FLINT, MI – Stephen Anthor pressed his hands on the neck of Kenneth White and begged 911 dispatchers to hurry up with an ambulance.

A rock had just smashed through Anthor’s work van as he drove south on Interstate 75 in Vienna Township on Oct. 18, 2017.

Anthor’s nearly 15-minute call with dispatchers was played in Genesee Circuit Court on Thursday, Feb. 21 as part of Mark Sekelsky and Alexzander Miller’s hearing before Judge Joseph J. Farah.

“I got a guy bleeding out. I got a busted windshield and my buddy’s heads about gone,” Anthor told dispatchers. “Kenny, don’t die, man. Come on Kenny, wake up man. Come on man, please. I can’t get a response from him.”

White, 32, died after the rock was tossed from the Dodge Road overpass onto southbound Interstate 75.

Farah must decide if Sekelsky, 17, and Miller, 16, will be sentenced as juveniles as part of plea deals.

Others juveniles charged in the case include 16-year-old Trevor A. Gray and Mikadyn M. Payne, 17. Kyle J. Anger, 19, will be sentenced as an adult in the case.

“The presumption for an adult sentence has to be overcome,” Farah said in court. “Which sentence might better protect the public – in the end – that’s what the court’s determination is all about.”

Anthor testified White was constantly helping other people.

The day before he was killed, Anthor said White made him pull the truck over so White could shovel out a man who was struggling to clear snow from his driveway.

Anthor also testified the man tried to pay White, but White wouldn’t allow it.

“He said the old man said he didn’t have any kids and if he did, he’d hoped they’d be like him,” Anthor said. “I think the punishment should fit the crime. You can sugarcoat it any way you want. They went and picked up the boulder. They knew what they were doing. I think it needs to be dealt with harshly. Kenneth’s not coming back.”

Over and over again, Anthor could be heard on the 911 call pleading for an ambulance and begging for White to hang on until help arrive.

During the playing of the recording White’s mother left the courtroom sobbing on Thursday.

White’s family and friends wore shirts Thursday that said “Justice for Kenneth” and had a photo of White on it.

“Come on man, we got that fishing trip to go to,” Anthor was heard saying on the 911 recording. “Kenny, please.”

Psychologist Jennifer Zoftowski testified on behalf of Sekelsky and said the teen would be better served if he were sentenced as a juvenile because he could get the needed services and would be less likely to reoffend.

Zoftowski said Sekelsky didn’t get out of the vehicle at the first stop to throw items off the overpass, but did later because of his desire to fit in.

She said Sekelsky’s brain was developed enough to understand the severity of what he was doing and believed nothing would happen and he wouldn’t get caught.

“I do not believe that he went out there with the intention of hurting anyone,” Zoftowski testified. “I do believe that through intervention, he can be at about as low-risk as possible.”

Genesee County Assistant Prosecutor Karen Hanson read Snapchat messages from Sekelsky.

Sekelsky repeatedly tells other suspects charged in the case to “chill out” in the messages Hanson read.

“To me this doesn’t sound like someone who is scared or afraid,” Hanson said. “They’re making up alibis the minute someone died.”

The hearing will continued for all four teens and Farah still has to determine if he’ll allow them to be sentenced as juvenile.

The teens will have 10 of the 11 charges they faced dropped and have a second-degree murder charge amended to manslaughter if the deal is accepted in Genesee Circuit Court.

All of them will then testify against Anger as part of the plea deal.

Attorney James Gust said Miller was barely 15-years-old at the time of the incident.

He said Miller had no prior criminal past and did not participate in the Snapchat conversations about the alleged crime.

“I’d just like the court to not lose sight as to how young he was at the time of this incident,” Gust told the court.

The teens previously told the court they loaded rocks, car parts and other items into Anger’s Ford pickup truck and proceeded to throw 10- to 12-inch rocks from the overpass onto I-75. Anger testified he threw four rocks, Gray and Payne testified throwing three each and Sekelsky testified to throwing two.

Gray and Payne had similar hearings last week.