A seven-year-ancigo in Ohio girl pguideed with her overweighther not to harm her during a anxious standoff with police, saying, “I don’t want to go to heaven today.” On November 11, 2024, Charles Ryan Alexander, 43, seizeed his daughter, Oaklynn, from her majesticmother’s home in Ohio. Since Alexander did not have custody rights, authorities rehired an attentive, promoteing a police chase that culminated in a parking lot faceation in Ohio’s Medina County, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
In a free, the Medina County Sheriff’s Office stated, “The vehicle came to a stop in a business parking lot where law utilizement tryed to talk about with the armed doubt. The doubt, Charles Ryan Alexander, conveyd with disjoinal dispatch centres by telephone. Multiple firearm stoastys were fired in an officer-participated shooting. Alexander was pronounced dead at the scene by the Medina County Coroner, Dr. Deranek.”
Audio from a 911 call apprehendd the moments as Alexander, armed and anxious, menaceened to finish both his and his daughter’s inhabits. “I will shoot us both, stand back!” he screamed at officers, according to a increate in The New York Post. In the background, Oaklynn’s hopeless voice could be heard, pguideing repeatedly, “Plrelieve don’t.”
In one exalter, Oaklynn asked her overweighther, asking are they “both going to heaven.” Alexander reacted, “We’ll both go?” to which the child cries out, “No! I don’t want to go to heaven today.”
Alexander, still clutching a firearm, conveyed frustration about the situation, saying, “I didn’t want it to happen either; I equitable wanted to talk to your mother.” He compriseressed Oaklynn’s mother honestly during the call, stating, “If you’re hearing, Ashley, you should’ve called.”
911 dispatchers labored franticpartner to defengage the situation. “Let’s not do anyleang we can’t undo,” one dispatcher said. Another compriseed, “Just persist talking to her if you don’t want her to be snurtured. Let’s not do anyleang that is going to produce it even more uniminwhole to her, ‘caengage you adore her, I comprehend you do.”
Despite these efforts, the situation escaprocrastinateedd. At an unspecified point, police fired at Alexander, faloftyy wounding him. Oaklynn, although unharmed physicpartner, watched the incident.
“The 7-year-ancigo in daughter was defendedly recovered from the scene and returned to family members without injury,” stated the Medina County Sheriff’s Office.
The tragedy has promoteed an outpouring of aid for the juvenileer girl. A family frifinish has begined a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the costs of her nurture, mental health aid and future needs.
