Woman Makes Suicidal Statements Armed With Knife at Apartment, Hull MA


Police and fire units responded to an apartment near Nantasket Ave for a woman experiencing a severe mental health crisis. She made suicidal statements saying others told her to kill herself and said she had a knife. Officers attempted contact and sought a key to the locked door to check on her safety.
Audio|Source: Hull Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
Okay, near Nantasket Ave. Have apartment 5.
00:02
Call, a request and a well-being check on her friend, (name withheld).
00:06
Spoke to her multiple times this morning.
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She's having a change of mental status.
00:11
She's saying that everyone's telling me to kill myself, maybe I should.
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I have a knife next to me, and my phone is tapped.
00:25
Seven has that as well.
00:29
Four five, six has that all that that way.
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Let me see.
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Turn a full five, seven.
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Seven's on.
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Okay,
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five is stationed, but we're not sure if the address, this is where they think she lives.
00:51
What's the unit number again?
00:54
Number five, near Nantasket Ave number five.
00:58
The reason, thank you.
01:04
Four or five seven hall control.
01:07
What was that communication? Did that just happen where this person states that that mic right, excellent?
01:15
She's been speaking to her all morning.
01:18
Friend is in South Carolina. She'll ask her to her 10 minutes ago.
01:22
Unsure if this female is home and unsure of this address. All fire, Mr. Sotching. C-3 Engine 1,
01:33
Rescue 2, near Nantasket Ave, T-3, Engine 1, Rescue 2, near Nantasket Ave. Stayed. Next, ma'am.
01:45
Received, if you could,
01:46
we could get that person's number. Let's start a ping on them, please.
01:52
Okay, she could be at her father's home in Plymouth also. Four or five, seven has that.
02:08
Fireland, man, stand engine one.
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LV, NJ1 Rescue 2 only.
02:17
NJ1 Rescue 2 only, call Fireland has a... NJ1 Rescue 2-1 Responding, near Nantasket Ave, stage for PD.
02:25
922.
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All, NJ1 has near Nantasket Ave, stage,
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for PD.
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five a you can tell me out
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six
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five six though five six though
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drove on
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I'm out to.
03:00
Rescue 2's on for near Nantasket Ave.
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Rescue 2, you're out of responding.
03:07
Near Nantasket Ave.9 out. I'm out of 23.
03:17
5-7 hall control.
03:18
Can you run an R8 on this party? See what's have a car they have registered to them.
03:22
If you have any in-house records, if we could see the car around the apartment, that'd be helpful for us.
03:46
457 of 458.
03:49
I just want to be prepared in case we ever have to make entry. Tom, are those inward opening doors or outward opening doors?
03:55
Inward.
03:57
The research.
04:04
The door is locked.
04:05
I think we get fired to get a key to it.
04:12
2457.
04:15
All right, I'm all engine one. All right, I'm answering engine one.
04:22
Engine one's going out, near Nantasket Ave to have staging for PD.
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Engine one, you're going to be on scene staging for PD.
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Be advised they are finding that the door is locked,
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inquiring as to if you possibly have a key for the apartment building.
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See,
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I'm by, I'll check the Knoxbox.
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Location mentioned:
Near Nantasket Ave, Hull, MA 02045
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