and Eagle Streets.

Cole explains that she is at 1103 Neilson and heard shots fired and a car drive away.

A UFD call is then heard, where Firefighter Carcone hears a Rebecca Brown call in that she heard a car peel out with no ID.

Carcone then took another call where someone said they heard shots "over by the Parkway, near Miller and South."

Carcone then took another car with a hysterical caller saying "i heard gunshots and now there's a cop down." Carcone responds "they're on their way."

Carcone calls for Rescue 1, Engine 3 to get to Neilson Street for a call of Officer Down.

A recording of an Officer Armstrong then took calls minutes later for someone on Neilson also hearing shots fired.

Numerous other calls or partial calls from the Utica 911 Center are played, all repeating the same thing - that either shots were fired, or that people had found an officer down. In some of the calls, police noise can be heard in the background from the calls, already on the scene as residents called in.