Sarah: I don’t see how they couldn’t have. I was screaming so loud the neighbors could have heard me.
Bill: And then what happened?
Sarah: I was left in the house alone with Billy, and I, ah, kind of walked out of my room; I saw blood, I saw shotgun shells, I saw him standing in his doorway with a gun in his hand, and, uh, I just kind of talked to him to see…
Bill: What did you ask him?
Sarah: I asked him what the hell have you done, what the hell have you done, over and over again. I just, he was moaning, he was incoherent, and just sort of, he didn’t really look at me, it was like, uh…
Bill: Kind of saw through you?
Sarah: Exactly. And he, ah, just kept telling me, “They broke my arm, I think they broke my arm, blah, blah, blah”, and then I walked past him down the stairs trying to exit the house, when I got to the bottom of the stairs and when I got to where the stairs led past the foyer, an officer saw me and told me to get down on the ground, get down on the ground, so I got on the ground but I was still in the house, and um.
Bill: You were on the ground but still in the house?
Sarah: Yes. I sat there for a minute, thinking they would come back in, maybe they would see me, obviously they saw me, because they told me to get on the ground, but nobody came, and I was within range of him (the shooter) at the top of the stairs. I didn’t know if I was in danger, as two police officers had just been shot. I walked back through the house to the backyard and lit a cigarette; I was scared shitless; two officers told me not to move, and I didn’t - and then they tased me - from the woods when I wasn’t even moving or doing anything but what they told me to do.
Bill: And then what happened?
Sarah: I saw two or three officers running around from the side of the house and they tackled me, hand-cuffed me, and carted me off to the cop car.
Bill: After they questioned you, did they offer you any ideas of where you might go for counseling after just witnessing two police officers getting shot, and them leaving you in the house with the shooter?
Sarah: No, none what-so-ever.
Bill: Did they offer to take you to a hospital?
Sarah: No.
Bill: Did they explain why they tased you?
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