For those who live through them, the 911 calls are not something you want to revisit.Sarah Myron’s life changed recently, in the worst possible way. On Friday, May 21, her husband Allen, a Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy, shot and killed her mother and father before turning the gun on himself.Minutes after the shootings, Sarah, who was in a hospital room tending to one of her daughters, got a text from her son saying something bad had happened. So she called 911 to find out what.I’m not going to embed the audio clip. If you want to listen to it for yourself, you can go here. But I am going to say why I think The Seattle TImes was wrong for making it public.We try to avoid first-person whenever possible here at Daily Weekly. But it would be disingenuous of me to claim I don’t have a dog in this fight.I got the call once too. Nothing like the call Sarah got — my scar may be gnarly, but her battle wound wins the argument, hands down — but ballpark enough to know it’s not something you want to hear again, nor let anyone else listen in on.The Times has its prerogative. It’s a paper of record, engaged daily in the dirty business of finding out what happened to whom and, hey, is there any way we can get audio? Or, better yet, did someone have a camcorder rolling while it happened?I understand these impulses. And I usually defend them to those who, over a beer or three, would tar my chosen profession as composed of nothing more than prurient voyeurs, gaping as the body gets wheeled away. (Even if they’ve got a point.)But not this time. Sarah got the text. I got the call. And just like her, I imagine, I think it’s the last thing you’d ever want to make the news, much less be it.
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