In a 911 call, an unidentified nursing assistant described what she saw right before she hid in a third-floor closet with other hospital employees as a gunman walked feet away.

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  • David Owens, 29, charged in slayings

The gunman, whom police say was David Owens, 29, shot and killed an elderly patient and a hospital worker at Parrish Medical Center early Sunday.

Caller: "I was the one that saw it."
Dispatcher: "You saw it?"

The nursing assistant was on the phone with 911 dispatchers for almost half an hour, thinking the shooter was a woman aiming at the worker who sits with patients in their rooms.

Dispatcher: "You saw her shoot at the sitter?"
Caller: "I saw her shoot at the ground where the sitter sits."

Investigators say Owens began shooting on the Parrish Medical Center's third floor sometime around 2 a.m. That's when they began receiving calls from people in the hospital.

Titusville Police think Owens entered the hospital through the emergency wing and went upstairs.

A patient, 88-year-old Cynthia Zingsheim, and employee, 36-year-old Carrie Rouzer, were shot and killed.

Two unarmed hospital security guards tackled the gunman and subdued him until Titusville Police arrived and made an arrest.

Police say Owens has a criminal history but nothing that would lead them to think he would do something like this.

"This isn't about guns at all. It's about demons," prosecutor Gary Beatty said.

Beatty said Owens was found incompetent to stand trial in a March misdemeanor case and has a lengthy mental-health history.

Owens waived his first court appearance Monday. He remains in the Brevard County Jail without bond.

One of Rouzer's friends said she was "an amazing woman with the biggest heart anyone could have. She was my closest friend for 25 years, she was family as far as I was concerned."

Police haven't released a motive why they think Owens opened fire.

"In my 29 years of doing this, (this is) quite possibly the most unusual homicide case I've had to deal with," Beatty said.