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This is the moment an anguished voice screams down the phone to cops after a three-year-old toddler was horrifically shot dead at a birthday party.
Rylo Yancy was playing on a slide when a driver shot him at around 4.30pm at Riverland Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday.
'I need an ambulance at Riverland Park,' the woman frantically screamed in a 911 call obtained by WSVN. 'A baby just got shot.'
Emergency responders found the toddler with life-threatening injuries after several 911 calls. Yancy was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died.
'How tf [the f**k] y'all kill a baby going down the slide being a KID?' his mother, who goes by thegirldej_ on Instagram, wrote. 'My soul, my heart smiles and lights up for you...not your typical three-year-old...so SMART and different to know you is to know you [are] one of a ki[n]d.'
Rylo Yancy (pictured with his mom) was playing on the slide when an unidentified driver shot him around 4:30pm at Riverland Park in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday
Police marked off a bullet hole in the slide, as well as, 25 other evidence markings that show the violence that occurred.
City of Fort Lauderdale workers were seen repairing the playground, according to WSVN.
The park, which is still covered in party decorations, has been temporarily shut down.
Fort Lauderdale Police have identified one of the cars involved, according to NBC Miami.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. The motive is unknown at this time.
Emergency responders found the toddler with life-threatening injuries after receiving several 911 calls. Yancy was transported to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died
Police marked off a bullet hole in the slide, as well as, 25 other evidence markings that show the violence that occurred
Yancy's mother remembers her little boy's love for church and said he and his cousin grew up 'like siblings.'
'Mommy will forever be so obsessed with you,' she wrote on Instagram.
His father, who goes by freebandfivee on Instagram, posted a photo of the little boy snuggling with him, writing: 'Damn You Don't Know How Much You Hurt Me Son, I Love You Forever Rest Easy I Promise We Gone Paint The City Red Tonight.'
'I can't live without my auney [Yancy], I can't sleep, I can't eat, god why?' his aunt Quinniesha Isaac wrote on Instagram.
The boy (pictured with his father) had recently turned three in May
'Mommy will forever be so obsessed with you,' his mother wrote on Instagram. Several family members took to social media to honor the young child, with his aunt Quinniesha Isaac saying she 'can't sleep' or 'eat' following the tragedy
Yancy's grandfather, who was not identified, was seen getting in a confrontation with police at the park, before collapsing into the officer's arms in grief.
'My heart has been broken to see this and hear about a child, an innocent child, that knows nothing about nothing,' Lillie Charles, who lives near Riverland Park, told WSVN.
'Just enjoying a birthday party and then all of a sudden this happens and I feel so bad for the parents.'
Joan Goodie, who also lives near the park, said her heart 'breaks' or the family as she knows what it feels like to lose a child. She lost her own to a stabbing.
'It just breaks my heart. It put me back in a place where I don't want to go,' she told WSVN.
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