911 Calls Reveal Panic During Florida Rampage

Dozens of calls came into the Alachua County 911 center during Monday's 13-minute shooting spree. One of those calls was from a victim.


GAINESVILLE, Fla. --

As Clifford Miller Jr. drove through his neighborhood shooting people he knew, dozens of 911 calls began flooding into dispatchers at the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

The first 911 call came in at 4:03 p.m.

"I need an ambulance; I've been shot," one caller tells the dispatcher. "Please hurry up."

Another caller said, "He just pulled up started shooting."

One caller is asked, "Where is the person with the gun?" The caller replied: "The red truck is speeding off now."

Audio: Hear The 911 Calls

Thirteen minutes later, a call came in saying a man had just shot himself in their driveway.

"There's a car in my driveway, a truck in my driveway, and somebody is dead in it," the caller said.

Later Monday night, police identified that person as Miller.

Gainesville police said Miller used a .38-caliber revolver, firing the shots from his pickup truck. They said he would have had to reload at least once during the shooting spree.

Miller was found dead in that pickup in eastern Alachua County, in the driveway of Fredrick Wilson.

"I believe he came here so I can identify his body and notify his family, said Wilson. "He was crying out for help for a long time, and it's like that was it. He had reached the end of his rope."

Court records and family members explain that Miller had an extensive arrest history and mental illness.

He was on a court-ordered, pre-trial release for an April arrest, but documents show he had not been complying with the conditions of his release.

According to the document filed with the court last Thursday, Miller had no contact with his father since his father escorted him to court services, he had not stayed in touch with his pretrial release officer and had not seen a therapist since July.

"I kind of blame Alachua County and the city of Gainesville for it to wind up at my door the way it did," Wilson told Channel 4 on Tuesday.

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