By FireRescue1 Staff
TEMPLE HILLS, Md.— A volunteer firefighter who was shot four times still relives the shooting that killed his colleague one year ago.
NBC Washington reported that Morningside Volunteer Firefighter Kevin Swain and John Ulmschneider were responding to a medical call April 15, 2016 when the homeowner opened fire.
“I remember a flash. I didn’t hear it and then it was like slow-mo and then … you just kept hearing the bangs,” Swain said. “It just feels like it was yesterday.”
Swain, 19 years old at the time, was critically wounded. He was shot in his right abdomen, back, hip and left buttock. Ulmschneider, a 13-year-veteran of the Prince George’s County Fire Department, was killed.
Swain said he felt guilty after the shooting.
“It bothered me. It ate me alive, actually, because I would have to think that, you know, his 2-year-old daughter will never see her father again,” he said. “I’m here for a reason, I guess.”
Homeowner Darrell Lumpkin was indicted on six weapons charges in July 2016; he is set to be sentenced Friday.
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