Taunton, MA: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Twenty minutes.

Help didn't arrive at Taunton home for 20 minutes

TAUNTON, Mass. —New questions have been raised about the response time to a frantic 911 call during a fatal stabbing rampage in Taunton last week.

First responders failed to respond for nearly 20 minutes after a woman called 911 reporting that she and her mother had been stabbed inside their home.

Last Friday, someone called 911 to report a crash on Myricks Street. That crash then set off a chain of 911 calls that became incresingly alarming.

The 911 calls led to confusion as two women, Kathleen Slavin and her mother, Patricia Slavin, were inside their home suffering from stab wounds.

"A guy just came in and stabbed us. Me and my mother," Kathleen Slavin is heard saying. "I'm bleeding everywhere."

More and more calls for help were made, with most being put on hold as the system became flooded with calls for help.

The stabbing suspect, Arthur DaRosa, fled the Taunton home and made his way to a mall, where he began stabbing other people before he was shot and killed.

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