CNN CNN Special Report January 4, 2015 03:07:00
Eli wasn't breathing. he was blue in the face. >> you had to call your mom. >> i called her when i went outside, waiting for 911. >> and told her? >> told her eli died. >> were you able to fully tell her why? >> no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him more or less. i felt like i'd failed him. >> justin rippentropp was a teen when elijah stein's family had taken him in, raised him as their own. >> after everything they'd done for me, and eli was laying there dead and i was alive. >> elijah suffered multiple organ failures and went into cardiac arrest, cutting the oxygen supply to his brain....