911 Calls

In one of the biggest news stories of the year, Amanda Berry was rescued this week in Cleveland, Ohio, 10 YEARS after she vanished on her way to work.

Now 27, she and two other women - Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, also missing since 2002-04 but abducted in separate incidents - were found alive and together.

They were found after Amanda Berry's cries for help caught the attention of a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, who helped her escape the home of Ariel Castro.

These are the 911 calls placed by Berry and Ramsey:

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  Amanda Berry 911 Call
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  Charles Ramsey 911 Call

The 911 call made by Amanda Berry, interestingly, is under review after possible procedural errors by the dispatcher, according to public safety officials.

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The 911 call placed by a man who discovered the corpses of Shain Gandee, his uncle and an unidentified third woman on Monday morning in the woods of West Virginia has been released.

And, as you might expect, it's very sad stuff.

Shain Gandee 911 Call

"Oh Jesus, they're dead," the caller tells the operator of finding Gandee inside a truck submerged in mud. "Oh my God."

An autopsy has confirmed that Shain Gandee died of carbon monoxide poisoning, while a public service will be held for this Buckwild star on Sunday.

It will be paid for by the production company behind the MTV series.

Chris Brown got on the phone with a 911 dispatcher moments after he totaled his Porsche in a paparazzi chase last month, and gave his full name.

A witness to the Chris Brown car crash called 911 after his car careened into a wall in Beverly Hills. The operator then wanted to speak to Brown.

Chris Brown 911 Call, Car Crash Style

He explained how the paparazzi had been chasing him in other vehicles and "blocked me off and stopped so I had to swerve," leading to the crash.

Asked for his name, he gave "Christopher." Asked for a last name, he said "Brown." Very formal. The R&B star was not hurt during the incident, luckily.

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A newly-revealed 911 call sheds new light on the fight between U.S. soccer star Hope Solo and then-fiance Jerramy Stevens on the night before their wedding.

The November 13 melee resulted in the arrest of former NFL player Stevens, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence after the fact.

Shortly after his release from jail, the couple married.

They had been dating only two months at the time.

Hope Solo 911 Call

The Hope Solo 911 call was placed by Marcus Solo, her brother. He asked that officers respond to her home, where a pre-wedding party took a violent turn.

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The woman who called 911 to report that Rick Ross was being shot at was apparently pretty scared, which is understandable, given the stray bullets and all.

In fact, the Rick Ross 911 call is decidedly shorter than most because she hung up in mid-call, fearing the gunmen were turning around to fire again.

Rick Ross 911 Call

The call (and Rick Ross shooting) took place early Monday morning from a restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The rapper tried to flee in his Rolls-Royce.

A woman inside of a nearby restaurant called 911 in a panic and reported amid the gunfire, "I just heard a bunch of gunshots go off ... and a car sped by."

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Shannen Doherty placed a 911 call from her home in Los Angeles to Westhampton, N.J., last month in the hopes of helping a possibly suicidal fan on Twitter.

Doherty acknowledged right away the bizarre nature of her 911 call:

Shannen Doherty 911 Call

"This is going to sound incredibly strange," Doherty said. "My name is Shannon Doherty, and I'm an actress and there is a girl who is threatening to shoot herself."

Doherty explained to the dispatcher that "sadly" she is on Twitter, where one of her fans, an unnamed 27-year-old woman, had sent her direct, suicidal messages.

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The frantic 911 call placed by Jovan Belcher's mother after the NFL player's girlfriend was shot Saturday has been released, and is not for the faint of heart.

Belcher's mother begged her son's dying girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, to stay alive while pleading for an ambulance shortly after the athlete shot her.

Jovan Belcher 911 Call

"She's still breathing but please hurry," a distraught Cheryl Shepherd says on the recording of her 911 call with Kansas City emergency dispatchers.

"I don't know how he (inaudible), they were arguing, please hurry."

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Chamique Holdsclaw, the ex-WNBA and University of Tennessee basketball star, is currently free on bail, following her arrest this week for allegedly firing a gun at ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lacy.

But new, disturbing information has leaked out regarding the incident, courtesy of a 911 call placed by a friend of Lacy's, who was in the vehicle when the Holdsclaw confrontation took place.

This friend describes Holdsclaw as "mentally unstable."

She goes on to tell the operator that the former Rookie of the Year poured gasoline all over Lacy's Range Rover, presumably to set it on fire. She specifically says that Holdsclaw attempted to "destroy" the car.

Holdsclaw fled the scene before she could do so and before authorities arrived. She then turned herself in and is clearly in major trouble.

Question: If you were concerned about the legal implications of growing pot in your house, which you were already doing, would you call the authorities?

This dude did in perhaps the greatest 911 call of all time.

Dude Calls 911 With Pot Question

This recording isn't new, but is making the online rounds again this week, and for good reason. The dispatcher's questions and his responses are amazing.

What is your location? "Let's not get into that yet." Is the situation life threatening or an active crime in progress? "Crime in progress, possibly."

Combined with the police officer's interview at the end, this is one of the better local news videos you'll see. Well done, Robert. Well. Done.

Chad Johnson and Evelyn Lozada's Miami neighbor called 911 shortly after their nuclear argument Saturday, urging the dispatcher to "keep it quiet" and "not make a big scene" because of the football star's high profile.

He does not identify Johnson (until recently Chad Ochocinco) by name.

The caller said Evelyn Lozada fled to his home, right next door, after getting into a "little domestic dispute" with her husband. Listen below:

Chad Johnson 911 Call

“She is probably gonna need stiches,” the caller says, asking for police assistance but preferably on the DL. "We don’t need the news here."

“I don’t want him to come in here and get mad at me,” he says, adding, “We don’t know if he’s home, or looking for her, or calmed down.”

Evelyn Lozada can be heard in the background saying “he head-butted me," while the neighbor is concerned Chad is out looking for her.

Johnson was arrested for domestic violence Saturday after allegedly grabbing his wife, the star of VH1's Basketball Wives, and head-butting her.

The couple, who wed July 4, reportedly got into a huge fight after Lozada discovered a receipt for condoms in their car, police said.

In a statement earlier today, Lozada slammed her husband’s claims that she actually head-butted him, and told him to seek help:

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