oo a oo this morning we are hearing the 911 call that may have stopped the massacre at the university. my roommate pulled the fire alarm and he has a gun out. he s there with some sort of large assault gun. that call was made by avakani. he was plotting to kill fellow students and pulled the alarm to lure them into the hallway. he opened his door and came face to face with the gun. just direct eye contact. he pointed it at me hesitated and possibly had a change of heart. police arrived minutes later and found him dead in his room along with a written plan of
listen to that phone call. the fire alarm went off. i opened the door to see what was going on and he s there with, like, some sort of like, gun. like a large assault gun. i don t know if it s a real gun. i don t know what it is but i just saw it and i slammed my door shut and locked it. all right. are you in your room now? secured in your room? yeah. yes. i m in the bathroom right now. all right. don t hang up. i m going to put you on hold for a second and i m going to call ucf. hold on a minute. all right? okay. reporter: he barricaded himself in the bathroom of his dorm room. and you can tell how loud it was inside the dormitory as all of that was going on. i asked the police chief if he had heard any gunshots and the roommate said that he had heard a pop and supposedly that must have been the time that the suspect committed that self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. erin? let me ask you. the police say that the suspect had a checklist.
starts blaring inside this dormitory at the university of central florida campus. arabo bobcomi calls 911 and a looked out to find his roommate pointing a gun right at him. my roommate just pulled a fire alarm and he s got a gun out. all right. where are you at? i m in the university of central florida in orlando. the fire alarm went off. i opened the door to see what was going on and he s there with, like, some sort of, like, gun, like, large assault gun. i don t know if it s a real gun. i don t know what it is. but i just saw it and i slammed my door shut and locked it. all right. are you in your room now? secured in your room? yeah. yes. i m in the bathroom. reporter: when campus police arrived at the scene they make their way to the gunman s dorm room. this might be disturbing for some to watch. police find 30-year-old james oliver sibokamaran lying dead on the floor from a self-inflicted
life this week before anything else could happen. and now we re hearing from that student s roommate, a roommate who called 9-1-1 for help. ed lavandera has more. reporter: the fire alarm is blaring as a the roommate and would-be killer james oliver seevakumaran has just pulled a gun. my roommate just pulled a fire alarm and he s got a gun out. all right, where are you at? i opened the door and he s there with sort of like some assault gun. i don t know if it s a real gun. i don t know what it is, but i just saw it and i slammed my door shut and locked it. all right. are you in your room now? secured in your room? yeah. yes, i m in the bathroom. i was definitely scared, but i
moment, once we get him on the phone for sure. and also, governor hickenlooper, the governor of colorado, is expected to hold a news conference any minute now. when governor hickenlooper begins speaking, we ll take you to colorado live. we re also learning more about a potential massacre averted. we ve now got tape of the 911 call placed by the roommate of a university of central florida student who apparently amassed an arsenal in his dorm room. it was just after midnight on monday when this man walked in on his roommate and almost became james oliver martin s first victim. he just pulled a fire alarm and he s got a gun out. where are you at? i m in the university of central florida of orlando. the fire alarm went off. i opened the door to see what was going on, and he s there with some sort of like gun like large assault gun. i don t know if it s a real gun. i don t know what it is, but i just saw it and i slammed my door shut and locked it.