DALLAS — About 40 minutes after leaving her grandmother's house last March, D'Lisa Kelley made an apparently accidental call to her sister.

"All she could hear was Lisa screaming," Kelley's grandmother, Marjurita Kelley, told a Dallas police 911 call-taker. "'Stop! Stop!' And somebody was hitting her and telling her — it was a male voice — telling her to 'Shut up! Shut up!' And we haven't heard from her since. She was pleading for her life. She said that was the kind of scream she heard."

The grandmother begged for help. "We don't know who has her, and so I don't know what to do," she told the 911 operator. "We can't get her on her cell phone. She's not responding to any messages. It's going straight to voicemail."

But Dallas police chose not to send help that night. Her family said the delay led to the young woman's death.

Newly-released police recordings — including the 911 call — don't answer the question of whether D'Lisa Kelley's life could have been saved. They do, however, shed new light on a police supervisor's decision not to send officers to investigate her disappearance.

"The family is very distraught," said Dominique Alexander, a family spokesman. "His whole demeanor was just disrespectful."

In the March 7 recording, Marjurita Kelley calls 911 and says that D'Lisa is missing, and also pregnant.

The call-taker tells her she's sending the police. Before doing so, the operator checks with her supervisor, police Sgt. Kevin Mansell.


03 2.Operator Called Sergeant( D'Lisa Kelley)

Family members of murder victim D'Lisa Kelley want more answers ... grandmother, Marjurita Kelley, told a Dallas police 911 call-taker. ... Before doing so, the operator checks with her supervisor, police Sgt. Kevin Mansell.

03 2.Operator Called Sergeant( D'Lisa Kelley)

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