Just before 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 17, 2023, Jordan Kim woke inside the Florida Keys home he shared with Tyler Nulish and Brittany Hullbrook. Something was terribly wrong. Brittany was calling for help, Tyler was on the floor, and there was a large amount of blood around him. Within minutes, Jordan would be on the phone with 911 while Brittany tried to keep her boyfriend alive.
The emergency dispatcher immediately began trying to understand what had happened. Jordan said his roommate was badly hurt and that there was a great deal of blood on the floor. When the dispatcher asked how Tyler had been injured, Jordan struggled to answer because he had only just been awakened and had not witnessed whatever happened before Brittany called for him.
“There was an argument. I just got woken up,” Jordan explained. “I just know I need some help, please.”
The dispatcher pressed him for more detail. Had Tyler cut himself? Had someone hurt him? Was he conscious and breathing? Jordan said Tyler was drifting in and out of consciousness, and when the dispatcher asked where the bleeding was coming from, Brittany could be heard answering that the injury was in Tyler’s back.
“Do you see any weapons?” the dispatcher asked.
“No,” came the answer at that moment.
Police officers and emergency crews were sent toward the house. Tyler’s condition sounded critical, and the responders knew that whatever had happened was still unclear. They needed to save him first, but they also had to identify whether anyone else in the house was in danger and whether a weapon was still nearby.
The 911 call itself showed how little Jordan understood in those first minutes. When the dispatcher initially asked whether Tyler had cut himself, Jordan's response came out confused and contradictory because he was trying to answer while looking at a badly wounded man. He quickly corrected the idea that Tyler had simply cut himself and repeatedly asked for help. The dispatcher kept returning to the same essential questions: what caused the bleeding, whether Tyler was conscious, where the wound was, and whether a weapon was visible.
Jordan could not give a coherent explanation because he had not seen the incident. He only knew that Tyler was fading in and out and that Brittany was identifying the injury as being in his back. The urgency in Jordan's voice was not about assigning blame; it was about getting medics there as fast as possible.
The dispatcher did not accept vague answers because responders needed to know what they were entering. Jordan was asked again whether Tyler had hurt himself, whether another person had cut him, and whether anyone in the home had a weapon. The answers came in fragments because Jordan was simultaneously watching Tyler and trying to understand what Brittany was saying. The only consistent fact was that Tyler was critically injured and the bleeding appeared to be coming from his back.
That uncertainty carried over to the first officers. Jordan told them he had been asleep and could not explain the beginning of the incident. He did not try to invent a theory. Each time the officers asked what he heard before Brittany called his name, Jordan returned to the same answer: no clear argument, no gunshot, and nothing that told him why Tyler was on the floor.
When deputies arrived, Jordan met them and tried to explain what he knew. He said he had been sleeping and was awakened shortly before the call. At first, he estimated it may have been fifteen or thirty minutes earlier, then corrected himself and said everything had happened so quickly that it may have been closer to ten minutes.
“I heard a scream,” Jordan told an officer.
“Who woke you up?”
“My roommate’s girlfriend.”
Jordan explained that Brittany had come down the hallway calling, “Jordan, please help.” When he came out, Tyler was already down and bleeding heavily from somewhere in his back. Jordan had not heard a gunshot, a fight, or any other noise that explained how Tyler had been injured.
Jordan Kim worked as a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico, fishing for grouper and snapper. His work often kept him at sea for long stretches, and he had returned a couple of days early from a trip. That evening, he had spent time downstairs with Tyler and Brittany on the patio beneath the elevated Florida Keys home.
Inside, the scene was chaotic. Emergency workers moved quickly to Tyler while Brittany stayed close to him, her hands covered in his blood as she tried to hold pressure on the wound. Their dogs were agitated and crying from another room where they had been kept out of the responders’ way.
“Come on. Come on. It’s bad,” someone said as the team worked around Tyler.
Officers also began looking for any immediate threat. Jordan mentioned that he knew there was at least one pistol in the home. He had seen a handgun on the floor when he came out of his room, although he had not connected it to the injury because he believed he would have heard a shot.
Jordan said the pistol was lying in the living area, not in the hallway itself. He knew Tyler owned a firearm and believed Brittany did as well. Officers were careful around the weapon and the surrounding area, treating it as potential evidence while medical personnel concentrated on Tyler.