officer steven rankin testifies at his sentencing. >> i wanted to testify to, basically, testify to himhat he did to me and testify to the courts to let them know that he needed to be punished for the max. >> this ordeal takes an enormous toll on rankin. for 18 weeks after the shooting, he's in a neck brace. the bullet blows out 70% of his jawbone and all his teeth on the top right side. the bullet still sits in his spine. >> i can feel the bullet in my neck. every once in a while, it will pop or it will send like shots of pain up through the neck and into the head. >> steven rankin knows he is a lucky man. he attributes his survival to divine intervention in the form of his father, mike, who died in 1994 when steven was just a teenager. >> as soon as i blacked out, i saw my father. so, like i said, i thought that he was kind of welcoming me into heaven. to me, looking at it now, i realize that he was completely protecting me. and god was just kind of keeping me moving, keeping my heart rate pumping until i was mentally capable of starting to perform again. there you go. >> in april 200