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“Hey, how are you, this is medical,” Jonathan Majors tells the 911 dispatcher.
“It’s attempted suicide, I think.”
These are the Marvel star’s first, tension-filled words in a 911 call from March played for a jury by prosecutors on Tuesday at his misdemeanor domestic violence case in Manhattan.
“Penthouse D,” the “Kang the Conquerer” actor tells the dispatcher at the start of the four-minute call, giving the address of his triplex apartment in Manhattan’s expensive Chelsea neighborhood.
Two NYPD officers testified that they found no pill bottles or other drugs at the scene to support Majors’ fears that the ex-girlfriend, choreographer Grace Jabbari, had tried to take her life.
Prosecutors are trying to prove that Majors broke his ex-girlfriend’s finger and struck her head with his open hand late in the evening on March 24, during an incident that spilled out of their chauffeured car and onto the streets of Chinatown. He has denied the allegations.
The two went their separate ways after the fight that night. Majors, 34, contends Jabbari, 30, then injured herself after drinking for hours at a nightclub and then taking a fall while alone in his triplex apartment.
The star was not arrested by the NYPD until late morning on March 25, when, fearing from her overnight texts that she’d tried to kill herself, he rushed back from his hotel to his triplex, according to evidence from both sides.
The call that summoned first responders to his penthouse that morning would also lead to his arrest.
“D as in David,” the female dispatcher says at the start of the call, repeating Majors’ address and telling him a “crew” is already rushing his way.
Moments earlier, Majors had called a building staffer to break down his bedroom door, which he’d come home to find locked from the inside.
Jabbari was lying unconscious on the floor of the walk-in closet, according to defense court filings.
“Um, I stayed in a hotel last night,” he says later on in the call. “I came home this morning. I bang at the door. I’ve been at the apartment for about 40 minutes now.
“I bang at the door. I couldn’t get in. I finally went downstairs and asked the doorman to help us and they let me in via the handyman. She’s 30 years old, white female,” he adds of Jabbari.
When the dispatcher asks if she has a mental health history, Majors answers, “I would maybe say so. She has a history –”
The dispatcher interrupts.
“What’s her name?”
“Grace Caitlyn Mocasa Jabbari,” Majors answers.
Asked what she may have taken, he says, “No I don’t know. Because she was just unconscious on the floor.”
The dispatcher tells him, “No problem sir, and I’m gonna get you over to the EMS. Do not hang up, all right? They’re already en route, okay?”
Majors tells a male EMS worker who picks up the call next that Jabbari is not awake, but is breathing.
“What should I do? What should I do?” he asks. He’s told to make sure the doors are open for first responders.
“She didn’t fall and hit her head or anything that you know of,” the EMS man asks.
“I think I saw a cut behind her ear, um. Yeah,” Majors tells him, describing an injury that the prosecutors now say he caused.
He’s being told to keep an eye on Jabbari’s breathing when Majors says, “They just walked in.”
There is a garbled section of tape at the end of the call, during which Majors appears to speak to another person who’s not on the phone, telling them, “She’s unconscious. Can we just keep that confidential?”
The tape was played in the afternoon as prosecutors presented evidence of the police and EMS response to Majors’ apartment prior to his arrest.
Jabbari was taken to Bellevue Hospital to treat a cut behind her ear and a fractured finger and to have a psychological evaluation.
The defense is set to begin presenting its case Wednesday. They are expected to show jurors evidence of Majors’ cross-complaint against Jabbari, whom he counters took his possessions and was the aggressor in their fight.
Jabbari was arrested on his complaint, but the Manhattan District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute.
Anyone affected by abuse and in need of support can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233). Advocates are available 24/7 and can also be reached via live chat on thehotline.org or by texting “START” to 88788 or “LOVEIS” to 22522.
