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Florida Police Release 9-1-1 Calls From Deadly UPS Truck Shooting

Florida police released the 9-1-1 calls from last week's deadly shooting on a Florida highway.

Florida police released the 9-1-1 calls from last week's deadly shooting on a Florida highway.
Florida police released the 9-1-1 calls from last week's deadly shooting on a Florida highway. (Via Miramar Police Department)

MIRAMAR, FL — Florida police on Thursday released the 9-1-1 calls from last week's deadly shooting on a Florida highway.

Twenty-seven-year-old Frank Ordonez, the UPS driver, was killed in a hail of gunfire along with the two men who took him hostage and an innocent bystander when officers opened fire on the hijacked UPS truck. See also Police Shootout On Busy Highway Leaves 4 Dead and UPS Drivers Honor Fallen South Florida Brother In Brown

The 9-1-1 calls describe harrowing near misses as bullets struck cars and trucks along Miramar Parkway, east of Flamingo Road in Broward County.

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"I didn’t hear them. I didn’t see them. I am inside of a business and my coworkers are running," explained a female caller from a nearby business. "I locked my suite and I’m in the dark."

A male caller told police his wife was stuck inside a hair salon.

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"My wife was in there getting her hair done when they started shooting," the man explained. "The shooting was real close so she whispered to my sister to call me, to call the police because I guess she was afraid in case the shooter was coming in."

Another man was thankful that his young daughter wasn't riding with him in his white Dodge Ram pickup truck.

"I was right in front of the UPS truck when the shooting happened," he explained. "I got two bullets go all the way through my truck."

A female caller was also lucky.

"My car was the car that ended up right next to the UPS driver. Shots started getting fired and I was able to wiggle my way out of that situation," she told a police dispatcher. "But now, hours later, I’m at home and I just discovered I think that I have bullet ... holes on my car. "

Listen to the 9-1-1 calls below courtesy of the Miramar Police Department:

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