Man shot while walking dog

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The man police say was shot while walking his dog near 56th Street and Dandy Trail Road is back home, and recovering.

Police believe this shooting was connected to a crime spree Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

64-year-old Rex Souter says he was walking his dog Daisy just after 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, as he does most mornings, when an SUV came up and slowed behind him.

“Not a word, not a word… a pistol came out of the window and bam bam bam bam,” explained Souter. “I thought they were going to ask for directions.. that happens sometimes. But the guy pulled out a gun, a pistol, and started firing at me. I started zigging and zagging and running.”

Souter says he ran for cover behind a home, pulling Daisy with him.

“As I looked back, I could see that blue SUV coming back into our neighborhood.. I thought.. oh…. I better hide somewhere.”

He says he hid for just a minute, heard the SUV drive away, and ran to call 911. He says a bullet went through his side.

“Not an experience we want to have again,” he added.

Especially after hearing later, he apparently wasn’t the first victim – or the last – in a dangerous crime spree.

“That’s even more frightening. I feel bad for that family,” he said.

Souter was treated and released from an area hospital with a wound in his side from that bullet. Still, he says he doesn’t feel his neighborhood is any less safe since this act of violence. He says he’ll continue to walk Daisy, adding he’s “Very fortunate, very fortunate.”

Just down the street from this neighborhood, dive teams spent the afternoon and part of the evening searching for evidence that may have been thrown from the suspects’ car near Eagle Creek Reservoir and 56 ^th.