“Colorado woman shot dead while on phone with 911 for 13 minutes”

A Denver woman called 911 when her husband began to hallucinate and speak of "the end of the world.” For 13 minutes, the wife spoke of fear -- for herself, their three scared children, her husband. Richard Kirk wanted his wife to shoot him, she told 911. She screamed when he went to the family safe and grabbed a gun. The 911 operator heard what sounded like a gunshot. The wife went silent on the 911 call. Responding police found her dead Monday in the family home with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Kirk admitted that he killed his wife -- "without questioning," a police document says. Those harrowing events, provided by authorities, are now being investigated by Denver police, who are looking at how 911 handled the 13- minute emergency call and whether Kirk was using marijuana or another drug, authorities said Wednesday.

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