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Victim Made Seven 911 Calls Before Mass Murder

Belanger, Others Reportedly Targeted Over Xbox

POSTED: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
UPDATED: 8:22 am EDT August 11, 2004

Investigators in Volusia County, Fla., released seven 911 calls Tuesday made from one of the six victims of the Deltona mass murder, according to Local 6 News.

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Local 6 News reported that just days before Erin Belanger was beaten to death, she called authorities to report squatters in her grandparents' private home.

Accused killer and ringleader of Friday's mass murder, Troy Victorino was reportedly one of several men living on property. The group refused to leave until police arrived, Local 6 News reported.

"For like a month now, I guess people have been living inside her (grandmother's) breezeway," Belanger is heard one on the 911 calls released Tuesday. "They broke into her breezeway."

After the call, deputies showed up and forced the group of men out of the house.

"A DVD player is missing from my grandmother's house, (a) radio, and I don't know what else," Belanger said in another call just days before the murders.

She reported people had barged into her home on Telford Lane and wouldn't leave, according to the report.

During the phone call, Belanger does not mention Victorino by name but friends told Local 6 News that he had threatened her.

  • Troy Victorino.

    Victorino reportedly targeted Belanger and five others because she removed his Xbox video game from the house he was unauthorized to live in, Local 6 News reported.

    Dispatchers also fielded calls from neighbors and a homeowner in Maine reporting squatters, Local 6 News reported.

    Deputies were unaware that the seven phone calls would be followed by the mass murders, according to the report.

    Investigators continued to collect new evidence Tuesday from the home where Victorino was arrested.

    Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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