Michael Jackson’s father, Joe, says he did everything he could, short of firing his way into Michael’s home, to save his son.

“…in the last weeks before his death it wasn’t possible to reach him. I stood in front of his house and the security blocked my way,” Jackson told German newspaper Bild.

“I even called the police. I did everything. I went as far as thinking, ‘I’ll go home. Take my guns and shoot my way to Michael’.”

Later admitting that he believed Michael would be dead within a week, Jackson says “I said to my wife, ‘Katherine, we have to get out the boy from there or he’ll be dead in a week’. One week later he was dead.”