WTHR |Shooting victim called 911 in dying moments

Shooting victim called 911 in dying moments

Pendleton - Shot three times and struggling to live, a Madison County man focused on one goal - living long enough to tell police who shot him.

Police say Ryan Stamm was after pills when he came to a Pendleton house late at night, sparking a dying man's last-gasp 911 call.

"Currently, Mr. Stamm is in the Madison County Detention Center on a preliminary charge of murder," said Madison County Prosecutor Thomas Broderick.

In court papers, the 29-year-old Stamm admits he shot and killed Michael Dickey. He says he went to Dickey's house to by drugs, reportedly the drug hydrocodone.

But before Dickey died of three gunshot wounds, he called 911. Inside the house, as he told police the name of the man who shot him, the police report says Dickey "coughed up what appeared to be a 9mm bullet and handed it to the medic."

"I'm sure that under the circumstances, he was just reaching out for help and trying to get information out as best as he could," said Broderick.

After a chase that reached speeds of 90 mph, Anderson police officers caught Stamm.

"I laughed. I was tickled to death there was one of them off the street and we have three or four more here in the neighborhood to get rid of," said a neighbor of Stamm, who lived with his parents.

"I feel sorry for his parents, that's all I'm going to say," said another neighbor.

Other neighbors say it's no surprise to them what happened at Lafayette and Clifford streets, because of what has gone on at the corner for a couple years.

"There are drug dealers out here and stuff and I'll be running them off. That's why I pack a gun with me all the time," said a neighbor.

At Dickey's house, Pendelton police say they've been watching suspicious activity there for some time, even stopping cars leaving the victim's place. Neighbors tell Eyewitness News they see cars coming and going from the home at all hours.