A 20-minute phone call with 911 might have felt like an eternity to a Henry County 14-year-old girl who thought burglars shot and killed her mother.
“I think she’s dead,” she told the operator. “I think she’s dead.”
The girl can be heard on 911 calls released to Channel 2 Action News asking dispatch to send an officer to her home, where two men allegedly broke in, held her mom and sibling at gunpoint and ransacked the place.
“Please, please just hurry,” she said. “He’s in my mom’s room. I’m upstairs with my brother and my best friend.”
Police say two men entered the home Tuesday as a mother and her child were sleeping. Henry police are looking for two men, Damarial Thomas and Julantee Alexander, accused in the attack.
One of the men allegedly shot a gun near the woman’s head as the other alleged gunman searched the home for money. The men are accused of stealing the mother’s car keys, a cellphone and money from her wallet, but no one was killed.
As the alleged gunmen were in her mom’s room, the girl begged the operator to send someone soon. That’s when the operator told the children to hide in the closet.
“I hear footsteps, I hear footsteps,” the girl said.
“You be silent,” the operator told her. “Y’all be quiet. Don’t say a word. I’m here with you. Don’t say a word.”
The gunmen kicked open the door to the children’s room but didn’t find them.
The family doesn’t know why they were targeted, but the father, David Wright, told Channel 2 one of the men was a friend of a music artist he represents.
Police are hoping DNA from the alleged gunmen was left on clothes at the house.
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