A 911 call between an armed man and Ohio police dispatchers has revealed the terrifying ordeal faced by a seven-year-old girl who was begging not to be killed as she was held at gunpoint.
Following an investigation on November 11, the Medina County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Charles Ryan Alexander took his non-custodial daughter, Oaklynn Alexander, from her grandmother’s house in Jefferson County, Ohio, after he initially tried to pick up the child from her school and failed.
The police were alerted of the breach and the Brunswick Division of Police later located Alexander and his daughter via a vehicle description given to them.
According to the press release posted to Facebook by the department, Alexander fled from the scene which prompted a police chase, resulting in them deflating the perpetrator’s tires and forcing him to come to a halt in a parking lot.
He was then involved in a handful of conversations on the phone with dispatchers where he threatened to kill himself as well as his child.
In audio recordings of the 911 call which were released by Medina County authorities, Alexander can be heard threatening law enforcement while also telling his daughter that she would be “going to heaven.”
“I will shoot us both, stand back!” he said during the call while the girl in the background can be heard begging him saying: “Please don’t.”
“I wanna talk to her mother,” Alexander says to a dispatcher, later adding: “If you’re listening, Ashley, you should’ve called.”
As the little girl keeps asking him questions, he calmly tells her they will be “both going to heaven.”
“How do you know we’re going to heaven?” she questioned.
“We’ll both go,” he responded.
“I am going to heaven?” she asked, before adding: “No!”
When she starts choking up, he said: “‘Cause you’re a good person.””
“I don’t want to go to heaven today,” she can be heard telling her father, her voice clearly revealing the panic she was in.
“I didn’t want it to happen either, I just wanted to talk to your mother,” Alexander replied in the audio.
At this point, one of the 911 dispatchers chimed in to say: “Stay here,” before going on to state: “I know you didn’t want to hurt [your daughter] and you didn’t want it to be like this.
“Let’s not do anything we can’t undo,” she added.
Another 911 dispatcher also tried to calm the suspect down, saying: “Just keep talking to her if you don’t want her to be scared.
“Let’s not do anything that is going to make it even more unfair to her, ‘cause you love her, I know you do,” she also emphasized.
The stand-off later resulted in Alexander being fatally shot by officers, according to the authorities.
The little girl was rescued and reunited with her family physically unharmed following the incident.
