Jovan Belcher‘s mother Cheryl Shepherd was watching when he gunned down the mother of his child, Kasandra Perkins, shooting her nine times.
Now police have released her frantic 911 call, made just after the killing. Belcher and Perkins’ 3-month-old daughter Zoey is heard screaming in the background as Shepherd begs Perkins to live.
Here’s the transcript:
Dispatcher: Are you with the patient now?
Cheryl Shepherd: Yes. Oh the baby is crying, please get an ambulance here.
Dispatcher: OK we are on the way we have been on the way the whole time. I old is the patient?
Cheryl Shepherd: 22
Dispatcher: Male or female?
Cheryl Shepherd: Female.
Dispatcher: And is he breathing?
Cheryl Shepherd: She’s still breathing but please hurry. I don’t know how he (inaudible), they were arguing, please hurry.
Dispatcher: OK so she’s been shot?
Cheryl Shepherd:No.
Cheryl Shepherd: Stay with me, the ambulance is on the way, stay with me Cassandra, stay with me.
Dispatcher: OK listen is she awake?
Cheryl Shepherd: She’s just barely, she’s barely open.
Dispatcher: Can she hear what you’re saying?
Cheryl Shepherd:Yes, she is moving when I talk to her. Please God.
Dispatcher: Is she bleeding?
Cheryl Shepherd: Yes, she is bleeding…
Dispatcher: Where is she bleeding from?
Cheryl Shepherd: I can’t tell, in the back it looks like it.
Dispatcher: OK, go ahead PD.
Dispatcher: Where is your son at?
Cheryl Shepherd: He left. please just get ambulance here please.
Dispatcher: Where is your son at?
Cheryl Shepherd: He left.
Dispatcher: He left?
Cheryl Shepherd: Yes.
Dispatcher: OK they were arguing?
Cheryl Shepherd: Yes, they were arguing.