FOUNTAIN, Fla. - In a 911 call released Monday a 25-year-old man calmly tells a dispatcher that he shot and killed his parents and is waiting for deputies to arrest him.
"Hey dog, I killed my mom and dad," Ricky Morris told the operator, who remained on the phone with Morris for nine minutes Sunday night, talking with him until officers reached the rural home and arrested Morris without incident.
"Matter of fact, I'll be waiting by the gate. I ain't got no guns or nothing," he told the Bay County Sheriff's Office dispatcher, who asked him to clarify what had happened.
"They're dead buddy," Morris told the unidentified dispatcher. "They just got shot, you all come by and pick me up."
Later, Morris said he wanted to kill his brother, who was not home at the time. He said his parents had abused another family member and that his parents wrongly claimed he suffered from schizophrenia.
Morris was living with his father as a condition of his probation on a firearms charge. Court records show he had been arrested several times on felony charges and has been committed in the past to a state mental institution.
In a statement released late Friday, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said child protection investigators found Morris' abuse allegations unfounded.
According to police reports and initial autopsy results, Raymond Morris, 51, was shot twice in the face and Debra Morris, 50, was shot once in the head.
In the 911 call, Morris said his parents were crying when he shot them.
"If my brother don't come home everything's fine, but if my brother comes home I've got one little bullet," he said.
The dispatcher asked Morris if he was expecting the brother and whether he had the gun with him outside. Morris answered no to both questions.
The dispatcher then encouraged Morris to remain on the phone.
"They deserved it in the name of God, they deserved it," Morris later told the dispatcher, who again worked to calm Morris.
"Well my deputies don't deserve it, so I'm glad you put the gun down. That's the main thing," the dispatcher said.
As deputies arrived, the dispatcher instructed Morris to lay on the ground.
"I'll tell you what, God bless you. You pray about this, OK," Morris said.
"All right sir, good luck," the dispatcher responded.
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