MINNEAPOLIS — We're learning more about a history of police calls to the home where a man was recently shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police.
Call logs obtained through a data request from KARE 11 to Brooklyn Center police shed light on a few more details from Saturday's shooting.
Mylan Masson, a former police officer and current police training consultant said responding officers may or may not have known whether 21-year-old Kobe Heisler was autistic.
"Keep in mind that this is just minimal, the log is minimal," Masson said. "If the caller calls and tells them, 'my grandson is autistic, I want you to know that' the dispatcher will ask, is there anything we need to know? And they'll send it out if they can."
However, the log of dispatch notes, referring to Saturday's domestic call involving a hammer and a knife does not address autism anywhere. A previous call made on May 28th, 2018 does refer to Heisler's autism, but a recent call from March of 2019 doesn't. The March call was for Heisler's stabbing himself and the notes show he has a history of suicide [attempts].
Also in Saturday's call log, it's shown Heisler's grandfather who made the call told dispatchers, "He's probably going to be okay, just forget it."
Masson said it's not difficult at all to reverse a 911 call.
"You can just cancel everybody," she said. "Because those officers were concerned, they probably continued on just to make sure or dispatch was concerned."
How officers react when they inevitably make it into situations like these is something the Autism Society of Minnesota is working to improve.
"Is this situation causing a sensory problem? How do we eliminate the sensory problem from that situation and bring them down?" AuSM's Jillian Nelson said. "Teaching officers about things that may increase that and a lot of individuals with autism don't like to be touched, or touched unexpectedly."
Masson said in the end, the log doesn't reveal much of what happened between arrival and shots fired. She said those answers may have to come from body cameras.
"So many people think that body cameras are going to solve the problem, they don't," Masson said. "They're just another tool."
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is continuing their investigation into this shooting. The Brooklyn Center police department said Friday that they will not comment while the investigation is ongoing and that they will not be making any decisions about policy before the BCA investigation is over.