CINCINNATI (AP) — Police in Cincinnati say a man has fatally shot his 14-year-old son in their home, thinking he was an intruder. 
 
 Police say the man thought his son had caught the bus for school Tuesday morning, but the teen returned home soon afterward. Police say the man heard a noise in the basement and checked on it with a gun in his hand. Police say the father fired after apparently being startled, hitting the boy in the neck. 
 
 Authorities say the father called 911 and the boy was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he died Tuesday morning. 
 
 Police Lt. Steve Saunders says the father is being interviewed by police and has been cooperative. 
 
 No names were released immediately. ||||| The home in the 1200 block of Blanchard Ave in East Price Hill where a man shot and killed his 14-year-old son. (Photo: Patrick Brennan) 
 
 It was a call that can only be described as wrenching. 
 
 "I just shot my son by accident," a distraught father sobbed to a Cincinnati police 911 operator. 
 
 "Oh God. Get here quick." 
 
 "Please hurry." 
 
 The man, believing his 14-year-old son was at school, fatally shot the boy in the neck when he mistook him for an intruder at their East Price Hill home Tuesday morning. 
 
 Police say they are investigating the shooting. 
 
 The shooting at 1216 Blanchard Ave. occurred around 6:30 a.m. The father, whose name has not been released, had recently dropped his son, Georta Mack, off at the school bus stop but the teen returned home, police said. 
 
 After hearing a noise in the basement, the father grabbed a handgun to investigate. Georta startled the man, according to the frantic 911 call, and was accidentally shot in the neck. 
 
 Throughout the call Georta's father begs police to hurry, asking God why this has happened. He tells police his son is struggling to breathe as he held a cloth to his neck to slow the bleeding. 
 
 Shortly after, he exclaimed that his son stopped breathing. 
 
 Georta was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Shortly after 8:15 a.m., the boy was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital. 
 
 Police Lt. Steve Saunders says the father is being interviewed by police and has been cooperative. 
 
 A father mistook his 14-year-old son for an intruder and shot him in the neck, killing him, at a East Price Hill home on Tuesday morning, according to Cincinnati police. 
 
 Neighbors were seen crying as they shared the news of the shooting on snow-covered Blanchard Avenue hours later. 
 
 "He's only 14 years old," one woman said through tears. 
 
 Neighbors said Georta lived in the home with his 73-year-old father. They said the two seemed to get along well. 
 
 Angela Roberts, who has lived in the neighborhood in a friend's home there for about a year, said Georta was a "good kid,'' who would often mow her friend's lawn and help with yard work. 
 
 "From everything I knew, he was a pretty good kid." 
 
 Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac called the shooting a "terrible, terrible tragedy'' at a press conference Tuesday. "It's unimaginable really.'' 
 
 ​ Isaac said the father told police the teen returned home to skip school. Isaac said the teen had some recent trouble at school but did not elaborate. 
 
 Isaac said that while owning a gun is an individual choice, that gun owners should be responsible, prepared and well-trained. He also said the everyone in the home should be aware that guns are kept in the home. 
 
 Officers were discussing the case with the Hamilton County Prosecutor's office. Isaac said he did not know if the father would be charged in the case. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://cin.ci/1P6McK1 ||||| As a young man, Richard "Gary" Black Jr. received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for his courageous service during the Vietnam War, where he was taken prisoner and injured multiple times. 
 
 A 1966 graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, Black came back to the United States a battle-scarred hero, and his stepson, Chad Hayashi, told ABC News on Wednesday that his father died a hero early Monday morning, shot dead by someone sent to protect him. 
 
 The 73-year-old Black had just saved his son and 11-year-old grandson by shooting dead an intruder who broke into their Aurora, Colorado, home. But just as one nightmare ended, another began when Black went to the front door of his home and was fatally shot by a police officer. 
 
 "I want answers. I want the truth. I want accountability," Hayashi told ABC News. 
 
 KMGH 
 
 "My dad was a hero, period," he said. "He's been a hero in this country since 1966, and he needs to be recognized as such." 
 
 Aurora Police officials are expected to hold a press conference Thursday to publicly discuss what happened at Black's home on East Montview Boulevard around 1:30 a.m. Monday when officers arrived after Black's wife, Jeanette, called 911 to report a stranger had entered their home. 
 
 Police officials confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday that the officer who shot Black had been involved in another fatal shooting in June that remains under investigation. The officer's name has not been released. 
 
 Aurora Police officials identified Dajon Harper, 26, as the alleged home-intruder Black fatally shot. 
 
 "I want it all out there," Hayashi told ABC News. "I want every bodycam. Every officer I saw had a bodycam on. So there should be 20 bodycam videos. I want to see them all." 
 
 In his only public comment on the incident so far, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz wrote in a statement Tuesday that he is "committed to being transparent and sharing information as soon as possible." 
 
 ABC News 
 
 "This incident was not only tragic, but incredibly heartbreaking for the involved family, the community and our Department," Metz wrote. 
 
 Police officials said they've been instructed by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which is investigating the case with the Denver Police Department, not to say anything about the case until the press conference. 
 
 Metz said the officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative reassignment with pay, per the department's policy. 
 
 Hayashi said police officials better have their stories straight when they go public. 
 
 He said he was there when the horrific ordeal went down and knows exactly what happened: his father died in handcuffs on the floor of his own home. 
 
 'A lot of commotion' 
 
 Hayashi had gone to bed around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. Earlier that day, he had taken his young son and daughter to Breckenridge, Colorado, a Gold Rush-era town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where they went shopping, had lunch and just had a tiring but "great day," he said. 
 
 His 11-year-old son crashed on the couch in the living room, while Hayashi shuffled off to his bedroom and fell asleep wearing headphones. 
 
 "Initially, I didn't hear anything," he said. "Then I heard a lot of commotion." 
 
 It was after 1 a.m. 
 
 "I opened my bedroom door, and there's a woman standing there, and she starts saying to me, 'My son is on drugs and he has your baby,'" Hayashi said. 
 
 Black Family 
 
 Hayashi said he had never seen the woman in his life and noticed another stranger in his house standing off to his right side. He said he saw the bathroom light on and panic coursed through his body when he remembered his son had fallen asleep on the couch. 
 
 "I just immediately shot into the bathroom to find this naked guy soaking wet, like on his back with his feet out of the tub, choking my son, biting his left ear, and there's blood coming out of my son's ear," he said. 
 
 He said the intruder had also stripped his son naked before pulling him into the tub and turning the water on. 
 
 Hayashi said he dove on top of the attacker and began trying desperately to free his boy, who was screaming. He said the attacker, whose name has not been released, was silent and his eyes were closed. 
 
 "I jabbed him up in the throat with my thumb to get him to release the bite and then I started wailing on him, and we wouldn't let go of the choke and at one point I had jabbed my right thumb into his left eye socket all the way up to the first knuckle. And when he didn't squeal in pain, I got even more worried. But eventually, he let go of my son." 
 
 Hayashi said that once he got his son free, he pulled the man out of the tub. He said he noticed that his stepfather, Black, was in the bathroom as the intruder suddenly became combative again. 
 
 "He tackles my dad into the shower. It's got sliding doors on the shower. The door falls. It breaks the waterline off the toilet, which starts spraying water," he said. 
 
 He said Black managed to fend off the man as he and his dad reached to shut off the water valve to the broken line. 
 
 Intruder shot dead 
 
 While Hayashi was relieved he had gotten his son free of the attacker, the violent encounter was far from over. 
 
 "This naked guy is standing behind my dad, and grabbed a porcelain flower vase and smashed him on the top of the head, and they struggled some more," Hayashi said. "My dad rotates, and he was wearing a bathrobe. He had a smaller-carry weapon, and that's what he pulled out and shot the guy twice in the torso." 
 
 Black had a legal permit to carry a concealed weapon, Hayashi added. 
 
 The intruder hit the floor, sprawled out from the bathtub to the wall. The alleged attacker, Harper, had twice been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, once in 2011 and again in 2013, according to records obtained from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation by ABC affiliate station KMGH-TV in Denver. Both times the charges were either dropped or reduced, according to the CBI records. 
 
 Hayashi said that after shooting Harper, his father ran out of the bathroom. 
 
 "My dad exited the bathroom, went around the corner and I immediately heard multiple shots, which I thought was my dad engaging these other people in the house," Hayashi said. "There was a pause, and then I hear people enter the house." 
 
 He recalled hearing three shots, followed by officers yelling "police." 
 
 "They shot the first thing they saw moving, in my opinion," Hayashi said. "All the officer's spent cartridges were outside the house. So, they shot through the open door into the house." 
 
 David Brown, the former police chief of Dallas, Texas, told ABC News that officers, in general, should always identify themselves when they arrive at a chaotic scene. 
 
 Aurora Police Department 
 
 "You want to make contact, you want to identify yourself as a police officer even though you are in uniform and marked squad car -- you want to make sure the homeowner clearly understands you are on the scene," Brown said. 
 
 He said if the evidence shows that police did shoot through an open door of the home, from the outside in, that would be a "tactical error." 
 
 "It's not advised," Brown said. "It's so tactically unsound, and, from a safety standpoint, one of the worst things you can do discharging your weapon." 
 
 'I knew when I touched him that he was gone' 
 
 Hayashi said his son started screaming at police, saying, "'I'm here with my dad, this crazy guy tried to attack me.'" 
 
 "Then," Hayashi continued, "officers entered the bathroom, and that's when I realized my son was naked as well as this man. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around my son because he was soaking wet and bleeding." 
 
 He said he lifted his son up and handed him over the dead man's body to a police officer. 
 
 "Officers are rushing me out of the house, and as I turn the corner, my dad is down, face down, kind of rotated to the right and I can see the left side of his face and he's handcuffed," Hayashi said. "I reach down, and I don't remember if I touched his shoulder or his face, but he looked at me and I got pushed off by an officer and out the door." 
 
 The long wait 
 
 He said he glanced back at the house as he was being led down the driveway and saw the heavy oak front door had been knocked down. It was propped up against his mother's sewing machine, the one she uses to make blankets for Aurora police officers. 
 
 As police were putting him in the back of a patrol car, the woman he initially encountered in his house when he opened his bedroom door was standing across the street, yelling, "You shot my baby!" 
 
 He said he then started yelling at the police, "'That's the woman who was in my house. You need to get her and whoever else is here.'" 
 
 Hayashi said he and his mother were taken to police headquarters and placed in a room with the woman who claimed to be the dead attacker's mother and another man he assumed was in his house, too. He said he got into a yelling match with the man and almost came to blows before police moved him and his mom to another room. 
 
 "My mom keeps asking, 'How's my husband? How's my grandbaby?'" he said, adding that he was unable to bring himself to tell her that he believed Black was dead. 
 
 After waiting for several hours, Hayashi and his mother gave police their statements and then were led into another room where a police commander told them about Black. 
 
 Before leaving the police station, Hayashi said, a police official told him something about Black that isn't true. 
 
 "I was told that he was told to drop the weapon and he didn't," Hayashi said. "I never heard anything about 'drop your weapon.' There was no warning at all. They should have been yelling from the moment they hit the driveway, 80 feet down. It's a long driveway. They should have been yelling, especially as many police officers as there were on scene." 
 
 Siddhartha Rathod, an attorney for the Blacks, told ABC News: "Mr. Black saved his grandson's life and more than likely the life of his son. ... Mr. Black stopped the intruder in the bathroom, saved his grandson, left the bathroom and was shot seconds later. It wasn't until after he was shot that Mr. Black's son heard the police announce themselves. The facts are suggesting that Mr. Black was never given an opportunity to put down his firearm, to do anything except die." 
 
 Loving grandfather 
 
 Hayashi told ABC News his mother and Black had been married for 39 years, and that they had raised him and his siblings to always respect the law. 
 
 "She's a wreck," he said of his mother. "She was injured trying to exit the house, and it's just horrific." 
 
 He said that as a boy, he remembered seeing his stepfather's medals from Vietnam. 
 
 "I've seen his Purple Heart and his Bronze Star, but he never bragged," he said. "He was in military intelligence, and that was classified, and he didn't talk about it. He was a graduate of The Citadel, the class of '66, and he immediately went to Vietnam for three or four years. He was injured multiple times and medically discharged." 
 
 He said that when he was in high school, Black went back to school and got a double degree in computer science and accounting. He ended up landing a job at the U.S. Treasury Department and retired from the agency. 
 
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 He said his father, who would mow neighbor's lawns when they were sick, spent most of his time gardening and doting on his four grandchildren. 
 
 "That was his world," Hayashi said, adding that Black had even built a zip-line in his backyard for his grandkids to play on. "It's just heartbreaking. My dad was the nicest guy. He was quiet and very, very reserved. I think everybody who ever met him liked him." 
 
 Police camp 
 
 In the week before Black's shooting, according to Hayashi, his son had gone to the Commerce City, Colorado, Cop Camp for Kids in Grand Peaks. 
 
 "On Sunday morning," Hayashi said, "had you asked my son what he thought of police officers, he would have told you, 'They're the baddest dudes ever.'" 
 
 Hayashi's son woke up early and went on hikes with officers every morning at camp. 
 
 "And now all he can think about is, the police shot his grandfather and he saw his grandfather handcuffed, and now he can't understand why they wouldn't help him," Hayashi said. "He's just traumatized."
– Police say a Cincinnati father, thinking he heard an intruder in his basement, fatally shot his 14-year-old son Tuesday morning, the AP reports. According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, the father dropped his son off at the bus stop before returning home. When he heard a noise in his basement, he assumed his son was at school and got a gun to check it out, the AP reports. Police say he fired a shot "after apparently being startled," and his son was hit in the neck. The teen was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries, the Inquirer reports. No charges have been filed, and the names of the father and son haven't been released. According to the AP, the father is cooperating with the police investigation. (In December, a Florida mother fatally shot her 27-year-old daughter she mistook for an intruder.)