911 Transcript of Lake Crystal Shooting Released

MANKATO, Minn. - The 911 transcript of a call placed by the wife of man shot and killed at his Lake Crystal home has been released.

James Mervin Nibbe, 26, was found dead early Tuesday morning after police responded to his property on a burglary call. A preliminary autopsy ruled the death a homicide.

Nibbe’s wife, Jennifer, was hospitalized following the incident and her 16-year-old son was also home at the time of the shooting. In the 911 call, Jennifer Nibbe references a cut on her arm, with significant bleeding making her light-headed.

The Blue Earth County sheriff’s office and Minnesota BCA continue to investigate the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call the Blue Earth County sheriff’s office at 507-304-4863.

’We have lost a husband, a son, a little brother, an uncle, a golfing partner, a hunting buddy and a best friend,’ the Nibbe family said in a statement. ’Jim was an amazing and outstanding man - true, honest and big hearted. Jim loved life and always made you laugh. A gaping hole has been cut into out hearts and burns through our soles. Thank you for all of the love and support our friends and neighbors have provided. Please pray for our family and pray for answers.’

911 Transcript
Call placed Tuesday, Aug. 31 at 5:57 a.m.

D: Blue Earth County 911

A: Oh my god! Please help us! Please help us! Somebody’s here (inaudible)’

D: What’s going on?

A: Somebody shot my husband. Please (inaudible) can, he left and don’t know if he’s coming back’(crying)

D: What happened?

A: Somebody shot, he was (inaudible) inside, he came and shot my husband. (crying)

D: Somebody shot your husband?

A: Yeah. And he came in and he, and he put (inaudible) and then he left and um, (inaudible’ok, ok’

D: What happened?

A: Ok, ok’get it together, ----

D: What’s your address

A: ----------, Lake Crystal

D: ----------

A: ----------, Lake Crystal. Jesus Christ, --- get it together. Ok’um, please send the ambulance, please.

D: Ok, where was he shot at?

A: I don’t know, it’s (inaudible) I can’t believe, or when I went back in there and I saw (inaudible) it was (inaudible, crying) Oh my god, oh my god.!

D: How old is he?

A: Uh, um, uh, 26.

D: Ok. And is, is the person still there that shot him?

A: I don’t know. He left. He had me pinned down on the ground in the living room and then he got up and left and the dog was barking. He let, must have let the dog outside. I was up for, for work and I let the dog out. I, oh God, Yukon get in here! I’

D: Is there anybody else in the house with you?

A: My son is, oh my god, my teenage son is! (crying)

D: How old is your son?

A: He’s (inaudible) um, 16.

D: 16 year old?

A: Oh my god, I better, (inaudible)’Oh’(crying)

D: Ok, And you, it’s --------------

A: The ----------- residence

D: Ok. Um, do you wanna stay on the line and we get some people headed that way?

A: Please. ---- are you ok?

U: (inaudible)

A: Oh yeah, he’s’

U: (inaudible)

D: What’s that?

A: It’s ok --- It’s ok ---- It’s ok. Just, just stay there, ok? Just, just stay’

U: (inaudible)

A: Just stay here though, ok? Just stay here. Do not get up, ok? Just stay there.

D: Where in, where in the house are you right now?

A: I’m in the basement right now.

D: Ok. Is your son in the basement with you, too?

A: Yes, my son is in my basement, too.

D: What part of the house is your husband at?

U: Is someone here?

A: It’s um’

U Are you ok?

A: I’m ok (crying) He cut me but I don’t know’(crying)

U: He shot you?

A: He cut me I think, I don’t know. (crying, inaudible)

U: This is a f------ nightmare!

A: No, no, stop it. (inaudible) He shot him I think, oh’

U: I’m gonna f------ freak out!

A: No, you can’t. You can’t. I knew I shouldn’t’

U: (inaudible) still here?

A: Not that I know of, he left. Please sit down, please sit down. Please sit down.

U: (inaudible)

A: (crying) Ok. I’m on the phone with 911, ---- Oh my god!

D: Do you know what that person left in at all or’.

A: Uh, what’s that?

D: Do you know what that, the person left in, what they looked like, or?

A: Um, uh, it was dark. Um, he was probably my height. Um, uh, he had on, I could, I tried to reach at his face and stuff and he had, he must have had a nylon on or something over his head. (crying) And he had, a, I wanna say a hooded sweatshirt.

D: Mmm-hmm

A: Oh my god! (crying) Oh Jesus. Oh’oh my god! Oh my god I can’t believe this! (crying) Oh my arm is bleeding. (crying) out’I’m getting light headed.

(inaudible speaking in background)

A: Oh my god! Is, is somebody coming, please?

D: Yep. We do have deputies in route there.

A: Oh my god! (crying) Oh (inaudible) oh my god! (crying) Oh my god! Oh my god! I can’t believe this.

D: Ok, what’s your last name?

A: Um, -------------

D: ----------

A: Yes. Yep.

D: Your first name?

A: ------

D: ------

A: Yep.

D. Ok. And what’s a phone number for you ------?

A: Uh, -------

D: Ok.

A: Oh go. (crying) I have his blood on my hands. (crying) I touched him, oh my god!

D: Do you, aware if the guy that had a vehicle that came into your house at all, or’?

A:

I think, (inaudible) I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. I didn’t hear any vehicles but, I was in the bathroom. Um, and when I was out here’

D: Mmm-hmmm

A: And he finally let me go, um, I honestly, I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not sure. (crying) Oh my god! Oh my, I don’t know what to do. I’m a nurse, I’m an EMT and I don’t know what to do.

D: Do you know if he’s still breathing at all or?

A: (crying) No. No. It looks like the back of his head is gone! (crying)

D: Do you know what kind of a, do you know what kind of gun at all it was or’?

A: Uh, we have, oh god, we were, it’s a, it’s a 20 gauge shotgun and we had it (inaudible, crying) we had it up against the door. We keep, oh my god! Uh, um, we keep a gun there for, uh, small animals and stuff like that but we had practiced shooting last night. (crying) And it was (inaudible) (crying)’

D: So you, he, the (inaudible)’

A: (crying)

D: Ok. So it was, it was your own gun he grabbed? He didn’t bring it in himself, or’?

A: Not that I know of, it was ours sitting there at the end of the bed. (crying) Oh my god! Are they coming?

D: Yep, we’ve got `em coming. We got an ambulance coming as well, so.

A: (crying) Oh -------- you’ve gotta put the, ------- you can’t have that shotgun out, bud. Police are coming.

D: (inaudible) Yep. Just try to, yep, leave the gun.

U: (inaudible) I just don’t want him to come back.

A: I know ---- it’s ok, it’s ok. What’s that? I’m sorry, sir. What?

D: if you can, if you can try to you know, not, obviously you wanna protect yourself, too’

A: Right.

D: Just in case, so try to you know, stay away from the gun and, what not, so.

A: Yeah. Ok. Ok. When they get here --- you need to just lean that, is it loaded?

U: Yeah.

A: Ok’.

U: I’m scared.

A: Ok, well when they pull in you need to unload it and then set it up against the wall please. (crying)

U: Mom (inaudible)

A: Ok. I’;m (inaudible)

U: It’s ok. It’s ok.

A: No it’s’.

U: (inaudible) Just come here Mom.

A: (crying, inaudible)

D: Do you know’could you tell his clothing description at all? Anything what they guy was wearing, or’?

A: Uh, it was, it was um, it was dark. I think it was uh, black, he’s wearing black I believe. Black hooded sweatshirt and, I was trying to you know, feel around and stuff when he had me on the ground (crying) I think he had, (inaudible) I don’t know, jeans on. He was about my height, I, or a little bit taller I think, I’m 5’8’. (crying)

D: Ok.

A: (crying)

D: Ok, ----- can you hang on just a minute? I need to change my battery on my headset here.

A: Yes.

D: And I’ll be right back.

A: Yes.

D: You ok?

A: Yes. Yes.

U: (inaudible)

A: Yeah, they said (inaudible)

D: Ok ----- I’m back.

A: Ok. (crying)

D: ok.

A: Um’

U: He left the house, though?

A: Yeah. He walked out, he, he ran out that front door.

U: The sliding one?

A: Mmm-hmm.

U: Ok. Was he, was he in a vehicle?

A: I don’t know.

U: Ok.

A: (inaudible, crying)

U: Ok, that’s fine. Don’t, it’s ok.

A: (crying)

U: Eveything’s gonna be ok.

D: And is your house on the south side of ----?

A: Uh, we’re the first building to the right when you come down the, or we’re the first um, farmhouse to the right when you’re coming down ----

D: Off of, off of ---- there?

A: Tell them the ------ residence. They’ll know who that is.

D: It’s which residence?

A: -------- residence.

D: ---------

A: Oh my god! (crying)

U: ok.

D: It’s ---- correct?

A: Yes.

D: I have an officer that’s going to be pullign up here in probably about 10, 20 seconds or so.

A: ok. They should be coming up, ----

D: Don’t any, any reason at all for someone to break in, or’?

A: Uh, um’

D: You know, what’?

A: Um, no. Um, we don’t, have any enemies or anything like that (crying).

D: Ok. No one that’

A: No. I, ok, go put that down ---- please.

D: ok. Yep, should be’

A: Unlock that, or um. Ok (crying)

D: Which part of the house is your husband in right now?

A: My husband’s in the back bedroom (crying).

D: The back bedroom?

A: Yes.

(dog barking)

A: He’s, (inaudible) hon, it’s ok, it’s ok. Stay, stay.

P: (inaudible)

(dog barking)

A: hey! Stop.

U: Coem here buddy.

A: You got, you got, he won’t, he just gonna, he’s just gonna’.(crying)

P: (inaudible)

A: He came out the front door and I think he, I don’t know which way he went. I can’t be honest, I was on the floor. (crying)

P: Did he attack you?

A: Yes (crying) he, he had me on the floor and he cut me, (inaudible) I don’t know what he was trying to do. And then the dog got real crazy and stuff and he got up and left. But he shot my husband and he’s in the back room (crying).

P: Gunshot?

A: Yes (crying)

A: It’s ok ---, it’s ok bud, come here.

U: (crying)

A: It’s ok.

P: 2701, 2700.

D2: 2701.

P: (inaudible) ambulance coming here? I’m being told her husband’s been shot.

A: (crying)

D2: I have the (inaudible)’are waiting for an officer to (inaudible)

D: Ok ----?

A: Yeah. Yeah.

P: Get him in here.

U: No!

A: Yukon!

U: No!

A: Yukon, no, no, no!

(dog barking)

A: Come here!

P: (inaudible) out there. Show me where your husband is.

A: (crying)

U: