INDIANAPOLIS — Three little voices could be heard coming from the top of a flight of stairs.
Those were voices Rodney Weather feared he'd never hear again.
"I really had the decision to really just lay there and die or get up and try and do something," Weather said.
It was less than a week ago when IMPD responded to Broadway and 31st streets on a report of a person shot. That's where they found Weather, lying on the floor of his home with gunshot wounds.
"I thought it was over for me. So, I just tried to get up and use whatever time I had left, was what I thought was protect my family," Weather recalled as tears fell down his face.
Weather said he was sleeping on the couch when he woke up to the sound of keys jingling and someone unlocking his front door.
One week prior to the shooting, Weather said someone took off with his car while he ran inside to grab a couple of things before going into work.
Weather said he kept telling himself to change the locks, but before he could do so, the suspects came back.
"As I sit fully up, the door fully opens, and I'm almost asking, 'Who the eff are you guys?' And they just fired. So, immediately, it was just firing. There wasn't any talking," Weather said.
Weather was hit by four bullets. His wife and three kids were asleep upstairs.
"They could have (shot) me and went upstairs versus running out the house," Weather said.
But as Weather sits on the couch, which is now pierced with bullet holes, he's in disbelief on how a life he spent trying to avoid came right to his doorstep.
"When you're focused on trying to do the right thing, you forget sometimes that there are plenty of people that wake up and are looking to do the wrong thing, and that's what one of those situations was," Weather said.
According to Weather, no suspects have been arrested.