HARRISBURG, N.C. — A frantic call for help, critical clues that would help point deputies toward the gunman, and finally tears--they're all in the dramatic 911 call that the wife of a shooting victim in Harrisburg made Friday afternoon to the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office.
"I need police -- there's been gunshots!" said Lisa Kirchner.
"I need the police! Someone's shooting in our neighborhood!"
Right from the start, you can hear the panic -- and later, the heartbreak -- in Lisa Kirchner's voice in the 8 1/2-minute call that must have seemed like 8 1/2 hours.
"My neighbor has a gun and he's shooting it in our neighborhood! He's shooting in my back yard!" Kirchner continued, her voice choked with tears.
Kirchner told the 9-1-1 operator that the neighbor with the gun was named Tony -- who we now know was Anthony Hardy -- and that he was shooting at her husband, Dan Kirchner, and another neighbor we now know was Gary Stocks.
The operator picked up from there:
OPPERATOR: Has anybody gotten shot?
LISA KIRCHNER: I don't know! I came in to get my kids! I'm afraid to go back out!
Moments later she looked outside, and saw what she never wanted to see:
LISA KIRCHNER: Oh my gosh!
OPERATOR: Ma'am?
LISA KIRCHNER: He's down!!
OPERATOR: Ma'am! Hang on with me!
KIRNCHER: Yes, he's down! He's down!
OPERATOR: Alright, who is down?
KIRCHNER: My husband I think!
OPERATOR: Alright, just hang on with me. Just hang on with me!
The operator told Kirchner to stay inside with her children until it was safe.
But a few minutes later she did go out, and her nightmare became all too real -- her husband was gone.
She didn't say if she saw Hardy's other victim, but the shooting had stopped and Hardy was nowhere in sight.
The operator stayed on the line until finally help arrived.
LISA KIRCHNER: My kids are in the house!
OPERATOR: Ok, is the officer there with you?
LISA KIRCHNER: Yes he is!
OPERATOR: OK. I'm going to let you go. They are bringing the EMS truck on in, OK?
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