'He's gonna hurt my baby': Dad cradled 3-year-old son in his arms before shooting him in head after telling boy's mom he was going to do it, cops say

Nevada constabulary accidental a combat betwixt parents successful Las Vegas escalated into the shooting decease of their 3-year-old son, with his begetter blasting the lad successful the caput aft telling his parent "I'm blowing the child's brains out." Audio recordings from 911 calls made that nighttime picture however the dada besides tried to termination the ma and changeable astatine her friend's car.

"He's not successful his close mind," said Raneka Pate, parent of slain toddler Kentre Baker, successful a 911 telephone obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"He's trying to instrumentality my son," the pistillate told constabulary astir 1:18 a.m. connected Feb. 3 astir Kentre's father, Quinton Baker, who was killed by instrumentality enforcement officers aft opening occurrence connected the child.

Pate alleged that Baker had assaulted a person of hers and past "tried to kill" her pursuing an statement astatine their flat successful the 8400 artifact of South Maryland Parkway, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and the 911 calls obtained by the Review-Journal. She said Baker walked retired to his conveyance with Kentre and attempted to spot the lad inside.

When Pate tried taking Kentre out of the vehicle, Baker changeable astatine her and her friend's vehicle, the Review-Journal reports. Police told section NBC affiliate KSNV that the parents had gotten into a combat that kept escalating passim the night.

"A mates were retired present screaming and arguing with each other," a witnesser reported seeing successful a 911 telephone placed astir 1:29 a.m., per the Review-Journal.

"Eventually, a antheral came retired with a weapon and a kid," the witnesser said. "He threw the kid successful a bluish Ford … but earlier helium peeled retired of here, helium took a changeable astatine the achromatic BMW with a gun."

Police accidental Baker returned to the flat with Kentre and past started warring with Pate again earlier walking extracurricular and confronting constabulary portion holding the boy.

"He's threatening to termination maine and my son," Pate said successful a 2nd 911 call. "He virtually bushed maine …. He's crazy. He's successful the location with him."

Body camera footage shows Baker cradling and holding Kentre successful his arms portion pointing a weapon astatine him, according to police. "The kid was struck successful the caput by a adjacent interaction gunshot coiled erstwhile the fishy discharged his weapon," said Clark County Assistant Sheriff Bryan Peterson astatine a Feb. 5 press conference.

Peterson told reporters that during their investigation, Pate alleged to constabulary that Baker told her, "If you don't archer them to telephone this s— off, and if they effort to travel up these stairs I'm blowing the child's brains retired and I'm blowing excavation out. You won't person neither 1 of us."

Peterson added, "That kid was being held hostage, and the suspect's intent was intelligibly stated by him to the parent respective times. He was going to termination that kid and past termination himself."

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Officers who arrived connected country ended up shooting Baker to decease aft helium opened occurrence connected Kentre. While the lad was changeable erstwhile successful the limb by police, Peterson said the coroner reported his decease arsenic being caused by a changeable fired by Baker.

"In this situation, officers person milliseconds to marque a decision," Peterson told reporters. "Their eventual extremity is to prevention that baby's life. That fishy chose those actions and followed done with what his intent was. He killed his son."

Pate has blamed the shooting connected constabulary and retained a Las Vegas lawyer, Ofelia Markarian, who plans to clasp a property league astatine a aboriginal date, according to the Review-Journal. "I told constabulary officers that the idiosyncratic was precise agitated, and that if they could bash thing to calm oregon deescalate the situation, without immoderate lethal unit due to the fact that helium did person my lad successful his possession," Pate told KSNV.

The officers progressive person been placed connected administrative permission pending a reappraisal of what happened, according to constabulary officials.

The review is expected to past respective months.