By Gina Damron, Detroit Free Press –
DETROIT — Jonathan Hoffman pleaded for his life and begged for help in a 9-1-1 call, played Monday during the preliminary examination of his grandmother, accused of fatally shooting the teen in May.
Hoffman, 17, called 9-1-1 and reponded he had been shot at the home on Brookview Lane in West Bloomfield.
“My grandma shot me,” he sobs to the dispatcher. “I’m gonna die, help.”
(PHOTO: Sandra Layne listens to the judge during her preliminary exam in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Layne is accused of killing her grandson. The teen’s toxicology results came back showing he had K2, synthetic marijuana, in his system. Layne was held over on an open murder charge.)
Sandra Layne, 74, was bound over for trial Monday on a charge of open murder and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony by 48th District Court Judge Kimberly Small.
During his 9-1-1 call, Hoffman told the dispatcher he was shot in the arms and chest. The dispatcher tells Hoffman to keep breathing, then silence.
“Sir? Sir? Hello? Sir? Sir?” the dispatcher says.
Then Hoffman yells: “I got shot again. Help, help, please help.”
When officers arrived at the home, responding to a shooting, they heard multiple gunshots go off in the home.
“One after another,” West Bloomfield Township Officer Derick Kassab testified in 48th District Court in Bloomfield Township today.
Officers, he said, took cover and ordered for anyone in the home to come out.
Layne opened her front door, walked out and screamed.
“I murdered my grandson,” she said, Kassab testified.
Layne was in 48th District Court in Bloomfield Township Monday for her preliminary examination. She is accused of shooting her grandson to death as he pleaded for help.
Hoffman pleaded for help for three minutes, telling a dispatcher he had been shot in the chest by his grandmother. Then he was shot again.
A deputy Oakland County medical examiner testified today that Hoffman was shot five times — three to his chest, one to his abdomen and one to his left arm.
Officers today testified that, after the shooting, Layne had blood on her hands and clothing.
As Layne came out of the house, officers yelled for her to drop the gun, Sgt. Joseph Spencer testified.
While in the rear of a police patrol car, Kassab testified, Layne was hysterical.
West Bloomfield Township Officer David Curry testified that when he walked into the home after the shooting he saw a handgun, a Glock 17, covered im blood laying near the front door. There was one live round in the chamber, so Curry said he ejected that and the magazine.
Spencer testified that, in the home, there was blood everywhere.
He said he saw gunpowder haze at the bottom of a staircase and followed the blood trail up to the second level, where he found Hoffman lying face down on the floor. It appeared that his legs were moving and his back seemed to be rising, possibly from Hoffman taking breaths, Spencer testified.
But, as he yelled Hoffman’s name, it looked as if the teen’s body relaxed, as if the breath had gone out of him, Spencer testified.
As the officer testified, Layne cried and rocked gently in her chair.
Jerome Sabbota, Layne’s attorney, previously told the Detroit Free Press that Hoffman tested positive for K2, or Spice, which is a synthetic marijuana. The prosecution said Monday that the synthetic cannibinoids were only positive in his urine, based on the autopsy results.
The deputy medical examiner said traces of the synthetic drug were found in Hoffman’s urine, but said it was not found in his blood.