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The Elgin Police Department is investigating whether its 911 operators and possibly police officers believed a call from a 19-year-old man who had been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car was a prank, Elgin police said Saturday.
Elgin Community College student David Steeves was found shot to death in the trunk of his mother's car in Rockford a week later.
Two men, Armin V. Henderson, 25, and Robert Guyton, 23, have been charged with 27 counts of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and armed robbery in his death.
Guyton and Henderson allegedly encountered Steeves on April 8 during a drug deal at a home in the 400 block of South Street in Elgin, police and prosecutors said. The suspects then allegedly robbed Steeves of $300, before forcing the teen in the trunk, police and prosecutors said.
Steeves made a frantic cell phone call to 911 shortly after 9 p.m., in which he told the operator he was locked in the trunk of a car and believed he was somewhere in Elgin.
A recording of the call released by police Friday indicates Steeves called twice, the first time telling the operator he was in his mother's 1997 Toyota Corolla, and pleading for police to come to South Street, before he was cut off.
When the operator called back, Steeves, sounding panicked, gave his name and said he was in the car's trunk, before the call was again disconnected.
In dispatching police to South Street, the operator told them: "Call taker thinks it could be a prank but isn't definite on it," according to the recording.
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