Police have released a horrifying 911 call and graphic body camera footage of a Nevada mother who stabbed her six-year-old son 25 times before she was fatally shot by cops.
In the call, made around 12.10pm on October 21 from the Equestrian on Eastern Apartments in Henderson, a young boy is heard crying and alleging that his mother is trying to kill him.
Claudia Nadia Rodriguez, 37, the boy’s mother, tells the 911 operator and her son: ‘They’re making us do it. We got to kill each other.’
The boy, identified as Winston Lee Xavier Brandon, is then heard yelling three times: ‘Please don’t hurt me!’
The call disconnected, but Henderson police were dispatched to the scene.
A 911 call made in Henderson, Nevada, on October 21, was released on Thursday. In the call, six-year-old Winston Lee Xavier Brandon screams that his mother, 37-year-old Claudia Nadia Rodriguez, is trying to kill him. Pictured: Rodriguez grabs an officer’s gun, left, and Winston emerges from the apartment covered in blood, right
Body cam footage shows police arriving on the scene to find Winston covered in blood (pictured) and Rodriguez apparently naked on the ground
Body camera footage shows officers arriving at the complex and knocking on the door, which is answered by a young boy covered in blood.
‘Oh s**t,’ the first responding officer says before telling his partner: ‘Get medical.’
The first officer enters the apartment and asks Rodriguez, who is apparently naked: ‘What’s going on?’
According to court documents, Rodriguez was described as ‘agitated’, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
On the video, she can be heard yelling: ‘You got to kill me!’ as she begins wrestling with the first responding officer.
Rodriguez managed to grab his gun and fire it once, but no one was harmed in the incident.
The second officer then entered the apartment and shot Rodriguez multiple times.
According to the Review-Journal, she was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Winchester, where she died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Rodriguez grabbed one officer’s gun as another cop fired at her multiple times. She died of a gunshot wound to head. Her son was rushed into emergency surgery at another hospital, where doctors found he had been stabbed 25 times, but is expected to survive. Pictured: Officers arrive at the apartment, left, and wrestle with Rodriguez, right
Rodriguez had a history of domestic violence and was arrested four times between 2015 and 2017. Pictured: The Equestrian on Eastern Apartments, where the incident occurred
Winston, on the other hand was taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where he was rushed into emergency surgery.
He is reportedly doing well and expected to make a full recovery.
Police identified the boy as seven years old at the time of the incident, but he is stated as six in Department of Family Services records, reported the Review-Journal.
The newspaper reported that Winston’s father, Willie Brandon Jr, filed paperwork in February 2017 seeking primary custody of his son.
He alleged that Rodriguez had ‘physically and mentally abused’ her two older children from a prior relationship.
In December 2017, they were awarded joint custody.
Court records indicate that Rodriguez had a history of domestic violence.
She was allegedly arrested four times since 2015 on misdemeanor counts of battery constituting domestic violence, resulting in one conviction in January 2017.
Both officers have been placed on routine paid administrative leave as the shooting is investigated.