Sandra Chapman/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis, Aug. 20 - Dispatch: 335, where are you?
Officer Conley: I - I've been shot. Don't go down that street. Nobody go down that street. In my car. I've been hit. I've been hit."
Officer Tim Conley was first on the scene, first to get shot.
His chilling call for help was the start of a chaotic night, Kenneth Anderson was on a deadly rampage.
Officer: Control, can we get the medic through if possible. I've got the medic with me at State and Nelson. We've got a second officer down.
Dispatch: 64, can you advise who it is?
Officer: 421 is down. We need a medic here.
Radio lines jammed, officers wanted suspect information, medics and direction. Sixteen minutes and five wounded officers later Officer Peter Koe's commanding voice takes over.
Officer Koe: Everybody stop talking. The suspect is down. He is 10-zero. Set the perimeter at Troy, two streets west, two streets east. Stop talking. Get the emergency crews here for the hit officers. I am hit, but it's only a leg wound, no problem.
No problem, Koe's colleagues say he was simply amazing under pressure.
Despite the confusion, officers say the dispatcher also performed with grace under pressure.
Alex Sanz/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis, Aug. 20 - 911: Do you have an emergency?
Caller: I don't know if there's an emergency or not. There's gunshots.
It was an outcome no one expected.
The trouble began just before two o'clock Wednesday morning.
Caller: This man next door is shooting his gun. He's shooting like crazy.
911: Okay, ma'am. I need you to be calm.
Caller: Oh my God. Police officers are all over the place. Oh my God.
The shots, we later learned, were coming from Kenneth Anderson's assault rifle. Anderson, a diagnosed schizophrenic according to police, had killed his mother.
911: You still hear any shots fired?
Caller: Yes. Oh God. Listen.
911: Okay, Dietz.
Caller: Oh my God. I'm scared to death.
911: Okay. What am I going to do?
The gunfire bombarded five Indianapolis Police officers. Four were hurt. Timothy Laird, a four-year-veteran of the force, was dying. He'd become the first IPD officer to die in the line of duty in more than a decade.
911: Can you hear anything?
Caller: He's got an automatic, whatever the hell it is. Someone's going to get killed. And an officer's already down in one of them.
