DD Are you still there?
GJ Hang on
DD Are you still there?
GJ Yeah, I still here.
DD Oh!, oh!
GJ Squad 5, are you able to
DD Huh?
GJ respond?
DD What?
GJ Hang on, just stay with me.55 That’ll be 10—4, what do we have?
GJ Okay, have a possible gunshot victim at uh, 2425 East Kenwood             Street, Apartment 5A, uh, man said a guy broke in with a club and                he has shot him, he don’t know where he is right now.
DD Ah, can you help me?
GJ I do have officers  enroot.
DD What do you want me to do with the gun?
GJ Just, just stay right, you lay the gun down.
DD Huh?
GJ You lay the gun down!
DD Okay, I dropped it.
GJ You stay on the line with me.
DD Yes.
GJ Okay. you step over about 5 foot and lay the gun down. PD (Can’t              understand him.)
PD at this time has layed the gun down.
GJ Hang on, stay, hang on with t Squad 5, Code 3, respond to 2425                  East Kenwood Street, Apartment 5A, man reported he has shot an               intruder, uh, he does not know where the intruder is at this time, we              do have officers enroute.
DD Is someone coming?
GJ Hang on there. Have you layed the gun down?
DD Yeah, yeah, it’s right here in front of the T.V.
GJ Is the apartment in the front or the back?
DD Huh?
GJ Where is your apartment at, in the front?
DD I’m not sure, I just house sitting here.
GJ You don’t know whether it’s in the front or the back?
DD It’s all the way to the end. Uh
GL Just a minute squad. Is it, is it in the front or the back of the                         apartment complex?
DD It’s all the way towards the back.
GJ Toward the back?
DD To the end, all the way to the end.
GJ All the way to the end.
DD Could you get somebody down here, I don’t know where he is.
GJ I’ve got police rolling, hang on.
DD Okay.
GJ Squad 5, what is your traffic?
DD There
GJ 10—4, 2425 East Kenwood Street. Apartment 5A, he says it will be               in the back.






This is the conversation between the Dispatcher at SSPD and  Dustin R. Denton after he shot Joe Dozier.  He claimed Self Defense of his residence at thr trial .