Background: The Heights apartments in Del City, Okla. where Erick Nimsey allegedly attacked his father (Google Maps). Inset: Erick Nimsey (Oklahoma County Detention Center).
An Oklahoma man called 911 while allegedly stabbing his father, asking the dispatcher which body part on his father he should attack next.
Erick Nimsey, 41, did not resist officers when they took him into custody on Monday after they responded to his own 911 call from an apartment complex in Del City, located just outside Oklahoma City. Nimsey was charged with domestic assault and battery with a deadly weapon and domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily harm. The alleged victim was his own father, 63-year-old Eddie Davis, according to KWTV, a local CBS affiliate.
KWTV reported on the 911 call Nimsey placed himself, during which he asked the audibly shocked dispatcher, “You want left or right foot? Which one do you want, dispatcher? Whoever you are?” He was allegedly asking which part of Davis he should stab next.
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Nimsey reportedly continued to pressure the confused dispatcher, telling her, “Say left or right, and this will be on you.” Davis could be heard speaking in the background and reportedly screaming while his son allegedly continued attacking him.
“If you don’t answer in three seconds,” Nimsey warned, “then I’m going to assume you said ‘left,’ OK?”
The dispatcher responded frantically, “What is happening?”
According to KWTV’s reporting, the dispatcher spent six minutes trying to keep Nimsey talking until officers arrived at the scene. When they did arrive, Nimsey reportedly told the dispatcher that he refused to open the door, and “if you want it open, you can kick it in.”
The officers apparently took Nimsey’s advice and proceeded to kick down the door to the apartment. Inside, body camera footage revealed a bloody scene in the kitchen where Davis lay. Officers located Nimsey in a nearby room, already on his knees with his hands behind his back.
Davis was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Police said that after Nimsey was arrested, he made several delusional comments, including a claim that he was 120 years old and that officers were plotting to kill his mother. He reportedly threatened to stab the officers, but also stated that he could get “lions and tigers” to commit the crime for him. KWTV reported that Nimsey asked the police several times, “Do you believe in mercy?”
Nimsey was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center on $25,000 bond.
