Carmel police release details, body cam video in officer-involved shooting
A 60-year-old man was shot and killed by police after he shot at multiple vehicles and raised a rifle at officers. Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 12:38 AM EST February 12, 2021
It happened Sunday, Jan. 31 just before 11:30 a.m. Police responded to a home near West Main Street and Meadow Lane for a person who was threatening suicide.
Police shared the audio of a 911 call that came from a neighbor who told the dispatcher he heard a gunshot in a neighborhood southwest of him. In another call, a dispatcher said a woman reported her husband left her a voicemail and she wanted police to do a welfare check. Later, police said she told them Scales called her and said he was putting bullets into his rifle.