her son accidentally shot himself<\/a> with a gun, Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\u201cOK, tell me exactly what happened,\u201d said the 911 operator.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son just shot himself,\u201d said the mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cStay on the line with me. What\u2019s your name?\u201d said the operator. \u201cWhere\u2019s the weapon now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s in the house!\u201d said the mother.<\/p>\n
According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, the shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. at an apartment complex along the 4000 block of 15th Street in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said they could hear the screams of panic as events unfolded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just heard like the whole family running out, and it was like a really loud scream, it was like a something happened scream,\u201d said Tiffany Monegato. \u201cI got worried, I told my husband, \u2018Something\u2019s wrong, you know, that kind of scream isn\u2019t normal.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbors told 7News that the little boy lives at the apartment with his sister, believed to be about 6 or 8 years old, and their parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t bother anybody. The kids are always very healthy looking, they\u2019re taken care of very well, they\u2019re happy kids. I never even hear no arguing or yelling over here,\u201d said Mary Willis.<\/p>\n
Desperate for help, the parents drove the boy to the closest Pompano Beach Fire Rescue station.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s the closest hospital?!\u201d said the mother on the 911 call<\/p>\n
\u201cMa\u2019am, we have the paramedics en route to you. You want me to let them know you\u2019re going to the hospital?\u201d said the operator.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo! Go to the fire department, right there,\u201d the father could be heard saying frantically on the 911 call.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you with the fire department?\u2019 said the 911 operator.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. Oh, my God, oh, my God,\u201d said the mother on the 911 call.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when paramedics took over and rushed the child to the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he OK?\u201d his mother could be heard pleading.<\/p>\n
Investigators spent hours processing both locations, where they took pictures of the car and collected boxes of evidence from the home as they pieced together the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. It\u2019s sad; I feel like crying just thinking about it,\u201d said Monegato.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts and prayers go out, and hopefully he pulls through,\u201d said Willis.<\/p>\n
As of Friday afternoon, the boy remains in critical condition at Broward Health Medical Center, detectives said.<\/p>\n
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