CINCINNATI (AP) — Police in Cincinnati say a man has fatally shot his 14-year-old son in their home, thinking he was an intruder. 
 
 Police say the man thought his son had caught the bus for school Tuesday morning, but the teen returned home soon afterward. Police say the man heard a noise in the basement and checked on it with a gun in his hand. Police say the father fired after apparently being startled, hitting the boy in the neck. 
 
 Authorities say the father called 911 and the boy was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he died Tuesday morning. 
 
 Police Lt. Steve Saunders says the father is being interviewed by police and has been cooperative. 
 
 No names were released immediately. ||||| The home in the 1200 block of Blanchard Ave in East Price Hill where a man shot and killed his 14-year-old son. (Photo: Patrick Brennan) 
 
 It was a call that can only be described as wrenching. 
 
 "I just shot my son by accident," a distraught father sobbed to a Cincinnati police 911 operator. 
 
 "Oh God. Get here quick." 
 
 "Please hurry." 
 
 The man, believing his 14-year-old son was at school, fatally shot the boy in the neck when he mistook him for an intruder at their East Price Hill home Tuesday morning. 
 
 Police say they are investigating the shooting. 
 
 The shooting at 1216 Blanchard Ave. occurred around 6:30 a.m. The father, whose name has not been released, had recently dropped his son, Georta Mack, off at the school bus stop but the teen returned home, police said. 
 
 After hearing a noise in the basement, the father grabbed a handgun to investigate. Georta startled the man, according to the frantic 911 call, and was accidentally shot in the neck. 
 
 Throughout the call Georta's father begs police to hurry, asking God why this has happened. He tells police his son is struggling to breathe as he held a cloth to his neck to slow the bleeding. 
 
 Shortly after, he exclaimed that his son stopped breathing. 
 
 Georta was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Shortly after 8:15 a.m., the boy was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital. 
 
 Police Lt. Steve Saunders says the father is being interviewed by police and has been cooperative. 
 
 A father mistook his 14-year-old son for an intruder and shot him in the neck, killing him, at a East Price Hill home on Tuesday morning, according to Cincinnati police. 
 
 Neighbors were seen crying as they shared the news of the shooting on snow-covered Blanchard Avenue hours later. 
 
 "He's only 14 years old," one woman said through tears. 
 
 Neighbors said Georta lived in the home with his 73-year-old father. They said the two seemed to get along well. 
 
 Angela Roberts, who has lived in the neighborhood in a friend's home there for about a year, said Georta was a "good kid,'' who would often mow her friend's lawn and help with yard work. 
 
 "From everything I knew, he was a pretty good kid." 
 
 Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac called the shooting a "terrible, terrible tragedy'' at a press conference Tuesday. "It's unimaginable really.'' 
 
 ​ Isaac said the father told police the teen returned home to skip school. Isaac said the teen had some recent trouble at school but did not elaborate. 
 
 Isaac said that while owning a gun is an individual choice, that gun owners should be responsible, prepared and well-trained. He also said the everyone in the home should be aware that guns are kept in the home. 
 
 Officers were discussing the case with the Hamilton County Prosecutor's office. Isaac said he did not know if the father would be charged in the case. 
 
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– Police say a Cincinnati father, thinking he heard an intruder in his basement, fatally shot his 14-year-old son Tuesday morning, the AP reports. According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, the father dropped his son off at the bus stop before returning home. When he heard a noise in his basement, he assumed his son was at school and got a gun to check it out, the AP reports. Police say he fired a shot "after apparently being startled," and his son was hit in the neck. The teen was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries, the Inquirer reports. No charges have been filed, and the names of the father and son haven't been released. According to the AP, the father is cooperating with the police investigation. (In December, a Florida mother fatally shot her 27-year-old daughter she mistook for an intruder.)