The Dantzler chronology of July 7, 2011

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The detail of events released by the Grand Rapids Police Department Tuesday reveals the chronology of July 7, the day Rodrick Dantzler killed seven people, led police on a high speed chase, then held three hostages before killing himself.

A timeline of events:

2:30 p.m . -- "911, what is your emergency?"

"We have an emergency. We have an employee at Metro Health hospital whose son we believe has killed his wife and possibly somebody else."

That led to Rodrick Dantzler's home in Grand Rapids, but it was the wrong location. Next, they went to a home on Brynell, where a friend of Dantzler's estranged wife called 911.

"I need a cop sent out...Her husband may have killed her and her daughter."

That's where police discovered Dantzler's wife, Jennifer Heeren, their 12-year-old daughter Kamrie, and Jennifer's parents.

Dantzler's wife left him three days earlier and was living with her parents, but had tried hiding from him. She knew he wanted to kill her, and she was parking her car at different places.

Police revealed a suicide note that, at least in part, explained his motive. He apparently wanted to kill his mother-in-law for coming between Jennifer and him. But there was no explanation of why he killed his daughter or three members of the Emkens family at a home on Plainfield.

Police also revealed he had a lot of cocaine in his system.

3:17 p.m. -- Call to 911: "I"m at 2046 Plainfield...I've got three people. My two daughters and my granddaughter...I don't know (what happened.) I just came home from work."

Nearly four hours later, around 7 p.m. , April Swanson called 911:

"The guy who's doing all the shootings is behind me. He's a friend of mine. I know him. He's following me right now...The white truck's behind me. He's very crazy looking. He's just out of his mind."

Inside that SUV with Dantzler was Willie Cunningham, who initially knew nothing about the deaths. As police closed in, Cunningham jumped from the vehicle and Dantzler then got behind the wheel and took off.

The chase moved into the heart of downtown Grand Rapids. As police closed in, and one rammed the SUV with Dantzler inside, gunfire erupted.

"He just shot me," Swanson yelled on her 911 call. "He just shot me. Oh, my God. He just shot me."

Police said four officers traded shots with Dantzler during the 12-minute chase before Dantzler abandoned the SUV and ran to a home.

Dispatchers: "Northbound behind the house; he's at the first residence, he's on the front porch and going inside the first residence."

Then, Dantzler called 911:

911: 911, What's your emergency?

Dantzler: My emergency is I have a hostage and I don't want police barking orders at me.

911: You don't like police barking orders at you? Where are you?

Dantzler: You know where the f--- I'm at.

911: No actually I don't. Because you are calling from a cell phone, so I don't know where you are at.

Dantzler: I'm where the f------ hostages is at.

911: Which is where?

Dantzler: I've got all the police in Grand Rapids, you know where the f--- I'm at. I don't give a f--- about killing nobody, I'm already dead. So if you don't start doing what the f--- I say I'm going to kill another mother f-----.

Four hours after taking three hostages and with SWAT team members inside the home, Dantzler took his life with a single, self-inflicted gunshot.

None of the hostages was hurt.