911 calls shed light on Fayetteville police-involved shooting
FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- A 911 call revealed the tense moments before a burglary turned into a police shooting and standoff in the 4700-block of Rosehill Road in Fayetteville Tuesday.
The caller warned the dispatcher that there are several guns inside the home.
The couple who lives in the house where the police shooting occurred was too traumatized to talk on camera, but the wife told ABC11 that she didn't know the suspect, 47-year-old Charles McBennett, and had never seen him before until they came home and found him in their house.
911 call: "There is somebody in my house. They broke in. They're in there right now."
That was the call that set Tuesday's events into motion.
911 call: "The man is inside right now. We got two pistols in the case in the bedroom on the dresser. We got shotguns, pistols. We got some shotguns in there."
Police have not said if McBennett used one of those handguns to shoot an officer, wounding him in the leg. The officers fired back.
The suspect ran back in the front door.
Police later found McBennett's body on the floor. Investigators have not said if he died from police fire, or a self-inflicted wound.
911 call: "It scared me to death. He busted out the bottom panel of the door."
The caller told ABC11 that when she and her husband pulled into the carport just before 3 p.m. Tuesday something didn't look right. That's what she told the 911 operator.
911 call: "He went through the door under the carport and, when we got home, the storm door was locked and I could see him standing at the door."
The homeowner said McBennett invited them in. They refused, got back in the van, and called 911, which may have saved their lives.
Relatives said McBennett had a history of mental health issues and had asked several nearby residents if they had a weapon he could borrow.
Officer Mike Canada, 50, was wounded. He was released from the hospital Wednesday. Canada and Officer Barret Locklear, 28, are both on administrative duty pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.
