Mansfield police release 911 calls on fatal shooting of 2 teens at party

Three 911 calls came into the Mansfield police Communications Center Friday at 11:40 p.m. regarding gunshots heard in the neighborhood of Ferndale Avenue and a crowd of people running outside a house on the city's south side.

A caller said she was too afraid to look out the windows to see what was going on but she heard gunshots and was trying to keep safe people in a group home.

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She told a dispatcher it was like, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom — like seven or eight shots."

A male caller said he heard 10 or 15 gunshots coming from 810 Ferndale Ave. and he saw 15 to 20 people running everywhere.

Upon officers' arrival, two Mansfield teens, later identified by the Richland County Coroner's Office as Jarmel Boyd, 17, and Brandon Collins, 18, were pronounced dead at the residence. The victims were not publicly identified by law enforcement per Marsy's Law, which according to Mansfield police prohibits the release of victims' names.

10th and 11th homicides in Mansfield in 2023

The two deaths marked the 10th and 11th homicides in Mansfield this year. Last year there were 10 homicides in the city, the coroner's office said.

In addition to finding two people deceased inside the Ferndale house, police found four other people age 14 to 19 who had been shot and wounded.

In one 911 audio call, an unidentified, youthful-sounding male caller who was inside 810 Ferndale Ave. said that two people ran into his room after being shot, followed by several other individuals. He said he didn't know who else was shot.

"They're bleeding really, really bad right now," the caller said and asked the Mansfield city 911 dispatcher what to do.

The dispatcher told the caller to get a compress and put pressure on the gunshot wound.

“I’m scared to go out there ma’am,” the caller said. “I’m scared to go out there, out in the living room.”

The caller told the dispatcher, "He's gasping for air." The caller relayed the message to others in the room.

The dispatcher said she had an ambulance enroute. She asked how the two subjects are?

"I don't know how they are," the caller replied.

Caller says 1 victim shot in back, 1 shot in leg

The dispatcher asked: "You're not there with them?"

The caller said: "Yes I'm with them." He told the 911 operator they were breathing.

He said one victim had been shot in the back. Another victim had been shot in the leg.

Dispatcher: "Did you see who was doing the shooting?"

The caller can be heard saying, "NOOOO. I think he's dying. I think he's dying. NOOOOO."

Dispatcher: "Where is the shooter? Sir I need to know where the shooter is? Did you see who was doing the shooting? ... Sir I need to know where the shooter is?"

The caller said he didn't know where the shooter was or who it was. "I'm scared to look around."

Dispatcher: "Did you know who this person was?"

The caller said he didn't know who it was. He asked others if they knew who it was.

"They don't know who it was," he told the dispatcher.

Dispatcher: "Were you guys outside when they got shot?"

Caller: "No I was in my room. I don't know what happened. Everyone started running into my room and shots were firing."

Dispatcher: "Were you having like a party or something?"

'It was a small get-together'

Caller: Yeah. It was like a small get-together."

Dispatcher: "I got 'em en route. I need you to stay with me."

Caller: "OK."

(Short silence)

"Dispatcher: "All right. How are they doing? Do you still got pressure on those wounds?"

Caller: "... You OK? He's not responding."

Dispatcher: "... Is he breathing?"

Caller asked others if he was breathing.

Caller: "We think so."

Dispatcher: "OK. I need you to make sure he's breathing. If he's not breathing, we need to do CPR."

Caller: "He's barely breathing."

Dispatcher: "He's barely breathing? I got them en route OK? They're right down the street. So where is everybody else at?"

Caller: "I don't know. Like I told you I was in my room and I'm still in my room. I have not left since I heard shots."

He told the dispatcher there were eight other people in the room.

The caller said he and his girlfriend were in the room and as soon as shots were fired, a whole crowd of people started running into his room and many jumped out the window.

The bedroom was in the back of the one-story house.

Someone in the background can be heard saying he is shot.

The dispatcher asks the caller if he is still there.

There is a lot of noise and voices in the background. There is a long silence.

Mansfield police ask people to speak up if they saw something

Mansfield assistant police Chief Jason Bammann said 143 guns have been taken off the streets since September and four of those were fully automatic.

"The majority of our gun toters are juveniles," he said.

"With the random shooting I can't believe more people weren't hit or injured," Bammann said. "Obviously we're following up all leads and angles. Our community action team is working with major crimes."

Bammann said he has questions, including, "Where were parents? Why are 13- and 14-year-olds out after midnight unsupervised?

"Part of fixing this problem begins in the home," Bammann said.

Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to contact Mansfield police Detective Sgt. Jered Kingsborough at 419-755-9729 or Detective Korey Kaufman at 419-755-9748.

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This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: No suspects arrested yet in fatal shooting of 2 teens at house party