1 00:00:08,655 --> 00:00:09,620 [narrator] In Wisconsin... 2 00:00:09,655 --> 00:00:10,931 [man speaking] 3 00:00:10,965 --> 00:00:12,379 [Officer Weiss] We knew that we were coming up to 4 00:00:12,413 --> 00:00:14,068 one of the really main thoroughfares 5 00:00:14,103 --> 00:00:15,275 -into the city. -[tires screeching] 6 00:00:19,448 --> 00:00:21,275 And then, that's when everything happened. 7 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:23,275 [man yelling] 8 00:00:30,137 --> 00:00:31,724 [narrator] And in Washington State... 9 00:00:32,344 --> 00:00:34,241 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 10 00:00:34,275 --> 00:00:36,000 That's when I hear the gunshot. 11 00:00:36,034 --> 00:00:39,586 -[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling] 12 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:42,241 [Deputy Rathbun] I see Deputy Thompson fly backwards. 13 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:43,758 [firing continues] 14 00:00:43,793 --> 00:00:45,241 And now I know that we're in a shootout. 15 00:00:45,275 --> 00:00:47,172 [man speaking] 16 00:00:47,206 --> 00:00:48,965 -[woman speaking] -[firing continues] 17 00:01:02,551 --> 00:01:03,724 [narrator] In Wisconsin... 18 00:01:05,965 --> 00:01:07,931 eight miles south of Milwaukee... 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,758 is the city of Greenfield. 20 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:15,275 We have one major freeway that runs through Greenfield 21 00:01:15,310 --> 00:01:16,965 to the city of Milwaukee, 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,103 so we do hit traffic pretty hard. 23 00:01:24,931 --> 00:01:27,448 [Officer Jackett] It seemed like a quiet evening until, uh, 24 00:01:27,482 --> 00:01:29,413 Officer Franco conducted a traffic stop. 25 00:01:31,413 --> 00:01:34,827 [narrator] Officer Franco sees a sedan run a red light. 26 00:01:40,137 --> 00:01:41,103 [Officer Franco speaking] 27 00:01:42,172 --> 00:01:43,137 [dispatcher speaking] 28 00:01:45,758 --> 00:01:46,758 [Officer Franco speaking] 29 00:01:49,172 --> 00:01:51,068 Usually, when we're gonna have a vehicle pursuit, 30 00:01:51,103 --> 00:01:52,378 they take off immediately. 31 00:01:55,827 --> 00:01:56,827 [Officer Franco speaking] 32 00:02:01,206 --> 00:02:02,172 [dispatcher speaking] 33 00:02:04,034 --> 00:02:05,862 [Officer Franco speaking] 34 00:02:05,896 --> 00:02:07,275 [man speaking indistinctly on radio] 35 00:02:11,448 --> 00:02:12,068 [Officer Franco speaking] 36 00:02:13,551 --> 00:02:15,206 [siren blaring] 37 00:02:20,689 --> 00:02:22,448 [Officer Weiss] As he was calling out his traffic stop, 38 00:02:22,482 --> 00:02:25,827 he mentioned that the vehicle wasn't parking, 39 00:02:25,862 --> 00:02:28,793 um, that he wanted a second officer right away. 40 00:02:30,862 --> 00:02:32,965 [Officer Franco speaking indistinctly on radio] 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,379 [woman speaking indistinctly on radio] 42 00:02:35,413 --> 00:02:37,793 [Officer Weiss] When I arrived on scene, 43 00:02:37,827 --> 00:02:40,862 my plan was to 44 00:02:40,896 --> 00:02:43,344 pull my squad sort of in front of the car. 45 00:02:45,827 --> 00:02:48,517 -[siren blaring] -[Officer Franco speaking] 46 00:02:50,067 --> 00:02:51,034 [Officer Weiss speaking] 47 00:02:55,620 --> 00:02:57,930 [Officer Weiss] We got up to 80 almost immediately. 48 00:03:05,724 --> 00:03:07,517 Our boss had been down the road 49 00:03:07,551 --> 00:03:11,068 and the car actually ran over his stop sticks. 50 00:03:15,482 --> 00:03:16,862 But he wouldn't stop. 51 00:03:24,931 --> 00:03:29,137 High speeds, disregard of traffic signs and traffic lights. 52 00:03:29,172 --> 00:03:31,655 I was hoping I could intercept the pursuit. 53 00:03:33,517 --> 00:03:34,793 [Officer Franco speaking] 54 00:03:39,827 --> 00:03:41,689 We're in a very... 55 00:03:43,034 --> 00:03:44,620 populated area. 56 00:03:44,655 --> 00:03:46,551 People are-- are out and up. 57 00:03:46,586 --> 00:03:48,758 [Officer Franco speaking] 58 00:03:55,827 --> 00:03:57,586 [Officer Weiss speaking] 59 00:03:57,620 --> 00:04:00,172 We knew that we were coming up to 27th street, 60 00:04:00,206 --> 00:04:02,000 one of the really main thoroughfares 61 00:04:02,034 --> 00:04:03,793 into the city of Milwaukee. 62 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:06,379 [Officer Franco speaking] 63 00:04:06,413 --> 00:04:09,827 [Officer Weiss] So we knew that that was gonna be busy at the time, too. 64 00:04:09,862 --> 00:04:12,448 [Officer Franco speaking] 65 00:04:16,793 --> 00:04:18,067 [speaking indistinctly] 66 00:04:27,241 --> 00:04:28,241 [tires screeching] 67 00:04:29,379 --> 00:04:32,689 [Officer Weiss] The crash was so hard 68 00:04:32,724 --> 00:04:35,758 that both cars didn't come to a stop 69 00:04:35,793 --> 00:04:39,137 until they were all the way across the intersection 70 00:04:39,172 --> 00:04:40,379 on the other corner. 71 00:04:41,034 --> 00:04:44,206 I mean, he hit her at-- at 50. 72 00:04:44,241 --> 00:04:48,586 I was just thinking, "I need to get to that lady in the truck," 73 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:51,103 but we can't get to her 74 00:04:51,137 --> 00:04:53,310 until we deal with the guy we were just chasing. 75 00:05:02,758 --> 00:05:04,413 [Officer Franco yelling] 76 00:05:04,448 --> 00:05:05,793 [Officer Weiss speaking] 77 00:05:06,793 --> 00:05:07,758 [Officer Franco speaking] 78 00:05:07,793 --> 00:05:09,482 [Officer Weiss] I saw in my peripheral 79 00:05:09,517 --> 00:05:12,206 that Officer Franco was approaching from the other side. 80 00:05:13,379 --> 00:05:14,724 We had our guns drawn. 81 00:05:19,241 --> 00:05:21,310 [Officer Franco yelling] 82 00:05:24,793 --> 00:05:25,793 [Officer Weiss yelling] 83 00:05:28,068 --> 00:05:31,724 The driver of the second car chose to walk up, 84 00:05:31,758 --> 00:05:33,551 she's screaming that he hit her car 85 00:05:33,586 --> 00:05:37,172 and I was trying to tell her "I know, we have to get this first. 86 00:05:37,206 --> 00:05:38,379 Go back to your car." 87 00:05:41,310 --> 00:05:42,689 -[woman] But my car! -[Officer Weiss speaking] 88 00:05:42,724 --> 00:05:44,586 I went to the back... 89 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:47,827 driver's side and opened that door. 90 00:05:47,862 --> 00:05:51,862 All of the airbags deployed so we couldn't actually see into the car. 91 00:05:51,896 --> 00:05:55,344 I could hear Officer Franco but I couldn't see him. 92 00:05:55,379 --> 00:05:56,965 [Officer Franco screaming] 93 00:05:57,793 --> 00:05:58,793 [Officer Weiss yelling] 94 00:06:00,068 --> 00:06:01,103 [Officer Franco speaking] 95 00:06:38,413 --> 00:06:39,482 [Officer Weiss] I heard gunshots. 96 00:06:40,793 --> 00:06:41,793 [Officer Franco speaking] 97 00:06:43,965 --> 00:06:47,275 [Officer Weiss] That is when that guy actually got out of that same door. 98 00:06:47,310 --> 00:06:49,103 I saw the gun in his hand. 99 00:06:51,310 --> 00:06:54,344 [Officer Jackett] I was south of the crash unable to proceed. 100 00:06:54,379 --> 00:06:57,310 -I heard loud popping sounds. -[gunshots firing] 101 00:06:57,344 --> 00:07:00,862 Officer Weiss, she was making dodging movements, 102 00:07:00,896 --> 00:07:04,206 uh, as she was being fired at by the suspect. 103 00:07:04,241 --> 00:07:05,206 [Officer Weiss] He was shooting at me. 104 00:07:06,793 --> 00:07:08,413 I was way out in the open. 105 00:07:10,068 --> 00:07:12,310 So I shot a couple more times after the guy. 106 00:07:13,551 --> 00:07:14,448 And... 107 00:07:15,482 --> 00:07:19,344 Because I tried to shoot my gun so fast, 108 00:07:19,379 --> 00:07:20,862 my gun malfunctioned. 109 00:07:20,896 --> 00:07:22,655 The only thing I could think of was cover, 110 00:07:22,689 --> 00:07:24,862 find cover, find cover, so that's why I ran back. 111 00:07:24,896 --> 00:07:25,896 I fixed it. 112 00:07:33,448 --> 00:07:36,379 At that point, I see Adan running towards me. 113 00:07:37,896 --> 00:07:39,379 [Officer Franco speaking] 114 00:07:39,413 --> 00:07:40,586 -[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Franco] Yesh. 115 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:43,655 Now my focus is on Officer Franco 116 00:07:43,689 --> 00:07:45,965 because now I don't know how bad he's hurt. 117 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,689 And I... I don't know. 118 00:07:50,379 --> 00:07:51,724 [Officer Franco speaking] 119 00:07:51,758 --> 00:07:53,068 -[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Franco speaking] 120 00:07:53,103 --> 00:07:54,172 [Officer Weiss speaking indistinctly] 121 00:07:56,482 --> 00:07:58,137 -[Officer Franco] On my... -[Officer Weiss speaking] 122 00:08:01,517 --> 00:08:02,724 [Officer Weiss speaking indistinctly] 123 00:08:07,448 --> 00:08:08,068 [Officer Franco speaking] 124 00:08:09,482 --> 00:08:10,310 [Officer Weiss speaking] 125 00:08:15,448 --> 00:08:16,068 [Officer Franco speaking] 126 00:08:17,172 --> 00:08:19,275 -[Officer Weiss] Adan... -[Officer Franco speaking] 127 00:08:25,862 --> 00:08:28,896 The one that stuck with me was he said in the chest. 128 00:08:28,931 --> 00:08:31,931 And I was like, "Oh, my God, this is really, really bad." 129 00:08:31,965 --> 00:08:35,206 Um, because there's not a lot I can do about that. 130 00:08:35,241 --> 00:08:37,000 -[Officer Franco speaking] -[Officer Weiss] Yep. 131 00:08:37,034 --> 00:08:38,000 [Officer Franco speaking] 132 00:08:49,034 --> 00:08:51,793 I didn't want to tell him, "You're not going to die," 133 00:08:51,827 --> 00:08:53,137 because I didn't wanna lie to him. 134 00:08:53,172 --> 00:08:55,000 I didn't know if he was or not. 135 00:08:55,034 --> 00:08:57,689 And I didn't-- I didn't want... 136 00:08:57,724 --> 00:09:01,931 some of the last words he heard, um, to be a lie. 137 00:09:01,965 --> 00:09:03,758 I didn't wanna tell him that he was gonna make it through 138 00:09:03,793 --> 00:09:05,137 because I didn't know. 139 00:09:05,172 --> 00:09:07,793 -[Officer Franco speaking] -[Officer Weiss speaking] 140 00:09:07,827 --> 00:09:09,689 I've never put a tourniquet on anyone. 141 00:09:10,931 --> 00:09:14,448 I couldn't believe that the first time ever using 142 00:09:15,413 --> 00:09:17,689 that training would be on another cop. 143 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:19,482 [Officer Franco speaking] 144 00:09:23,344 --> 00:09:24,379 [Officer Weiss] Okay so... 145 00:09:25,724 --> 00:09:27,931 [Officer Weiss speaking] 146 00:09:29,655 --> 00:09:30,931 -[Officer Jackett] Chest? -[Officer Weiss speaking] 147 00:09:36,103 --> 00:09:38,068 -[Officer Franco speaking] -Okay. 148 00:09:39,448 --> 00:09:42,758 [narrator] Other officers search for the suspect. 149 00:09:42,793 --> 00:09:45,137 [Officer Jackett] I realized Officer Franco had been shot. 150 00:09:45,172 --> 00:09:47,620 I just went into life-saving mode at that moment. 151 00:09:50,103 --> 00:09:52,275 -[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Jackett speaking] 152 00:09:59,517 --> 00:10:01,965 [Officer Weiss] He got it. [speaking] 153 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,413 [Officer Jackett speaking] 154 00:10:06,413 --> 00:10:09,172 I didn't observe much blood at that moment. 155 00:10:11,344 --> 00:10:14,689 However, there was a gunshot in his, um, 156 00:10:14,724 --> 00:10:17,896 upper shoulder near, like, near his collarbone area. 157 00:10:17,931 --> 00:10:19,379 [Officer Weiss speaking] 158 00:10:19,413 --> 00:10:20,586 -[Officer Jackett speaking] -[Officer Weiss] It's okay. 159 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:22,241 [Officer Jackett speaking] 160 00:10:23,586 --> 00:10:25,448 [Officer Jackett speaking] 161 00:10:25,482 --> 00:10:26,586 [Officer Weiss speaking] 162 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:28,103 [Officer Jackett yelling] 163 00:10:28,137 --> 00:10:30,586 -[sirens blaring] -[dispatcher speaks indistinctly] 164 00:10:30,620 --> 00:10:32,068 [Officer Weiss speaking] 165 00:10:32,103 --> 00:10:33,655 [Officer Jackett] Yeah, okay. 166 00:10:35,068 --> 00:10:36,793 [Officer Jackett speaking] 167 00:10:37,448 --> 00:10:38,586 [Officer Weiss speaking] 168 00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:41,241 -[Officer Jackett speaking] -[Officer Weiss] Yep. 169 00:10:41,275 --> 00:10:42,827 -[Officer Jackett speaking] -[man] Yep, you're good. 170 00:10:42,862 --> 00:10:45,827 -[Officer Weiss] Ease on this side. [speaking] -[Franco] Oh my back hurts! 171 00:10:45,862 --> 00:10:46,862 [Officer Weiss speaking] 172 00:10:46,896 --> 00:10:48,379 [Officer Jackett speaking] 173 00:10:49,448 --> 00:10:51,068 That itself is frightening. 174 00:10:51,103 --> 00:10:53,068 If you have an entry and an exit wound, 175 00:10:53,103 --> 00:10:55,689 the round itself had pretty much penetrated, 176 00:10:55,724 --> 00:10:57,172 uh, the body and left. 177 00:10:57,206 --> 00:11:00,103 Whereas if it stays within the body, 178 00:11:00,137 --> 00:11:02,137 high chances of it that it ricocheted 179 00:11:02,172 --> 00:11:04,689 with the potential of striking other major organs. 180 00:11:05,689 --> 00:11:07,379 [indistinct chatter] 181 00:11:14,034 --> 00:11:16,000 [Officer Weiss speaking] 182 00:11:18,758 --> 00:11:20,241 [man speaking] 183 00:11:20,931 --> 00:11:21,620 [Officer Weiss speaking] 184 00:11:21,655 --> 00:11:23,103 [man speaking] 185 00:11:23,137 --> 00:11:25,275 -[Officer Jackett speaking] -[man] Keep squeezing. Man, you're good. 186 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:27,862 [Officer Jackett] Officer Franco had a hard time breathing 187 00:11:27,896 --> 00:11:31,862 and so we had to roll him on his side 188 00:11:31,896 --> 00:11:35,275 so he can open up his airway better so he can breathe. 189 00:11:35,310 --> 00:11:39,379 It was really hard to do that because we were still causing him pain. 190 00:11:39,413 --> 00:11:42,206 [siren blaring] 191 00:11:42,241 --> 00:11:45,000 When the ambulance arrived, it was just a big wave of relief. 192 00:11:47,413 --> 00:11:48,965 [Officer Jackett speaking] 193 00:11:56,620 --> 00:11:59,482 WHen they finally got there, 194 00:11:59,517 --> 00:12:01,241 I was so happy. 195 00:12:01,275 --> 00:12:02,965 I'm not a medical professional 196 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,413 and I... I didn't want to see him die on the street. 197 00:12:06,448 --> 00:12:08,655 [police officer speaking] 198 00:12:09,827 --> 00:12:10,827 [paramedic speaking indistinctly] 199 00:12:12,517 --> 00:12:16,000 [narrator] Officer Franco is rushed to a nearby trauma center 200 00:12:16,827 --> 00:12:18,344 in critical condition. 201 00:12:22,655 --> 00:12:25,551 [Officer Weiss] All I was thinking about was, um... 202 00:12:26,689 --> 00:12:28,965 telling his family that we couldn't save him. 203 00:12:33,689 --> 00:12:36,344 [narrator] Officers locate the suspect nearby. 204 00:12:37,931 --> 00:12:40,586 He sustained a gunshot wound to the chest 205 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:42,827 during the shootout with Officer Franco. 206 00:12:44,517 --> 00:12:46,620 Medics attempt to save his life, 207 00:12:47,965 --> 00:12:50,206 but he is pronounced dead at the scene. 208 00:12:55,068 --> 00:12:58,241 [Officer Franco] After, um 12 days in the hospital, I was discharged. 209 00:12:59,103 --> 00:13:00,655 I had internal injuries, 210 00:13:00,689 --> 00:13:04,482 uh, to my-- my lungs, my liver, 211 00:13:04,517 --> 00:13:08,000 um, my, uh, digestive system, 212 00:13:08,034 --> 00:13:11,310 um, as well as just the basic trauma to my body. 213 00:13:14,137 --> 00:13:16,862 That night, I observed a light-colored sedan 214 00:13:16,896 --> 00:13:19,448 had gone through a, uh, red traffic signal. 215 00:13:19,482 --> 00:13:22,724 Um, as I was facing a green traffic signal, 216 00:13:22,758 --> 00:13:25,344 the situation escalated very drastically. 217 00:13:25,379 --> 00:13:27,068 -[indistinct radio chatter] -[tires screeching] 218 00:13:27,103 --> 00:13:27,758 [crashing] 219 00:13:29,034 --> 00:13:31,000 [Officer Franco speaking] 220 00:13:31,034 --> 00:13:33,517 [indistinct radio chatter] 221 00:13:33,551 --> 00:13:36,000 [Officer Franco] The suspect didn't look at me directly in the eyes. 222 00:13:38,137 --> 00:13:39,931 [bleep] Hands up now! 223 00:13:39,965 --> 00:13:44,000 I remember hearing a loud bang and seeing glass. 224 00:13:44,689 --> 00:13:46,275 I had a flash of light. 225 00:13:46,310 --> 00:13:49,793 My instinct at the time was to get a position to then manage 226 00:13:49,827 --> 00:13:51,758 the suspect and stop the threat of him 227 00:13:51,793 --> 00:13:53,586 actively trying to kill me. 228 00:13:55,862 --> 00:13:57,896 He did appear right in front of me. 229 00:13:57,931 --> 00:14:00,827 [gunshots firing] 230 00:14:00,862 --> 00:14:02,344 He and I exchanged gunfire. 231 00:14:06,689 --> 00:14:08,034 [indistinct radio chatter] 232 00:14:10,137 --> 00:14:13,482 And at that point, I knew I'd been struck, uh, multiple times. 233 00:14:14,344 --> 00:14:16,413 I felt that I couldn't breathe 234 00:14:16,448 --> 00:14:18,655 and I felt the impact which knocked me backward. 235 00:14:18,689 --> 00:14:21,827 Uh, I remember being very scared at the time, 236 00:14:21,862 --> 00:14:23,793 and, uh, not knowing if I was gonna survive. 237 00:14:25,172 --> 00:14:26,482 Never thought I'd be in a position 238 00:14:26,517 --> 00:14:28,344 to have to ask somebody to keep me alive, but... 239 00:14:29,931 --> 00:14:30,862 I knew she could. 240 00:14:34,034 --> 00:14:38,758 I did begin to, um, think about my family 241 00:14:38,793 --> 00:14:42,344 and my fear, uh, of what they would have to go through 242 00:14:42,379 --> 00:14:43,827 if things didn't work out. 243 00:14:43,862 --> 00:14:46,137 Uh, the suspect, um, 244 00:14:46,172 --> 00:14:48,310 I did strike him with gunfire. 245 00:14:48,344 --> 00:14:49,689 [gunshots firing] 246 00:14:52,551 --> 00:14:54,758 I never wanna go through that again. 247 00:14:54,793 --> 00:14:58,275 Um, not just for myself, but to, uh, 248 00:14:58,310 --> 00:15:00,068 take somebody else's life, uh... 249 00:15:01,034 --> 00:15:02,862 if I don't have to. 250 00:15:02,896 --> 00:15:05,241 I don't know why he chose to do what he did. 251 00:15:05,275 --> 00:15:07,862 It was completely unnecessary. 252 00:15:07,896 --> 00:15:10,448 And, um, it didn't need to happen. 253 00:15:10,482 --> 00:15:13,241 The, um, operator, 254 00:15:13,275 --> 00:15:15,724 um, of the pickup truck that was struck significantly 255 00:15:15,758 --> 00:15:16,862 was injured. 256 00:15:16,896 --> 00:15:18,655 Um, I don't know the extent of those injuries. 257 00:15:18,689 --> 00:15:20,068 But I know that she survived. 258 00:15:22,413 --> 00:15:24,965 [narrator] The suspect was Tyron Lamb. 259 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,517 At the time of the shooting, 260 00:15:26,551 --> 00:15:28,689 Lamb was on extended supervision. 261 00:15:29,931 --> 00:15:32,931 His prior convictions include armed robbery, 262 00:15:32,965 --> 00:15:35,413 and attempting to flee and elude. 263 00:15:35,448 --> 00:15:40,551 As a felon, Tyron Lamb was prohibited from carrying a firearm. 264 00:15:40,586 --> 00:15:43,275 In this instance, the use of deadly force 265 00:15:43,310 --> 00:15:44,827 was deemed reasonable. 266 00:15:45,517 --> 00:15:46,758 [gunshots firing] 267 00:15:53,413 --> 00:15:55,551 [Officer Franco] I did miss the job, I missed my coworkers. 268 00:15:55,586 --> 00:15:57,758 I did not wanna quit this job, 269 00:15:57,793 --> 00:16:02,758 and my duty and responsibility that I wanted to try to uphold. 270 00:16:05,448 --> 00:16:07,793 Once the-- the wounds were healed, 271 00:16:07,827 --> 00:16:09,379 with a lot of help and support, 272 00:16:09,413 --> 00:16:11,103 I was able to bounce back 273 00:16:11,137 --> 00:16:14,275 and return to-- to full duty. 274 00:16:14,310 --> 00:16:16,862 [Officer Jackett] It was a little bit of a rough road 275 00:16:16,896 --> 00:16:19,241 coming to terms of what had happened. 276 00:16:20,413 --> 00:16:22,655 I don't consider myself a hero. 277 00:16:22,689 --> 00:16:24,862 That's Officer Weiss, not me. 278 00:16:24,896 --> 00:16:28,793 But the reason why it gets sometimes hard to talk about 279 00:16:30,172 --> 00:16:33,551 is, uh, it kind of just brings you back to the moment. 280 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:36,827 To where you-- To where you feel helpless. 281 00:16:38,275 --> 00:16:39,896 And I don't like that feeling. 282 00:16:39,931 --> 00:16:42,620 [Officer Weiss] Even though that was the worst day of my entire life, 283 00:16:42,655 --> 00:16:44,931 um, I still can't imagine doing anything else. 284 00:16:46,827 --> 00:16:48,620 I don't really do this for myself, 285 00:16:48,655 --> 00:16:50,379 I do it for all the people that I've helped. 286 00:16:52,655 --> 00:16:54,137 I still wouldn't wanna give that up. 287 00:16:54,758 --> 00:16:56,758 [sirens blaring] 288 00:16:59,103 --> 00:17:01,172 [narrator] In northwest Washington State... 289 00:17:02,793 --> 00:17:04,000 on the Canadian border... 290 00:17:05,068 --> 00:17:06,586 is Whatcom County. 291 00:17:12,550 --> 00:17:15,103 [Deputy Rathbun] I was up in the Maple Falls area. 292 00:17:15,137 --> 00:17:17,310 A call came out for a neighborhood dispute. 293 00:17:17,344 --> 00:17:19,000 [dispatch speaking] 294 00:17:19,034 --> 00:17:20,137 [girl speaking] 295 00:17:26,103 --> 00:17:27,550 [dispatch speaking] 296 00:17:27,586 --> 00:17:29,172 [Haley speaking] 297 00:17:31,172 --> 00:17:32,862 [dispatch speaking] 298 00:17:32,896 --> 00:17:35,034 [Haley speaking] 299 00:17:35,068 --> 00:17:36,862 People shooting shotguns in the air in that area 300 00:17:36,896 --> 00:17:38,931 is not all that uncommon. 301 00:17:38,965 --> 00:17:42,000 We have a lot of hunters in the county and, um, 302 00:17:42,034 --> 00:17:44,206 however, you know, in the context of 303 00:17:44,241 --> 00:17:47,896 a neighbor dispute, it definitely raised our concerns. 304 00:17:47,931 --> 00:17:50,310 [dispatch speaking] 305 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 [Haley speaking] 306 00:17:53,034 --> 00:17:54,482 [dispatch speaking] 307 00:17:54,517 --> 00:17:56,137 [Haley speaking] 308 00:18:04,793 --> 00:18:06,413 [dispatch speaking] 309 00:18:06,448 --> 00:18:07,862 [Haley speaking] 310 00:18:07,896 --> 00:18:09,724 [dispatch speaking] 311 00:18:12,896 --> 00:18:15,310 [Deputy Rathbun] I was only a couple miles away. 312 00:18:15,344 --> 00:18:16,793 As I was responding, 313 00:18:16,827 --> 00:18:18,862 uh, more information came in through dispatch 314 00:18:18,896 --> 00:18:20,724 as more callers were calling in. 315 00:18:20,758 --> 00:18:23,862 This isn't just somebody popping off a shotgun 316 00:18:24,655 --> 00:18:26,931 close to the housing development. 317 00:18:26,965 --> 00:18:30,137 It's in a neighborhood. There's a dispute. 318 00:18:30,172 --> 00:18:33,379 And now there's a firearm actively being involved in it. 319 00:18:33,413 --> 00:18:36,551 [dispatch speaking] 320 00:18:41,655 --> 00:18:44,103 [dispatch speaking] 321 00:18:44,137 --> 00:18:45,172 [man 1 speaking] 322 00:18:45,206 --> 00:18:47,344 [dispatch speaking] 323 00:18:47,379 --> 00:18:49,344 [man 1 speaking] 324 00:18:54,448 --> 00:18:56,758 [Deputy Rathbun] They're shooting it out in the streets. 325 00:18:56,793 --> 00:18:59,758 I responded not lights and sirens. 326 00:18:59,793 --> 00:19:02,206 Soak up all the information I could. 327 00:19:02,241 --> 00:19:05,379 Also giving Deputy Thompson more time for him to respond, 328 00:19:05,413 --> 00:19:07,482 knowing that he's probably 20 minutes away. 329 00:19:07,517 --> 00:19:09,689 [dispatch speaking] 330 00:19:13,758 --> 00:19:16,206 [officer speaking] 331 00:19:16,241 --> 00:19:19,310 I'm pretty intimately familiar with, you know, the Peaceful Valley area 332 00:19:19,344 --> 00:19:22,137 in Green Valley having been a neighbor deputy for years. 333 00:19:22,172 --> 00:19:24,689 So I knew exactly where I was going. 334 00:19:24,724 --> 00:19:27,655 [Deputy Thompson on radio] 72 lock and ride and I'm staging around the corner. 335 00:19:34,724 --> 00:19:37,517 [Deputy Rathbun] I stopped along King Valley. 336 00:19:37,551 --> 00:19:40,551 Parked my patrol truck, grabbed my patrol rifle. 337 00:19:40,586 --> 00:19:43,448 And began just kind of listening. 338 00:19:45,413 --> 00:19:46,965 [Deputy Thompson speaking on radio] 339 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,517 [deputy speaking on radio] One Lincoln 71 come clear... 340 00:20:06,241 --> 00:20:09,206 It was dead quiet, bird chirping. 341 00:20:11,758 --> 00:20:12,827 Nothing going on. 342 00:20:13,758 --> 00:20:15,379 I slowly approached the scene. 343 00:20:17,206 --> 00:20:19,344 From that distance, I kind of see, assess, 344 00:20:19,379 --> 00:20:20,379 process, 345 00:20:20,413 --> 00:20:21,689 uh, make decisions. 346 00:20:21,724 --> 00:20:23,517 Better decisions slower. 347 00:20:25,172 --> 00:20:28,758 [Deputy Thompson] The foothills, which is where Peaceful Valley is, 348 00:20:28,793 --> 00:20:31,241 there's very limited cell reception, 349 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:34,586 radio reception for CAD or computer aided dispatch. 350 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:36,931 We don't have access to it up there unless we find a Wi-Fi spot, 351 00:20:36,965 --> 00:20:40,310 the phones don't work and then our radios don't work very well up there either. 352 00:20:40,344 --> 00:20:42,275 When we have an active shooter, 353 00:20:42,310 --> 00:20:44,310 doesn't matter that you're the only deputy, 354 00:20:44,344 --> 00:20:46,103 you go in and try and get it stopped. 355 00:20:47,862 --> 00:20:50,275 -[dispatch] Uh, white male in his 30s, black shirt-- -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 356 00:20:53,103 --> 00:20:55,689 I did elect to respond alone 357 00:20:55,724 --> 00:20:59,068 knowing that Deputy Thompson was responding code 358 00:20:59,103 --> 00:21:00,620 to back me up. 359 00:21:00,655 --> 00:21:02,827 And he was running lights and sirens 360 00:21:02,862 --> 00:21:05,482 because he had so much geographical distance to cover. 361 00:21:12,517 --> 00:21:14,241 -[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 362 00:21:14,275 --> 00:21:15,965 Is burning legal up there? 363 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,931 Yeah, as long as you're not using a burn barrel, 364 00:21:17,965 --> 00:21:19,379 and/or burning garbage. 365 00:21:24,103 --> 00:21:25,517 [man 2 speaking] 366 00:21:25,551 --> 00:21:26,896 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 367 00:21:26,931 --> 00:21:28,241 -[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 368 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:30,827 The situation, it clearly deescalated itself. 369 00:21:31,689 --> 00:21:33,275 Kind of keep it that way, right? 370 00:21:33,310 --> 00:21:36,137 And buy a little time for my partner to arrive. 371 00:21:39,206 --> 00:21:41,620 [man 2] No, no, no. [speaking] 372 00:21:51,551 --> 00:21:53,655 Clearly, you know, there was a dispute. 373 00:21:53,689 --> 00:21:55,586 Yeah, it seems eerie 'cause you're supposed to be going 374 00:21:55,620 --> 00:21:58,034 to an active shooting. There isn't that. 375 00:21:58,068 --> 00:21:59,724 So you kind of take the win. 376 00:22:01,724 --> 00:22:03,172 -[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 377 00:22:07,379 --> 00:22:08,586 [man 2 speaking] 378 00:22:10,172 --> 00:22:12,689 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 379 00:22:27,482 --> 00:22:30,206 I do not care at all, um, 380 00:22:30,241 --> 00:22:34,275 about, uh, him burning some wood in his backyard. 381 00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,172 [man 2] Nope, nope, nope, nope. 382 00:22:38,827 --> 00:22:40,413 [man 2 speaking] 383 00:22:41,310 --> 00:22:41,965 [Deputy Rathbun] Okay. 384 00:22:44,241 --> 00:22:45,241 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 385 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,724 -[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 386 00:22:49,758 --> 00:22:51,241 [Deputy Thompson] So when I arrive, 387 00:22:51,275 --> 00:22:54,172 I find Deputy Rathbun in the driveway 388 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:55,965 talking to one of the complainants. 389 00:22:58,413 --> 00:23:02,551 The next house down, I could see a couple people in the yard. 390 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:08,724 So it appeared to me that Deputy Rathbun had 391 00:23:08,758 --> 00:23:10,275 probably separated the two parties, 392 00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:11,965 was talking to one. 393 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,724 We would end up talking to the other and then figure out a way to resolve it. 394 00:23:16,482 --> 00:23:18,793 What I didn't know as I walked up the driveway, 395 00:23:18,827 --> 00:23:21,482 and because our communications are not, 396 00:23:21,517 --> 00:23:23,482 um, great in that area, 397 00:23:23,517 --> 00:23:25,000 I'd missed a lot of the radio traffic, 398 00:23:25,034 --> 00:23:27,586 so I wasn't aware 399 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:29,448 that there were three houses involved in this dispute. 400 00:23:29,482 --> 00:23:33,137 But I'd actually just turned my back on the actual threat, 401 00:23:33,172 --> 00:23:35,551 the other party that actually had the gun and had been shooting. 402 00:23:35,586 --> 00:23:37,586 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 403 00:23:43,344 --> 00:23:46,172 Deputy Rathbun and I talked briefly about, "Hey, what do you wanna do?" 404 00:23:46,206 --> 00:23:48,000 Suspect opened up his door again. 405 00:23:51,344 --> 00:23:53,034 Seven-two, walking this area. 406 00:23:53,068 --> 00:23:54,965 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 407 00:23:56,931 --> 00:23:58,241 [officer speaking on radio] 408 00:24:01,137 --> 00:24:03,448 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 409 00:24:04,448 --> 00:24:05,068 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 410 00:24:06,758 --> 00:24:08,448 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 411 00:24:08,482 --> 00:24:10,172 [suspect speaking] 412 00:24:10,206 --> 00:24:11,689 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 413 00:24:13,965 --> 00:24:15,137 [suspect speaking] 414 00:24:21,241 --> 00:24:22,655 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 415 00:24:33,172 --> 00:24:36,689 At that point, we don't really have a crime per se, 416 00:24:36,724 --> 00:24:39,793 but we also don't have circumstance that we can just walk away from 417 00:24:39,827 --> 00:24:42,724 and leave that neighborhood in a threat situation. 418 00:24:42,758 --> 00:24:44,344 He's belligerent. 419 00:24:44,379 --> 00:24:47,758 He's already been in a-- in a argument with his neighbors. 420 00:24:47,793 --> 00:24:49,379 It was clear to us that he didn't want 421 00:24:49,413 --> 00:24:51,482 law enforcement to assist him with his dispute. 422 00:24:51,517 --> 00:24:52,689 And he's armed with a shotgun. 423 00:24:53,448 --> 00:24:55,413 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 424 00:24:57,793 --> 00:24:59,241 [man 2 speaking] 425 00:24:59,275 --> 00:25:01,310 [Deputy Rathbun] So as I go to speak to the neighbors, 426 00:25:04,758 --> 00:25:07,068 [man 3 speaking] 427 00:25:07,103 --> 00:25:08,689 -[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 428 00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:11,482 And I can see that they're very, very, very angry, like... 429 00:25:11,517 --> 00:25:13,137 [man 3 speaking] 430 00:25:22,448 --> 00:25:23,068 [Deputy Rathbun] Okay. 431 00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:25,896 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 432 00:25:25,931 --> 00:25:27,413 In the state of Washington, 433 00:25:27,448 --> 00:25:29,758 uh, it is an unlawful seizure 434 00:25:29,793 --> 00:25:31,965 to order somebody from their home 435 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,862 based on probably cause for a misdemeanor crime. 436 00:25:34,896 --> 00:25:37,758 So if all he's done is a civil infraction, 437 00:25:37,793 --> 00:25:39,241 discharging that firearm, 438 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:43,379 um, I can't force or coerce him to exit the home. 439 00:25:43,413 --> 00:25:46,000 [suspect speaking] 440 00:25:46,034 --> 00:25:47,724 [Deputy Thompson] I moved to the corner of the house 441 00:25:47,758 --> 00:25:49,758 so that I could see the suspect house. 442 00:25:49,793 --> 00:25:52,103 Deputy Rathbun requested for more units to come. 443 00:25:52,137 --> 00:25:55,413 We knew we had probably at least a good 10 to 15 minutes 444 00:25:55,448 --> 00:25:56,931 before anybody else was gonna be there. 445 00:26:00,689 --> 00:26:02,172 [suspect speaking] 446 00:26:11,827 --> 00:26:14,413 I was gonna be the third unit available to cover 447 00:26:14,448 --> 00:26:17,068 even though I was almost 20 miles away, 448 00:26:17,103 --> 00:26:19,448 down in the main part of the county. 449 00:26:19,482 --> 00:26:22,344 Al lot of the times, these calls get resolved peacefully 450 00:26:22,379 --> 00:26:23,655 rather quickly, 451 00:26:23,689 --> 00:26:26,655 but in a situation like that when you need help right now, 452 00:26:26,689 --> 00:26:29,103 20 miles away might as well be on the moon. 453 00:26:29,137 --> 00:26:30,965 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 454 00:26:36,379 --> 00:26:37,655 [Deeter speaking] 455 00:26:40,413 --> 00:26:41,620 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 456 00:26:46,931 --> 00:26:48,793 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 457 00:26:53,241 --> 00:26:53,896 [Deputy Rathbun] Okay. 458 00:26:56,275 --> 00:26:57,620 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 459 00:26:57,655 --> 00:26:59,137 -[Cody Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 460 00:27:03,448 --> 00:27:05,137 -Boom, boom, boom, boom? -[man 3] There's a reason I grabbed mine. 461 00:27:05,172 --> 00:27:07,344 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 462 00:27:07,379 --> 00:27:08,344 [man 3 speaking] 463 00:27:08,379 --> 00:27:10,172 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 464 00:27:10,206 --> 00:27:11,655 [Deputy Thompson] I'm at the corner of the house. 465 00:27:11,689 --> 00:27:13,310 It's not a great position. 466 00:27:13,344 --> 00:27:16,000 Does provide me some concealment and a little bit of cover. 467 00:27:18,172 --> 00:27:20,310 I needed to be where I was at. 468 00:27:20,344 --> 00:27:23,137 It was the best place that afforded me visibility. 469 00:27:23,172 --> 00:27:25,655 So my hope, really, is that he just stays in the house. 470 00:27:28,137 --> 00:27:30,586 [suspect speaking] 471 00:27:30,620 --> 00:27:32,344 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 472 00:27:32,379 --> 00:27:33,862 [suspect speaking] 473 00:27:39,206 --> 00:27:41,206 -[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 474 00:27:41,241 --> 00:27:42,551 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 475 00:27:46,448 --> 00:27:49,034 -[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling] 476 00:27:50,310 --> 00:27:52,517 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[gun fires] 477 00:27:52,551 --> 00:27:54,206 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 478 00:27:56,034 --> 00:27:58,103 -[Officer Rathbun speaking] -[gun firing] 479 00:27:58,137 --> 00:27:59,586 [Deputy Rathbun screaming] 480 00:27:59,620 --> 00:28:02,517 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 481 00:28:03,517 --> 00:28:04,620 I'm hit! 482 00:28:16,275 --> 00:28:18,793 [Deputy Wood] I think I was about three miles away 483 00:28:18,827 --> 00:28:20,965 coming down Kendall highway 484 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,724 when I heard a garbled radio traffic 485 00:28:23,758 --> 00:28:25,275 from Deputy Rathbun... 486 00:28:25,310 --> 00:28:26,965 [Deputy Rathbun speaking indistinctly on radio] 487 00:28:29,620 --> 00:28:33,551 ...about shots fired and his voice sounded elevated. 488 00:28:33,586 --> 00:28:36,517 Officer Thompson yelled, you know, "Whatcom County Sheriff's Department, 489 00:28:36,551 --> 00:28:38,103 um, drop the gun." 490 00:28:38,137 --> 00:28:39,206 And then... 491 00:28:40,172 --> 00:28:42,379 -[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling] 492 00:28:42,413 --> 00:28:45,551 ...gunshot, and you hear the officer scream, 493 00:28:45,586 --> 00:28:47,896 and he fell backwards onto his back. 494 00:28:47,931 --> 00:28:49,758 [Deputy Rathbun] ...fired! 495 00:28:49,793 --> 00:28:52,482 [Deputy Rathbun] As I'm running up, I hear Deputy Thompson yell, 496 00:28:52,517 --> 00:28:53,931 "Drop the firearm." 497 00:28:53,965 --> 00:28:56,793 -[gun fires] -[Deputy Rathbun] That's when I hear the gunshot. 498 00:28:56,827 --> 00:28:59,620 I see Deputy Thompson fly backwards. 499 00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:01,379 [gun firing] 500 00:29:01,413 --> 00:29:03,172 And now, I know that we're in a shooting. 501 00:29:03,206 --> 00:29:06,413 [officer on radio] I got more responding units. Sounded like shots fired. 502 00:29:06,448 --> 00:29:08,724 [Deputy Streubel] I remember the time, it was 4:44 in the afternoon. 503 00:29:08,758 --> 00:29:12,206 Uh, received a call from our SWAT tactical commander. 504 00:29:12,241 --> 00:29:15,068 And when I answered the phone, I could hear a siren in the background, 505 00:29:15,103 --> 00:29:18,827 uh, which was not a normal occurrence. 506 00:29:18,862 --> 00:29:20,793 He said that there had been a shots fired incident 507 00:29:20,827 --> 00:29:22,172 in the Paradise area. 508 00:29:22,206 --> 00:29:27,103 It could be anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes to get to the area. 509 00:29:27,137 --> 00:29:29,310 He needed a full team call out immediately. 510 00:29:29,344 --> 00:29:32,241 Right away, I could hear in his voice that something had gone bad. 511 00:29:32,275 --> 00:29:36,689 And my first thought was that a deputy had been shot. 512 00:29:36,724 --> 00:29:39,000 -[Deputy Rathbun] You okay? -[gun firing] 513 00:29:39,034 --> 00:29:41,620 -[Deputy Thompson screaming] -[Deputy Rathbun] Is he just injured? Is he dead? 514 00:29:41,655 --> 00:29:45,068 I look to see that he's groaning. He's got purposeful movements. 515 00:29:45,103 --> 00:29:47,344 [man 1 on radio speaking] 516 00:29:49,344 --> 00:29:50,758 [man 2 on radio speaking] 517 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,206 [Deputy Rathbun] All the while, I'm-- I need to address this threat. 518 00:29:57,241 --> 00:29:59,896 I fully believed in that moment that, uh, 519 00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:01,931 that Mr. Young would be... 520 00:30:01,965 --> 00:30:05,068 standing in that doorway, or he's coming out 521 00:30:05,103 --> 00:30:07,000 into his front yard and onto the property 522 00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:08,344 to finish the job. 523 00:30:08,379 --> 00:30:09,965 And to attempt to kill my partner. 524 00:30:12,448 --> 00:30:15,482 So I begin putting, uh, directive fire 525 00:30:15,517 --> 00:30:17,000 into the door. 526 00:30:17,034 --> 00:30:18,862 [gun firing] 527 00:30:19,586 --> 00:30:21,413 [gun firing] 528 00:30:21,448 --> 00:30:22,620 [Deputy Rathbun screams] 529 00:30:22,655 --> 00:30:26,034 That's when I get struck with a shotgun blast. 530 00:30:26,068 --> 00:30:27,758 -You okay? -[gun firing] 531 00:30:28,275 --> 00:30:30,448 [screams] 532 00:30:36,689 --> 00:30:40,482 At that moment, me and Jesse both grabbed our firearms again, 533 00:30:40,517 --> 00:30:42,758 reloaded them and ran over there, 534 00:30:42,793 --> 00:30:44,896 'cause obviously, he needed help. 535 00:30:50,827 --> 00:30:53,241 [gun firing] 536 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:56,931 So I had originally planned to run over there just to help 537 00:30:56,965 --> 00:30:59,241 aid the hurt officer. 538 00:30:59,275 --> 00:31:00,965 [indistinct radio chatter] 539 00:31:02,586 --> 00:31:05,758 I didn't really have a plan on shooting back. 540 00:31:07,172 --> 00:31:09,344 [man 2 speaking] 541 00:31:09,379 --> 00:31:11,241 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[Deeter yelling] 542 00:31:13,586 --> 00:31:18,000 I was more focused on Officer Rathbun in front of me. 543 00:31:19,137 --> 00:31:21,172 'Cause to get to Thompson, 544 00:31:21,206 --> 00:31:25,517 I needed him to be in between me and the other guy. 545 00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:29,000 'Cause he's the officer, and at that moment, 546 00:31:29,034 --> 00:31:32,344 he steps around the corner and opens fire on the guy. 547 00:31:32,379 --> 00:31:35,103 And the guy opens fire back and... 548 00:31:35,137 --> 00:31:38,655 hits Officer Rathbun, and that's when I decide that 549 00:31:39,827 --> 00:31:42,379 something's gotta be done. 550 00:31:42,413 --> 00:31:46,689 I stepped around the corner and I just unloaded my magazine. 551 00:31:46,724 --> 00:31:48,689 -[gun firing] -72 Whatcom. 552 00:31:52,172 --> 00:31:54,793 [Deputy Thompson] At least two, but I believe four armed citizens 553 00:31:54,827 --> 00:31:56,000 had come to our help, 554 00:31:56,034 --> 00:31:58,517 which, um, is pretty unusual. 555 00:31:58,551 --> 00:32:00,344 [woman speaking] 556 00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:03,241 [man 3 speaking] 557 00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:05,310 [gun fires] 558 00:32:07,241 --> 00:32:11,206 -[man 1 speaking] -[man 2 speaking] 559 00:32:11,241 --> 00:32:14,379 [Deputy Rathbun] Jesse I knew was off to the left over near a vehicle. 560 00:32:15,689 --> 00:32:19,241 Um, I know he was a, uh, a military veteran 561 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:21,379 and, uh, had served time in Afghanistan, 562 00:32:21,413 --> 00:32:23,344 so, I just-- you know, 563 00:32:23,379 --> 00:32:25,896 obviously, it's time to leave him to his own devices. 564 00:32:25,931 --> 00:32:29,241 -[man 1 speaking] -[Deeter speaking] 565 00:32:29,275 --> 00:32:32,000 [Deputy Rathbun] In that moment, I kinda take a second to myself 566 00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:33,000 to self-assess. 567 00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:34,655 I'm dripping blood places. 568 00:32:34,689 --> 00:32:37,827 Spitting out some blood from my mouth. 569 00:32:37,862 --> 00:32:40,724 Um, that's the moment where I realized my left eye 570 00:32:40,758 --> 00:32:43,482 was failing. I could literally... 571 00:32:43,517 --> 00:32:46,137 feel-- see and feel my vision just go to black. 572 00:32:49,068 --> 00:32:50,827 [man 1 speaking on radio] 573 00:32:55,551 --> 00:32:57,965 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 2 speaking] 574 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,551 [Deputy Rathbun] I see a patrol vehicle coming. 575 00:32:59,586 --> 00:33:01,793 I hear the voice over the radio. 576 00:33:01,827 --> 00:33:04,241 [Deputy Wood] One Adam Six Unit two is down. 577 00:33:06,448 --> 00:33:08,482 And I could not be more thrilled 578 00:33:08,517 --> 00:33:10,413 that, not just that it's backup, 579 00:33:10,448 --> 00:33:11,862 but that it's Deputy Ben Wood. 580 00:33:13,137 --> 00:33:15,137 [Deputy Wood] I don't know exactly where this house is. 581 00:33:15,172 --> 00:33:17,965 But I saw Deputy Thompson's vehicle. 582 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,586 I saw two deputies in black uniforms 583 00:33:21,620 --> 00:33:23,344 kinda hunkered in a garage. 584 00:33:24,551 --> 00:33:27,827 A couple of people in civilian clothes with guns out 585 00:33:27,862 --> 00:33:29,137 drawn at a house. 586 00:33:29,172 --> 00:33:32,931 It almost looked like they were working together 587 00:33:32,965 --> 00:33:34,758 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking] 588 00:33:34,793 --> 00:33:36,620 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 589 00:33:38,827 --> 00:33:42,689 I wanted to just go straight to them as fast and hard as I could. 590 00:33:43,793 --> 00:33:45,724 -[Deputy Wood speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 591 00:33:45,758 --> 00:33:47,965 -[Deputy Wood speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] 592 00:33:48,896 --> 00:33:49,862 [Deputy Wood speaking] 593 00:33:49,896 --> 00:33:51,448 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 2 speaking] 594 00:33:51,482 --> 00:33:54,862 -[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[man 2 speaking] 595 00:33:54,896 --> 00:33:58,137 [Deputy Wood] And it was only at that moment did I know that both of my partners 596 00:33:58,172 --> 00:33:59,206 had been shot. 597 00:33:59,241 --> 00:34:02,620 It was just me. Two deputies had been shot. 598 00:34:02,655 --> 00:34:05,310 And two civilians that I assumed were helping us. 599 00:34:05,344 --> 00:34:08,482 We needed an entire SWAT team in place right now. 600 00:34:08,516 --> 00:34:12,688 Not 10 minutes from now, not 30 minutes from now, right this second. 601 00:34:23,655 --> 00:34:25,172 [Deputy Thompson] I'm on one knee, I'm spitting out blood, 602 00:34:25,206 --> 00:34:26,103 but I can breathe. 603 00:34:26,137 --> 00:34:27,862 I've got my gun out. I can see Ryan. 604 00:34:27,896 --> 00:34:29,516 Excuse me, I can see Deputy Rathbun. 605 00:34:29,551 --> 00:34:32,103 Um, he's still got his rifle. He's still up. 606 00:34:32,137 --> 00:34:33,931 I've heard him say that he's hit. 607 00:34:33,965 --> 00:34:35,620 I know he's shot as well. 608 00:34:35,655 --> 00:34:38,620 If I need to reengage, I can. 609 00:34:38,655 --> 00:34:41,137 Um, but I know I'm not in good shape. 610 00:34:41,172 --> 00:34:43,103 I can see the puddle of blood that was 611 00:34:43,137 --> 00:34:45,793 forming on the floor in front of me. 612 00:34:45,827 --> 00:34:48,172 -[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 1 speaking] 613 00:34:49,241 --> 00:34:51,585 [man 2 speaking] 614 00:34:51,620 --> 00:34:52,965 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 615 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,275 [Deputy Wood] The civilians, they're helping me. 616 00:34:55,310 --> 00:34:57,689 We've got cover and we've got three guns on target. 617 00:34:57,724 --> 00:35:00,931 My two partners, I had no idea the extent of their injuries. 618 00:35:06,482 --> 00:35:09,000 [Deputy Rathbun] Deputy Wood's one of a handful of deputies 619 00:35:09,034 --> 00:35:11,448 that I would have been comfortable leaving that scene with. 620 00:35:11,482 --> 00:35:13,344 With just him and two armed citizens. 621 00:35:21,310 --> 00:35:24,103 -[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking] 622 00:35:25,379 --> 00:35:28,620 As much as you want to render aid to your partners, 623 00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:30,655 you can't. 624 00:35:30,689 --> 00:35:35,034 You have to deal with the active threat at hand. 625 00:35:35,068 --> 00:35:37,758 Especially since they're capable of helping themselves. 626 00:35:37,793 --> 00:35:39,517 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 627 00:35:39,551 --> 00:35:42,793 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 628 00:35:42,827 --> 00:35:44,724 -[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[car starts] 629 00:35:44,758 --> 00:35:46,482 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 630 00:35:46,517 --> 00:35:48,827 He's less of a threat now. He's not actively shooting. 631 00:35:48,862 --> 00:35:50,724 He's not in the doorway, he's not in the window. 632 00:35:52,793 --> 00:35:53,896 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 633 00:35:53,931 --> 00:35:55,758 [man 1 speaking] 634 00:35:55,793 --> 00:35:58,034 [Deputy Wood speaking] 635 00:35:59,448 --> 00:36:02,413 -[Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking] 636 00:36:02,448 --> 00:36:04,310 [Deputy Rathbun speaking] 637 00:36:04,344 --> 00:36:05,586 [Deeter speaking] 638 00:36:05,620 --> 00:36:07,827 [Deputy Thompson] We're easily 20 minutes from a hospital 639 00:36:07,862 --> 00:36:09,482 once we get to an ambulance. 640 00:36:09,517 --> 00:36:13,379 They were going to have to drive past the suspect's house 641 00:36:13,413 --> 00:36:16,034 in order to get out to the ambulance. 642 00:36:16,068 --> 00:36:18,448 [woman speaking on radio] 643 00:36:18,482 --> 00:36:19,724 Kendall on Oregon trail. 644 00:36:21,758 --> 00:36:23,551 I knew at any moment, they could collapse. 645 00:36:23,586 --> 00:36:25,517 I knew at any moment, they could die. 646 00:36:25,551 --> 00:36:27,586 But I knew they were getting to the ambulance. 647 00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:29,620 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 648 00:36:34,620 --> 00:36:36,344 [man speaking indistinctly on radio] 649 00:36:38,034 --> 00:36:41,172 He floors it and drives like a bat out of hell. 650 00:36:42,689 --> 00:36:46,655 They drove by the house so fast that if the jerk with the gun 651 00:36:46,689 --> 00:36:49,931 wanted to shoot 'em, then he probably wasn't gonna be able to get a shot. 652 00:36:49,965 --> 00:36:52,482 And I knew to be watchful that if he tried, 653 00:36:52,517 --> 00:36:55,586 I was gonna crank some serious rounds in his direction. 654 00:36:57,931 --> 00:36:58,931 [Deputy Thompson spitting] 655 00:37:01,689 --> 00:37:04,448 -[paramedic speaking] -[Deputy Thompson speaking] 656 00:37:04,482 --> 00:37:06,482 [Deputy Rathbun] We didn't want aid driving up on scene. 657 00:37:06,517 --> 00:37:08,655 Deputy Thompson and I both know 658 00:37:08,689 --> 00:37:12,379 all the firefighters and EMTs in that community very well. 659 00:37:12,413 --> 00:37:14,344 And, uh, we know that they're the type of people that will 660 00:37:14,379 --> 00:37:16,034 drive an ambulance 661 00:37:16,068 --> 00:37:18,551 up into and through the front of that house 662 00:37:18,586 --> 00:37:20,551 if that's what it takes to rescue us. 663 00:37:20,586 --> 00:37:22,034 And that's not what we wanted. 664 00:37:22,586 --> 00:37:24,000 [paramedic speaking] 665 00:37:24,034 --> 00:37:25,482 [Deputy Thompson speaking] 666 00:37:27,931 --> 00:37:29,379 [Deputy Rathbun] Deputy Thompson and I were both hit. 667 00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,344 He was hit squarely in the forehead. 668 00:37:31,379 --> 00:37:34,551 Mine's more from my right to left. 669 00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:36,965 Clearly, our heads and faces were being targeted. 670 00:37:38,034 --> 00:37:39,793 This is very, very intentional. 671 00:37:39,827 --> 00:37:43,827 At that range, the intent was to, uh, kill us. 672 00:37:45,172 --> 00:37:47,275 [Deputy Wood on radio] 673 00:37:48,758 --> 00:37:50,827 [paramedic speaking] 674 00:37:50,862 --> 00:37:53,655 -[Deputy Thompson] I'm shutting my camera off. -[paramedic speaking] 675 00:37:53,689 --> 00:37:56,000 So at this moment, I'm there by myself. 676 00:37:56,034 --> 00:37:58,448 And I've got two civilian gunmen with me 677 00:37:58,482 --> 00:38:00,965 who I've never met before in my life. 678 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,448 All I could think is, this is a terrible starting point 679 00:38:04,482 --> 00:38:06,517 to face an unknown gunman 680 00:38:06,551 --> 00:38:08,206 with an unknown description. 681 00:38:08,241 --> 00:38:09,965 All I know is he's in this house. 682 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,551 [Deputy Wood speaking] 683 00:38:14,344 --> 00:38:15,655 -[Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking] 684 00:38:18,344 --> 00:38:21,379 One of the civilians asked, "What are we gonna do at this point? 685 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:22,931 Are we goin' in?" 686 00:38:31,206 --> 00:38:32,793 [Deeter speaking] 687 00:38:32,827 --> 00:38:34,655 [Deputy Wood laughs and speaks] 688 00:38:34,689 --> 00:38:36,965 Enough people have been shot today. 689 00:38:41,137 --> 00:38:43,931 And then, we just stood there. Me in the front, 690 00:38:43,965 --> 00:38:45,689 my buddy Jesse in the back, 691 00:38:45,724 --> 00:38:48,034 uh, just waiting for police to arrive. 692 00:38:48,068 --> 00:38:50,379 And that's-- Until they showed up, 693 00:38:50,413 --> 00:38:53,000 it was fairly quiet. 694 00:38:53,034 --> 00:38:55,103 [Deputy Wood] We had State Patrol responding to help. 695 00:38:55,137 --> 00:38:56,965 We had police S.W.A.T. responding to help. 696 00:38:57,862 --> 00:38:59,000 And there were cars everywhere. 697 00:39:03,517 --> 00:39:06,275 The plan now is to contain the incident. 698 00:39:09,103 --> 00:39:11,137 [Deputy Wood] If he wanted to do something, 699 00:39:11,172 --> 00:39:12,275 we were gonna see it. 700 00:39:12,310 --> 00:39:14,793 If he wanted to run, we were gonna see it. 701 00:39:14,827 --> 00:39:17,758 We had full lockdown perimeter. 702 00:39:19,413 --> 00:39:21,137 At that point, our goal was just to wait. 703 00:39:21,896 --> 00:39:23,896 [indistinct chatter] 704 00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:29,586 [Deputy Wood] This gunman had said and done nothing 705 00:39:29,620 --> 00:39:31,827 for what seemed like an eternity now. 706 00:39:33,413 --> 00:39:34,724 Then, all of a sudden... 707 00:39:37,206 --> 00:39:39,275 [Deputy Streubel] Front door was opening. 708 00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:43,620 You stop planning, you just have to react to whatever comes out that door. 709 00:39:46,206 --> 00:39:49,241 We had a concern that he was about to force an armed confrontation. 710 00:39:52,482 --> 00:39:55,379 He yelled back at us a little bit, stepped out a little bit farther, 711 00:39:55,413 --> 00:39:57,344 uh, and then slowly 712 00:39:57,379 --> 00:39:59,517 brought his hand around in front of him and put them in the air. 713 00:40:07,655 --> 00:40:11,551 He just kinda laughed at us and wasn't taking the situation seriously, 714 00:40:11,586 --> 00:40:13,068 which caused a lot of concern. 715 00:40:13,103 --> 00:40:15,862 -[suspect speaking] -[deputy speaking] 716 00:40:17,034 --> 00:40:18,310 -[suspect speaking] -[deputy speaking] 717 00:40:18,344 --> 00:40:19,206 -[suspect speaking] -[deputy] Young. 718 00:40:22,793 --> 00:40:24,793 -[deputy 1 speaking] -[deputy 2 speaking] 719 00:40:28,965 --> 00:40:32,206 [narrator] Young is arrested and charged with 11 counts, 720 00:40:32,241 --> 00:40:35,758 including felony harassment, reckless endangerment, 721 00:40:35,793 --> 00:40:38,103 and two counts of attempted murder. 722 00:40:38,137 --> 00:40:41,000 No officers or citizens face any charges 723 00:40:41,034 --> 00:40:42,103 for this case. 724 00:40:43,344 --> 00:40:46,965 Cody Deeter received a Citizen Commendation Award. 725 00:40:48,448 --> 00:40:49,655 [deputy 1 speaking] 726 00:40:50,862 --> 00:40:51,827 [deputy 1 speaking] 727 00:40:54,862 --> 00:40:58,034 I have never fired a weapon at anybody in my life until this point. 728 00:40:58,068 --> 00:41:00,103 [gun firing] 729 00:41:01,551 --> 00:41:04,965 It was rough, uh, to be honest with you. It, uh... 730 00:41:06,137 --> 00:41:08,413 Uh, the images of the officers 731 00:41:08,448 --> 00:41:10,724 in that garage bleeding everywhere 732 00:41:10,758 --> 00:41:12,344 stuck with me for a long time. 733 00:41:14,758 --> 00:41:16,103 [Deputy Thompson] Just had a broken nose. 734 00:41:16,137 --> 00:41:21,517 I had, uh, 15 pellet strikes, I believe, to my forehead. 735 00:41:21,551 --> 00:41:23,620 [Deputy Rathbun] Legally blinded in my left eye. 736 00:41:23,655 --> 00:41:28,482 There is multiple BBs embedded all over my head and face. 737 00:41:28,517 --> 00:41:31,620 The surgeries and, you know, 738 00:41:31,655 --> 00:41:34,379 uh, treatment continues to this day. 739 00:41:34,413 --> 00:41:36,344 And so, being able to... 740 00:41:37,172 --> 00:41:39,724 live through that incident, 741 00:41:39,758 --> 00:41:41,689 succeed, come back, 742 00:41:41,724 --> 00:41:45,034 and, uh, you know, recover and come back to duty, 743 00:41:45,068 --> 00:41:47,551 uh, has been awesome. 744 00:41:47,586 --> 00:41:49,862 [Deputy Thompson] I suffered a brain injury, 745 00:41:49,896 --> 00:41:51,758 a traumatic brain injury. 746 00:41:51,793 --> 00:41:54,206 So there's been a lot of emotion in coming back. 747 00:41:54,241 --> 00:41:57,517 And I still get a great sense of accomplishment. 748 00:41:57,551 --> 00:42:00,413 [Deputy Wood] Because of how the entire community, 749 00:42:00,448 --> 00:42:03,034 both professional and volunteer, 750 00:42:03,068 --> 00:42:04,689 rallied around each other 751 00:42:04,724 --> 00:42:07,068 to make sure that this bad actor 752 00:42:07,103 --> 00:42:09,448 was taken into custody safely 753 00:42:09,482 --> 00:42:11,965 with nobody else getting hurt... 754 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,827 It's miraculous, but it's also a testament 755 00:42:14,862 --> 00:42:17,068 to how we all responded professionally.