14-Year-Old Son Shot Dead By Father Who Says He Mistook Him For Intruder
The teen suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and later died.
By Sadho Ram — 13 Jan 2016, 02:04 PM
In what can only be described as absolute WTF moment, a father shot and killed his teenage son early Tuesday morning, 12 January. Why? Because the father thought his son was an intruder!
According to his father, the teen, identified as Georta Mack, 14, left for school, but returned through the basement, unbeknownst to his father, said police.
"I just shot my son by accident," Mack's father told a 911 operator. "He scared me. I thought he was in school. I heard noise and then I went downstairs looking. He jumped out at me. I shot him," the father is heard saying in a 911 recording obtained by CNN affiliate WCPO Tuesday. "Oh God. Oh God. Why didn't you go to school?"
According to CNN, the 14-year-old son was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center where he later died. Meanwhile, the investigative unit is not releasing the father's name yet.
This is at least the second case of a family member shooting and killing a family member -- apparently by mistake -- within the last two weeks.
On the night of December 29, a woman in St. Cloud, Florida, shot her 27-year-old daughter, apparently mistaking her for a burglar. The woman fired only one round, police said, and the daughter later died at a hospital.