Boy Calls 911: `My Mom Just Killed US'

SPOKANE - Eleven-year-old Brian Eik's mother told him he was "going to hell" before she shot him, his younger brother, then herself inside their sport-utility vehicle.

Seconds after Debra Eik ended her own life with a bullet to the head, her surviving son picked up her cellular telephone and dialed 911.

"My mom just killed us," Brian told emergency dispatchers the night of Nov. 1. "I don't know what happened. She shot us with a gun. I don't know where we really are. Help me."

The sixth-grader's 30-minute call was made public Friday.

"He's an exceptionally brave, exceptionally bright young man," sheriff's spokesman Dave Reagan said. "He was able to put aside his own pain, his own fear and comply with (the dispatcher's) instructions."

Despite his chest wound, the Spokane Valley boy remained calm and described his surroundings as best he could. He also tried to remember what route his mother traveled in the hours before the shooting.

An operator trying to pinpoint the vehicle's location asked Brian whether his mother told him where they were going as she drove around.

"She said I was going to hell," he answered.

At one point, Brian got out of the car to get the license plate number.

When deputies finally found the vehicle near state Highway 27, 39-year-old Debra Eik and her 6-year-old son, Brandon, were dead. A pistol lay on the front floorboard.

"They're here, they're here," Brian yelled into the phone when he saw lights from an approaching sheriff's cruiser. "Oh, thank you, thank you."

"Get off the phone, go to them," the dispatcher said.

"OK," he said. "Bye."

Detectives probably will never know what made the mother shoot her sons that night, sheriff's Lt. John Simmons said.

Brian was released from the hospital several weeks ago and reportedly returned to school recently.