A dramatic 911 call reveals the heartbreaking moment a tow truck driver discovered unresponsive 3-year-old twins in an SUV on Interstate 95, shortly before their mother, Shirlene Alcime, jumped off a highway overpass. The twins, Milendhet and Milendhere G. Napoleon-Cadet were found inside a Toyota Highlander in the early hours of Feb. 2, and despite the efforts to revive them, they were later pronounced dead, reported by CBS News.
The 911 call, released Thursday, captured the tow truck driver’s urgent attempt to save the children. “There’s a lady that needs help for her kids,” the driver told the dispatcher. When asked what was wrong, Alcime’s voice can be heard saying, “They’re not waking up, they’re not waking up, the kids.”
The dispatcher directed the driver to check if the twins were breathing, but the grim reality soon set in. “Ah man, they not breathing, nah bro,” the driver responded, his voice filled with disbelief.
The dispatcher quickly guided him through chest compressions, instructing him to lay one of the children on the ground. “He’s bleeding out of his nose, man, he got foam, he got stuff coming out of his nose,” the driver exclaimed, struggling to process what was happening. Despite his efforts, the children remained unresponsive. “Don’t give up, ok? This will keep them going until the paramedics arrive,” the dispatcher urged.
As the driver worked to resuscitate one child, he asked Alcime to do the same for her daughter. “Pump her chest, pump it,” he encouraged, but the tragedy took an even darker turn when the first responders arrived.
Amid the chaos, Alcime walked away from the scene and, without warning, threw herself off the overpass. “What happened, what the f—!” the driver shouted in shock. “Some crazy s— going on down here, man.”
Alcime survived the fall and was later arrested and charged with manslaughter in her children’s deaths. An autopsy listed the twins’ cause of death as “homicide by unspecified means,” but toxicology reports could not determine what caused them to foam at the mouth.
In an arrest report, Alcime admitted to plotting the deaths for two months due to financial struggles. “I never imagined that this would happen with my family,” said the children’s father, Milson Cadet, who remains without answers. Alcime has since pleaded not guilty.