Report On the Death of Donald Scott:
by Ventura County CA District Attorney Michael Bradbury
Appendix C: Transcript of Tape Recording of Phone Conversations
Made By Police From Donald Scott's Phone Immediately After The
Shooting 
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TAPE FROM SCOTT'S ANSWERING MACHINE



First Conversation: Deputy Joy Burch (JB) to "'911"

JB:                the door.

911:     911 emergency, what are you reporting?

JB:      'kay, is this the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department? 
         Uh, we have a, uh, we have a gunshot victim here.

911:   Yeah, we got you                  on the air.

JB:      All right, somebody's in route?

911:     Yeah, fire is on the way.

JB:    Thank you,



Second Conversation: Neighbor (N) to Deputy Gary Spencer (GS)

N:       Hello, is this, uh, uh, Donald?

GS:      No, no, it's a friend of his.  Who's this?

N:       Is Donald there?

GS:      Uh, he's busy, what's up?

N:       OK, I just ... I'm just a neighbor, I just saw a police car go
         up, wanted to make sure everything is OK.

GS:      Oh, OK.

N:       Everything alright?

GS:      Uh, yeah, this is the Sheriff's Department.

N:       Oh OK.  Everything OK or what?

GS:      Uh, we were serving a search warrant on the property here.
N:       Uh, OK, I was just checking out...

GS:      Yeah...

N:       ... and seeing if everything was alright.

GS:      Yeah, he didn't call us, we were serving a search warrant.

N:       OK I'll talk to you later.

GS:      All right.

N:    Bye, bye.

 Third Conversation: Lt, Richard Dewitt (RD) to Capt, Larry
Waldie (LW)

Dial tone and dialing)

Recording:    We're sorry, it is not necessary to dial a 1 or
the area code when calling the number.  Please hang up and dial
again. (Dial tone)  

LW:      Larry Waldie.

RD:      Uh, Captain, Dewitt here.

LW:      Yeah!

RD:      I'm on a search warrant with the Hidden Hills crew on this
         marijuana eradication thing...

LW:      Yes...

RD:      And they just uh, looks like a 927D here.

LW:      At the location?

RD:      Yeah.

LW:      A dead body's there?

RD:      No, we put him down.

LW:      We killed him?

RD:      Yeah.

LW:      Uh, where you at?

RD:      Hold on a minute ... Harry do you have the address here?

Harry: Yeah,

?:       Hold on and I'll get it.

RD:      Apparently what happened, they did their knock and notice
         for quite awhile, came into the house, the guy was, uh,
         walking out of the back of the house...
         he has some kind of revolver, I don't know what kind it is,
         he's holding in his hand.  Told him, put it down... he kinda
         had it pointing up in the air originally... as he brought it
         down he was kinda pointing toward the deputy and I don't
         know which deputy it is night now. . .

?:      That's it.