LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The parent of a 3-year-old girl police said died from stab wounds inflicted by her babysitter called 911 Wednesday for over 17 minutes, during several frenetic, heart-wrenching phone calls, audio first obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators reveals.
“My baby isn’t breathing anymore,” the parent screamed and cried to the dispatcher. “A crazy girl cut my baby up.”
On Thursday, the victim’s mother identified her daughter as Journei Ross. The child died Wednesday after she was stabbed several times in the torso, legs, and neck, allegedly by a woman who was first identified as her babysitter, Marketta Phillips.
Phillips made her first court appearance Thursday morning.
“What the f—,” the parent asked, through tears, rhetorically. “And this girl just walked out the f—— house from cutting my baby up.”
Seemingly speaking to the person she blamed for the murder, the parent said: “My child is f—— three years old. The f— is you doing?
The parent continued speaking to the dispatcher: My baby is not breathing. My baby just bled all over the (expletive) bed.”
And to a third party, the parent could be heard saying, “You get back here,” and screaming, “What the f–k? What you do? No!”
In an arrest report released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Ross described Phillips as both his roommate and his “on-and-off girlfriend.” He told police he left Journei in the care of Phillips when he went to work at 6 p.m. on March 25.
