Shooting victim thought rock was thrown before realizing he had been shot

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Just after 5 a.m. on Tuesday, police responded to a hospital where a walk-in shooting victim had recently arrived.

Shane Kieler, 24, of Fort Wayne, had been shot in the upper back and was stable while police spoke to him.

According to the police report, Kieler was initially "extremely evasive... and seemed to have trouble keeping the story straight." The story he left police with, according to the report, was that he left a gas station at the intersection of Calhoun and Rudisill in his fiancé's silver Mercedes driving westbound on Rudisill.

He told police he then needed to make a call but noticed that his phone was dead and he pulled over to park and charge his phone. He said he didn't know what road he was on but told police within seconds of him parking, a man approached the car and tried to open the locked passenger door.

Kieler said he then sped off and heard the back window shatter. Kieler told police he initially thought the man had thrown a rock at his car before he realized he had been shot. The bullet shattered the back window, went through the driver's seat and into the shooting victim's upper back.

Kieler drove home and his roommate and he drove on to the hospital. Police verified that the back window on the Mercedes had in fact been shot and shattered.