INDIANAPOLIS — Nate Baird is self-employed as an appliance repair and HVAC technician. He went to an east side Indianapolis home on Payton Avenue, near 10th Street and North Shortridge Road, Monday morning to work on a clothes dryer with a heat problem. He says Reba Wilson claimed her dryer was under warranty and refused to pay the $70 service fee once he had diagnosed the problem.
"She said, 'I don't want to pay that.' I said, ‘Well, I don't work for free.' So, I went to leave, and she pointed a gun at me right in the front of her house and forced me to stay there and said, ‘You're going to fix my dryer,'" Baird said.
Baird says he acted like he was going to put the dryer back together but instead ran out the back door. Baird says he never looked back as he ran around the house but heard one shot and Wilson yell, "I'll pop a cap in you’re a**!'"
Baird took off in his truck and called police, who arrested Wilson at the house.
"I just hope she gets some help,” Baird said.
Police say they found a single shell casing in plain view sitting on top of a dryer door in the kitchen, and they found a gun under a couch.
“I’m just worried for my safety if I go around to someone else's house if something like that happens again,” Baird said. “It'd be definitely scary."
Wilson is charged with criminal confinement, intimidation, criminal recklessness, pointing a gun at someone and being a serious violent felon with a gun. She makes her initial court appearance on those charges Friday morning.