Dr. Kendall Crowns

And I said to her, well, actually, I'm one of the medical examiners of this county.

And this is the bird that was shot by my neighbor on my fence right next to me when I was watering my tomatoes.

The sheriff's officer said, well, okay, I don't need to see the dead bird, but you can show me where this incident occurred.

And I put the bird down and we walked into the backyard where my garden was.

i was pointing out to her where i was standing when the bird died and she said where was the shooter at i turned and i pointed at the door my neighbor had shot from and when i did that i saw him standing on his deck eavesdropping on what i was saying to the sheriff's officer

And I said to her, well, that's him right there.

He's the one that shot at me.

And the sheriff's officer said, sir, I'd like to speak to you.

His eyes got real wide and he took off running.

And the sheriff's officer started yelling, excuse me, sir, I need to speak to you.

And he kept running and he ran to his driveway and he got in his golf cart and began driving away at the golf cart's top speed, which wasn't very fast.

The sheriff's officer ran and got into her cruiser and chased after him down the road, and she cut him off with the cruiser and got out saying, Sir, I need to speak to you.

It was quite the spectacle.

But I didn't catch what happened next, because I went in the house, and when she got done with the interview of him, she later called me and told me what the results of her interview had found.

She said that he claimed to be an Air Force sniper, which didn't make a lot of sense.

He claimed that he knew his way around guns and he was using a CO2-charged air rifle and shooting pellets and would never have shot at me intentionally.

But he closed with, because if he wanted to shoot me, he could have done it, and he wouldn't have missed, because, you know, he was a sniper.

And he told her his true intentions were to just get rid of the doves, because he found their cooing to be irritating, and he didn't like birds, and the birds needed to go.

And she told him what he had done constituted a reckless act.

and he could be charged with reckless endangerment.