Dave Reiling regrets making the phone call that resulted in Stephon Clark’s death.

“It makes me never want to call 911 again,” Reiling told The Sacramento Bee. “They shot an innocent person.”

Reiling called the police on the night of March 18 after he was startled by the sound of breaking glass outside his home. After he heard the glass, he went outside and found windows broken out of both of his SUVs.

"He busted two of my windows in, and he broke the car's window across the street from me," Reiling is heard telling a dispatcher in a recording of the call.

Reiling says he saw a hooded man standing by one of the vehicles and began to chase him. He called the police after he lost track of the suspect during the pursuit.

“He was standing on the driver’s side door looking over the truck at me,” Reiling continued. “I got my ball bat and started chasing him down the street.”

While Reiling stood in the street talking to the dispatcher, a police helicopter appeared and told him to go inside. He complied and heard gunshots moments later. He assumed it was a shootout between the cops and the suspect.

Instead, two police officers shot at Clark 20 times while he stood in his grandparents' backyard. He was holding a cellphone. An autopsy released by the Clark family’s legal team revealed the 22-year-old father of two was shot once in the side, six times in his back and once in his thigh.

Reiling didn’t know Clark but was familiar with some of his family members because he repaired some of their cars.

He said he isn’t sure who was standing by the SUV that night as he couldn’t identify any facial features because it was dark, and he didn’t know if the man had anything in his hand.

“I can’t tell you that because I didn’t see,” he said.