Deputy unresponsive amid suspicious person and gunshot call, Evansville IN


A deputy has not responded to radio checks during an investigation of a suspicious person near a wood line in Evansville. A neighbor reported hearing a gunshot from a rifle and saw a person wearing a yellow shirt climbing a tree southwest of a garage.
Audio|Source: Evansville Police and Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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There's a deputy that's on a run has not been heard. They've been doing, trying to dispatch, been checking the status on the radio and not heard from. It's a suspicious person.
00:11
One through the wood line.
00:14
I have not heard from the deputy and would not respond to the radio.
00:18
Yeah,
00:22
we have handles.
00:26
Rush five, four hundred one.
00:28
Is anything across the fence line where you're at?
00:34
We're clear, we're pumped now, but we're going to hit the handles.
00:38
I get that is. Can you see if anything is cross the fence from where you're at? Do we need to hit it from this side?
00:45
Negative. The fire line's right here right to the right side of our truck.
00:51
Okay.
00:53
Agent 1 from Adam 4, just north of the telephone poles where I'm at, you've got a little bit burning.
01:06
Evansville 3531, I'll be 1041, runs up post, mission service.
01:14
Unit 1, there's still no contact on the radio.
01:22
We get a call from a neighbor about hearing a shot being fired, so like some type of rifle.
01:35
Brain core experience.
01:42
Clear.
01:48
One responding,
01:50
the same neighbor's calling in, somebody sees his neighbor climbing a tree,
01:57
that's to the southwest of his garage, and I'll wear a yellow shirt,
02:05
that is all he's climbing a tree.
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