Witness recounts shooting spree at apartment complex

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - An eyewitness nearly caught in the crossfire Wednesday during a shooting spree at an apartment complex on the northeast side of Indianapolis recalled some of the most intense moments.

The resident, Ben, heard the gunshots as he was putting a battery on a car. At first, he said, he thought it was firecrackers, but then he saw and heard this:

“I look over and see the maintenance man, and he is running over full-speed, and he says, ‘He is shooting at me! Oh my God, he is shooting at me! He is shooting at me!’ I see the guy standing there, reloading his gun,” Ben said. “I take off around the corner – me, my brother and the maintenance man."

As they ran one way, he said, the gunman ran the other way, around the other side of the apartment. That’s when they heard it again.

"He started shooting again, and we ran up to the apartment. ... the maintenance man ran across the street, and I called the cops," Ben said. At that point, he said, that's all he could do.

His roomate saw the killer go on the hunt.

"He said he saw him try to kick in that door. When I came back out to check what was going on, I saw the cops had gone up there, and they were getting ready to go in, and I realized that window to that apartment, he could see out."

His reflection, after the fact: "What can we do now except hope it doesn't happen again?"

But a final thought: He worried about the maintenance man who ran for his life.

"Was he bad, was he badly hurt?" Ben asked.

Six hours later police, were still not releasing that information.