US authorities have released a heartbreaking emergency call made after tragic Cimarron Thomas shot herself rather than submit to the twisted demands of catfish abuser Alexander McCartney.
In the call you can clearly hear an operator giving instructions to try to save the life of the 12-year-old girl while she was dying on the floor of her parents’ room.
The male operator repeatedly tells the caller, a neighbor who ran to help after being alerted by Cimarrón’s younger sister, to take “rags and put pressure on the wound.”
Also in a calm but firm voice, the operator asks several times if the firearm used in the suicide is insured.
Cimarron shot himself with his U.S. Army veteran father’s Heck and Kockler pistol, which was unsecured and found in a drawer next to his bed in his home in the rural town of Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.
A new photograph of Cimarron Thomas, 12, of Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, released today following the sentencing of Alexander McCartney, which led her to take her own life.
A mugshot of Alexander McCartney who admitted manslaughter in connection with Cimarron’s death.
Cimarron shot himself in the rural town of Bruceton Mills, West Virginia (Google Street View)
In the horrific messages between Alexander McCartney and one of his child victims, his perverted tactics are laid bare as he can be seen joking and flirting before suddenly turning nasty.
His nine-year-old sister thought she heard a sound like a balloon bursting, but she fatally wounded Cimarrón as she entered the bedroom.
While her parents were out for the night, the terrified young woman ran to a neighbor’s house for help.
The call begins with the 911 operator asking “Did you fall?” then, after hearing a barely audible response on the tape, he says ‘did he shoot himself?’
The neighbor is repeatedly told to ‘put pressure on the wound’ and he informs the operator that Cimarrón is still breathing.
Cimarron Thomas (left) with his US Army veteran father, Ben Thomas, who later took his own life after being consumed by guilt for leaving his gun where his daughter could access it.
Cimarrón and Ben Thomas with their mother Stephanie. The double tragedy destroyed the family
He instructs Cimmaron to be placed on his side to help her breathe. The harrowing call ends with the emergency manager saying, “We have help on the way.”
Cimarrón was rushed to the hospital but later died on May 11, 2018.
His father Ben, overcome with grief and guilt, took his own life 18 months later and his wife Stephanie said he had lost the will to live.
It was not until 2021 that the family discovered the reason for Cimarron’s suicide and how McCartney had led her to take her life.
He had tricked her by posing as a teenager and persuading her to send him an intimate photo.
Cimarron Thomas (pictured) was the subject of sickening online blackmail by McCartney and used his father’s gun to take his own life.
Alexander McCartney (pictured), 26, operated from the bedroom of his family home in rural Northern Ireland and persuaded young girls to send naked photographs of themselves.
Belfast Crown Court heard how, 15 minutes after contacting Cimarron, he attempted to blackmail her into complying with his sick demands.
He asked her to get her younger sister involved and when she refused, he threatened to send the compromising photo to the first person on her contact list: her father.
Crying and begging to be left alone, McCartney persisted in the humiliation by telling her to “dry her eyes.”
When Cimarrón said he was going to shoot himself, he started a countdown and told him: ‘Goodbye and good luck.’
Just two years after his arrest in 2019, when numerous devices were seized and examined, police found a copy of the conversation on his laptop.