A judge is ordering the city of Orlando to release audio recordings of the Pulse nightclub gunman talking to police dispatchers and negotiators. But she won’t rule on releasing other 911 calls until she has listened to them.
Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber on Monday ordered that calls made by shooter Omar Mateen during the June massacre be made public immediately.
The city previously released a transcript of the calls.
But Schreiber says she can’t make a decision on whether 232 other calls can be released until she has heard them.
Media groups want the calls released so the public can evaluate the police response to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The city of Orlando says the calls depict suffering and shouldn’t be made public.
Many of the half dozen family members and their representatives who testified Monday in an Orlando courtroom say they want more information about the shootings that left 49 people dead at Pulse Nightclub on June 12.
The FBI has offered no indication of when the probe into the shooting that also left 53 people wounded will be done.
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