Rookie Handles 911 Call: Intruder Shot

With just six months of dispatching experience, Botetourt County (Virg.) dispatcher Laura Crawford jumped into a 911 call from a man who reported an intruder, and who then shot and killed the man. The man initially reported a stranger outside his home at night, with his wife and children inside. Within a short time, the man broke a back glass window and came into the house. The homeowner fired a shotgun at the man twice, killing him. “I just sat there. I was in shock.  It just shocked me how fast it went to someone’s outside to someone’s laying outside,” Crawford told a reporter. Read an interview with Crawford here, and another interview here.