New York Daily News

Screams spark 911 ‘Call of Duty’

- Kassidy Varva

This first-person experience became too real.

Cops were called to a Florida home after frightened neighbors reported sounds of gunfire and a woman screaming, “No, please don’t kill me.”

All it was, however, was a couple playing the videogame “Call of Duty.”

A resident at a mobile home community in Deland called 911 on Thursday after her sister heard yelling when she was outside smoking a cigarette, WKMG reported.

“Hi, I’m calling because I hear my neighbors fighting down the street from me and I’m a little bit concerned with what their saying," the caller said.

She told 911 she thought she heard a woman scream and say “No, please don’t kill me,” and a man ask, “Where did you take my gun?”

Authoritie­s went to the home where the yelling was heard — and found the “disturbanc­e” was a couple playing “Call of Duty” with their windows open.

A bodycam video from police at the house of the couple shows a woman confused, wondering why authoritie­s were at her house.

An officer questions the woman, asking if they were arguing or yelling earlier.

“Not us, we don’t argue. But we’re playing a video game,” the woman said, responding to the officer’s questions.

The “threatenin­g” words the caller may have overheard would have been in reference to the game, the couple told police.

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