Indy Radio: WFMS Morning Host Speaks Out After Home Is Shot Up

WFMS' Matt Malone

Matt Malone, co-host of "Mornings with Deb, Kevin and Matt" on Country WFMS 95.5, reflects after someone fired shots toward his house this week.

Malone doesn't think he was the intended target. Even so, two days later, the sight of bullet holes in his home are unnerving.

Malone said he moved to a duplex a year and a half ago, because it was an affordable place to live. But he has decided to leave after what happened Tuesday night.

He shared the experience with his co-hosts and listeners Thursday morning.

"It was an experience I've never been through before," Malone said on the radio, playing for them the sound of gunfire captured on his Ring doorbell camera Tuesday.

Malone talked with 13News..

"I stepped out of my room towards the hallway. I started stepping on glass," he recalled. "That's when I found out that the bathroom window had been shot through."

When he went downstairs, Malone found bullet holes through his front door, which is made of steel and the outside glass door was shattered. The couch he sometimes works and falls asleep on was also shot up. The couch cushion where he usually lays his head had a bullet hole right through it.

"If I had worked like I normally do, that would have killed me and that's a hard thing to think about," Malone said.

When Malone looked at his doorbell camera, 20 minutes before the gunfire, video showed two people in ski masks walking around the duplex where Malone lives.

According to Malone, you can hear his neighbor yelling at them before they disappear off camera.

"Let's face it.  We need Indianapolis and central Indiana to be safe and if my circumstances can help in any way to do that, I want to be a part of that solution," Malone said.

Even so, he's not taking any chances and has decided to move somewhere else. But Malone recognizes that not everyone who deals with gunfire where they live can do that.