Newly released 911 audio reveals the terrifying moment a 7-year-old Ohio girl begged her armed father not to kill her during a standoff with police, telling him, “I don’t want to go to heaven today. ”
Oaklyn Alexander was abducted from her grandmother’s home in Jefferson County, eastern Ohio, on Nov. 11 by her non-custodial father, Charles Ryan Alexander, 43.
An Amber Alert was issued, leading to police pursuit after he fled with his young daughter. the Medina County Sheriff’s Office said.
Ultimately the police deflate Alexander’s tires and force him to engage in combat with the police in the parking lot.
hair-raising audio Alexander called 911 to learn that the father, who was armed, was threatening to kill his daughter and himself, yelling “I’ll shoot both of us, back off!”
Little Oaklyn can be heard begging in the background, repeatedly telling her father, “Please don’t.”
With a gun in his hand, Alexander also threatened the girl’s mother, saying, “I want to talk to her mother. If you’re listening, Ashley, you should have called.
The audio then slows down when Oaklyn asks her father if they are “both going to heaven.”
“How do you know we are going to heaven?” she asks and her father replies, “Shall we both go?”
Oaklin put further pressure on her father by asking, “I’m going to heaven?” As soon as she realizes what it means she immediately screams, “No!”
“I don’t want to go to heaven today,” Oaklin can be heard pleading. His father then tells him, “I didn’t want this to happen either, I just wanted to talk to your mother.”
One of the 911 dispatchers intervened, telling Alexander, “I know you didn’t want to hurt (your daughter) and you didn’t want it to be this way.”
“Let’s not do anything we can’t undo,” the 911 dispatcher tells Alexander.
Oaklin can be heard in the background repeatedly asking if she is “going to heaven today”, at one point shouting “I don’t want to go!”
Another dispatcher tried to talk to Alexander, telling him, “Keep talking to him if you don’t want him to get scared.”
The operator says, “Let’s not do anything that makes it even more unfair to her, because you love her, I know you love her.”
At some point during the call, police opened fire and killed Charles Alexander.
Oaklyn was safely returned to her family after watching officers kill her father.
A family friend set up a GoFundMe for “Oaklin’s care during his mother’s leave from work, mental health expenses, and any additional costs for his future.”
As of Sunday, nearly $8,000 had been raised for the girl’s family.
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