He fired back,[8] fell to the floor, and began to bleed profusely. His police colleagues refused to make a "10-13" dispatch to police headquarters indicating that an officer had been shot. An elderly man who lived in the next apartment called the emergency services reporting that a man had been shot and stayed with Serpico.[7] When a police car arrived, unaware that Serpico was a fellow officer, they transported him in the patrol car to Greenpoint Hospital.[8]