A seven year old Ohio girl begged her father not to kill her as he threatened to kill her and himself during a standoff with police before being shot by police, with the young girl saying, “I don’t want to go to heaven today.”
Charles Ryan Alexander, 43, his daughter kidnappedOaklynn, from her grandmother’s home in Jefferson County on Nov. 11. Alexander had no legal custody of his child.
The girl was the subject of an Amber Alert that prompted a police pursuit after Brunswick police located the child in the city of Brunswick, according to the Medina County Sheriff’s Office. The driver refused to stop due to an attempted traffic stop, and multiple jurisdictions joined the pursuit.
Police eventually used stop sticks to deflate Alexander’s tires and force his vehicle to a stop, leading to a standoff with police in a parking lot.
Charles Ryan Alexander, 43, kidnapped his daughter Oaklynn from her grandmother’s home on November 11. (Medina County Sheriff’s Office)
Audio of Alexander’s communications with police revealed that the armed father threatened to kill his daughter and himself. according to WKYC.
“I’ll shoot us both, stand back!” he shouted.
Oaklynn could be heard in the background repeatedly pleading with her father not to carry out his threat. “Please don’t,” she said.
Alexander also threatened the mother of his child, telling the girl, “I want to talk to her mother.” If you’re listening, Ashley, you should have called.”
The girl then asks her father if they are “both going to heaven.”
“How do you know we’re going to heaven?” she asks.
Oaklynn Alexander, 7, was the subject of an Amber Alert that prompted a police chase. (GoFundMe)
Her father replies, “We’ll both go.”
Oaklynn continues to ask her father questions.
“I’m going to heaven?” she asked. But when she realizes what it would mean for her to go to heaven, she shouts, “No!”
“I don’t want to go to heaven today,” Oaklynn was heard telling her father, who replies: “I didn’t want it to happen either, I just wanted to talk to your mother.”
A 911 dispatcher then tells Alexander, “I know you didn’t mean to hurt (your daughter) and you didn’t want it to be like this.”
“Let’s not do anything we can’t undo,” the coordinator added.
Oaklynn can be heard repeatedly asking if she’s “going to heaven today” and at one point she shouted, “I don’t want to!”
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Oaklynn was safely returned to her family after the incident. (iStock)
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Another dispatcher tells Alexander, “Just keep talking to her if you don’t want her to get scared.”
“Let’s not do anything to make it more unfair to her, because you love her, I’m sure,” the dispatcher said.
Police possibly fired multiple shots at Alexander, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Oaklynn was safely returned to her family after the shooting.
