Emergency contacts
When we encounter a crisis, it’s helpful to have more phone numbers at the ready than just 911.
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When Talisa Coombs called the police on November 7, she was hoping they could defuse a tense domestic situation.
She had gone to visit her son, Mitchell Holder, his partner, Maria Pike, and their 11-week-old daughter, Destinii, at their apartment in Independence, Missouri. Coombs was worried about Pike, who had a history of mental illness and was being treated for postpartum depression. According to Coombs, Pike attacked her when she arrived, so Coombs did what many other people might do: she called 911.
But about 20 minutes later, both Pike and her baby were dead, shot by one of the officers who arrived at the scene.
