officer steven rankin testifies at his sentencing. >> i wanted to testify to, basically, testify to him what 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 2