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NYPD-SIS RECORDING #146-83C.

HASKINS: We were finishing up Apartment Four B. We were close to finishing. God, we were so close! Then everything came apart. Shouts from upstairs. Noise. Gunshots. A big explosion. Smoke pouring down the stairway. Men shouting, “You’re surrounded! Hands up! Throw down your guns! You’re dead! We’ve got you!” Silly things like that. I wet my pants. Yes, Tommy, I admit it freely—I soiled myself. Then we started moving. The tech went pounding down the back stairs, then the two Brodsky boys, and then me following. But before I left I saw the Detroit hooligan rush to the front window of Four A and fire his gun through the glass.

QUESTION: Was there return fire?

HASKINS: No. Well … I don’t know for sure. I had turned away from the foyer between the two apartments. I was on my way down the service staircase. I saw and heard him fire through the window of Four A. But I didn’t see or hear any return fire from the street.

QUESTION: Where was Anderson while all this was going on?

HASKINS: He was standing there in the foyer between the two apartments. He was just standing still. He just didn’t move.