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thing is for sure, these videos are certainly entertaining. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." they do battle with the armed and dangerous. >> it's bad. shooting pursuit, really, really bad. >> and handle the most unexpected predicaments. >> it's a hard thing to watch for a lot of people. >> and react quickly when routine situations suddenly turn perilous. >> first mental thing is that i'm a slaughtered man. >> police officers put their lives on the line every day. and they have a silent witness
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that can speak volumes. >> put the gun down, man! in this hour, suspenseful stories seen through the unblinking eye of the dashboard camera. ♪ ♪ ♪ "caught on camera, dash cam diaries". >> welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. dashboard cameras are an important policinging tool that can bear witness to details missed by the human eye and reveal invaluable lessons for law enforcement. in this hour you'll see compelling situations caught on dashboard cameras from getaways gone awry to ruthless gunmen firing at will. >> a routine traffic stop turns into a roadside shootout when troopers unknowingly pull over
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an armed and dangerouses inqaaed prisoner. >> i'm thinking already i shouldn't have stopped this car. >> october 26, 1998. tyler, texas. trooper barry goins an 18-year veteran of the force is assigned to train trooper jesse andresen, a rookie six months out of the academy. >> he was not my training officer. i was riding with him that night because my fto had other a rifrjmentes and had something else to do that night. >> no. no, we don't go out with a rookie drill. >> they're at the tail end of a particularly busy night when they decide to look for an easy way to finish their shift. i went on the county road that i'm familiar with and we were going stay there until the end of the shift. >> we were working stationary radar. so we were sitting still and the lice were out. >> a car comes by 64 in a 50.
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i'm a little bit bored, and i go pull it over and make a traffic stop on the car. >> trooper an dreesen questions the driver who is now out of the car while trooper goins talks to the passenger who is avoiding eye contact. >> when i go up and i.d. and see what the story is with the guy in the front seat and there was something not right. i wanted to find out what was going on. >> okay. stand out here. >> i asked him to step out of the car. he didn't want to step out of the car. is it against the law to not step out of the car? no. >> the passenger still refuses to exit the car and trooper goin is losing patience. we can do it the easy way or the hard way. which way do you want to go? >> you just stop for a moment in your mind and think to yourself, am i prepared? something's fixing to happen. >> although she senses danger, trooper andresen focuses on the
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driver as the passenger, merges from the car andis faes trooper goins. >> took one step out and underneath his leg he had a is the night special, a .22 revolver and he flipped it with his finger and he had me. less than heartbeats, he had me. >> he's their guy is fighting with it and he's trying to get his gun out. i can see he's trying to get his gun out, and i'm going for my gun, and fresh out of recruit school. all i wanted was cover. >> andreesen backs away as the scuffle between goins and the armed suspect quickly escalates into a life or death situation. >> don't move! don't move! don't move, lady! don't move, lady! >> as things would have it, i had a partner that night and he was not listening to anything he was saying. >> he was going for my side arm and he had the pistol up to my neck and he was trying to get my weapon away from me, and i
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figured i was done for anyway, but -- i was hoping for at least two seconds to shoot him before something -- before i lost consciousness. >> the suspect is momentarily distracted and trooper goins makes his move. >> when he finally took his eyes off of me for a second, and looked to see what she was doing, that was my only spot. it didn't get any better than that, that was it. ducked down and grabbed him. we danced for a couple of seconds and he was trying to grab my weapon and i was trying to grab his, and then i got mad and i said this guy is going to go out. >> trooper goins breaks free from the suspect pulls the gun and fires a shot at point-blank range, but he misses. >> i had to hold my shots because i didn't want to shoot jasmine, and he took off as soon as he cleared the car i started unloading. >> all of a sudden 18 minutes
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later it was over. >> the suspect flees into the darkness through the barrage of bullets. trooper andressen arrests the driver who never left the scene. >> drop it! get down on the ground! >> you think you're there for 15 minute, but you're only there for maybe five or six heartbeatheartbeat s. the whole thing was over in 10, 13 seconds. it seemed like you were there forever because you're always wondering what's going on? what's next? what's going to happen? >> as the troopers wait for backup to arrive they begin to question the driver who seems perplexed by what just happened. listen closely as he describes how he met his passenger. >> i know that his cousin asked me to give him a ride out here. he was pretty nice to me. >> he even adds pleasantry to
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trooper goins. >> i'm glad nothing happened to youshgs sir. >> sydney bur, a career prisoner who escaped prison while out on work release. >> he was not going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> the man hunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yard away. years after the ordeal troopers goin and andresen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all of this happened. >> i had gotten the camera put in the day before. it was one of those fluky things. >> he had three holes in his jacket.
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>> byrd is found guilty of aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon and sentenced to life in prison. >> i started that day as a rookie, but i went home that night as a veteran. ♪ ♪ >> coming up, with a gun in each hand, a man opens fire on police. >> he was hit several times. >> and later, a getaway attempt goes bad when a woman runs over herself. when "caught on camera ", dash cam diaries continues. ♪ baby, b ♪ baby, baby, come along with me ♪ [ air horn blows ] ♪ i love you and i need you ♪ just to hug and squeeze you ♪ baby, why can't you see? [ female announcer ] the space of a small suv. the fuel efficiency of a prius. ♪ well, baby, can't you see
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>> a suspected would-be bank robber fires at police in a rolling gun battle through a residential florida neighborhood. >> there is no doubt in my mind that he was trying to end my
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life. i knew he was shooting to kill. >> i've just been fired at, and the car's been hit several times. >> july 1, 2003. tallahassee, florida. officer chuck per se patrolling a local bank parking lot when a slow-moving car catches his attention. >> i looked at the two individuals who were the driver and the passenger just -- they were completely surprised and they had a very shocked look, and it wasn't normal. they immediately did a very rapid turn out of the parking lot. they aroused my suspicion to such a point that i had called james fairfield, my supervisor. >> he said i have something going. do you have any intel on a white crown vic or gray crown vic. he thought it was a fraud suspect. >> it's clear to officer perry that the pair is deliberately trying to avoid him. with his suspicions and his dash cam now engaged perry hits the lights and sirens.
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>> i wanted to wait for backup, actually, but as it turned out they ended up driving into a basically closed neighborhood. >> the car pulls over, and the passenger side door immediately opens. >> i was expecting a foot chase. i was expecting to have to jump out of the car. >> but the suspects don't run. instead, one emerges from the car with a pistol in each hand. >> it was bang, bang, bang, as fast as we could. both guns going. >> and the weapons were probably 10 to 12 shots were fired. >> the shots that were fired were incredibly loud. the pistols were deafening. as i was ducking down i remember bullets hitting the car. there were a lot of kids out, and on the video you could see a couple of them running across the street just prior to him jumping out of the car and
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shooting. >> for that reason, perry holds his fire. the quick-thinking officer throws his cruiser in reverse creating distance between himself and the hail of gun fire. >> i was simply trying to survive and get out of the way and at that point they got back in the car. >> the driver takes off again and so does officer perry. >> i've just been fired at. the car's been hit several times. >> that actually kind of pissed me off, and i decided at that point to go ahead and chase them and see if i can catch them. >> i've been shot at. >> you know, it's remarkable, there is a cadence that we use when all things are well and other than the speed as which it was coming out it pretty much followed our standard protocol, despiekt the fact he was getting shot at. we got good detail and great indicators and good descriptions. >> i can't say i was calm that day, but if it appeared that way then that's great, but the truth
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is that i was scared, and i had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach like somebody kicked me, and i wasn't really sure that i wanted to be there anymore. >> sergeant james fairfield and several other officers are on the way to help officer perry when the driver suddenly pulls the car over once more and once again, the passenger door opens. >> the second time when he started getting out of the car he didn't do it really quickly. i could tell exactly what he was going to do. this time i could see that he was pulling a rifle out of the car. again, i immediately put it into reverse, and again, he began firing just like at a firing range. >> a direct hit to the battery short circuits the electrical system bringing his car to a halt. the dash cam goes black. >> pursuits are bad. shootings are bad. shooting purr sushths really,
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really bad and that's where we're at right now, and i began thinking about whafs really doing chasing this guy who is so committed to putting an end to my life. we took off again. >> but officer perry's car is barely able to accelerate due to the damage and she watches as the men speed off. >> we're all rung emergency mode trying to figure out where this is going to get stable enough that we can assist the truck. >> after two terrifying ebb counters alone, backup is on the scene. his cruiser is breaking down, but officer perry remains relentless in his pursuit. ahead, the harrowing chase is coming to a dramatic conclusion. >> the most amazing crash i've ever seen. the car went about 15 feet in the air, it spun sideways and did a barrel roll, at the same time flew 35 or 40 feet going over an embankment.
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>> police immediately descend on the car including officer perry. miraculously, both the driver and the passenger survive the crash, but they are not ready to surrender. >> watch his left hand. his left hand. >> as we approached he was still trying to get a gun. >> you're going to die if you do. >> i'll shoot! >> the suspects finally give up and they're taken into custody. police confiscate several firearms, ammunition, duffel bags and rope from the car which leads them to believe the suspects were planning to rob the bank where the officer first spotted them. this is no ordinary crime team. they are father and son. the father, abdul shabbaz who fired multiple times on officer perry is convicted of first-degree attempted murder and is serving three consecutive life sentences. his son and accomplice moussa shabbaz is also convicted of
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first-degree attempted murder and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. perry was named police officer of the year for his actions. ♪ >> since incident the tallahassee police department uses officer perry's dash cam footage as a training tool for new recruits. >> chuck's response, is immediately disengage and gain distance. >> time to plan on what to do is not once the guy's shooting at you. you need to figure this out before they start shooting at you and put some plan in action don't just sit there. move. do something. >> i'm here today, and so i'm happy. it was a good day. >> when i saw the video for the first time it had captured everything that these two guys had done, and it brought back, one, a lot of anger that they were trying to get and then,
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two, it also brought back a lot of the memories and the details. you have a job to do, and so these guys, if we don't stop them there's nobody else out there to do it, and that's what we did. >> you're going to die if you do! don't move! coming up, a getaway attempt gone horribly wrong, and later, another brazen gunman in a shootout with police when "caught on camera, dash cam diaries" continues. ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on.
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>> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. i'd gotten a phone call from our dispatch center that let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigler and her vehicle, and it isn't long before he spots her. >> i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the truck. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she said she wasn't jonah zeigler. i finally convinced her i knew who she was and that she was under arrest because she had warrants. >> he orders zeigler out of her truck, but she has other plans. >> she said i'm not going and she hit the gas and the truck goes in reverse, and i put my hand out to keep the truck from pushing me over. >> he tries to reach for his taser and his gun, but there is no time. zeigler is on the run. >> she flies by yelling at me as
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she's driving by. she said, quote, unquote, just [ bleep ] shoot me and then drives off. >> zeigler's vehicle is going fast leaving a cloud of smoke in its wake, trying to shake the officer, zeigler turn abruptly cutting off two other cars. she accelerates, passing a school and blowing through stop signs. zeigler is unyielding. suddenly corporal tufty cease the driver side door open. >> i'm thinking she's going try and jump out of the truck. as i come around the corner i can see that she slipped out and she's hanging on to the driver's door and the steering wheel. >> zeigler desperately holds on. she can neither stop the truck nor get back inside. >> she's running with the truck and she's slipping as she's running and she can't control it. >> zeigler tries to keep up with the moving vehicle and it hits a curb for a driveway and it hits
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a rail rood tie that's next to the sidewalk and in that jarring motion she loses the grip and she goes urned trunk and the tire's up under her neck. >> heis ras over to zeigler's truck. i check her. she's not breathing and just the sheer weight of the vehicle and obviously she's not going to be breathing much at all. >> it becomes a rescue mission as he tries in vain to push the vehicle off of her. within minutes neighbors run over to help, but even the additional manpower cannot lift the truck. corporal tufty makes a crucial decision. >> i knew if i didn't get the truck off of her she was not going live. the only thing i had available was to drive it off. it was still running, and i started to hit the accelerator very slow to feather it and all of a sudden she came out from underneath it. >> startled onlookers back away
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as zeigler's body spins out from under the wheel of the truck. corporal tufty's emt training quickly takes over. >> checked her pulse. she had a pulse and she wasn't breathing really well. hang on, jonah. we're going help you out. we'll get you to the hospital. >> zeigler is alive, but the extent of her injuries is unknown. >> i've seen a lot of different things in this job, and you'll come up against a number of different scenarios and this is one of the toughest ones to handle. >> zeigler is flown to spokane for treatment. miraculously she makes a full recovery. she pleads guilty on her original forgery charge and is awaiting sentencing. for attempting to elude police she's sentenced to 13 months in prison, but before she goes to jail she has one lasten count tore tufty. >> i actually stopped her traffic stop about three months ago. i didn't know it was her, and i just stopped the car for a
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violation went up, and found out who it was and talked to her for a couple of minutes and she has apologized for what she did in a letter and in person, and she did thank me for saving her life. if there's one thing that i can get across to people is stinot from the police and endanger yours or the officer's life to get away. it doesn't end well usually. a man on a crime spree opens fire on police officers who fire back with deadly force. [ shots fired ] >> april 22, 2011, tomah, wisconsin. sergeant scott holomb are on the lookout for a man involved in a drive-by shooting. they spot the suspect seth mcclawsky driving the pickup
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truck and the officers follow. >> takes a left into a residential street and at that point we were pretty sure that he was going to flee us so i turned on my lights and pursued the vehicle. ♪ ♪ ♪ mcclawsky pulls over, but he doesn't surrender. >> prior to the door open he starts to come out. you can hear me in the video camera saying get back in the car, but i didn't finish the sentence. >> i just remember his arm coming out and pointing the gun towards us. >> i stepped out of the car trying to get enough distance from the door, and i had my rifle slung up as well, and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. >> officer kenworthy exited the passenger side and engaged him, and i came out of the other side
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and engaged him and returned fire on him. to be honest with you, it seemed very much like a training video. i was waiting for somebody to pause it and basically start asking questions of the class, but it was just -- it kind of kept going. it didn't stop. >> through the shower of police gun fire, mcclawsky somehow was able to get back into his truck, but he isn't going very far. >> when he was trying to get into the vehicle i made the decision that he was not going to leave. i was going do everything i could, and what i didn't want is a rolling gunfight and he just continued to return the fire into the truck and into the driver's compartment. mcclawsky is fatally wounded. >> as you can see in the video, i believe he took a headshot, and you can see the hat fly off his head and at some point you'll hear in the video the
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loud whine of his trunk engine. >> the adrenaline rush is so intense it would be several minutes before officer kenworthy realizes he himself has been shot. ? some time during the shooting, i don't remember exactly when, i just remember feeling something hit my foot. >> i saw an exit hole in my foot and the tip of my third toe. the bullet went under my second toe and went through my big toe. >> an investigation by the monroe county district attorney said the shooting is justified. mcclawsky is linked to as many as ten drive-by shootings across wisconsin and illinois. coming up, a high-speed chase ends in a high-impact crash. >> oh! >> and later, a gunman shoots to kill. >> put the gun down!
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i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. the italian cruise company that owns the ship that ran aground and capsized on friday said it appears the captain made errors in judgment. five people were killed and 15 are still missing including americans. >> the most toxic space junk have landed in the pacific. the most toxic parts of the $170 million russian space probe probably burned up in the atmosphere. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. in our next video, police go from pursuing a suspect to comforting a victim. it's a gripping story that shows that to serve and protect means more than just catching the bad
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guys. >> a late-night police chase ends when a car slams into a brick wall. >> oh! >> april 8, 2011, myrtle beach, south carolina. officers ryan headley and matthew cox are working the night shift. they're on the lookout for a reported stolen vehicle. >> i saw the vehicle pass by me, and as i was turning around on the suspect vehicle i saw that the driver of the vehicle was a young female driver, and we were dealing with a very petite individual or teenager. we attempted to stop the vehicle, but she refused to stop for us. and i began asking for
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assistance from other agencies to get the vehicle stopped. i thought, you know, in the 200 yards she would hit the stop sticks and it would be over and be safe. before we got to that point she made an abrupt lefthand turn. >> the officers are shocked when the driver suddenly veers off the road and crashes directly into the brick wall of a church. >> she just accelerated at a high rate of speed into the church. the impact was just tremendous so i knew she was at a greater speed of 70 miles per hour when she hit the church. after the dust had settled you could really see how bad the accident was because the entire front half of the jeep was into the church through the brick wall, and i never at one time saw the brake lights activate to
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indicate that she was trying to stop the vehicle. >> headley and cox help the driver and they carefully search the car, but they can't immediately find her. >> she's inside! she's in the vehicle! >> we were searching for her in the vehicle and we could not see her, and we started looking in front of the vehicle, calling out and we had no response initially, but then officer cox was near the driver's door and could hear a female screaming inside. >> wait a minute. >> she's inside. where are you at? she's down in the floorboard. >> it took us, i would say a good 30 seconds, 45 seconds to determine that she was still in the vehicle. officer cox heard a voice, and after further investigation observed a young female up underneath the steering column inside the vehicle moaning in agony and pain.
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>> your leg is broken? >> yeah, you hit a wall going 60, ma'am. stay still. >> i was thinking that the injuries were going to be severe, maybe even fatal, and at that point in time our, prehengz mode went to rescue mode. >> officer cox realizes there's nothing he can do to remove the girl in the car. she's trapped. officer headley calls for help. >> prior to the police i spent ten years in the fire service and through my experience with that i received medical training, and i knew that her injuries were potentially life-threatening, and i wanted her to calm down, slow her heart rate down in case she had external, internal bleeding or anything of that nature. >> the victim is in excruciating pain, but officer cox is still able to get some pertinent information from her. >> how old are you? how old are you? >> i wanted to know if she was a licensed driver at the time or
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maybe stole the vehicle, however, we didn't realize her intentions until after the vehicle crashed into the wall that she was an unlicensed driver and she was underaged. >> while waiting for the rescue team officer cox keeps the girl talking. after admitting to stealing the car and to being too young to have a driver's license, she makes a startling confession. >> you were trying to kill yourself? okay? why were you trying to kill yourself? >> i hate my life. >> why do you hate your life? >> i was thinking that obviously was seriously wrong with the suspect other than just wanting to steal the vehicle for a joyride. >> you realize you have a lot to live for, okay? stay with me. just stay conscious, okay? >> there was an issue there intomorrowly emotionally that triggered her to do such an act. >> in the midst of her trauma, the victim is afraid there may be consequences beyond her injury. >> am i going go to jail? she was more worried about the
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criminal charges, and i was trying to console her by telling her let's not worry about the charges at hand. let's just worry about getting you safely out of the vehicle. >> no. don't be sorry. hey, no, you just -- >> i know, you just made a bad choice. you're not a bad person. you just made a bad choice. i'm sure after this we'll get you stabilized and talk more about it later on. >> officer cox never leaves the girl's side after firefighters and paramedics were on the scene. >> do you hear those sirens? okay. that's the paramedics coming. all right? >> i know, don't be scared. they're going get you out of here and you'll get better. >> she's still conscious and alert. she can't feel nothing from the waist down. >> the fire department deployed the jaws of life and the cutting equipment, and they were able to safely get into a position where they can cut and remove parts off the vehicle to safely get the suspect out of the vehicle.
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>> because the girl is a minor her legal proceedings are not made public. >> whoa! >> the dash cam videos are often used as evidence against suspects. this incident reveals the compassionate side of police. >> we were not only there to apprehend. we're there to protect and even if that's protecting the suspect, i mean, everybody needs protection even if it's from themselves. >> coming up, a distraught gunman who won't surrender. >> just put the gun down, ma'am! we'll talk about it! when caught on camera, dash cam diaries continues. [ male announcer ] sorry, buddy. truth is, nyquil doesn't un-stuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. really?
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tense standoff. >> put it down! >> no! >> that ends with both men shot. >> put the gun down! >> the first thing i thought is i'm losing way too much blood to make it. ♪ ♪ >> april 2, 2011, conrow, texas. sergeant killman responds to an emergency call. a man is wielding a shotgun outside a nearby bakery. >> at the time it was pretty much all of the comments i had while enroute. i was primary dispatch to the car and i was closest when i went out, so i knew there were two units responding. >> he's got a gun. >> when i pulled in i wasn't quite prepared for what i saw when i got there. he was out of the door of the bakery and hitting it with the butt of the gun. as soon as he saw me, his attention was drawn, and he put
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his focus on me, and then and there i knew that i was in the wrong place. >> he's got the gun aimed at me. >> the man with the shotgun is james richard hill. he's in the thick of a heated dispute with his girlfriend who works at the bakery. [ siren ] >> we have people in the store. get away from the windows. >> even before officer ashley arrives on the scene, he knows the situation is dire. >> the fact that he got on the radio and told dispatch to have the people inside the store move away from the windows, that told me that he was trying to prepare to use de >> as the dash, rolls, sergeant kellermann makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill, but the gunman refuses to comply. >> put the gun down, man! put it down! >> no! >> what's going on?
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>> in talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and i pointed it at him and he opened with the shotgun, and i thought he would disarm it, and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. >> come on, man! >> i saw that he had taken a defensive posture and he was laying across the trunk of the vehicle pointing his firearm toward sergeant kellermann, and i knew as soon as i pulled in and i looked over i had a good shot. >> when you and you ma a decision that deadly force will have to be used pretty quickly especially after he looks at the breach of the weapon and he cocked it back, and i knew there was going to be a shooting. >> the gunman fires a sickle shot striking sergeant kellermann in the face. >> i was still trying to communicate with him and he was trying to put the gun down and
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trying to get some time of demeanor with him. i don't remember the gun blast. i remember hearing it, and i knew it was him that shot, and i felt the percussion on my face. >> just as i was about to fire my first shot he shot, and it kind of distracted me for a second. >> shortly after he shot i fired my first shot, and you see the window on the car that he's leaning on blow out. that was my first shot. >> in an instant, several officers open fire on the gunman, as officer tyson riley races to the aid of sergeant kellermann. >> the other officers that were there, i trust them with my life. i knew that they were going do anything they could to protect me and sergeant kellermann, and at that point i chose to holster my wep sx >> hill goes down. he is fatally wounded.
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>> stay down! stay down! stay down! >> officer raleigh tends to his fallen colleague out of the camera's view, but the dramatic moments are captured on the dash cam's microphone. >> tell my wife i love her. >> i will. >> you're fine. >> when i saw the blood coming out, and the amount of blood the first thing i thought was i'm losing way too much blood to make it. there's no way you can lose this much blood to live, and at that point officer tyson was basically at my side. >> you're okay, buddy. >> all right. >> stay right here. >> you're with me, you're going to be okay. >> you're going to be okay. i think you're going to be okay. all right? >> i keeping can him how bad it looked and how bad's my eye? >> you don't look pretty. >> you weren't pretty before, jim. >> he was even looking at me saying you didn't look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize,
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hey, i'm still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything he's saying and sergeant kellermann, and i joke arne a lot with one another and when he said that i just wanted to give some level of normalcy to him. >> everybody had a role out there on that scene. the officers that responded by shooting back had a role that they played. officer riley, when he arrived he took on the role of being by my side. he knew i've been hit, and i can't say enough about him because him being on the ground and seeing the blood i knew i was going to die. >> i'm with you, okay? >> sergeant kellermann is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. >> i can talk about this whole, vent and it's talk about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and i remember she answered. i remember her saying, baby, i've been shot, and i don't know
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if i'll make it. i love you, okay? >> sergeant kellermann is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasn't as bad as i thought. of course, i lost my vision, and it wasn't as bad as it could have been. months later, sergeant kellermann and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot, and they explained what we didn't see on dash cam. >> but i took down a stance basically right here behind my car. most of me was shield except this part of me that was looking over my pistol and that's when he took the shot. >> ambulance stopped. we went from your car to the ambulance and then the helicopter was stopped right out here. >> the relationship with the officers that were on that scene has definitely grown. any time you're in some type of situation like we were in, there's definitely a camaraderie there and something some other officers can't understand.
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> the suspect doesn't get far, though. he loses control, slams into a tree, and adds a few more lines to his rap sheet. how about this one in tiger, oregon? ♪ ♪ an officer rushes to an emergency only to become one himself when a motorist fails to yield. the officer swerves, but still hits the car and a house. ♪ ♪ the owner is at home, but luckily no one is injured. ♪ ♪ >> but one of the most bewildering occurrences ever caught on dash cam is this one when police pursue a 15-foot
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limousine going down the highway backward. ♪ ♪ >> april 22, 2006. westchester county, new york. trooper todd boemer is busy patrolling interstate 684. >> i was conducting radar enforcement when i saw a large limo, white limo coming northbound at a high rate of speed. the vehicle was going 124 miles per hour. >> the officer gives chase as the driver tears down the interstate. officer boemer is left to wonder why. >> in my mind, what does he have in the vehicle? who is in the vehicle? is there a dead body? guns? drugs? whatever. >> in the neighboring township trooper john kelly hears the call for assistance. >> i was in position where i could assist him. i was north of his location and there was a good chance that i'd be able to intercept the vehicle. >> trooper kelly enters the interstate and spots the runaway
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limo. he actually was passing cars over double yellow lines, and he actually passed a number of cars right in front of me. >> and then something finally gives. >> i wasn't sure what the smoke was. i didn't know if it was the transmission or whatever. i didn't know if it was coming from the car. >> the limousine's transmission blows, and it seems the culprit has finally run out of options, but just when troopers think the chase is over the driver finds another gear that works, reverse. >> yeah. he did it backwards. >> the people that were on the road and i don't know what was going through their mind. you would think he was filming an episode of "bullet" or something, some type of cop show. >> his only way out at that point was to actually utilize the entrance ramp to exit the interstate. that's what he did. >> we were closing in on him, and he had nowhere to go. >> the limo finally loses
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control and crashes. the troopers apprehend the driver ask then realize there's also a passenger along for the wild ride. when the police ask the driver the reason he fled. >> he thought he had a suspended license and that's why he took off. >> now instead of facing a minor offense the suspect dane christian is convicted of criminal and traffic violations including reckless driving and reckless endangerment in four separate jurisdictions. he was sentenced to three years' probation. his passenger is not charged. >> talented. talented. what he can use that for i don't know, but he had some ability. he didn't get away though. >> it's impressive to see what officers face every day working to keep their community safe, but some of these stories would be hard to believe if they weren't

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