no nap is long enough for me. life is good. i envy you zach zamboni. and we're out. nice end. i'm susan hendricks, following breaking news out of pennsylvania. shots fired in the manhunt for the suspected cop killer, eric frein, shot at two state troopers, injuring one, killing another. now police have apparently have him cornered not far from his northeastern pennsylvania home. jason carroll is nearby. he joins us by phone. jason are you able to see anything or hear anything from your vantage point? i know that area is thick with brush and hard to see especially from where you are. >> i tell you this activity

taking place deep in the wood. in a thickly wooded area. i can tell you this area, the same town as you know where eric frein grew up. a police source telling us once again, frein has been cornered, an exchange of gunfire. all of this susan, starting about 7:00 tonight. we started hearing reports of a sighting of frein in the area. we were out here. once again reports of frein in the area of his hometown. once again, to night we heard about that happening shortly there after. penn state police sent out an alert. asking paem eople to stay in th home. stay off the road. reports of gunfire. then reports of an exchange of gunfire. as you know, eric frein has been on the run about a week now. police tell us that, they have been working a grid system trying to cut off his access. basically going step by step.

cutting off places like, abandoned cabins, things of that nature, abandoned wood, trying to restrict his access. what he has done. they now have him cornered. susan. >> jason carroll, thank you. anti-government hunter, woodman, survivalist, a deadly cocktail as described. stay with cnn. cnn "spotlight chris brown" starts now. love him or hate him -- >> people are waiting for him to mess up. >> this r & b bad boy is as talented as he is controversial. ♪ i want to see >> charisma. pipes to sing. the looks. everything. >> no matter how many times he has fallen down, he will always show up to perform. >> five years, after the fall that almost cost him everything. >> alleged victim is singer

rihanna. >> i'm any truly story. >> breezy is back in the news with his latest album. ♪ try a new thing >> and his latest run in with the law. people say where chris brown goes, trouble follows. tonight, we turn the "spotlight" on grammy winning pop star chris brown. ♪ turn up the music >> the 2007 mtv video music awa award. >> it was his first time on the show. he just blew everybody away. >> just 18 years old. the fresh faced r & bphenom dazzled the star-studded crowd. >> he did things on the stage we haven't seen in so long. >> the high-flying dance moves and ultrasmooth vocals to many this performance we veldreveale

jen ration generation of pop music royalty. >> people saw chris brown and thaw something special. i think there are certain people who are just born to do it. and chris brown is one of those people. off a >> music was part of his life from the start. >> he really spent his childhood looking at hollywood having his eye on the prize. >> he was born christopher maurice brown, in 1989 in the small rural town in virginia, population, 2,400. the browns were a church-going family. chris was a choirboy. >> he actually said he had more church clothes than he did, like regular school clothes. brown, nicknamed "breezy, wanted to be a star. >> he idolized michael jackson.

many little boys did at the time. he loved usher. spent days in his room. dancing, singing, trying to mimic them t. >> but life at home could be rocky. >> as far as like growing up, and growing up in domestic violence situations, as far as my mom's ex-husband and stuff like that there would be timed i would be scared to go to bed. >> regardless of his struggles, music was always a constant for brown. >> we still got the same person in class and in school. we were around him. that didn't change. >> taylor saunders, a cousin attended school with him. >> he danced at parties and stuff. he would always have the circle around him for, the cool dances that he is doing. he was just the kind of it guy. >> he seemed to have that just in his blood almost. >> michael runsome was chris'

7th grade music teacher. he noticed brown's innate talent during a class trip on a field trip. >> he sang, a michael jackson song. in the park everyone is anxious to get to ride. he started singing no more than 1:00 into the song, everybody stopped. the moment was surreal. >> surreal talent that led brown to big name record labels by the time he was 15. >> his mom was actually the first talent scout. so they went on the search for a music agent for a label. >> l.a. reid met with him and wanted to sign him on the spot. that is how obvious chris brown's talent was. even at a young age without having any professional training at all. >> brown never signed with the music giant. instead he scored his first record deal with pop star

powerhouse jive records. >> at the time, jive had a track record for working and developing young artists like justin timber lack alake and br spears. >> for his first single. he teamed up with scott storch, superstar who worked with biggest names in the business from dr. dre to beyonce. >> you could tell he was one of those special talents. not everybody has that. charisma, the pipes to sing, the look, everything. everything, just all picture perfect. >> the complete package with major potential. >> it was like, when michael jackson's prodigy. i just remember telling him that day i was going to make him a number one smash. six months later -- the truth was told. >> "run it" brown's first-ever single released in 2005. ♪ you can run it

>> it was a monster hit. climbing all the way to number one. ♪ girl >> no one had done that since 1997. >> it was so fast. the next thing we know, his "run it" video is on tv. this is amazing. >> how old are you? >> 17. >> amazing. and in just a year's time. the small town boy became a multiplatinum selling artist." "billboard's" best new artist of the year and undisputed prince of pop with a squeaky clean image. >> he had the megawatt smile. he had charm coming out of every pour. he was very clean-cut. >> and he was everywhere. >> you asking me out. >> on tv's popular teen show, the oc. >> not just about you. >> and on the big screen in stomp the yard. there seemed to be no stopping music's new it boy.

looks and charm that had female fans swooning. including one particular high-profile fan, who would become his girlfriend. ♪ oh nah-nah what's the name >> her name, rihanna. >> rihanna and chris brown were the prince and princess of pop. the reigning couple. another generation's justin timberlake and britney spears. they were perfect for each other. >> what's your name? >> chris it seemed had found love, fame and fortune. >> the arrest of chris brown. >> but up next -- >> this was not a couple known for this top of behavior. [ sirens sounding ] >> chris brown's hollywood fairy tale turns to tragedy. >> i wish i could have changed that night. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention.

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>> february, 2006, clive davis at his annual pregrammy party. >> ladies and gentlemen, chris brown. those pipes and the moves. brown jailed the performance. but r & b's new golden brandi hitt w hitt -- new golden boy was itching to become at traction. >> this year is not my year. >> over the next three years,

brown went on to earn three grammy nominations and in 2009, he was asked to perform on the show live. >> february 8, 2809, that was the day that his public persona and his image chained really forever. >> it was something that was unbelievable in the music industry. >> writer mary margaret covered the grammys for "people" magazine. >> i remember getting an alert on my phone and not actually believing it at first. >> just before he was supposed to appear on stage, brown was mia. with then girlfriend pop princess rihanna. >> they looked extremely happy and in love just hours before. >> right here. >> happy and in love, sitting side by side at the annual pregrammy party. >> on the way home from that party there was an are gumegumet they had in the car. that erupted into a fight. >> a fight room mr. had it sparked by a text from one of brown's former flames. >> it was an extreme lely massi

argument and fight that escalated in a very physical way. thing got out of control. he physically assaulted her. left her bruised and bloodied. >> there had been reports of him trying to throw her out of the car. there were reports of him saying that he was going to kill her. >> hours after the brutal attack, brown turned himself into police. news of the incident sent the country into a tailspin unbelievable arrest of chris brown. >> accusations of domestic violence. >> girlfriend singer rihanna. >> it was shock. it was disgust. it was horror. and it was confusion. >> the boy next door no more. and things went from bad to worse when tmz leaked a photo of the glamorous pop diva badly beaten and bloodied. >> people always go back to that. we saw that photo. everyone saw that photo. >> right. the like eak of the photo did

enormous damage to him. >> in a lot of people's mind, chris brown became a monster. >> brown was slapped with two felony assault charges. and hired famed michael jackson attorney, mark geragos. >> chris from day one wanted to take responsibility. he did what he was advised to do. >> guilty. guilty. guilty. >> in 2009, brown pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault and took a plea deal. five years probation as well as counseling, community service, and, a restraining order. he would have to stay far away from rihanna. team breezy, loyal fans stood behind him. the backlash was severe. >> the initial public announcement was that it was too light. >> raidy stations pulled breezy songs off their play list. companies axed endorsement deals. and big time celebrities came

down hard on brown. the queen of talk, devote aid show to domestic abuse. >> if a man hits you once. he will hit you again. >> that's right. >> four months after the assault. brown release a two minute video apology on video. >> i told rihanna countless times and telling you today, i am truly sorry. >> i always wish that i could take it back. >> brown gave his first tv iteryou about the incident on cnn with his lawyer and his mother by his side. >> probably one of the most painful time of my entire life. >> brown apologized again and lamented the loss of rihanna. >> we haven't had contact at all. >> you love her? >> definitely. >> but this time love wasn't enough. rihanna spoke about their brief attempt at reconciliation in a rare on-camera interview with abc. >> it was confusing for me. i was still attached by love. but i wasn't thinking about the

reality of the situation. >> while rihanna moved on. chris attended anger management counseling and labor oriented service back home in virginia. he didn't enjoy that picking up trash, i think i read where he once said, this community service is a, you know what? >> i guess what it is. it teaches you humility. always a good thing. >> by the end of 2809, he release aid third album with the single "i can transform him" an edgier, grittier brown emerged. >> he started to be covered in tattoos. started to hang out with more hip-hop artists. >> team breezy wasn't buying it. brown's record sales took a hit. would his career ever recover? in 2010, a very personal stage act hinted yes. >> at the 2010, b.e.t. awards. chris brown did a performance that ended with him covering michael jackson's "man in the

mirror" got very emotional. he was so overcome. he had trouble getting through the song. ♪ ♪ >> when he broke down on stage in this very public moment, it was -- sort of a way to see how vulnerable he was. this was really, the chris brown, you know that we hadn't seen in a . >> a new and improved chris brown. we saw him get blowing reports from the judge. >> he got spectacular reviews. he was really trying hard to outrun his demons. >> but those demons eventually caught up with him. >> chris brown's violent tendencies erupterupted. this time there were many people involved. >> coming up, it's groundhog's day. >> what happened? >> breezy behind bars.

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>> mr. chris brown! >> march, 2011, just two years after his shocking domestic abuse scandal. ♪ yeah yeah yeah >> pop star chris brown was gearing up for a release of his new album "fame." >> the "fame" album in 2011 i think was a great moment for chris brown. really started to rebound his career. people started to focus more on his music again. rather than the personal troubles that he had had. >> today is the album.

that is what i am focused on. everybody go get that album. >> but when brown appeared on abc's "good morning america," talk turned to his ex, rihanna. >> i think this album is what i want people to hear, everybody get into. definitely this album is what i wanted to talk about. not what happened two years ago. >> once offset the enraged star reportedly exploded through the hall ways and shattered a dressing room window. >> he was scaring the day lights out of the makeup folk. took off his shirt. he ran outside. another photo that was seen across the world. the violent side of help had not gone away. >> but neither had brown's ability to make great music. ♪ look at me now look at me now ♪ >> with hits like "look at me now" the "fame" album was a huge success. ♪ look at me now >> and the grammy it goes to --

>> chris brown "fame." >> with fans and grammy voters. >> i don't know, man, i'm nervous. i don't know what to say. >> the grammy award were a mark of chris' official come? back that showed despite thor use he had in his personal life he was still being celebrated by the industry. as someone who was, making great music. >> but not everyone was cheering. >> people didn't understand why some one who had publicly done something so terrible -- was being awarded in such a public way. >> months later, chris brown, the bad boy was back. >> there was a huge feud that erupted between chris brown and drake. a feud with the hot new rapper rumored to be dating his ex. >> one person says something to another person. bottles were thrown. punches were thrown. there were innocent bystanders,

who had to get stitches and surgery because of it. >> criminal charges were never filed. both men denied any wrongdoing. months later, brown and rihanna, officially recoupled. >> she didn't think he was ever going to do it again. she did love him. underneath all that was a good person. >> but not everyone was as convinced the troubled star was a changed man. in february, 2013, the l.a. county da's office accused brown of lying about his community service hours. an accusation brown and his atoerngs attorney vehemently denied. >> i have never had a client tortured by the da's office on probation like chris brown has. >> geragos says the constant scrutiny from the courts and media begin to weigh heavily on his client. >> the bottom line, i think there was some rage about that.

>> to add insult to injury, breezy and rihanna split for the last time. and in august, of 2013, the grammy winning singer suffered a stress induced seizure. breezy began to unravel. >> he is a true superstar. like any other superstar. you have to deal with, you know a lot of crazy [ bleep ]. you have to deal with the pressure of your fans, your label, your personal life, of, people taking advantage of you. >> in october of 2013, brown was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly punching a man in the face outside a washington, d.c. hotel. again he found himself in a situation that put his entire future in peril. >> days later, he voluntarily checked into rehab. the long stint in rehab was a

chance to slow down and deal with some of his problem. >> problems which shed new light on the chris brown we all thought we knew. off awe when chris brown went into rehab. if the came out that he was diagnosed with post-traumatic disorder and bipolar disorder. of a pretty big shock to people. it was not just some bad boy sort of misbehaving. it was some body, who was bel e beloved but needed attention. >> that attention came too little, too late. >> the defendant is remanded. no bail. >> by march of 2014, brown was back behind bars for violating his probation. >> after serving, 108 days he was released in june. in typical chris brown fashion he didn't miss a beat. just days out of jail, brown gave a stellar performance at b.e.t. music award. ♪ and he announced the release of

his sixth studio album "x." ♪ you will be my baby >> his single "new flame" collaboration with usher became an instant r & b smash. now, chris brown appears ready for a new chapter. >> you're the surgeon? >> the pop star has seemingly squash his beef with rapper drake after appearing in a skit together on the espies. he finally settled the case stemming from the d.c. incident last october. he pleaded guilty to simple assault. and was sentenced to time served. >> we thing it is fair. it helps him get on with his life. >> and hopefully get through his anger issues. >> i still, twice a week. >> in an interview with mtv sway calloway. he offered advice to ray rice, embattled nfl star, recently caught on video beating his then fiancee.

>> the choices you make. >> is that what you would say to ray rice or any body? >> ray, any body. i am not better than the next man. i will say i have been down that road. and you know, dealt with the situations. i made my mistakes. >> while brown is now focused on his future. trouble still has the a way of finding him. in august, gunshots erupted in a posh l.a. party brown was hosting. three injured, including shug knight. >> what do you think the future hold for chris brown? >> well, my hope for the future for chris brown is he becomes an oi co oi -- icon. i think he will. >> a hope and dream brown had for himself from the very beginning. >> as long as he continues making great music and continues to show that he is within of the best perform ears ers in the bu. there is no