i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." they do battle with the armed and dangerous. >> pursuits are bad. shootings are bad. shooting pursuits, 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 lamb. >> police officers put their lives on the line every day. and in their arsenal, they have a silent witness that can speak volumes. >> put the gun down, man! >> in this hour, suspenseful stories seen through the unblinking eye of the dashboard camera.

>> oh! "caught on camera, dash cam diaries." >> welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. dashboard cameras are an important policing 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 an armed and dangerous escaped 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 jasmine andreesen, a rookie six months out of the academy. >> barry was not my fto, he was not my field training officer. i was riding with him that night because my fto had other arrangements and had something else to do that night. >> no. no, we don't go out with a rookie very often. >> 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 i was just going to stay there till the end of the shift. >> we were working stationary radar. so we were sitting still and the lights were out. >> a car comes by 64 in a 50. i'm a little bit bored, and i go pull it over and make a traffic stop on the car. >> trooper andreesen 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's something not right about him. 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? i said no. no, it's against the law to not do what i ask you to do. >> the passenger still refuses to exit the car and trooper goins 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, okay, am i prepared? something's fixing to happen. >> although she senses danger, trooper andresen focuses on the driver, as the passenger emerges from the car and faces trooper goins. >> took one step out and he looped.

and underneath his leg he had a saturday night special, a .22 revolver. he just hooked it with his pinkie finger and he had me. less than heartbeats, he had me. >> this guy is fighting with him. and barry'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 jasmine was moving around 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 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 at her to see what she was doing, i said 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. he was trying to grab my weapon, i was trying to grab his. and then i got mad. i said this guy's going out. i might go out, too, but he's definitely going to go out, too. >> trooper goins breaks free from the suspect, pulls his 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 rounds later, it was over. >> the suspect flees into the darkness through the barrage of bullets.

trooper andreesen arrests the driver who never left the scene. >> you better drop it! get down on the ground! get down on the ground! minutes, but you're only there for maybe five or six heart beats. i mean, the whole thing was over what, in what, 8, 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. seemed pretty nice to me. >> he even adds a little pleasantry to trooper goins. >> i'm glad nothing happened to you, sir. >> it turns out the passenger is sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> had nothing to lose.

he wasn't going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene, and the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the horse 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 some leaves in a pass tur less than 100 yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goins and andreesen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> i get that one round off right here. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all this happened. >> i had gotten the camera put in the day before. it was one of those fluky things. >> three holes in his jacket, not him. >> 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. >> we've just been fired at. the car has been hit several times. >> and later, a getaway attempt goes bad when a woman runs over herself. when "caught on camera, dashcam diaries" continues. there are rate suckers. he's been paying more for car insurance because of their bad driving for so long, he doesn't even notice them anymore. but one day brian gets snapshot from progressive. now brian has a rate based on his driving, not theirs. get snapshot and see just how much your good driving could save you.

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they had a very shocked look and it wasn't normal. they immediately did a rapid turn out of the parking lot. they aroused my suspicions to such a point that i'd actually called james fairfield, my supervisor. >> he said hey i've got something going. he had an intel on a white crown vic. he thought at first this was a fraud suspect. >> it's clear to officer perry the paris deliberatery trying to avoid him. with his suspicion and his dashcam now engaged, perry hits the lights and siren. >> wanted to wait for backup,

actually. but as it turned out, they ended up driving into basically a closed neighborhood. >> the car pulls over and the passenger side door immediately opened. >> 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. >> just raised them up to shoulder level and was just shooting bang bang bang bang bang as fast as he could. both guns going. and he emptied both the weapons. probably 10 to 12 shots were fired. the shots being fired were incredibly loud. pistols were deafening as i was ducking down i remember hearing the bullets hit the car. there was a lot of kids out. and on the video you can see a couple of them riding across the street just prior to him jumping out of the car and shooting. >> for that reason, perry holds his fire.

the quick-thinking officer throws his crudeser in reverse, creating distance between himself and the hail of gunfire. it's his best defense. >> i'm backing up simply just trying to survive, get out of the war. at that point the 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. >> it actually kind of pissed me off. so i decided at that point just go ahead and chase him and see if we could catch them. >> it's a blue crown victoria. i have been shot at. >> it was remarkable. there's occasions that we use when all things are well. other than the speed at which it was coming out it pretty much followed our standard protocol despite the fact he was getting shot at. so we got good detail. we got good indicators. we got good descriptions. >> can't say i was calm that day. but if it appeared that way then that's great. but the truth is that i was

scared. and i had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach like somebody had kicked me. i wasn't really sure they 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 mean, 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 literally put it into reverse. 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 dashcam goes black. >> shootings are bad. shooting pursuits really really

bad. that's where we're at right now. i began thinking about what ways really doing chasing this guy who's 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 he watches as the men speed off. >> we were all running in emergency mode trying to figure out where this would get stable enough we could assist chuck. >> now 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. >> it's the most amazing crash i've ever seen. the car went up about 15 feet in the air. it spun sideways and did a barrel roll at the same time it flew about 35 or 40 feet going over an embankment. >> police immediately descend on the car, including officer

perry. miraculously, both the driver and the passenger survived the crash, but they are not ready to surrender. >> watch his left hand. >> as we approached he was still trying to get a gun. >> you're going to die if you move! don't move! >> the suspects finally give up and they're taken into custody. police confiscate several firearms, ammunition, duffle bags, a ski mask, duct tape and rope from the car, which leads them to believe the suspects were planning to rob the bank where officer perry first spotted them. the officers later learned that this is no ordinary crime team. they are father and son. the father, abdul shabad, 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, mu musa shabad, is also convicted of first degree attempted murder

and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. and perry was named police officer of the year for his actions. since the incident, the tallahassee police department uses officer perry's dashcam footage as a training tool for new recruits. >> opens fire with both hands. chuck's response? to immediately disengage the distance. >> the time to plan on what to do is not once the guy's shooting at you. you need to figure this out before he starts shooting at you and at least put some plan in action. don't just sit there. move. do something. i'm here today. 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 kill a cop. and then two, it also brought back a lot of the memories and

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a police chase with a bizarre ending when a woman desperately trying to escape from police runs over herself. >> it's a hard thing to watch for a lot of people. >> january 3rd, 2011. moses lake, washington. corporal thomas tufty is on the lookout for a woman wanted by police on forgery charges.

>> 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. >> when i looked over to the left, i saw a pink vest and her head down underneath the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the vehicle and confronts ziegler. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she initially said that she wasn't jonah ziegler. that's not me. 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 stopped and said, i'm not going. hit the gas. the truck just basically goes in reverse really fast. i put my left hand out to stop the truck from actually pushing me over. >> tufty tries to reach for his taser, then his gun, but there's no time. zeigler is on the run. >> she flies by in front of me yelling at me as she's driving by. she said, quote, unquote, just

[ bleep ] shoot me and then she's driving off. >> tufty gives chase. ziegler's vehicle is going fast, leaving a cloud of smoke in its wake. trying to shake the officer, ziegler turns abruptly cutting off two other cars. she accelerates, passing a school and blowing through stop signs. zeigler is unyielding. suddenly corporal tufty sees the driver's side door open. >> i'm thinking she's going to try to jump out of the truck. as i come around the corner i can see that she slipped out and she's actually 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, but this proves to be an even bigger mistake. >> it hits a curb for a driveway

and it hits a railroad tie that's next to the sidewalk. and in that jarring motion, she loses her grip and she goes under the truck. the truck stops right up on her breast bone, the tires up to her neck. >> tufty immediately radios for an ambulance and then races over to ziegler's truck. >> she's not breathing. the sheer weight of the vehicle, she's not going to be breathing much at all. >> the chase has now become a rescue mission as he tries in vain to push the vehicle off her. within minutes neighbors rush over to help. but even the additional manpower cannot lift the truck. corporate tufty makes a crucial decision. >> i knew that if i didn't get the truck off of her, she wasn't going to live. the only thing i had available to me was the drive it off. so i went into the cab, it was still running. i started to hit the accelerator really slow to try and feather it. and just all of a sudden she came out from underneath it. >> startled onlookers back away as ziegler's body spins out from

underneath the wheel of the truck. corporate tufty's emt training quickly takes over. >> checked her pulse, she had a pulse, wasn't breathing really well. stay on, jonah, we're going to help you out. we're going to get to you the hospital. >> ziegler is alive but the extent of her injuries is unknown. >> i've seen a lot of different things in this job, and i've come up with -- you know, come up against a number of different scenarios. this was one of the toughest ones to handle. >> ziegler is flown to spokane for treatment. miraculously she makes a full recovery. she pleads guilty on the original forgery charge and is awaiting sentencing. for attempting to elude police she's found guilty and is sentenced to 15 months in prison. but before she goes to jail, she had one last encounter with tufty. >> i actually stopped her on a traffic stop about three months ago. went up to the car, didn't know it was her. just stopped the car for a violation. went up, found out who it was and talked to her for a couple

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 could get across to people is don't run from the police. it's not worth endangering yourself, the public or even the officers' lives in order to get away. doesn't end well usually. a man on a crime spree opens fire on police officers who fire back with deadly force. april 22nd, 2011, tomah, wisconsin. sergeant scott holomb and officer kenworthy are on the lookout for a man involved in a drive-by shooting. they spot the suspect seth mccloskey driving his red pickup truck.

the officers follow. >> takes a left into a residential street, and it cuts off another vehicle. at that point we were pretty sure that he was going to flee us. so i activated my lights and pursued the vehicle. >> mccloskey pulls over, but he doesn't surrender. >> prior to getting my door open, he starts coming out. you can hear me on the video camera saying, get back in my car. but i couldn't finish the sentence. get back in the --. >> i just remember his arm coming out and pointing the gun towards us. i stepped out of the car and remember just trying to get enough distance from the door. 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, i came around officer kenworthy's side and started putting a good amount of return 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 just -- it didn't stop. >> through the shower of police gunfire, mccloskey somehow is able to get back into his truck. but he isn't going very far. >> when he was trying to get back into the vehicle, i had made a decision that he was not going to leave. i was going do everything i could so he couldn't leave that block. what i didn't want was a rolling gunfight. so i just continued to return the fire into the truck, into the driver's compartment. >> mccloskey is fatally wounded. >> as you can see in the video, if you look close, i believe he took a head shot. you can see the hat fly off his head. at some point you'll hear in the video the loud whine of his truck 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 boot, i lost the tip of my third toe, the bullet actually went underneath my second toe and cut it, then it went through my big toe. >> an investigation by the monroe county district attorney finds the shooting is justified. according to police, mccloskey 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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more than 800 police officers are on the ground in new york state tonight searching for the two convict who have been on the run now for more than a week. prison worker joyce mitchell was arrested as part of her escape. she allegedly provided the men with chisles. the turkish foreign ministry says about 13,000 syrians have fled to turkey in just the past ten days. 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 guys. a late-night police chase ends when a car slams into a brick wall. >> oh! >> april 8th, 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. i knew right away we were dealing with either a very petite individual or a teenager. >> we attempted to stop the vehicle, but she refused to stop for us. at that time i began asking for

assistance from other agencies to deploy stop sticks so we could get the vehicle stopped. i thought, you know, in the 200 yards she's probably going to come up, hit the stop sticks and everybody would be over, everything would be safe. before we got to that point she made an extremely abrupt left-hand turn. >> oh! >> 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, we could really see how bad the accident was because the entire front half of the jeep was into the church through the brick wall. i never at one time saw the brake lights activate to

indicate that she was trying to stop the vehicle. >> headley and cox race to help the driver. they carefully search the car, but they can't immediately find her. >> she's inside! she's out of 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. where are you at? she's down in the floor board. >> 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.

>> stay still. >> my leg is broken. >> 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 apprehension mode went to rescue mode. >> officer cox realizes there's nothing he can do to remove the girl from the car. she's trapped. officer headley calls for help. >> prior to policing, i spent ten years in the fire service. and through my experience with that, i received medical training. 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, 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 assume she was a licensed driver at the time and

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 under age. >> 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, something was seriously wrong with the suspect other than just wanting to steal the vehicle for a joy ride. you realize you have a lot to live for, okay? stay with me. just stay conscious. okay? there was an issue there internally emotionally that triggered 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 to go to jail? >> she was more worried about the 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 pretty sure after this, we'll get you stabilized, we'll talk more about it later on. >> officer cox never leaves the girl's side until firefighters and paramedics are on the scene. >> do you hear those sirens? >> yes. >> 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

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an officer and a gunman in a tense standoff -- >> put it down! >> no! >> -- that ends with both men shot. >> put the gun down, buddy! the first thing i thought is i'm losing way too much blood to make it. >> april 2nd, 2011, conroe, texas. sergeant james kellerman 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 en route. i was the first responding officer. typically here in conroe a officer isn't dispatched primary to the call. i was the 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 and wanting in. as soon as he saw me, his attention was drawn. he walked across the front door, walked across the front of the building and put his focus on me. then and there i knew 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. >> we've got people in the store. tell them to get away from the windows. >> even before officer ashley brockett 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 deadly force against this guy. >> as the dash cam rolls, sergeant kellerman 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? in talking to him, the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and it's pointed at him. he opened the breach of the rifle, the shotgun, i thought he was going to disarm it. in other words give up and put it down. 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. he was laid across the trunk of a vehicle pointing his firearm at sergeant kellerman. i knew as soon as i pulled in and i looked over i had a good shot. >> put the gun down! >> when you get on the scene like that and you make a decision that deadly force will have to be used, which i did pretty quickly. especially after he opened the breach of the weapon and looked to see if it was loaded and cocked it back. and i knew there was going to be a shooting. >> the gunman fires a single shot striking sergeant kellerman

in the face. >> i was still trying to communicate with him, hey, buddy, put the gun down. get some personal communication with him. and he was going to put the gun down. 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 raleigh races to the aid of sergeant kellerman. >> 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 kellerman. at that point i chose to holster my weapon and go to him. >> hill goes down.

he is fatally wounded. >> 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. >> i got you right here. >> tell my wife and kids i love them. >> i will. you're going to tell them yourself. you are. 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 and live. and at that point officer tyson was basically at my side. >> stay still, buddy. >> i'm trying. >> you stay right here with me. >> i'm losing too much blood. >> you're losing a lot, but you're going to be okay. >> how bad does it look? >> you're going to be okay. i think you're going to be okay. all right? >> he keeps talking to me. i keep asking how bad does it looks, how bad's my eye? . >> you don't look pretty.

you weren't pretty before, jim. >> he was joking with me, you didn't look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, i'm still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything he's saying and everything that's going on. >> sergeant kellerman and i joke around a lot with one another. 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 raleigh, when he arrived, he took on the role of being by my side. he knew i'd been hit. i can't say enough about him and what he did. because me being on the ground and seeing all that 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 event. it's talk about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and thinking, god, i hope she answers.

she answered, i remember saying, baby, i've been shot. i don't know if i'm going to make it. i love you, okay? >> though sergeant kellerman is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasn't as bad as i thought. i mean -- of course, i lost my vision. but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. months later, sergeant kellerman and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot. and they explain what we didn't see on dash cam. >> but i took down a stance basically right here behind my car. most of me was shielded except for pretty much 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

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police officers encounter unexpected situations on a regular basis. and, thanks to dashboard camera, we can watch these events unfold. like this improbable incident in moore, oklahoma. a robbery suspect is tasered by police, put in cuffs and placed in the back of a squad car, but

that isn't enough to hold him. he's able to slip out of the backseat and steal the police cruiser. the suspect doesn't get far, though. he loses control, slams into a tree and adds a few more lines to his rap sheet. and how about this one in tigard, 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 limousine going down the highway backward. april 22nd, 2006, westchester county, new york. trooper todd boemer is patrolling interstate 64. >> 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's in the vehicle? a dead body, a gun, drugs, whatever? >> in a neighboring township trooper sean kelly hears the call for assistance. >> i was in a position where i could assist him. i was north of his location, and

there was a good chance i'd be able to intercept the vehicle. >> trooper kelly enters the interstate and spots the runaway limo. >> he actually was passing cars over double yellow lines, and he actually passed a number of cars right in front of me. >> then something finally gives. >> i wasn't sure what the smoke was. i didn't know if it was transmission or whatever. i didn't know if it was coming from his car. >> the limousine's transmission blows and it seems the culprit has finally run out of options, but just when the troopers think the chase is over, the driver finds another gear that works -- reverse. >> yeah, he did it backwards. >> the people on the road, i don't know what was going through their mind. you would think you're filming an episode of "bullitt" or some type of cop show. >> his only possible way out at that point was actually to utilize the entrance ramp to exit the interstate. so that's what he did.

>> we were closing in on him, and he had nowhere to go. >> the limo finally loses control and crashes. the troopers apprehend the driver and then realize there's also a passenger along for the wild ride. and when police ask the driver the reason he fled? >> he just thought that 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's sentenced to three years probation. his passenger is not charged. >> talented, talented. what you could 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 communities safe,

but some of these stories would be hard to believe if they weren't captured by dashboard cameras. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." a night at the beach with his brother's truck sends a repeat offender back to jail. >> i fell asleep in the truck and the tide came in and took the truck out into the ocean. brand-new truck that he just paid off. >> but he still has the love