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J County 911. Where is your emergency? >> Um, we are on 125 West North. We came upon an individual that is on the bridge
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like laying here injured. >> You said he's injured and needs an ambulance. >> Yeah, he definitely needs an ambulance.
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>> Alert, but he's not like he's not coherent. >> He's not responding. I don't know if
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it's drugs. I don't know if he's injured. >> I was working a 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
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shift. It was mid January in northeast Indiana. It's cold. It's windy. We've had some rains for several days. So, we
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had a lot of flooding in the area. The only thing that dispatch put out was that there was a man down in the
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roadway. >> So, you had no idea what you were getting. >> I had no idea what I was coming on.
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When I first got to the scene here that night, this is kind of how I approach it.
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>> This almost sort of seems like a road to nowhere really. >> Yeah. There's there's really nowhere
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else to go. >> And so what can you see? >> So at 2:00 in the morning, you see absolutely nothing.
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>> There was a vehicle that was pulled up off the side of the road, which was the
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people that had found him. And then as I came up onto the bridge, he was laying right around here.
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What are you doing out here in the cold? We were able to remove his wallet out of
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his pocket. And then I see the name on the ID, which was Shay Brier. >> Brier, what happened to you?
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>> The only thing I'm really getting out of him as far as a response is just moans
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[music] and groans. There was a little bit of blood underneath his head, but he had been,
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you know, hitting his head on the concrete. It was probably another 10, 15 minutes after I got on scene before
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medics even arrived. They took him straight to the ambulance. >> What happens with Sheay after [music]
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that? >> He's immediately transported by ambulance to Adam's Memorial Hospital. It was at
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the hospital where they ended up finding the bullet wound in his back. There was
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no exit wound. It was actually [music] in his heart. He passed away. I got a phone call from our sheriff who
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said, you know, [music] we had a murderer. My name's Wes Shemanau. I'm the elected prosecutor in Jay County.
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The first thing you do is you start talking to family, those close [music] to him. Who is this person?
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>> He was one of a kind. He was the best brother I could ever have. He was fun, very sweet, very caring,
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>> funloving, and [music] goofy. [laughter] >> He was a good kid. He had a kind heart.
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>> Everybody that we talked to, we asked if they would have any idea of who would
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want Sheay [music] dead. >> Sheay didn't have enemies. We talked to his co-workers, probably
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six or seven of them, and not a single one of them could think of anyone that would want to do him any harm at all.
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>> You start investigating and you end up arresting not one person, not two people, but three people.
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Is that how you expected this to go? >> No, not at all. The three individuals that were involved,
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>> that would have been the last thing on our mind. Normally [music] when you have a case
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like this, they've at least been on the radar. And these individuals were not on
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the radar at all. Did you think when this goes public, this town's going to be shocked?
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>> Absolutely.