“I just need an ambulance.”
This was the statement fourteen-year-old Cole Peyton made to a 9-1-1 operator just moments after he was shot.
“Sir, why did you shoot me? I wasn’t trying to break into your house. Where’d my friends go? Did you shoot them?” Peyton can be heard saying to his shooter on the call.
Just released 9-1-1 calls from early New Year’s Day paint a clearer picture of what happened when Peyton and two friends decided to prank neighbourhood homes by ringing doorbells and running away.
One house in the Pryor, Oklahoma neighbourhood, however, turned into a brush with death when a resident of the home, Derek Morgan felt that the kids were trying to break-in.
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“Some kids are around the back of the house, I think trying to break in. Fired a shot, hit one of them,” Morgan is heard saying in a 9-1-1 call.
Police say Peyton, an honours student, was shot in the stomach and forearm while running away. He was released from hospital on Friday.
Morgan, 30, is charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
CBS News asked Peyton’s mother whether Cole is a fault in the incident.
“I think he made a bad decision to go outside on New Year’s Eve at that time, but I don’t think he’s at fault for being shot. I’m a gun owner myself and I have never reached for my gun,” Peyton’s mother Kim Hall told CBS News.
“Emotionally, it bothers him,” Hall said. “He doesn’t understand, like, why they shot him and they live right here next door. So it’s a constant reminder.”
Peyton’s mother says she plans to move the family.
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