911 call released from Brooksville double murder

Amy Wilson could hear her co-worker's dying breaths as she sat on the ground with blood pouring out of her shoulder.

She could feel herself getting weaker as she lost more blood.

"I can't believe this guy came in and shot us," she told the 911 operator. "I don't know who he is."

Wilson, 33, was shot the afternoon of Jan. 14 along with three other women - Kathryn "Kitty" Donovan, 61, Deborah Tillotson, 59, and Manessa Donovan, 18. The older Donovan lay lifeless inside the house on Wilhelm Road.

Tillotson lay closer to the screen door clinging to life, Wilson said. Paramedics arrived minutes later, but she would be pronounced dead at the scene.

Manessa Donovan was pregnant. Wilson told the operator Donovan was shot multiple times and was crying.

"Manessa, stay calm, baby," Wilson said while on her cell phone.

John Kalisz, 55, was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Tillotson and Kitty Donovan.

Wilson later told detectives at the hospital that Kalisz said nothing as he stood over her and shot her point blank, said Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent.

Kalisz, 55, eluded capture and traveled three counties north into Cross City.

He noticed he was being followed by an unmarked vehicle and pulled into a gas station off U.S. 19 and opened fire, authorities said.

Kalisz was shot six times. Capt. Chad Reed of the Dixie County Sheriff's Office was fatally wounded.

Kalisz remains hospitalized and is expected to live.

"How exactly did this happen?" the 911 operator asked Wilson, who made the call shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday.

"A man came in the house and started shooting," she said. "I don't know who he is."

Wilson said she worked for Kitty Donovan at Sci\ART Global, a home-based business. She had started working there a week earlier.

Efforts to contact Wilson were unsuccessful Wednesday.

The 911 call lasted nearly eight minutes.

Wilson spoke clearly, sometimes forcefully throughout her communication with the 911 operator.

Twice she interrupted the conversation and screamed for help. She started panicking the longer she waited for ambulances to arrive.

"Oh my God," Wilson said at the start of the call. "Someone came in and started shooting and I don't know where I'm at ... I'm shot. I need help."

The house where the shootings took place is located close to the Winter Street intersection and Wilson told the operator she was at a house near Winter Drive.

She called out to Manessa Donovan and asked her the name of the street where the house was located, but she was unresponsive.

"I'm going to get someone to you, OK?" the operator told Wilson.

"Please help," Wilson screamed. "I'm shot."

She told the 911 operator she was shot in the arm and back. Later during the conversation she said she might have been shot in the stomach.

By the 90-second mark, Wilson gave a description of the gunman, a man she previously had not met.

He had gray hair and was wearing a baseball cap and a blue sweatshirt, she said.

When asked about the other women at the house, Wilson told the 911 operator Manessa Donovan was pregnant and was crying.

"Are you shot, Manessa?" she called out to her.

Wilson said she was outside when the gunman burst inside the house. She never went inside, but could hear Kitty Donovan screaming.

"Please hurry," she told the operator. "It's burning and there's a lot of blood coming out of it. I don't know what to do."

The operator asked Wilson whether anyone nearby had a towel or shirt she could use to stem the bleeding.

"No, we're all shot," she said. "No one can move."

Wilson was asked whether the shooter was still on the premises and she did not know.

"I'm sorry I don't mean to yell, but I'm bleeding and I'm hurt," she told the operator.

After she gave a more-precise location, she started to feel the effects of her wounds. The pool of blood around her was getting bigger.

"I'm not feeling good right now," Wilson said. "Please help."

"That's why we're going to stay on the phone together, OK?" the operator said.

"I feel like I'm getting sleepy," said Wilson.

She asked whether she should stand and try to move around, but the operator told her to stay still.

She assured the operator she could move her arms and legs.

Then Wilson's attention turned to Tillotson, who was still lying near the house.

"I hear Debbie," she said. "It sounds like she's trying to breathe on her own and I can't help her."

After nearly six minutes of speaking to the operator, Wilson could hear the sirens in the distance.

"I hear them. I hear them, Manessa," she yelled.

"I don't want to die," Wilson said.

"They're coming for you, OK?" the operator said.

"I don't want to die," she said.

"No," the operator said assuredly. "We're going to stay on together, OK? They're coming for you and they're trying to get there as fast as they can."

"It's taking too long," Wilson said. "I don't want to die in Brooksville."