VICTORIA -
A coroner's jury heard detailed account Wednesday of the increasingly grim and grisly communication between police and 911 officials responding to a call at a suburban Victoria home where a family was murdered.
Jurors heard a tape recording of an emergency dispatcher tell police the 911 call "made my skin crawl.''
She said the call was from a female crying and screaming in Korean as she tried to dictate her address.
The dispatcher told police she could hear noise in the background, then the woman screaming hysterically before the line went dead.
Jurors heard operators tried more than a dozen times to re-establish telephone contact with the home, but could only get an answering machine.
The actual 911 call from the home was not played at the inquest.
Sunny Park, her six-year-old son and her parents were found stabbed to death in their Oak Bay home on Sept. 4, 2007.
Her husband, Peter Lee, was also found dead and the coroner's service concluded he stabbed his family before killing himself.
The emergency call came in to Victoria Police at 3:06 a.m., and was rerouted to Saanich Police who handle emergencies for Oak Bay.
The inquest has heard the Victoria area is supervised by numerous police departments and overlap is an issue at times.
Victoria Police Det. Michelle Robertson said she amalgamated all the communication between the three Victoria-area police departments who responded to the 911 call into a written and audio timeline of the initial emergency actions.
The inquest heard that two Oak Bay police officers arrived at the house at 3:13 a.m., eight minutes after the call, but didn't enter, preferring to wait for backup.
At 3:22 a.m. an Oak Bay officer radioed that he'd found a broken window at the rear of the home and could see a body.
"It looks like they're injured,'' the officer said in the audio recording.
Saanich officer Sgt. Chris Horsley said he was moments away from the home.
He called for the canine unit and said: "Mr. Lee has done something bad.''
At 3:32 a.m., Horsley was heard reporting he had found a broken window and two wet, muddy footprints on a bed sheet under the window indicating somebody has entered the home.
He then found two bodies.
"We have two down. We need the (ambulance) in.''
Horsley also reported the officers had discovered a barricaded room. He said he couldn't get the door open and it appeared to have something to do with the 911 call.
"Look at the amount of blood on this door,'' Horsley said on the tape. "I'd say we've got someone inside.''
"It just reeks of propane,'' he said, as he managed to get the door open a crack.
"It's not looking good.''
Lee, his wife, and son were found later inside the barricaded bedroom.
