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Tormented voice screams into 911 phone after 3-year-old toddler shot at children’s birthday party in park

Tormented voice screams into 911 phone after 3-year-old toddler shot at children’s birthday party in park



This is the moment a tortured voice screams down the phone to police officers after a three-year-old toddler is brutally shot at a birthday party.

Rylo Yancy was playing on a slide when he was shot and killed by a motorist at Riverland Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

“I need an ambulance in Riverland Park,” the woman screamed desperately in a 911 call obtained by WSVN. “A baby was just shot.”

After several emergency calls, rescue workers found the toddler with life-threatening injuries. Yancy was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died.

“How the f*** can you kill a baby when you’re a CHILD going down the slide?” wrote his mother, who goes by thegirldej_ on Instagram. “My soul, my heart smiles and shines for you… not your typical three year old… so SMART and different, to know you is to know you are one of a kind.”

Rylo Yancy (pictured with his mother) was playing on the slide when an unknown driver shot him at Riverland Park in Fort Lauderdale around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday

Police marked a bullet hole in the slide and 25 other marks that prove the violence.

According to WSVN, workers from the city of Fort Lauderdale were seen repairing the playground.

The park, still covered in party decorations, has been temporarily closed.

According to NBC Miami, Fort Lauderdale police have identified one of the cars involved.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. The motive is currently unknown.

Rescue workers found the toddler with life-threatening injuries after receiving several emergency calls. Yancy was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died

Police marked a bullet hole in the slide and 25 other marks that prove the violence.

Yancy’s mother remembers her little boy’s love for the church and said he and his cousin grew up “like siblings.”

“Mommy will be so obsessed with you forever,” she wrote on Instagram.

His father, who goes by freebandfivee on Instagram, posted a photo of the little boy snuggling up to him and wrote: “Damn you don’t know how much you hurt me son. I love you forever. Rest in peace. I promise we paint the town red tonight.”

“I can’t live without my aunt (Yancy), I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, God why?” his aunt Quinniesha Isaac wrote on Instagram.

The boy (pictured with his father) turned three in May
“Mommy will be so obsessed with you forever,” his mother wrote on Instagram
“I can’t live without my aunt (Yancy), I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, God why?” his aunt Quinniesha Isaac wrote on Instagram

Yancy’s grandfather, whose identity remains unknown, was seen getting into an altercation with police in the park before falling into the officer’s arms in grief.

“It breaks my heart to see this and to hear about a child, an innocent child, who knows nothing about nothing,” Lillie Charles, who lives near Riverland Park, told WSVN.

“I’m just enjoying a birthday party and then something like this happens and I feel so sorry for the parents.”

Joan Goodie, who also lives near the park, said her heart was “broken” for the family as she knows what it feels like to lose a child, having lost her own child in a knife attack.

“It just breaks my heart. It takes me back to a place I don’t want to go,” she told WSVN.