[narrator] In Wisconsin...
[man speaking]
[Officer Weiss] We knew that we were coming up to
one of the really main thoroughfares
-into the city. -[tires screeching]
And then, that's when everything happened.
[man yelling]
[narrator] And in Washington State...
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
That's when I hear the gunshot.
-[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling]
[Deputy Rathbun] I see Deputy Thompson fly backwards.
[firing continues]
And now I know that we're in a shootout.
[man speaking]
-[woman speaking] -[firing continues]
[narrator] In Wisconsin...
eight miles south of Milwaukee...
is the city of Greenfield.
We have one major freeway that runs through Greenfield
to the city of Milwaukee,
so we do hit traffic pretty hard.
[Officer Jackett] It seemed like a quiet evening until, uh,
Officer Franco conducted a traffic stop.
[narrator] Officer Franco sees a sedan run a red light.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[Officer Franco speaking]
Usually, when we're gonna have a vehicle pursuit,
they take off immediately.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[man speaking indistinctly on radio]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[siren blaring]
[Officer Weiss] As he was calling out his traffic stop,
he mentioned that the vehicle wasn't parking,
um, that he wanted a second officer right away.
[Officer Franco speaking indistinctly on radio]
[woman speaking indistinctly on radio]
[Officer Weiss] When I arrived on scene,
my plan was to
pull my squad sort of in front of the car.
-[siren blaring] -[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Weiss] We got up to 80 almost immediately.
Our boss had been down the road
and the car actually ran over his stop sticks.
But he wouldn't stop.
High speeds, disregard of traffic signs and traffic lights.
I was hoping I could intercept the pursuit.
[Officer Franco speaking]
We're in a very...
populated area.
People are-- are out and up.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
We knew that we were coming up to 27th street,
one of the really main thoroughfares
into the city of Milwaukee.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss] So we knew that that was gonna be busy at the time, too.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[speaking indistinctly]
[tires screeching]
[Officer Weiss] The crash was so hard
that both cars didn't come to a stop
until they were all the way across the intersection
on the other corner.
I mean, he hit her at-- at 50.
I was just thinking, "I need to get to that lady in the truck,"
but we can't get to her
until we deal with the guy we were just chasing.
[Officer Franco yelling]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss] I saw in my peripheral
that Officer Franco was approaching from the other side.
We had our guns drawn.
[Officer Franco yelling]
[Officer Weiss yelling]
The driver of the second car chose to walk up,
she's screaming that he hit her car
and I was trying to tell her "I know, we have to get this first.
Go back to your car."
-[woman] But my car! -[Officer Weiss speaking]
I went to the back...
driver's side and opened that door.
All of the airbags deployed so we couldn't actually see into the car.
I could hear Officer Franco but I couldn't see him.
[Officer Franco screaming]
[Officer Weiss yelling]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss] I heard gunshots.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss] That is when that guy actually got out of that same door.
I saw the gun in his hand.
[Officer Jackett] I was south of the crash unable to proceed.
-I heard loud popping sounds. -[gunshots firing]
Officer Weiss, she was making dodging movements,
uh, as she was being fired at by the suspect.
[Officer Weiss] He was shooting at me.
I was way out in the open.
So I shot a couple more times after the guy.
And...
Because I tried to shoot my gun so fast,
my gun malfunctioned.
The only thing I could think of was cover,
find cover, find cover, so that's why I ran back.
I fixed it.
At that point, I see Adan running towards me.
[Officer Franco speaking]
-[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Franco] Yesh.
Now my focus is on Officer Franco
because now I don't know how bad he's hurt.
And I... I don't know.
[Officer Franco speaking]
-[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking indistinctly]
-[Officer Franco] On my... -[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking indistinctly]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Franco speaking]
-[Officer Weiss] Adan... -[Officer Franco speaking]
The one that stuck with me was he said in the chest.
And I was like, "Oh, my God, this is really, really bad."
Um, because there's not a lot I can do about that.
-[Officer Franco speaking] -[Officer Weiss] Yep.
[Officer Franco speaking]
I didn't want to tell him, "You're not going to die,"
because I didn't wanna lie to him.
I didn't know if he was or not.
And I didn't-- I didn't want...
some of the last words he heard, um, to be a lie.
I didn't wanna tell him that he was gonna make it through
because I didn't know.
-[Officer Franco speaking] -[Officer Weiss speaking]
I've never put a tourniquet on anyone.
I couldn't believe that the first time ever using
that training would be on another cop.
[Officer Franco speaking]
[Officer Weiss] Okay so...
[Officer Weiss speaking]
-[Officer Jackett] Chest? -[Officer Weiss speaking]
-[Officer Franco speaking] -Okay.
[narrator] Other officers search for the suspect.
[Officer Jackett] I realized Officer Franco had been shot.
I just went into life-saving mode at that moment.
-[Officer Weiss speaking] -[Officer Jackett speaking]
[Officer Weiss] He got it. [speaking]
[Officer Jackett speaking]
I didn't observe much blood at that moment.
However, there was a gunshot in his, um,
upper shoulder near, like, near his collarbone area.
[Officer Weiss speaking]
-[Officer Jackett speaking] -[Officer Weiss] It's okay.
[Officer Jackett speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Jackett yelling]
-[sirens blaring] -[dispatcher speaks indistinctly]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Jackett] Yeah, okay.
[Officer Jackett speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
-[Officer Jackett speaking] -[Officer Weiss] Yep.
-[Officer Jackett speaking] -[man] Yep, you're good.
-[Officer Weiss] Ease on this side. [speaking] -[Franco] Oh my back hurts!
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[Officer Jackett speaking]
That itself is frightening.
If you have an entry and an exit wound,
the round itself had pretty much penetrated,
uh, the body and left.
Whereas if it stays within the body,
high chances of it that it ricocheted
with the potential of striking other major organs.
[indistinct chatter]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[man speaking]
[Officer Weiss speaking]
[man speaking]
-[Officer Jackett speaking] -[man] Keep squeezing. Man, you're good.
[Officer Jackett] Officer Franco had a hard time breathing
and so we had to roll him on his side
so he can open up his airway better so he can breathe.
It was really hard to do that because we were still causing him pain.
[siren blaring]
When the ambulance arrived, it was just a big wave of relief.
[Officer Jackett speaking]
WHen they finally got there,
I was so happy.
I'm not a medical professional
and I... I didn't want to see him die on the street.
[police officer speaking]
[paramedic speaking indistinctly]
[narrator] Officer Franco is rushed to a nearby trauma center
in critical condition.
[Officer Weiss] All I was thinking about was, um...
telling his family that we couldn't save him.
[narrator] Officers locate the suspect nearby.
He sustained a gunshot wound to the chest
during the shootout with Officer Franco.
Medics attempt to save his life,
but he is pronounced dead at the scene.
[Officer Franco] After, um 12 days in the hospital, I was discharged.
I had internal injuries,
uh, to my-- my lungs, my liver,
um, my, uh, digestive system,
um, as well as just the basic trauma to my body.
That night, I observed a light-colored sedan
had gone through a, uh, red traffic signal.
Um, as I was facing a green traffic signal,
the situation escalated very drastically.
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[tires screeching]
[crashing]
[Officer Franco speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Officer Franco] The suspect didn't look at me directly in the eyes.
[bleep] Hands up now!
I remember hearing a loud bang and seeing glass.
I had a flash of light.
My instinct at the time was to get a position to then manage
the suspect and stop the threat of him
actively trying to kill me.
He did appear right in front of me.
[gunshots firing]
He and I exchanged gunfire.
[indistinct radio chatter]
And at that point, I knew I'd been struck, uh, multiple times.
I felt that I couldn't breathe
and I felt the impact which knocked me backward.
Uh, I remember being very scared at the time,
and, uh, not knowing if I was gonna survive.
Never thought I'd be in a position
to have to ask somebody to keep me alive, but...
I knew she could.
I did begin to, um, think about my family
and my fear, uh, of what they would have to go through
if things didn't work out.
Uh, the suspect, um,
I did strike him with gunfire.
[gunshots firing]
I never wanna go through that again.
Um, not just for myself, but to, uh,
take somebody else's life, uh...
if I don't have to.
I don't know why he chose to do what he did.
It was completely unnecessary.
And, um, it didn't need to happen.
The, um, operator,
um, of the pickup truck that was struck significantly
was injured.
Um, I don't know the extent of those injuries.
But I know that she survived.
[narrator] The suspect was Tyron Lamb.
At the time of the shooting,
Lamb was on extended supervision.
His prior convictions include armed robbery,
and attempting to flee and elude.
As a felon, Tyron Lamb was prohibited from carrying a firearm.
In this instance, the use of deadly force
was deemed reasonable.
[gunshots firing]
[Officer Franco] I did miss the job, I missed my coworkers.
I did not wanna quit this job,
and my duty and responsibility that I wanted to try to uphold.
Once the-- the wounds were healed,
with a lot of help and support,
I was able to bounce back
and return to-- to full duty.
[Officer Jackett] It was a little bit of a rough road
coming to terms of what had happened.
I don't consider myself a hero.
That's Officer Weiss, not me.
But the reason why it gets sometimes hard to talk about
is, uh, it kind of just brings you back to the moment.
To where you-- To where you feel helpless.
And I don't like that feeling.
[Officer Weiss] Even though that was the worst day of my entire life,
um, I still can't imagine doing anything else.
I don't really do this for myself,
I do it for all the people that I've helped.
I still wouldn't wanna give that up.
[sirens blaring]
[narrator] In northwest Washington State...
on the Canadian border...
is Whatcom County.
[Deputy Rathbun] I was up in the Maple Falls area.
A call came out for a neighborhood dispute.
[dispatch speaking]
[girl speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[Haley speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[Haley speaking]
People shooting shotguns in the air in that area
is not all that uncommon.
We have a lot of hunters in the county and, um,
however, you know, in the context of
a neighbor dispute, it definitely raised our concerns.
[dispatch speaking]
[Haley speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[Haley speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[Haley speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] I was only a couple miles away.
As I was responding,
uh, more information came in through dispatch
as more callers were calling in.
This isn't just somebody popping off a shotgun
close to the housing development.
It's in a neighborhood. There's a dispute.
And now there's a firearm actively being involved in it.
[dispatch speaking]
[man 1 speaking]
[dispatch speaking]
[man 1 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] They're shooting it out in the streets.
I responded not lights and sirens.
Soak up all the information I could.
Also giving Deputy Thompson more time for him to respond,
knowing that he's probably 20 minutes away.
[dispatch speaking]
[officer speaking]
I'm pretty intimately familiar with, you know, the Peaceful Valley area
in Green Valley having been a neighbor deputy for years.
So I knew exactly where I was going.
[Deputy Thompson on radio] 72 lock and ride and I'm staging around the corner.
[Deputy Rathbun] I stopped along King Valley.
Parked my patrol truck, grabbed my patrol rifle.
And began just kind of listening.
[Deputy Thompson speaking on radio]
[deputy speaking on radio] One Lincoln 71 come clear...
It was dead quiet, bird chirping.
Nothing going on.
I slowly approached the scene.
From that distance, I kind of see, assess,
process,
uh, make decisions.
Better decisions slower.
[Deputy Thompson] The foothills, which is where Peaceful Valley is,
there's very limited cell reception,
radio reception for CAD or computer aided dispatch.
We don't have access to it up there unless we find a Wi-Fi spot,
the phones don't work and then our radios don't work very well up there either.
When we have an active shooter,
doesn't matter that you're the only deputy,
you go in and try and get it stopped.
-[dispatch] Uh, white male in his 30s, black shirt-- -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
I did elect to respond alone
knowing that Deputy Thompson was responding code
to back me up.
And he was running lights and sirens
because he had so much geographical distance to cover.
-[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
Is burning legal up there?
Yeah, as long as you're not using a burn barrel,
and/or burning garbage.
[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
The situation, it clearly deescalated itself.
Kind of keep it that way, right?
And buy a little time for my partner to arrive.
[man 2] No, no, no. [speaking]
Clearly, you know, there was a dispute.
Yeah, it seems eerie 'cause you're supposed to be going
to an active shooting. There isn't that.
So you kind of take the win.
-[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
I do not care at all, um,
about, uh, him burning some wood in his backyard.
[man 2] Nope, nope, nope, nope.
[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] Okay.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Thompson] So when I arrive,
I find Deputy Rathbun in the driveway
talking to one of the complainants.
The next house down, I could see a couple people in the yard.
So it appeared to me that Deputy Rathbun had
probably separated the two parties,
was talking to one.
We would end up talking to the other and then figure out a way to resolve it.
What I didn't know as I walked up the driveway,
and because our communications are not,
um, great in that area,
I'd missed a lot of the radio traffic,
so I wasn't aware
that there were three houses involved in this dispute.
But I'd actually just turned my back on the actual threat,
the other party that actually had the gun and had been shooting.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
Deputy Rathbun and I talked briefly about, "Hey, what do you wanna do?"
Suspect opened up his door again.
Seven-two, walking this area.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[officer speaking on radio]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
At that point, we don't really have a crime per se,
but we also don't have circumstance that we can just walk away from
and leave that neighborhood in a threat situation.
He's belligerent.
He's already been in a-- in a argument with his neighbors.
It was clear to us that he didn't want
law enforcement to assist him with his dispute.
And he's armed with a shotgun.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] So as I go to speak to the neighbors,
[man 3 speaking]
-[man 2 speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
And I can see that they're very, very, very angry, like...
[man 3 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] Okay.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
In the state of Washington,
uh, it is an unlawful seizure
to order somebody from their home
based on probably cause for a misdemeanor crime.
So if all he's done is a civil infraction,
discharging that firearm,
um, I can't force or coerce him to exit the home.
[suspect speaking]
[Deputy Thompson] I moved to the corner of the house
so that I could see the suspect house.
Deputy Rathbun requested for more units to come.
We knew we had probably at least a good 10 to 15 minutes
before anybody else was gonna be there.
[suspect speaking]
I was gonna be the third unit available to cover
even though I was almost 20 miles away,
down in the main part of the county.
Al lot of the times, these calls get resolved peacefully
rather quickly,
but in a situation like that when you need help right now,
20 miles away might as well be on the moon.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deeter speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] Okay.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-[Cody Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-Boom, boom, boom, boom? -[man 3] There's a reason I grabbed mine.
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[man 3 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Thompson] I'm at the corner of the house.
It's not a great position.
Does provide me some concealment and a little bit of cover.
I needed to be where I was at.
It was the best place that afforded me visibility.
So my hope, really, is that he just stays in the house.
[suspect speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[suspect speaking]
-[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
-[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling]
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[gun fires]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-[Officer Rathbun speaking] -[gun firing]
[Deputy Rathbun screaming]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
I'm hit!
[Deputy Wood] I think I was about three miles away
coming down Kendall highway
when I heard a garbled radio traffic
from Deputy Rathbun...
[Deputy Rathbun speaking indistinctly on radio]
...about shots fired and his voice sounded elevated.
Officer Thompson yelled, you know, "Whatcom County Sheriff's Department,
um, drop the gun."
And then...
-[gun fires] -[Deputy Thompson yelling]
...gunshot, and you hear the officer scream,
and he fell backwards onto his back.
[Deputy Rathbun] ...fired!
[Deputy Rathbun] As I'm running up, I hear Deputy Thompson yell,
"Drop the firearm."
-[gun fires] -[Deputy Rathbun] That's when I hear the gunshot.
I see Deputy Thompson fly backwards.
[gun firing]
And now, I know that we're in a shooting.
[officer on radio] I got more responding units. Sounded like shots fired.
[Deputy Streubel] I remember the time, it was 4:44 in the afternoon.
Uh, received a call from our SWAT tactical commander.
And when I answered the phone, I could hear a siren in the background,
uh, which was not a normal occurrence.
He said that there had been a shots fired incident
in the Paradise area.
It could be anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes to get to the area.
He needed a full team call out immediately.
Right away, I could hear in his voice that something had gone bad.
And my first thought was that a deputy had been shot.
-[Deputy Rathbun] You okay? -[gun firing]
-[Deputy Thompson screaming] -[Deputy Rathbun] Is he just injured? Is he dead?
I look to see that he's groaning. He's got purposeful movements.
[man 1 on radio speaking]
[man 2 on radio speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] All the while, I'm-- I need to address this threat.
I fully believed in that moment that, uh,
that Mr. Young would be...
standing in that doorway, or he's coming out
into his front yard and onto the property
to finish the job.
And to attempt to kill my partner.
So I begin putting, uh, directive fire
into the door.
[gun firing]
[Deputy Rathbun screams]
That's when I get struck with a shotgun blast.
-You okay? -[gun firing]
[screams]
At that moment, me and Jesse both grabbed our firearms again,
reloaded them and ran over there,
'cause obviously, he needed help.
[gun firing]
So I had originally planned to run over there just to help
aid the hurt officer.
[indistinct radio chatter]
I didn't really have a plan on shooting back.
[man 2 speaking]
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[Deeter yelling]
I was more focused on Officer Rathbun in front of me.
'Cause to get to Thompson,
I needed him to be in between me and the other guy.
'Cause he's the officer, and at that moment,
he steps around the corner and opens fire on the guy.
And the guy opens fire back and...
hits Officer Rathbun, and that's when I decide that
something's gotta be done.
I stepped around the corner and I just unloaded my magazine.
-[gun firing] -72 Whatcom.
[Deputy Thompson] At least two, but I believe four armed citizens
had come to our help,
which, um, is pretty unusual.
[woman speaking]
[man 3 speaking]
[gun fires]
-[man 1 speaking] -[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] Jesse I knew was off to the left over near a vehicle.
Um, I know he was a, uh, a military veteran
and, uh, had served time in Afghanistan,
so, I just-- you know,
obviously, it's time to leave him to his own devices.
-[man 1 speaking] -[Deeter speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] In that moment, I kinda take a second to myself
to self-assess.
I'm dripping blood places.
Spitting out some blood from my mouth.
Um, that's the moment where I realized my left eye
was failing. I could literally...
feel-- see and feel my vision just go to black.
[man 1 speaking on radio]
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] I see a patrol vehicle coming.
I hear the voice over the radio.
[Deputy Wood] One Adam Six Unit two is down.
And I could not be more thrilled
that, not just that it's backup,
but that it's Deputy Ben Wood.
[Deputy Wood] I don't know exactly where this house is.
But I saw Deputy Thompson's vehicle.
I saw two deputies in black uniforms
kinda hunkered in a garage.
A couple of people in civilian clothes with guns out
drawn at a house.
It almost looked like they were working together
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
I wanted to just go straight to them as fast and hard as I could.
-[Deputy Wood speaking] -[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deputy Wood speaking]
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 2 speaking]
-[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Wood] And it was only at that moment did I know that both of my partners
had been shot.
It was just me. Two deputies had been shot.
And two civilians that I assumed were helping us.
We needed an entire SWAT team in place right now.
Not 10 minutes from now, not 30 minutes from now, right this second.
[Deputy Thompson] I'm on one knee, I'm spitting out blood,
but I can breathe.
I've got my gun out. I can see Ryan.
Excuse me, I can see Deputy Rathbun.
Um, he's still got his rifle. He's still up.
I've heard him say that he's hit.
I know he's shot as well.
If I need to reengage, I can.
Um, but I know I'm not in good shape.
I can see the puddle of blood that was
forming on the floor in front of me.
-[Deputy Rathbun speaking] -[man 1 speaking]
[man 2 speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[Deputy Wood] The civilians, they're helping me.
We've got cover and we've got three guns on target.
My two partners, I had no idea the extent of their injuries.
[Deputy Rathbun] Deputy Wood's one of a handful of deputies
that I would have been comfortable leaving that scene with.
With just him and two armed citizens.
-[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking]
As much as you want to render aid to your partners,
you can't.
You have to deal with the active threat at hand.
Especially since they're capable of helping themselves.
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
-[Deputy Thompson speaking] -[car starts]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
He's less of a threat now. He's not actively shooting.
He's not in the doorway, he's not in the window.
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[man 1 speaking]
[Deputy Wood speaking]
-[Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun speaking]
[Deeter speaking]
[Deputy Thompson] We're easily 20 minutes from a hospital
once we get to an ambulance.
They were going to have to drive past the suspect's house
in order to get out to the ambulance.
[woman speaking on radio]
Kendall on Oregon trail.
I knew at any moment, they could collapse.
I knew at any moment, they could die.
But I knew they were getting to the ambulance.
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[man speaking indistinctly on radio]
He floors it and drives like a bat out of hell.
They drove by the house so fast that if the jerk with the gun
wanted to shoot 'em, then he probably wasn't gonna be able to get a shot.
And I knew to be watchful that if he tried,
I was gonna crank some serious rounds in his direction.
[Deputy Thompson spitting]
-[paramedic speaking] -[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] We didn't want aid driving up on scene.
Deputy Thompson and I both know
all the firefighters and EMTs in that community very well.
And, uh, we know that they're the type of people that will
drive an ambulance
up into and through the front of that house
if that's what it takes to rescue us.
And that's not what we wanted.
[paramedic speaking]
[Deputy Thompson speaking]
[Deputy Rathbun] Deputy Thompson and I were both hit.
He was hit squarely in the forehead.
Mine's more from my right to left.
Clearly, our heads and faces were being targeted.
This is very, very intentional.
At that range, the intent was to, uh, kill us.
[Deputy Wood on radio]
[paramedic speaking]
-[Deputy Thompson] I'm shutting my camera off. -[paramedic speaking]
So at this moment, I'm there by myself.
And I've got two civilian gunmen with me
who I've never met before in my life.
All I could think is, this is a terrible starting point
to face an unknown gunman
with an unknown description.
All I know is he's in this house.
[Deputy Wood speaking]
-[Deeter speaking] -[Deputy Wood speaking]
One of the civilians asked, "What are we gonna do at this point?
Are we goin' in?"
[Deeter speaking]
[Deputy Wood laughs and speaks]
Enough people have been shot today.
And then, we just stood there. Me in the front,
my buddy Jesse in the back,
uh, just waiting for police to arrive.
And that's-- Until they showed up,
it was fairly quiet.
[Deputy Wood] We had State Patrol responding to help.
We had police S.W.A.T. responding to help.
And there were cars everywhere.
The plan now is to contain the incident.
[Deputy Wood] If he wanted to do something,
we were gonna see it.
If he wanted to run, we were gonna see it.
We had full lockdown perimeter.
At that point, our goal was just to wait.
[indistinct chatter]
[Deputy Wood] This gunman had said and done nothing
for what seemed like an eternity now.
Then, all of a sudden...
[Deputy Streubel] Front door was opening.
You stop planning, you just have to react to whatever comes out that door.
We had a concern that he was about to force an armed confrontation.
He yelled back at us a little bit, stepped out a little bit farther,
uh, and then slowly
brought his hand around in front of him and put them in the air.
He just kinda laughed at us and wasn't taking the situation seriously,
which caused a lot of concern.
-[suspect speaking] -[deputy speaking]
-[suspect speaking] -[deputy] Young.
-[deputy 1 speaking] -[deputy 2 speaking]
[narrator] Young is arrested and charged with 11 counts,
including felony harassment, reckless endangerment,
and two counts of attempted murder.
No officers or citizens face any charges
for this case.
Cody Deeter received a Citizen Commendation Award.
[deputy 1 speaking]
I have never fired a weapon at anybody in my life until this point.
[gun firing]
It was rough, uh, to be honest with you. It, uh...
Uh, the images of the officers
in that garage bleeding everywhere
stuck with me for a long time.
[Deputy Thompson] Just had a broken nose.
I had, uh, 15 pellet strikes, I believe, to my forehead.
[Deputy Rathbun] Legally blinded in my left eye.
There is multiple BBs embedded all over my head and face.
The surgeries and, you know,
uh, treatment continues to this day.
And so, being able to...
live through that incident,
succeed, come back,
and, uh, you know, recover and come back to duty,
uh, has been awesome.
[Deputy Thompson] I suffered a brain injury,
a traumatic brain injury.
So there's been a lot of emotion in coming back.
And I still get a great sense of accomplishment.
[Deputy Wood] Because of how the entire community,
both professional and volunteer,
rallied around each other
to make sure that this bad actor
was taken into custody safely
with nobody else getting hurt...
It's miraculous, but it's also a testament
to how we all responded professionally.