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BUCKEYE, ARIZONA, PLEASE COME TO ME. HELP ME. I want to kill MY GRANDSON. PLEASE STOP. >> On December 15th, 2024, a 911 call comes in to Buckeye, Arizona, dispatchers amid a heated family dispute. But as it escalates, the elderly grandmother on the line makes it clear she's reached her breaking point. The following footage has never been seen before. >> I'm I'm tired. You know Come here. >> What is the location? >> 911, PLEASE COME. BUCKEYE, ARIZONA, PLEASE >> WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS? >> Help me. 2025 GET OUT. Get out. Get out. Get out. GET OUT. GET >> AS THE FIGHT ESCALATES, the caller, 71-year-old Deborah Green Davis, threatens to take matters into her own hands. >> I'm going to kill you. GET THE MOVER. HE GRABBED MY pants leg. Please come now. >> Okay, we have help responding. Okay, tell me what's going on. Does someone have a weapon? >> He fell. Help me, officer. He got too big. What happened? GET OUT. STOP HIM. >> WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT WAS THAT? Was Did somebody just shoot something? >> I shot him. >> Did You shot her? >> Officers with the Buckeye Police Department rushed to Deborah's home where they first encounter her daughter, Tanisha. >> Work on your car, okay? >> No. No. No. No. No. >> Okay. >> SIR, YOU WANT TO LOCK THE DOOR, PLEASE? PLEASE don't do that. Don't do that, please. Please. >> Forget Open the car. >> Why did I get in the car? >> Based on the call, somebody got shot. We don't know what happened. >> I'm I'm the one with the My daughter was fighting me. >> Yep, I hear you. >> Okay. >> Ma'am, who is the shooter? >> Uh my mother. >> Your mother, what's her name? >> My mother, Deborah Davis. >> It is? >> Yeah, and she got her CCW. >> As Tanisha sits in the patrol car, officers surround her mother Deborah's property and prepare for a possible standoff. >> Buckeye Police, we know you're inside. Come out with your hands up and nothing in your hands. We want to help out, but we cannot help out unless you come outside. Say that again. >> 31-year-old Larkia Lashan Elliott has been shot and is found lying outside her grandmother's bedroom. After officers carry her outside, they approach Deborah, unaware if she's armed. >> Do you know where the weapon is? The weapon is there. >> [snorts] >> Don't reach for it, please. All right, stay right there. Can you move without the walker or do you need that? Okay. That's all right, everyone seems to watch this, but yeah, I don't know what we're going to do. All right. >> Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. How could you jump on your grandmother? Yeah, don't do it. Oh lord, I can't believe you. Let me see, oh please help my family. Oh please help my family, lord. >> All right, going down a little slope, okay? >> Oh help me, lord. Help my family. >> All right, you got it, we got you. >> Oh thank you so much. I'm so sorry. >> That's one on top. Okay, yeah, that works. >> I think my grandbaby on drugs. The police was on the phone telling telling us hitting me. She wouldn't listen to us. >> Larkia has suffered a single gunshot wound to the back. As she's treated by EMTs, Deborah starts explaining how the unthinkable happened. >> I was going to the ER and I begged them to take me and she come running in there saying, "You getting on my mother's nerves." So, I can't believe >> Is she injured? >> She hit me over my shoulder and >> Oh. It's a little high. It's easier to go go butt first and then I can help you. >> How my mother doing? >> She's good. We took her out and we're going to medical check her out. If you don't mind, can you just give me a real quick rundown on what happened? >> Uh first of all, I've had to get strength to get up and and I was trying to get up and clean but we've been sick with the flu. >> Okay. >> All three of us. >> Okay. >> And um >> [snorts] >> And she tried to get up, trying to get clean and everything and I asked my my mother been telling my daughter to get off the couch. She's been just so disrespectful, cussing at us, just just talking to us just rude. >> And that's Larkia? >> Larkia. >> Okay. >> Yes. You know, so she was like, "I'm not doing so my mother said I'm going to call the police." That's when my daughter went in the room and charged at her. Like, you know, trying to get the phone from her and that's when I grabbed and then we got in a fight. >> According to Tanisha, she hit Larkia with a stick during their fight. She says when Larkia began attacking Deborah in her bedroom, Tanisha grabbed her by the hair in an attempt to stop the assault. A moment that was captured on the 911 call. >> [ __ ] you move [ __ ] I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU. YOU RAISED MY ASS. YES, YOU DID, TOO. >> AND UM that's when my mother shot. >> Did you Did your mom shoot while she was attacking her or while you guys were fighting? >> While we was fighting. >> Okay. And then the paramedics are going to check you out real quick, okay? How you doing? >> Hi. >> How you doing? >> I'm going to go ahead and talk to >> Was it >> Was it or like open hand? >> Okay. >> So, one time in the in the face and one time in the arm here. You mind if we feel it? Make sure it's okay. >> Uh-uh. Right here. >> Right in there? >> Right here. It's big. >> Ow. >> Oh, my god. >> Deborah and her daughter are taken to the hospital for evaluation while Larkia's condition remains unclear. During questioning, both Tenisha and Deborah describe the tensions that took place behind closed doors. >> That is how we heard we were going at it. She busting me up. Both child. Fight me. >> You got a scratch on your face. Is that what that is? >> know. She choked me. She tried to fight. She tear me up. I've been going through this since she graduated from high school to college. That's when it started. From her with her attitude, would talk to me any kind of way, fight me and her sister. You know what I'm saying? She smoked plenty weed. Going to the dispensary. My mother was didn't want her there. My mother let her stay there cuz that's her heart. You know, we don't want to see her on the streets. >> In another area of the hospital, Deborah begins to wonder if shooting Larkia will hold serious consequences for her. >> Do I need a lawyer? >> That I can't answer for you. >> It said it is self-defense, but that's your family. I've been carrying a pistol since I was 25. License. Almost got in a uh in Michigan. And I said I'm going to always carry my pistol. >> Oh, no. You're You're good. I got it. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. >> You're a good girl. >> With no signs of serious injuries, Deborah is transported to the police station where she begins to express remorse for her actions. >> I had my pistol there and I shot her and I didn't mean it. Don't Don't, sir. I really didn't mean it. >> How much time do you think passed from when the time she hit you to the time you decided to fire? How fast do you think that was? >> 1 second. >> Okay, that's super fast. Like you said. >> Super fast. I grabbed and and I I told 911 I'm going >> When >> I'm going to hurt her if she hit me again. I'm going to KILL MY GRANDCHILD. PLEASE STOP. I'M GOING TO KILL GET OUT. GET OUT. >> YOU SHOT HER? >> I'M GOING TO KILL HER. SHE was also thrown so I don't care and I'm going to tell my daddy, granddaddy, everybody. >> Despite efforts to save her, Larkia, a former corrections officer, was pronounced dead by fire rescue personnel. On her Instagram page, she posted memories with loved ones. 1 year ago, Larkia shared a photo with her grandmother and mother using the hashtag family first. >> I would >> Don't you ever tell grandma or mama. >> I couldn't agree more. I would >> Okay. Okay. >> I couldn't even imagine hitting my dad. If I If I hit my dad, he would probably end me. >> He let me He let you go. >> Yeah. >> You going You going to heaven. You going to heaven. >> 71-year-old Deborah Green Davis was booked in the county jail for the second-degree murder of her granddaughter, Larkia Lashan Elliott. The case was dismissed by the prosecution and on January 3rd, 2025, less than 1 month after Larkia's death, Deborah was ordered to be released. Watch our full videos as they were originally made with no randomly muted words or details cut. We've also dropped brand new EWWU videos available only on EWWU Plus. Available now on iOS, Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Google TV. Download EWWU Plus and see what you've been missing.

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