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minutes. >> and special forces with everything on the line. "caught on camera: desperate and dangerous." >> welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. when people commit violent crimes, they put themselves and others in serious danger. the outcome is never certain, and police officers who respond are faced with the tough challenge of dealing with a threat while protecting the lives of innocent bystanders, often caught in the middle. a bank robber walks out after a heist, thinking he's scot-free and is instantly blind-sided by an undercover police officer. the officer comes out of nowhere, and the dramatic
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takedown is over in seconds. the boy's identity is obscured because of his age. the police officer's because he's undercover. the incident begins nearly an hour earlier on a cold, snowy morning in toronto, canada. a 16-year-old boy walks into a bank on february 26, 2008. he says he has a gun and demands $150,000. well trained bank employees take their time, complying with the robber's demands and alert authorities by silent alarm. the city's emergency tactical force responds. sharpshooters take up positions outside the bank and out of view of the bank robber inside. >> he didn't know we were all there. he was oblivious to what was going on outside the bank. >> police aren't the only ones who respond to the incident. >> i got a call saying there is a bank robbery hostage-taking scenario, can you go directly there?
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>> global news reporter katharine mcdonald scrambles to the scene. >> there was a feeling of anxiety because you just didn't know what might happen. >> shoppers running their morning errands are caught unaware as police lock down surrounding stores. >> so people with children in strollers were going about their daily business, and those were the people that they were really worried about, that someone would arrive on the scene and walk into the middle of a potentially dangerous shooting or, you know, the takedown gone wrong. >> inside, an undercover officer slips in without the bank robber noticing. he keeps police outside informed via cell phone. and when the bank robber exits, they're ready to take him down. >> the suspect's now talking about leaving. he's taking the employee's car keys. >> so you're waiting. you're waiting. there's this feeling of anticipation. everyone's sort of holding their breath. and all of a sudden he walks out. >> the undercover officer approaches from behind, grabs the robber's neck, and pulls him to the ground.
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the cop holds his own pistol in the air with his finger off the trigger so it doesn't fire accidentally. >> it was very dramatic. it was fast. it was over before it began. it was the kind of thing that you had to slow down and repeat, because in the movies it doesn't happen that quickly and in real life you think, wait a second, that happened way too fast. >> heavily armed tactical squad members run in and hold the bank robber down. panicked bystanders don't know what to think. >> it was horrifying. we weren't sure if there were bullets going to come flying out from the bank. >> the police don't find the gun the young thug claimed to have. the undercover officer is given an award for his courageous actions. in renton, washington, police respond to a hostage situation at the local safeway supermarket may 21st, 1993. >> highly unusual to have such a public place be the forum where this event takes place.
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to have one in a safeway store, involving a clerk that had been taken hostage in the early morning hours on a friday, that was unusual. >> a woman walks into the store and holds a large butcher knife at the throat of 56-year-old clerk delores brunson. >> she was working in the flower area at that time in the store. i think she was blowing up some balloons. and the girl just came in and grabbed the first person that she saw working, and my mother happened to be the unfortunate one. >> the hostage-taker, 34-year-old holly sefia, has been smoking crack cocaine and drinking alcohol. she demands to use a phone and calls family members to tell them she wants to die. brian wilson, now chief of police in nearby federal way, washington, responds to the incident. >> i think she knew that the actions that she was taking would produce a police response. she's clearly threatening the life of another, you know, innocent person. >> the hostage-taker calls
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police and local tv stations, which send news crews and broadcasts the tense situation live. the victim's family sees her on tv. >> my grandmother called me very frantic saying, wayne, they're going to kill your mother on tv. and i said, what? >> dolores is a single mother with five sons, three of whom race to the safeway fearing the worst. >> i thought from the very beginning that it wasn't going to end well. when i looked in the girl's eyes and saw that there was something lost and the knife against my mother's neck and you could actually see it on her neck, i didn't think it was going to end well at all. >> police proceed cautiously, trying to defuse the situation by talking to holly. negotiators are able to convince her to let all the other employees and customers go free. but the hostage-taker keeps dolores and holds the knife close to her throat. >> i saw the fear of death in my mother's eyes. you could see that she was afraid.
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>> sharpshooters have several opportunities to strike, and there are several moments when the order is almost given. but police hold off. >> we were just inclined to believe that she was not going to hurt the hostage. however, there were certainly times where we did have probable cause to eliminate that threat at that point, but we chose not to and to keep those negotiations going. it was a tough call. >> the bizarre and frightening standoff continues for four hours. >> it felt like days. we knew that the police and the s.w.a.t. team had it under control, but at the same time, when the girl has a knife next to her neck, all she has to do is push it. so, yeah, it was very agonizing. >> negotiations continue outside the store. face to face, in front of an espresso stand. >> at the time i wanted them to shoot her because i thought she was going to kill my mother. that first instinct was, well,
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why aren't they shooting her? because they did have the marksmen there to do it. >> finally, dolores is momentarily released. police seize the opportunity, they use pepper spray and tackle the hostage-taker to the ground. the crowd that's gathered erupts in applause as the tense standoff is resolved without any loss in life. >> i'm glad they didn't shoot her, because i wouldn't want to see anybody lose their life over something stupid they've done. >> the tactics employed by police today are different. i believe there's less tolerance on the part of the public for placing others at risk. >> holly sefia is sentenced to four years in prison. dolores brunson suffers from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. she is diagnosed with cancer shortly after the incident, and dies two years later. >> she was really kind of a special mother. and being raised without a father around at a younger age, she was kind of a male role model at the same time.
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she was a good mother. coming up -- >> give me your money now. >> robberies don't go as planned. >> there was two guns in my face. and right then and there, i just jumped on him. >> attacks come from out of nowhere. >> it was definitely shocking to see the type of brutality that was going on on the tape. a father does the unthinkable. and a $500 million heist for the ages. >> they were just so audacious, it was almost like someone saying, we're going to rob the crown jewels. you almost dismiss it as not being possible because it's too extraordinary. >> when "caught on camera: desperate and dangerous" continues. ly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation,
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inside another camera shows store manager nathan summer walking toward the door when the robber barrels in with a gun in each hand. >> there was two guns in my face. at first i was shocked, you know. i was scared. i take two steps back, and right then and there, i just jumped on him. >> the 36-year-old store manager attacks the gunman, who shoots. >> i was shot in my chest first. and it actually went in a side angle through my chest, through my arm. >> but the bullet doesn't stop nathan. wounded, he pushes the robber out of the store. the gunman keeps firing. >> there were several rounds fired off, between like six and eight rounds. >> nathan drags the gunman down into the bushes, and they continue to struggle. >> then i got shot in my neck, and when i got shot in my neck, you see me going down, and i grabbed my gun.
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>> nathan carries a gun in his right pocket. he grabs it, but he's too injured to use it. >> i drop it because i'm just in so much pain. i was in shock. and to be honest with you, i thought that was it. when i got shot in my neck, i thought that was it. >> the gunman runs off and leaves nathan bleeding on the sidewalk, close to death. >> i got shot here, and it went through the middle of my back. and then the other one, actually it's crazy how it hit me. it came here and went through there and out my arm right here. >> he tries to get up, but can't. fortunately others in the store come to help. one calls 911. another ties his t-shirt around the bullet hole in nathan's neck to slow the bleeding. >> to be honest with you, two guys saved my life, and i'll never forget that, never, ever, ever. i owe them my life. >> he's airlifted to the nearest trauma hospital.
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after surgery, he's put in a medically induced coma for two days. >> i got shot tuesday night at 10:30. they didn't wake me up until thursday around like 2:00, and then i just was in so much pain, an my neck was sticking out. and i had tubes in my lungs. it was really an experience i never want to go through again. >> even though the gunman is dressed head to toe in black and wears a face mask, in the videotape released by police to the media, generates a tip that leads to the arrest of 19-year-old john jacobs. he's charged with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery, pleads not guilty, and awaits trial. in what's believed to be the most expensive attempted robbery in modern history, a gang of hardened criminals uses a specially designed bulldozer to crash first through a gate, then
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through a wall at the famed millennium dome in london, england, november 7, 2000. their target, a diamond exhibit estimated to be worth $500 million. it features the 203-carat de beers millennium star, one of the largest flawless diamonds in the world. the robbers are heavily armed and wear body armor. they get out of the bulldozer and throw smoke grenades. they move into the diamond exhibit and uses a nail gun to weaken the glass cases holding the diamonds. then one of the crooks uses a sledgehammer to finish the job. he breaks through. the jewels are theirs for the taking. >> they were just so audacious. it's almost like someone saying, we're going to rob the crown jewels. you thought -- well, you almost dismiss it as not being possible because it's too extraordinary. >> the thieves planned to escape on a waiting speedboat on the
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thames river and then into a getaway van. it's just like a james bond movie, including james bond, played by the scotland yard. >> this gang played for high stakes, and we played for high stakes to catch them as well. >> the outlandish heist is caught by dozens of surveillance cameras set up by a special scotland yard squad that's been tracking the gang for more than four months. the crooks are known to police as the geezer gang, a group led by four lifelong criminals. >> they've never worked. they've just had easy money, led champagne lifestyles, and really they've done very well. >> authorities catch wind of the gang's brazen plan after investigating a botched armored car robbery. the crooks get away from that crime without any cash, but they leave behind clues that lead police to a farm, which is put under round-the-clock surveillance.
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over the next few months, investigators slowly deduce the outrageous plan to steal the millennium diamonds. authorities decide to let the gang get away with the robbery to a point, so they can convict them of serious charges. >> we felt this was our best opportunity to remove from society some extremely dangerous and ruthless criminals. >> the crime takes place at the millennium dome, a specially designed public space built by the british government to celebrate january 1st, 2000, the beginning of the third millennium. inside the dome are more than a dozen exhibits, made to fascinate the public. none more so than the one showcasing 11 rare blue diamonds surrounding the de beers millennium star. >> we are honored to present the de beers millennium star. >> when it was originally found, it was 677 carats in the rough as we call it. eventually, as you know, it finished up as this magnificent polished diamond of 233 carats.
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>> the diamonds are kept in a special vault in glass cases. these glass cases are designed specifically to guard them from attack. >> that glass we were told by the manufacturer would sustain up to a half an hour that was seriously trying to take it with any instrument that we knew of at the time used by robbers. >> the gang attacks in the morning, when the exhibits, including the diamond vault, are open to the public. the thieves use a huge bulldozer to ram through the gate and the wall of the millennium dome, and it's unstoppable. >> this was like a tank. nothing was going to stop this. it was too big. i mean we couldn't even shoot the tires out. >> it's complete chaos inside. tourists allowed inside by police so the criminals aren't tipped off, are caught unaware as one of the robbers throws smoke grenades. >> if you look at him, you'll see he's wearing a gas mask,
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dark clothing. he looks like a terrorist. he starts to throw smoke flares. >> the gang moves into the diamond vault and uses a gun powder-fired nail gun on the glass case, three shots, and then a few whacks with a sledgehammer, and then the specially designed case protecting the millennium star diamond cracks open. they continue to break into a separate glass case protecting the 11 blue diamonds when scotland yard springs into action. more than 200 officers move in and take down the gang. >> there was a helluva lot of noise. there was a lot of shouting and screaming. they bravely entered the vault, not knowing what was inside. still fearing firearms. there was smoke everywhere. defendants went down to the floor, and they were detained. >> the police operation is executed without any loss of life.
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in fact, the criminals are apprehended without a single shot being fired. unbeknownst to the geezer gang, police have an ace in the hole. on this day, the real jewels have been replaced with fakes just in case. five gang members are convicted of conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to steal. they're sentenced to prison terms ranging from 5 to 15 years. coming up, a mother trapped in a fire desperate to save her newborn baby. >> the mother was saying, "please, please, somebody catch my baby. catch my baby." >> i had to save him, so i had to drop him. a stick-up turns a fight into a death. >> my survival depends on getting that gun. and terrorists meet their match when "caught on camera: desperate and dangerous" continues. on no one says "easy like monday morning." sundays are the warrior's day to unplug and recharge. what if this feeling could last all week?
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people, a frantic mother is trapped in a burning building. desperate to save her baby's life, she holds him out the window, as those on the ground try their best to prepare. then she drops the baby. >> it is scary. i was just praying to god that they save my son. >> three stories up, trucinda fox is pinned down by flames and overcome by thick, black smoke in her apartment. terrified her 1-month-old son eric will suffocate, she holds him out the window. >> i had to save him. and being in the house i knew it was not going to save us. so i had to do what i had to do, so i had to drop him. >> 30 feet below, felix vasquez looks up. >> it was a quick thing. it was a quick reaction. the mother was saying, please, please, somebody catch my baby, catch my baby. i just jumped in, grabbed him
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and took it from there. >> felix is a housing authority supervisor. he plays catcher on his softball team and today holds tight as the baby falls into his arms. >> it was a miracle out there, god was with me, and i did what i had to do. >> he makes the catch of a lifetime and gives the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. moments later firefighters rescue trucinda from her burning apartment and give her oxygen. it's a harrowing scene, but both mom and baby emerge unharmed. the jaw-dropping catch, one for the record books. you have no good faith. not one iota. so now, now -- >> another frightening scene involving a child being held out a window, this time with evil intentions. it unfolds in vancouver, british columbia, july 31st, 1985. >> are you willing? >> 33-year-old richard gaudry taunts police by dangling his 2-year-old son out a third-story window, holding him with just one hand. >> he was shaking the baby by the ankle, moving around. the baby was crying.
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once we were there, we didn't really want to look at him. >> in his other hand, the desperate dad holds a knife to his 2-year-old's throat. >> he had a knife in his hand. the knife was at the baby, and threatening to drop the baby. it was pretty horrific. >> it all begins about an hour earlier, after the father, upset over losing custody of his son, grabs the baby from his mother and begins using him as a pawn while he vents his rage. the police and fire departments respond. officers stay calm and try to talk to the knife-wielding man. >> he would lean over, wave the knife at me, and he was threatening to kill the baby. i was just talking to him, trying to keep him calm, trying to keep things so that they didn't explode and get worse than what they were. >> sharpshooters take up positions, and the distraught dad makes one concrete demand, beer. >> he threw a $10 bill at me and said he wanted some beer, and so
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i made arrangements for him to get some beer, and my supervisor didn't like that idea. that's when he became very agitated and said he would, you know -- he was going to get some beer or else things were going to happen. >> the man goes berserk, throwing a stereo out the window. then to the horror of everyone watching, the man leans out the window, clutching the baby with one arm and waving the knife around in the other. >> are you willing to take this chance? >> no! >> you are? >> no! >> he wanted his beer. and that's when he held the baby out the window. >> he screams out threats and demands. then the father ups the ante. he holds the baby upside down. >> are you willing to take this chance? >> i was totally not prepared for what i saw. >> no! >> everyone holds their breath. >> are you willing? it's up to you. beer now.
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>> get somebody underneath him. >> he's back at the window. he's leaning partially out the window. he's holding the child out of the window now. >> he had only one hand on the little child's ankle there. i know he was distraught, and i was worried that even accidentally he was going to drop the baby. >> the reckless tactic works. the father gets his beer. >> he's back inside now. he says he'll have one beer on the back porch with us. what do you think? >> keep stalling him if you can. >> we went down to the local beer parlor and got a case of beer. we didn't give it all to him. we just gave it to him a bottle at a time. >> after two hours, the father momentarily put down the baby. the police seize that opportunity. >> we finally got a chance to grab him. we subdued him pretty easily. >> another officer picked up the baby. and the tense standoff is over. >> i felt good, felt exhausted, i felt, jesus, you know, it took a lot out of me. >> the baby's unharmed. the father, richard gaudry, pleads guilty to five charges.
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>> try to give him a christian upbringing and you get in jail. >> and is sentenced to seven years in prison. >> i'll never forget it. i can close my eyes and recall it any time. coming up -- all-out brawls. >> he made a split second decision to fight for what was his. alarming beatings. >> it was just completely senseless. and deadly encounters. when "caught on camera: desperate and dangerous" continues. students everywhere are looking for someone who can help them reach their full potential. with an advanced degree in education from capella university, you'll be better equipped to deal with today's issues and make an even greater impact. let's get started at capella.edu. i'm in my work van, having lunch, next minute i'm in the back of an ambulance having a heart attack. the emts gave me bayer aspirin. it helped save my life. i was in shape, fit. i did not see it coming. my doctor recommends i take bayer aspirin
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the death tomorrow from friday's deadly stornd outbreak has risen to at least 13. four adults and three children still missing. the same storm system has moved east and is expected to bring hail and high winds to parts of the northeast today. and a wildfire is burning more than 40 square miles outside of los angeles. the so-called powerhouse fire is only 120% contained.
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after burning at least five homes there. back to caught on camera. welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. if a robber pulled a gun on you and demanded money, would you give it to him? police say always give crooks what they want. it's not worth losing your life over, no matter how much money is involved. but some people confronted with such a life-or-death situation, instinctively protect what's theirs and go on the attack at their own peril. an attempted robbery doesn't go as planned for two thieves at a jewelry store in phoenix, arizona, january 6th, 2009. it's all caught by the store's multicamera video surveillance system. two men walk into the store and try to sell a watch. the two men were just in the
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store ten minutes ago trying to sell the same watch, but were rejected. this time, they have come back for revenge. while the store owner inspects the watch again, one of the men hits him with pepper spray. the owner falls back as the man smashes open the glass display case with a metal baton. but the tables are quickly turned. before the crooks can take any jewels, they run away in fear as the owner comes back with a .38 caliber revolver he keeps in his pocket. the criminals can't escape through the locked door. the 61-year-old store owner, fearing for his life, half blind from the pepper spray, fires at the men who cower in the corners. there's nowhere to hide. one of the men gets up. the store owner shoots again. the robbers plead for their lives and try to protect themselves by putting a table and chairs between them and the store owner. the store owner fires more shots
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and bangs on the wall yelling for his neighbors to call 911. he fires several times and each man is hit once. the store owner keeps his gun pointed at them, telling the men to stay down. he gets closer and hits one of the men over the head several times, causing his gun to discharge. but he continues to hold them at gunpoint until police arrive. 24-year-old gregory mills and 27-year-old jason buckingham plead guilty to burglary. police say the store owner acted in self-defense and he's not charged. at a canadian convenience store in hamilton, ontario, a robber runs inside with a gun on february 5th, 2009, but there's no one around. the owner is in the back and the robber doesn't know what to do. then he calls out. >> hello? >> yeah? >> the owner comes out and the crook points a gun at him, demanding money.
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>> give me your money, now! >> the store owner goes to the cash register and then tries to grab the robber's gun. >> give me my money! give me my money! >> but the owner won't give him money. instead, he bangs on the glass to get the attention of his employee pumping gas outside. >> give me the money! >> i hear this frantic banging on the glass. and i look over and mr. sudu is signaling for me to come to the door. >> not sure what the commotion is all about, tony hammond walks into the store and into trouble. >> i get to the door and i open it, and that's when i first see the guy. >> give me the money! money! >> the gunman keeps demanding money. when he doesn't get any, there's a tense standoff. >> give me the money! >> i'm thinking, well, maybe
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there's a chance he doesn't have the guts to use it and, you know, we can just convince him to leave. look, you're not going to get any money, no harm, no foul, walk out the door. and at that point, mr. sudu grabs the gun. >> and i just reacted. i jumped. >> mr. sudu tries to grab the gun again, and tony leaps into action, attacking the gunman, throwing him into one of the food stands and then up against the counter. >> it's very risky, because if you watch the video at one point the gun is pointed right at mr. sudu, and he's got ahold of it. so any time that gun could have gone off. >> a life-and-death struggle ensues. >> we're both fighting for this gun. we're not fighting each other. we're fighting over the gun he has and the gun i'm trying to get. >> the fight continues up and down the aisle. mr. sudu joins in. >> obviously there's a survival instinct, and my survival depends on getting that gun. >> give me the money! >> they finally get the gun away. the store owner calls 911. >> let me go!
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>> realizing the robbery is a bust, the crook tries to flee, but tony blocks him and then holds him. >> he realizes at that point he's got to get away. he's made the dumbest mistake of his life, and it's going to be a lot worse for him if he's still here when the cops get here. so he's now in a life-and-death struggle for his future. he slips away from me and starts going back across the front of the store. >> they wrestle to the ground. the store owner bangs on the thief's head as tony grabs him from behind. >> i get him from behind around the neck and i flip him over and land on top of him. we wrestle a few more times. that's when he grabs the shelf and tries to hit me. >> the shelf cuts tony's head, but the fight continues. tony tries to hold him until police arrive, but the robber worms his way toward the door.
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they get up, and tony tries to punch the robber in the face. >> i actually went for a knockout punch on him, and unfortunately i stepped on some of the debris on the floor. i slipped to the ground, and he squirms out the door. >> the robber makes it out the door and into a getaway car. the 4 1/2 minute brawl leaves tony completely spent. >> i have never been that exhausted. i have played hockey, i have done hockey shifts, and i remember coming off and saying, man, am i tired. but, yeah, i have never been so physically exhausted in my life. >> what's going on here, sir? >> we just got robbed. >> police show up to a trashed store. >> the store was a complete mess. >> he described it as the longest hockey fight he has ever had. it kind of resembled that. it's something you might see in a movie or something staged. the totality of it's unbelievable, what they went through. >> they recover the weapon, which turns out to be a pellet
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gun. >> i certainly wouldn't encourage anybody else who works in a store to try to take on someone with a gun. but he was an armchair quarterback and did what he thought was right, and he almost held onto him. it was a really heroic effort by him to try to hang onto this guy. >> tony's a little banged up but okay and happy neither he nor his boss are seriously hurt or lose any cash. but he just wishes he would have landed that last punch. >> the one thing the video really did is reassured me, it shows me clearly stepping on a unfortunately bag of peanuts or sunflower seeds, and that's how he got away. >> the hamilton ontario police department released the video, hoping the identify the robber and continue to investigate the case. >> give me the money! coming up, a mob goes on a rampage. >> we had people stomping on him and taking their belt off and whipping him with their belt. and a commando unit boards a hijacked airplane. >> they said that they are going to kill one passenger every 30 minutes.
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new beneful medley's. at the universal food grocery market in brockton, massachusetts beviano korea's niece is tending the counter counter. >> he came so quick and at the same time i jump odd him. tries to rob the store. >> the robber gets much more than he bargains for. without hesitation, beviano, the owner of the store, attacks trying to wrestle the shotgun away. >> i'm thinking defend myself and my home, my family. >> without hesitation he made a split second decision to fight for what was his.
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>> the shotgun gets twisted around the robber's chest as the struggle continues. then they hit the security system and the camera stops recording. the fight continues for two minutes. the thief takes away $200 in cash, but he doesn't get away with everything he came with. >> it ended with the suspect losing his firearm, losing the shotgun along with a sneaker. so he fled on foot with one shoe. >> the shotgun is loaded. >> it was a pistol-grip shotgun, not the long barrel. it was loaded and it had a round in the chamber. >> also left behind is the surveillance tape which turns out to be priceless. when beviano gets the gun around the robber, the hood on his sweatshirt comes off, giving a clear view of his face. >> we were able to air that on local tv stations, and as a result of that, we were able to get tips of who it was. >> six days later, tips lead police to 33-year-old david stanton.
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he's arrested on armed robbery and weapons charges, he pleads not guilty and awaits trial. a vicious attack on a bus driver in kalamazoo township, michigan, captured by security cameras on board. on march 3rd, 2009, a 16-year-old student becomes upset because the substitute bus driver isn't making the correct stops. he begins threatening her from the back of the bus, and the driver pulls over. the teen approaches, and as she tries to radio for help, he flies into a rage and begins attacking the 37-year-old woman. students pull him away, but he comes back and continues punching the woman, as more students try to intervene. the bus driver is treated at the hospital for a broken finger, bruising, and cuts and scrapes to her face and head. the attacker attends a school for students who have exhibited emotional or behavioral problems. he's charged as a juvenile with assault with intent to do great
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bodily harm. he pleads no contest and is placed in a psychiatric facility for treatment. las vegas, nevada, april 15th, 2006. a surveillance camera in a casino parking lot captures a large group of teenagers walking past an employee who's sitting in the golf cart. at the bottom of the screen, one of the young men in the group stops and takes the worker's two-way radio. moments later, the employee is using his cell phone when one teen comes up from behind and sucker punches him. the attack is completely unprovoked. >> clearly, he didn't provoke them, as you can see on the videotape. that's what made it more senseless is the man was just going about his daily duties. >> the employee is punched over and over as others from the group join in, hitting and kicking him. >> it was definitely shocking to
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see the type of brutality that was going on on the tape. >> the employee, 24-year-old richard markwell, gets up and tries to run away. the group swarms around and attacks him. one whips richard with his belt buckle. he falls to the ground. they close in and continue to kick and stomp. finally, they disperse. another casino employee off camera is also assaulted in the frenzy. >> there really wasn't a whole lot of rhyme or reason to it. they weren't out for the cash. they weren't out for the big loot. they weren't out for revenge, there weren't any of those typical telltale type of criminal mentality elements involved in this. it was just completely senseless. >> richard is severely hurt, his jaw and collarbone are broken, and he has numerous cuts and scrapes and bruises. but he's able to get up and staggers to get help. >> the type of beating that he took, it's amazing that he didn't have any more injuries than he really came away with.
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>> police mount an intensive investigation to try to track down those involved, releasing the surveillance video, hoping to generate tips. the investigation reveals the group of teens were on a rampage all weekend long. police obtained surveillance video of other attacks the group commits over a 48-hour spree. it includes an assault on a man and woman in a store parking lot and the pillaging of a convenience store. there are six assaults in all, culminating with a shooting in a park. >> you can see how, as these events start progressing, you it appears these individuals were involved or are becoming more and more emboldened in their crime, feeling like they can get away with it a little bit more. >> 11 teenage boys and girls are eventually charged with various assaults and robbery crimes, seven of whom are convicted or plead guilty and serve jail time. coming up, an embassy under siege. and a hijacked passenger jet
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special forces storm the japanese embassy in lima, peru, april 22nd, 1997. inside are 71 hostages, who have been held captive for four months by 14 members of the tupac revolutionary movement, demanding fellow rebels be released from prison. peruvian military set off a series of huge explosions. blasting open doors and walls on all sides of the building and filling the air with smoke. 150 soldiers attack the embassy.
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they begin freeing hostages, telling them to crawl to avoid being shot. the rebels take control of the embassy months earlier, during a cocktail party, and initially hold more than 400 hostages, most of whom are let go in the first few weeks. but more than 70 are held inside the mansion, as the standoff drags on for 18 weeks. the military digs a tunnel underneath the compound, and when it's finished, the order is given to strike. the firefight rages for nearly 45 minutes. the stately, white pillar embassy becomes a smoking bullet-ridden war zone as hostages methodically make their way down the stairs to freedom. one hostage and two soldiers die in the raid. all 14 rebels are killed.
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the military rejoices when the saga is finally over. december 26th, 1994, mar say, france. french paramilitary unit storms a hijacked airliner on the runway. inside are 170 passengers and crew and four algerian terrorists who have rigged the plane with dynamite. the commandos dressed in black use a passenger boarding stair ramp to reach the cabin door. they try to open it, but the stairs are too high and block the door but commandos finally pry it open. they enter into a hail of gunfire as the terrorists, who are all in the front of the aircraft, unload their weapons. flashes are seen through the cockpit window.
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no one knows if the terrorists will blow up the plane. the terrifying incident begins two days earlier, when air france flight 8969 leaves algeria for paris. four members of the armed islamic group board the plane, dressed as airborne staff. they take over by takeoff, threatening to blow up the plane. they demand the release of two political leaders and direct the plane to fly to paris, but the runway is blocked by the military. the terrorists release about 60 passengers, mostly women and children. but then kill another passenger before the runway is cleared and the plane is allowed to fly to france. >> they said that they are going to kill one passenger every 30 minutes. >> without enough fuel to reach paris, the plane lands to refuel in the french city of marce before dawn.
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that's where the high-stakes raid takes place. all four terrorists are in the cockpit with three crew members. >> at this moment, the four terrorists were in the cockpit with us. they kill two terrorists quickly. approximately. >> suddenly a person appears through the blown-out cockpit window. it's the co-pilot, jean-paul, who crawls out and drops nearly 20 feet to the ground, he shatters his thigh and arm. >> i was in the line of fire. there were two terrorists at my back and the french troops, very, very dangerous. >> three terrorists are quickly killed, but the fourth continues firing from the cockpit, holed up with the pilot and flight engineer. as passengers stream out, a grenade falls to the ground and explodes outside the plane. it doesn't injure anyone. then one explodes in the cockpit.
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the fourth hijacker is killed. some of the 170 passengers and crew on board during the raid are hurt, but incredibly, all of them survive the firefight. but the heroic actions of the commandos can't undo the tragic deaths of the three passengers killed by the terrorists in algiers at the beginning of the two-day nightmare. police say the hijackers intended to blow up the jet over paris and a plan many terrorism experts believe was a precursor to the attack on the united states nearly seven years later, on september 11th, 2001. if you have a video you would like to send to us, visit our website caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera.
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you are about to become a witness. >> i'm to the point the only way to solve is an accident. >> you want her just hurt? >> dead. >> captured on camera, some of the dumbest most fumbling attempts to high hit men. >> she has blond short curly hair, glasses. she has a very small mouth. until she talks. so how much you got here? >> only $30. >> $30? >> and i had to borrow that. >> this guy is just way out there. i'm going to kill a whole family for 30 bucks, 50 bucks. that's when i just wanted to slap m.
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