911 Call Reveals Girl, 7, Pleading with Father Not to Kill Her: 'I Don't Want to Go to Heaven'

Mar. 15, 2025

Charles Alexander, Oaklynn Alexander.Photo:Ohio Amber Alert

Ohio Amber Alert

The 7-year-old girl, Oaklynn Alexander, was returned to her family physically unharmed following the incident earlier this month.

An Amber Alert was issued with Alexander’s vehicle description, and later that evening, the Brunswick Division of Police located Alexander and his daughter, the sheriff’s office said in apress release.

He engaged in several conversations on the phone with dispatchers, threatening to kill himself and the child, police said.

“I will shoot us both, stand back!” he is heard yelling during the call, while the girl in the background is heard begging him “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 child asks him questions, her voice in a calm panic, he tells her they would be “both going to heaven.”

“How do you know we’re going to heaven?” she asks.

“We’ll both go,” he says calmly.

“I am going to heaven?” she asks, before saying, “No!”

When she starts choking up, he says, “‘Cause you’re a good person.”

“I don’t want to go to heaven today,” she says, her voice rising in panic, choking up.

“I didn’t want it to happen either, I just wanted to talk to your mother,” Alexander says flatly.

One of the 911 dispatchers interrupts to say: “Stay here,” later adding, “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 calmly tells him.

As the dispatchers try to negotiate with him, the child is heard repeatedly asking about “going to heaven.”

At one point, she cries out in panic: “I don’t want to go to heaven today!”

“I’m not going to die,” she repeatedly says.

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“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 says.

source: people.com