The Guardian has obtained the 9-1-1 call from the Monday morning shooting of a woman in Chillicothe.
The call, which is approximately one-minute-and-thirty-seconds in length is of a man calling into emergency dispatchers saying he just saw the driveby shooting.
“We just had a shooting down here…a drive-by…we have a car sitting in the median strip and a black car with black male driving heading north on Bridge.”
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The call came in just after 10:30 Monday morning by a man who was in the area and said he witnessed the shooting. The Guardian is not releasing the man’s name since the suspects are still on the loose.
“It sounded like gunshots going off. It sounded like gunshots! It sounded like gunshots, I’m telling you,” the witness was adamant to dispatchers. “Somebody was shooting in that car.”
The dispatcher, who seemed rather calm on the phone and somewhat in disbelief, asked if someone was hurt.
“Sir, did you say someone was hit?”
“There is a silver car sitting in the median with the horn blowing,” the man said.
The call concluded with the emergency communicator telling the frantic man that help was on the way. Later, police would find four bullet holes in a 62-year-old woman’s silver car, including one that shattered her driver window. She was slouched over the steering wheel.
The Ross County Sheriff’s office and Ohio BCI are investigating the shooting. The victim was taken to Adena Medical Center. Police have not said if the shooting was random or if the woman was targeted.
The Sheriff’s office released a picture of a car from a nearby security camera that they said might be the shooter’s getaway car. So far, no one has been taken into custody for the crime.
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