Kyle Plush case: Body cam footage shows no sign police got out of car, checked other lots

The officers responding to Kyle's Plush pleading 911 call never got out of their cruiser and appeared to only search one of the three parking lots around his school, at least while their body-worn cameras were turned on.

And at one point an officer said, "I don't see nobody, which I didn't imagine I would."

As they responded to a call of unknown trouble at 3:15 p.m. on April 10 at Seven Hills School, Kyle was trapped in his van and having trouble breathing. He called 911 twice, but help never arrived. His father found his body hours later, when Kyle didn't come home.

In his first call to 911, which resulted in the officers being dispatched to the school, Kyle gave his location as "Seven Hills" and said he was "trapped in my van."

"I'm gonna die here," he told the 911 operator, Stephanie Magee.

Yelling and loud banging sounds can also be heard on the first call. Magee's supervisors would later say she should have conveyed that information to the officers on the scene.

The officers were at the school while Kyle was making his second call, though a 911 operator said she never heard it, police documents show. In the second call, Kyle described his van in more detail, saying it was a gold Honda Odyssey.

The footage, released Friday. showed Cincinnati Officers Edsel Osborne and Brian Brazile did not check all the school's parking lots. Police records show the officers were at the school for about 11 minutes, but the body camera footage only shows about 3 minutes of their search.

Music plays in the background and one of the officers also comments to the other, "These kids drive betters cars than you do."

The video was made public after requests by The Enquirer and other media outlets.

A police investigation into how police and 911 operators handled Kyle's calls is underway.

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After school that day, at 3:15 p.m. Kyle was getting tennis equipment out of the back of the 2004 Honda Odyssey when the third-row bench seat flipped over, pinning him under the seat.

In his first call to 911, Kyle said he was trapped in his car at Seven Hills School and an operator, five minutes later, dispatched Osborne and Brazile to the school, categorizing the call as unknown trouble.

Police Chief Eliot Isaac has said something went "terribly wrong" in the second call. A police review found that the system was working, but operator Amber Smith said she could not hear Kyle when he described the lot he was in, the color and model of his car and that he would die if he didn't get help soon.

"I probably don't have much time left, so tell my mom I love her if I die," he said.

As a result, the new information was not dispatched to the officers.

Kyle made the second call at 3:35 p.m., while officers were still at the school. No information was passed on to Osborne and Brazile and they left two minutes later, documents show.

Kyle suffocated under the weight of the seat, according to the Hamilton County Coroner's Office.

He wasn't found until approximately 9 p.m. by his father, who had reported him missing. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cincinnati Police Department's body camera policy requires officers to use their cameras to record all calls for service. The cameras are supposed to be turned on when an officer arrives at the scene of the call.

"The [camera] may be deactivated after... clearing the call for service," the policy states.

The footage seems to capture music playing in the cruiser. According to the department's manual of rules and regulations, officers "shall not play games, watch television or movies, or otherwise engage in entertainment while on duty, except as may be required in the performance of duty." It is unclear if this policy covers the music in cruisers.

It is unclear why reports show the officers on the scene for 11 minutes and the body cameras were only active for 3 minutes. The police department said it will not provide any comments on the incident until an internal investigation is concluded.

Osborne and Brazile have not been placed on administrative leave. The Enquirer has requested their personnel files.