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A Floyd County sheriff's deputy was killed and a second deputy was seriously wounded on June 18, 2007, when 15-year-old Tyler Dumstorf opened fire from a second-floor window during a domestic call in Georgetown, Indiana.

The boy's mother had called for help about a disturbance with her son and reported that there was a gun in the house, Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said. Deputy Frank Denzinger reached the home in the 6000 block of Rachel Court shortly after 6:30 p.m., and Deputy Joel White arrived as backup.

Denzinger, White, the boy's mother and his aunt were in the driveway, moving away from the house, when shots came from an upstairs window, Henderson said. Denzinger was hit twice, once in the leg and once in the back, and the second round passed through his chest between the side panels of his protective vest. Henderson said Denzinger pushed the aunt out of the line of fire.

White was shot in the hip, returned fire toward the house and took cover behind his patrol car. Wounded and pinned down, he stayed on the radio, reported the shooting, gave the gunman's position and the type of weapon, told arriving units to secure the front of the house so they would not be exposed to fire, and warned dispatch that he might lose consciousness. Denzinger was taken to University Hospital in Louisville, where he died.

Dumstorf, who had just finished his freshman year of high school, fired an M1 Garand, a World War II rifle that belonged to his father and that the two had shot together. Henderson said Dumstorf killed himself within five to seven minutes of shooting the deputies. Officers held a perimeter around the house and found his body inside about six hours later. No one was charged, and Henderson said he did not expect charges against the parents.

Denzinger had served with the sheriff's office for four years and was married with a young child. White, who had been on the department 17 months, went through several surgeries and was released from a southern Indiana rehabilitation hospital on July 10, 2007. Henderson released the radio recordings the next day and called White's conduct under fire exemplary. Floyd County deputies have marked the anniversary of the shooting with a vigil and an honor guard at the sheriff's office.

The recording runs about three minutes and thirteen seconds of police radio traffic from the response. It carries White's transmissions from behind his patrol car, the dispatcher working the channel and other units calling in as they arrive. It is a logging tape, the continuous recording an agency keeps of its own radio channels, and it captures only the radio side of the call.