The caller
“911. What are you reporting?”
“I need to talk to a police officer. I got really beat up.”
“OK. Where are you?”
Brandy Sweeney sat in the lobby of Hope Place, a shelter for women and families at 3802 S. Othello St. in south Seattle. It was April 29, 2010, 11:31 p.m. She’d been physically assaulted by her boyfriend, Richard James Duncan, in an apartment three blocks away. ...