A 25-year-old man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly sending a man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest Sunday morning.
Police responding to the 1700 block of South Seminole Drive on a report of shots fired were told a blue car was seen leaving the area at a high rate of speed, according to court documents.
Officers didn’t see anyone injured on that block but did find a blue Ford Focus crashed several blocks away. The driver, Scott Benn, was detained because the car matched the description given by the 911 caller.
Scott Benn
A steel support pole from a neighbor’s carport can be seen atop the roof of Harold Sayne’s house on South Seminole Drive. Scott Benn, 25, ran into the carport on Feb., 11, 2018, after he lost control of his vehicle as he fled from the scene of a shooting of which he is the suspect.Benn said he wrecked because he was being followed and that he had just left an apartment on the block where shots were reported. Benn had sustained head injuries in the crash and was taken to Erlanger hospital.
Officers were then told a shooting victim, Dale Edmonds, had arrived at Parkridge hospital and that the shooting had occurred at the location Benn said he was fleeing from. His injury was not considered to be life threatening.