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2-year-old girl who died from a gunshot wound Saturday was shot by her 6-year-old brother.
First responders were called about 11 a.m. Saturday to the scene of a shooting in western Pataskala.
On a 911 recording obtained Monday, the caller, who identifies herself as Mary Massuros, can be heard saying, “There’s been an accident with a weapon. ... My daughter’s been shot with a gun.”
Police identified the girl Tuesday as 2-year-old Noel Massuros.
With the sounds of screaming in the background, Mary Massuros then says to someone in the home, “Oh my God, Oh my God! Stop! Why did you have a gun in the house? ... I told you this would happen.”
The police dispatcher, who began trying to talk Massuros through CPR, was told that the victim, whose name has not yet been released by authorities, “just turned 2 yesterday.”
In the course of administering CPR, Massuros then tells the dispatcher, “This happened a while ago. ... I thought it was something else.
Massuros further told the dispatcher that her 6-year-old son found a gun left out and that she believed the shooting happened about two hours before it was discovered and authorities were called.
As dispatchers continued to talk the victim’s mother through CPR, other screams could be heard in the background, and Massuros said she was also having to deal with another person in the house who now had the gun and was becomingly increasingly emotional.
The call broke off shortly after first responders arrived at the home. Police found the victim; her father, Jason T. Massuros, 41; his wife, Mary; and two other children, ages 11 and 6.
After the victim was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the scene turned into a barricade situation that lasted several hours. Jason Massuros refused to come out of the house, barricading himself in the basement with an AR-15, threatening to kill himself on multiple occasions, according to court documents.
Pataskala police and the Licking County sheriff’s office deputies responded to the scene and began negotiating with Jason Massuros. After several hours, Massuros was shot with a stun gun and arrested.
Pataskala police had received 60 phone calls to that address involving guns and knives since 2009, according to the bond recommendation.
Mary Massuros told police that Jason Massuros frequently left loaded weapons in the house, accessible to anyone.
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