KENTWOOD, MI - Glen Stacy was doing yard work when a shirtless boy in jean shorts walked up to him Monday night and asked to borrow his phone.

“Hi. I just stabbed somebody. Please pick me up. I want to die. I don’t want to be on this earth anymore. Please pick me up,” the boy said into the phone after dialing 911, Stacy said.

That 6 p.m. call led to the discovery of a young stabbing victim in the vicinity of a playground near Pinebrook Village, 444 Bellewood St., according to Stacy and reports from the scene.

While Kentwood Police released little information other than saying the incident involved two young children, other media outlets reported the stabbing victim was critically injured in the attack.

Perhaps even more unsettling: The alleged suspect told Stacy he didn't know who he'd hurt - he'd simply stabbed someone on the playground.

“He was very calm,” Stacy said.

Stacy said he had been getting out his ladder to do some yard work when the boy, whom he described as looking about 10 years old, walked up and asked Stacy's neighbors on the other side of the street if he could use their phone.

When they said they didn’t have one on them, the boy turned to Stacy, 34.

As the boy spoke on Stacy's phone, Stacy said he continued to work with his ladder, not wanting to alarm the boy.

The child told dispatchers he hated his life and had “taken many pills” on Monday. He told the dispatcher he felt like no one loves him, Stacy said.

Around that time, Stacy said a bloody knife was discovered in a neighbor's yard.

Stacy said he asked the boy if he could speak to the 911 dispatcher.

The boy wordlessly handed the phone over, and Stacy told dispatcher that despite the claim about pills, the child wasn’t shaking and his eyes weren’t dilated.

“The only time he raised his voice was when the police came," Stacy said.

Stacy said police first went to aid the stabbing victim. When officers started heading toward the playground area, the boy on Stacy’s lawn yelled “Hello. I’m right here. You’re going the wrong way.”

Within another minute or so, more police arrived and the boy walked out to them in the street with his hands held in front of him, as if to be handcuffed, Stacy said.

“To see a kid this young not to feel loved, I’m really saddened,” Stacy said. “I hope he gets the help that he needs. This kid is reaching out for help -- I can tell -- but he’s reaching for it in the wrong ways.”

Both children were taken away from the scene in ambulances, Stacy said.