CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — Action News Jax is learning new details from the 911 calls released from the night that Clay County deputies say 14-year-old Trevor Lee killed his parents.
According to Trevor’s arrest report, his father, David Lee, 44, and mother, Brandi Smith, 44, were found shot in their bedroom, and deputies said there were “several spent shell casings” in that room.
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The Clay County Sheriff’s Office shared two calls, one made by Trevor Lee and one made by his older sister, Ayanna Russell, who lives in California.
Russell told Action News Jax on Monday night that her brother is “not a monster.”
Both calls are heavily redacted. In the call Trevor made, he can be heard telling the dispatcher he needs to pray.
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Trevor: “I’m going to pray. I need to pray.”
Dispatch: “You need to pray?”
Trevor: “Yes ma’am.”
Sheriff Michelle Cook said Monday that after shooting his parents, Trevor walked to a nearby church and turned himself in to deputies.
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He also asked the dispatcher to pray for him, and they agreed to do so.
Trevor: “Ma’am?”
Dispatcher: “I’m listening to you, hon.”
Trevor: “Can you pray?”
Dispatcher: “Go ahead, I’ll listen to you.”
Trevor: “Well, I was asking, I was going to ask if you could pray for me, ma’am.”
Dispatcher: “I’ll definitely be praying for you, son.”
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After this exchange, other dispatch traffic could be heard on the call advising crews heading to the church to “be aware of a possible ambush.”
Russell stayed on the phone with dispatchers for nearly 20 minutes while deputies tried to track down her brother and get into the home.
“I knew it. I knew we shouldn’t have had a (expletive) gun. I told them. I told them,” she said.
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Trevor’s arrest report said he was eventually taken into custody “without incident” in the parking lot of Cross Pointe Church.
A spokesperson for State Attorney Melissa Nelson’s office said Lee had a detention hearing Tuesday morning in juvenile court and is being held in a juvenile detention facility.
We asked if Nelson’s office will charge him as an adult. A spokesperson said it’s still an active investigation and that decision hasn’t been made.
They said Lee’s next hearing is August 13 in Clay County.
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