MrBallen

He stumbled forward almost uncontrollably and then whipped around and called out for Kem.

But his ears were ringing now and he couldn't really tell if she had answered.

There was smoke pouring out from the front door of their house.

And instinctively, he just ran into the house, into the foyer to go find Kem.

When he got in there, there's all this smoke and chaos.

There's shards of broken glass everywhere.

And also he noticed all these little pieces of what looked like metal kind of all over the foyer.

Kurt screamed Kem's name over and over, and he looked frantically all around through all the rubble, but it was impossible to see.

It was like everything was destroyed in here.

And so now beginning to gasp from all the smoke, he started walking around the foyer, kind of ducking below the smoke as best as he could.

And that's when he saw legs on the floor.

Minutes later, Detective Larry Shepard of the Bloomington Police Department pulled up outside the two-story house in his cruiser with his partner beside him and another squad car behind them.

Shepard did not usually respond to 911 calls because he was a homicide detective, but he had happened to be in the area when dispatch requested officers go check out a report of potentially a shotgun blast on a residential street.

However, the second he stepped out of his car and looked at this two-story house, Shepard knew this could not have been a shotgun blast.

There was all this black smoke billowing out the front door of the house, and although Shepard couldn't see any fire, he could hear the fire alarm going off inside.

And outside, the street was chaos.

There were all these people who Shepard guessed must be neighbors shouting and running around.

And there was debris everywhere.

Broken glass and splintered pieces of wood and chunks of metal that had basically been blown out of the house out onto the street.

In the driveway of this home, Shepard could see there was a man who had his hands on his head and he looked frantic.