Chilling 911 audio captures the moment a frantic grandmother begs police and medics to stop her family from covering up the shooting of her three-year-old granddaughter.
Security footage shows the toddler bursting into a room in the Miami home, where the loaded gun is left unattended on a couch while her relative Orlando Young, 23, walks around watching a football game on his laptop.
Seconds later, chaos erupts in the house at 220th Southwest Street when three-year-old Serenity picks up the gun and puts a bullet through her hand.
“They’re panicking out there,” grandmother Robin Fuller told a dispatcher as she rushed to the scene.
“The baby was at the house and they’re trying to hide him, that’s why they didn’t call the fire brigade.
Robin Fuller with her grandson Benjamin who was in the room when his three-year-old sister Serenity shot herself with a loaded gun lying on a couch
The family eventually took the girl to the hospital themselves after failing to call 911
“They’re trying to get the baby to the hospital themselves.”
The little girl was in the room with Young, a disabled relative, and her 4-year-old brother Benjamin on September 23 when the gun went off.
Young appears distracted and excited about the game as the girl points the gun at her chest, but the bullet hits her in the hand.
Young grabs the girl as she starts screaming as her brother clamps his hands over his ears and other adults run into the room.
Moments later, Fuller called dispatchers from her car as she ran to the scene of the accident after receiving a call at work.
She tells them she doesn’t know the exact address, but urges them to attend while her family is unsure about what to do.
“I need rescue and fire and the police,” she tells them.
“I’m trying to get there as quickly as possible, officer to give you the address.
“I’m on 220th about to go through a red light, I need cops here, I need fire rescue.
“Baby shot herself in the hand while playing with a gun. Jesus, Jesus, oh my God.”
23-year-old Orlando Young, a family member, was arrested in connection with the incident and is now charged with child neglect resulting in great bodily harm
Young told police he temporarily left his firearm unattended on the couch while watching a football game on his laptop
“It looks like she’s getting ready to pick up the gun, the gun went off and I think the bullet went through her finger,” Fuller said.
Young was watching a football game at a home in the 11000 block of Southwest 220th Terrace on September 23
Young was released on bail after appearing in court charged with child neglect occasioning great bodily harm
The audio then records her anger as she pulls up to the house and confronts her neglectful family.
‘Take her to the hospital! Why didn’t you call the fire brigade?!’ she roars.
‘Where did she shoot herself? I need an officer here now!
“All they do is shout and explain what,” she tells the dispatcher.
‘I could not care less!’
The family eventually took the little girl to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in the city, where she underwent surgery before being released from the hospital three days later.
Young told police he “temporarily left his gun unattended on the bench because he was excited about a touchdown,” according to a police report.
On Facebook, Fuller called out the other grandmother who was supposed to babysit her grandchild and accused her of negligence.
“Video of when my granddaughter shot herself in her OTHER GRANDMA’S HOUSE,” she wrote, posting the footage to Facebook.
‘Why did this happen? That is my concern,” Fuller told WSVN.
“Why were the kids alone long enough to get to a gun, to shoot a gun?
‘Where is the safety? Where is the love? Where is the care? Where is the concern?
She said Benjamin was traumatized by the shot just inches from his head.
“When I stopped, he said, ‘Serenity died and she was bleeding from her hand,’” she said.
“I just explained to him that Serenity isn’t dead.
She was transported to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital where she underwent surgery
Footage of Serenity from her hospital bed shows her laughing with a bandaged hand
Serenity is recovering at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in a photo posted by grandmother Robin Fuller
“I FaceTimed Serenity, and I showed him his sister in the hospital, in the hospital bed, and he said to her, ‘I love you so much, Serenity,’ and that’s all he said, ‘I love my sister. so much’.’
Young has been charged with child neglect resulting in great bodily harm and an additional charge of altercation with an inmate, but has been released on bail.
“They’re trying to save the finger, so we’re just going to pray that the blood flow gets back through,” Fuller said.
“I never want them there again.”