Newly released 911 recordings reveal the growing alarm that led to the tragic discovery of an 11-year-old cheerleader and her mother dead inside a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this year.

Addilyn Smith, a young cheerleader from Utah, had traveled to Las Vegas with her mother, 34-year-old Tawnia McGeehan, for a cheerleading competition scheduled for Feb. 15. But when Addilyn failed to show up for the event that morning, concern quickly began to spread among those expecting her.

According to recordings obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, both Addilyn’s father and her cheer coach called 911 asking police to perform a welfare check after they were unable to reach the mother and daughter.

In one of the calls, Addilyn’s father told dispatchers he had grown increasingly worried after repeated attempts to contact them went unanswered.

“I’m trying to figure out where my daughter and her mom is,” he said during the call. “They were supposed to be at a dance competition this morning. They didn’t show up. People went to their hotel room, they’re not answering the door.”

He explained that messages sent to the pair had not even been read.

“They’re not answering messages or even seeing the messages,” he told the dispatcher, adding that the situation seemed “very strange.”

When asked whether there had been any recent issues involving McGeehan, the father said there had been no indication anything was wrong.

“I talked to her yesterday and my daughter and everything seemed just fine,” he said. “She was at her practice yesterday.”

The pair had divorced in 2017, according to court records previously cited by KUTV.

Around the same time, Addilyn’s cheer coach also contacted authorities, concerned that the young athlete had not arrived at the competition. In a later call, the coach warned dispatchers that Addilyn “possibly is in imminent danger,” according to the recordings.

Police initially responded to the hotel after the first request for a welfare check and knocked on the door of the room where McGeehan and Addilyn were believed to be staying.

However, officers did not receive a response and ultimately decided not to force entry.

According to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers cleared the call because there was no indication at the time that either person inside the room was in danger.

“Based on the details at the time, there was no belief that either was in danger,” police said.

Later that afternoon, after additional calls raised further concern, hotel security staff entered the room.

Inside, they made the grim discovery.

Both Addilyn and McGeehan were found dead.

Investigators later determined that McGeehan had fatally shot her daughter before turning the gun on herself, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Authorities have not publicly identified a motive behind the tragedy.

Court records cited by KUTV show that McGeehan temporarily lost custody of Addilyn in 2020 after a judge ruled that parental alienation had occurred. However, a modified decree issued in 2024 granted both parents joint legal and physical custody.

It remains unclear what circumstances or events may have led to the deadly incident inside the hotel room.