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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – FOX5 obtained the 911 calls that reveal the heart wrenching moment a father discovered his 3-year-old daughter Journei Ross dead.
On March 26, police responded to the 4200 block of Channel 10 Drive near Eastern Avenue and Flamingo Road following a desperate plea for help.
The 911 call came in around 3 a.m. where a Jeremy Ross can be heard yelling at someone in the background.
Ross: What happened? I need medical, you killed my baby, noooo.
As the dispatcher worked to collect information regarding the incident the father continues to yell out various statements in despair.
Ross: My baby is not even breathing
The dispatcher then walked the father through providing the 3-year-old CPR.
Dispatch: OK, Sir, I’m going to tell you how to give mouth to mouth, pinch their nose closed completely, cover their mouth with your mouth, then blow two regular breaths into the lungs about one second each. Just the other and make the chest rise with each breath.
Ross: She’s bleeding and that crazy girl cut my baby up.
Medical can be heard arriving on the scene to provide aid. The father than assisted police with the description of the suspect.
Marketta Phillips, 41, was found on the apartment complex property and was taken into custody. She is facing an open murder charge according to court records.
The Clark County Coroner confirmed Journei died due to multiple stab wounds to her torso.
Just before 4 a.m. another 911 call came where a woman later identified as Journei’s mother Phalan Whitson was heard frantically asking for police.
Whitson: Someone stabbed my baby, I’m not there. My child’s father said that he left somebody there to watch my baby and I don’t know what happened.
While on the phone with dispatch Whitson was driving to the scene of the crime.
Whitson: I told him don’t bring nobody around my child. I told him that, I told him that ma’am, I told him that.
Whitson spoke out following Phillips first court appearance where she expressed the loss as incomparable.
Phillips is set to appear in court on May 13.
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