Police cars, smoke and then gunfire. Mark Bishop watched the scene unfold of a house fire and officer-involved shooting on East Gore Road.
"At first it just looked like something normal, like, you know, maybe like an accident. . . and it got weird because there's police officers that went to the back of their car, and usually when you see them go to the back of the car and they're opening their trunk to get other weapons out, it's like, oh, man, this is something different," Bishop said.
Bishop said he was filming the smoke, when there was a quick turn of events.
"I'm recording the smoke, and then all of a sudden I heard shots, and you know, I pan over and there's a guy running out of the house, and they're telling him to, you know, freeze, get down on the ground, and then that's when he wasn't complying with them, and they unloaded rounds on him, and that's when he went to the ground. . . I wasn’t expecting it to get that real so fast." Bishop said.
For the next five hours, Bishop had to stay at his friend's house, unable to leave as the road to his home was closed.
“It was a crazy experience. I've never been in any situation where I was held down because of something going on,” Bishop said.
From Bishop's perspective, first responders handled the situation as best as they could.
“The police were there, and then shortly after that, you had like the SWAT come, and there were ambulances and everything like that -- like, to be honest, they did a pretty good job, I think, of how they did everything,” Bishop said.