In a heartbreaking scene that no child should ever endure, SCDN has exclusively requested and received 911 recordings that reveal a terrifying family explosion on Rosemount Road. While the adults were busy with pepper spray and car-ramming, a young boy was left to pick up the pieces, forced to be the “grown-up” in a moment of absolute horror.
The first call came from the home, where a young boy’s voice—trembling with fear—had to explain the chaos to dispatchers. While the adults around him were incapacitated, this brave child had to report that a “guy is going crazy.” In the background, the homeowner, Jeff Wicket, can be heard groaning in agony, claiming he was blinded and unable to breathe after being blasted with pepper spray. “I can’t see anything,” the man cried out, as the child pleaded for help, fearing a knife was involved.
But the nightmare didn’t end there. In a second call obtained exclusively by SCDN, a man claiming to be the child’s father gave a completely different story. He told dispatchers he was just trying to pick up his son when he was allegedly ambushed by a man jumping from the bushes who “full-on” rammed his car.
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As Scioto County Deputies descend on the scene—eventually coordinating a meeting at a local KFC and Taco Bell parking lot—they are faced with a monumental task. They must now untangle a web of contradictory stories, from alleged knife-wielding to vehicular assaults.
However, the real tragedy isn’t the property damage or the sting of the pepper spray. The deputies responding must remember that at the heart of this “he-said, she-said” battle is a terrified little boy. This chaos will likely be the first time he ever speaks to the police—a core memory born out of a night of screams and violence. While the adults argue over who hit whom, this child is left with the mental scars of a family dynamic that pushed him to call 911 just to feel safe.
Analogy: Verifying these details is like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle while two different people give you pieces from two different boxes. The dispatcher and the responding deputies must figure out which pieces belong to the actual “picture” while the callers themselves are too distressed to see the full image clearly.
