Victim’s 911 call didn’t bring police

UW student’s slaying raises issue of response to cell phones

Madison – Police said Thursday that a 911 call from a college student’s cell phone the day she was murdered should have triggered the dispatch of a police officer, but police weren’t notified of the call.

The existence of the April 2 call from Brittany Sue Zimmermann’s phone prompted questions about how local officials handle emergency calls from cell phones, as well as about the call itself.

Zimmermann, 21, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Marshfield, was killed in her downtown apartment and later found by her fiancé.