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An Erie County, New York, 911 dispatcher could be fired after an employee at the Tops supermarket said the dispatcher hung up on her during Saturday's attack that killed 10 people.

that the dispatcher"was yelling at me" during those terrifying moments when the shooter was firing in the store.

"You don't have to whisper," Rogers said the dispatcher told her as she tried to stay quiet so the gunman wouldn't find her."And I was telling her, 'Ma'am he's still in the store. He's shooting,'" according to the paper's account. The county will seek the dispatcher's termination following a review of the 911 call, a spokesman for the Erie County Executive's Office told ABC News.Latisha Rogers, right, a clerk at Tops market who called 911 when when a gunman opened fire at the store, is consoled during services at True Bethel Baptist Church on May 15, 2022 in Buffalo, N.Y.

The spokesman, Peter Anderson, said dispatching officers to the scene was unaffected by the actions. Police have said officers arrived a minute after the shooting began.

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