A seven-year-old girl in Ohio begged her father not to kill her while he was in a battle with police and threatened to kill both her and himself. The girl told her father, “I don’t want to go to heaven today.”
The 43-year-old Charles Ryan Alexander took his daughter Oaklynn from her grandmother’s house in Jefferson County on November 11. Alexander was not legally the parent of his child.
The girl was the subject of an Amber Alert, and the Medina County Sheriff’s Office says that police began chasing her after the Brunswick Division of Police found her in the city of Brunswick. The driver wouldn’t stop when police tried to pull them over, and police from several areas joined the chase.
Alexander finally stopped when police used stop sticks to deflate his tires and force his car to stop. This caused a fight with police in a parking lot.
Audio recordings of Alexander’s calls to police showed that the armed dad said he would kill his daughter and himself, according to WKYC.
He yelled, “Stand back! I’m going to shoot you both!”
In the background, Oaklynn could be heard pleading with her father over and over again not to carry out his threat. “Please don’t,” she told him.
Alexander also made threats against the mother of his child by telling the girl, “I want to talk to her mother.” Ashley, if you’re reading this, you should have called.”
After that, the girl asks her dad if they are “both going to heaven.”
“How do you know we’re going to heaven?” she asks me.
Her dad tells her, “We’ll both go.”
Oaklynn keeps making her dad answer questions.
She asked, “Am I going to heaven?” She screams “No!” when she thinks about what it would mean for her to go to heaven.
Oaklynn was heard telling her dad, “I don’t want to go to heaven today.” Her dad replied, “I didn’t want it to happen either; I just wanted to talk to your mom.”
Alexander is then told by 911, “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 take back,” the dispatcher said.
They say Oaklynn asked over and over if she was “going to heaven today” and yelled, “I don’t want to!”
Someone else tells Alexander, “If you don’t want her to be scared, just keep talking to her.”
“Let’s not do anything that is going to make it even more unfair to her, ’cause you love her, I know you do,” the caller said.
Alexander was finally shot several times by police, and he was declared dead at the scene.
After the killing, Oaklynn was safely taken back to her family.
