1 00:00:08,567 --> 00:00:12,467 [narrator] In Florida, officers are drawn into an ambush. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,834 [officer 1 speaking] 3 00:00:19,667 --> 00:00:20,834 [officer 2 speaking on radio] 4 00:00:27,367 --> 00:00:28,567 [officer speaking] 5 00:00:30,567 --> 00:00:31,967 [gunshots] 6 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:39,934 [narrator] And in Wisconsin, a traffic stop becomes a manhunt. 7 00:00:40,767 --> 00:00:42,734 [officer speaking] 8 00:00:48,367 --> 00:00:50,934 [female officer speaking] 9 00:01:07,166 --> 00:01:10,867 [narrator] In Florida, 18 miles west of Tampa, 10 00:01:11,767 --> 00:01:13,967 is St. Petersburg. 11 00:01:13,967 --> 00:01:20,166 St Petersburg, it's a very diverse community and you have a lot to do there. 12 00:01:20,166 --> 00:01:24,467 The county is the most densely populated county in the state of Florida. 13 00:01:24,533 --> 00:01:26,467 So we got a lot of people 14 00:01:26,533 --> 00:01:29,967 in a very small area because it's so nice. 15 00:01:30,033 --> 00:01:34,166 But we do have a wide variety of criminal activity. 16 00:01:34,166 --> 00:01:37,266 Criminal uses of firearms is a problem everywhere, 17 00:01:37,266 --> 00:01:39,467 even though there's no information 18 00:01:39,467 --> 00:01:41,100 that the person might be armed, 19 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:43,567 you're always thinking it's a possibility. 20 00:01:43,634 --> 00:01:45,734 You're constantly thinking, "What if?" 21 00:01:50,266 --> 00:01:52,233 [911 officer speaking] 22 00:01:52,967 --> 00:01:54,734 [man speaking] 23 00:02:04,767 --> 00:02:06,333 [siren blaring] 24 00:02:06,867 --> 00:02:08,834 [officer speaking] 25 00:02:10,166 --> 00:02:11,967 [officer speaking on radio] 26 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:27,266 [officer 1 speaking] 27 00:02:27,266 --> 00:02:28,467 [officer 2 speaking] 28 00:02:28,467 --> 00:02:30,066 It was around seven o'clock 29 00:02:30,066 --> 00:02:32,667 and it was still daylight outside 30 00:02:32,667 --> 00:02:36,166 for him to be breaking into cars when people are still up 31 00:02:36,166 --> 00:02:39,433 and around is a little bit different. 32 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,033 [officer speaking on radio] 33 00:02:48,767 --> 00:02:50,667 [Sgt. Jacob] Deputies are being dispatched to a burglary. 34 00:02:50,667 --> 00:02:52,266 It's happening in progress. 35 00:02:52,266 --> 00:02:55,266 It's a distance away from my area of responsibility, 36 00:02:55,333 --> 00:02:56,967 but this is starting to spread out. 37 00:02:57,033 --> 00:02:58,967 Maybe they could use some more resources. 38 00:03:04,166 --> 00:03:05,567 [officer speaking on radio] 39 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,767 [Sgt. Jacob speaking] 40 00:03:10,367 --> 00:03:13,467 [narrator] Corporal Nazir Amin's shift has just begun 41 00:03:13,467 --> 00:03:15,266 when he joins the hunt. 42 00:03:15,266 --> 00:03:18,467 As I'm pretty much driving to that area, 43 00:03:18,467 --> 00:03:22,166 I see this subject acting a little bit, you know, out of order. 44 00:03:22,233 --> 00:03:24,834 He's not really doing what normal people do. 45 00:03:28,867 --> 00:03:31,166 At this time, we don't know the suspect's identity. 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,166 There is no information received about firearms. 47 00:03:34,166 --> 00:03:37,233 That's definitely a concern anytime someone runs from us. 48 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,467 I hop out with the other deputy. 49 00:03:40,467 --> 00:03:43,033 That's talking to the neighbor that had chased him. 50 00:03:46,867 --> 00:03:48,634 [Cpl. Nazir speaking] 51 00:03:55,767 --> 00:03:57,433 [officer speaking] 52 00:04:02,867 --> 00:04:05,266 [Cpl. Nazir] I'm confirming that the subject that I saw 53 00:04:05,333 --> 00:04:07,734 was the person that is in question. 54 00:04:11,166 --> 00:04:13,100 When anyone's walking around with a backpack, 55 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:14,667 they're storing items. 56 00:04:14,734 --> 00:04:18,867 One of the common trends is to break into vehicles looking for firearms. 57 00:04:18,867 --> 00:04:22,333 So, seeing the backpack on him was definitely a little bit alarming. 58 00:04:26,767 --> 00:04:30,367 The subject that I saw was running through the parking lot. 59 00:04:31,166 --> 00:04:32,533 [officer speaking on radio] 60 00:04:41,266 --> 00:04:43,166 [Cpl. Nazir speaking] 61 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,634 Cpl. Aitken was en route with his canine, Taco. 62 00:04:52,767 --> 00:04:54,533 [Cpl. Aitken speaking] 63 00:04:56,667 --> 00:04:58,867 I need to set up a perimeter unit. 64 00:04:58,867 --> 00:05:03,567 We don't want to introduce ourselves or someone else into that area 65 00:05:03,634 --> 00:05:06,533 to confuse the dog as that odor is fresh. 66 00:05:09,166 --> 00:05:11,467 [indistinct chatter on radio] 67 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,767 Matt and I didn't have to really talk about a game plan. 68 00:05:56,767 --> 00:05:58,266 My job as backup, 69 00:05:58,333 --> 00:06:00,767 we worked together for a long time. 70 00:06:00,834 --> 00:06:02,567 He's going to be watching his dog. 71 00:06:02,567 --> 00:06:06,266 My job is to watch all the areas, all the danger points 72 00:06:06,333 --> 00:06:08,734 that he's not going to be able to see. 73 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,867 We knew we were on him. 74 00:06:30,867 --> 00:06:33,667 That kind of confirmed that we were in the right spot and the dog was locked in. 75 00:06:33,667 --> 00:06:35,967 The dog wouldn't have fetched it up if it was old. 76 00:06:42,166 --> 00:06:43,667 Working an area like that, 77 00:06:43,667 --> 00:06:45,433 there's a lot of hiding points. 78 00:06:49,967 --> 00:06:53,033 Very viney, there's a lot of downed branches. 79 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:03,333 It puts you on edge. 80 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,333 Every step you take, you're wondering, 81 00:07:10,266 --> 00:07:11,667 "Am I missing something? 82 00:07:11,667 --> 00:07:14,166 And can I see him before he sees us?" 83 00:07:17,867 --> 00:07:19,934 There's no hiding that we're coming for him. 84 00:07:20,867 --> 00:07:23,667 He's going to hear us tracking through. 85 00:07:23,667 --> 00:07:25,266 He's going to hear the dog breathing heavy. 86 00:07:25,266 --> 00:07:28,967 He's going to hear us knocking down bushes and walking through stuff 87 00:07:29,033 --> 00:07:31,734 while he's bed up somewhere making a game plan. 88 00:07:50,567 --> 00:07:52,734 [indistinct chatter on radio] 89 00:08:15,867 --> 00:08:17,967 I almost said to him and suggested, 90 00:08:18,033 --> 00:08:19,467 "Why don't we just go around?" 91 00:08:36,467 --> 00:08:40,000 I noticed then that there is another fence over there. 92 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,867 So at that point, I scaled the fence and Matt had taken off 93 00:08:44,867 --> 00:08:47,934 to continue to track, and I'm trying to catch up to him. 94 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,634 [gunshots] 95 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,333 [gunshots] 96 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,166 [Sgt. Jacob] I see three shots and Matt fall to the ground. 97 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,767 I knew I had perimeter units out there. 98 00:09:39,767 --> 00:09:41,233 They had to hear the gunshots. 99 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,367 I was trying to mike up, and I wasn't getting out. 100 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:09,233 He wasn't supposed to get hit. 101 00:10:09,967 --> 00:10:11,533 Not with me, his backup. 102 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:13,367 No. 103 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,533 [gunshots] 104 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:27,567 [gunshots] 105 00:10:32,567 --> 00:10:34,634 [Sgt. Jacob] I couldn't get my gun out in time. 106 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,467 I know that the dog needed to be secured so that help can be rendered. 107 00:10:54,467 --> 00:10:56,433 There was no other way around it. 108 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:01,266 I was very concerned for Matt's condition 109 00:11:01,266 --> 00:11:03,667 because I knew he needed help right away. 110 00:11:03,734 --> 00:11:05,166 So it's very frustrating. 111 00:11:05,166 --> 00:11:08,533 The most I can do is to provide direction at that point. 112 00:11:11,367 --> 00:11:13,934 We start to, just, running to the location. 113 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:19,166 [Taco barking] 114 00:11:19,233 --> 00:11:21,066 We hear canine Taco barking. 115 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,166 [Cpl. Nazir] It's indescribable... 116 00:11:31,166 --> 00:11:35,266 to see one of your own brothers in blue laying there on the ground. 117 00:11:35,333 --> 00:11:37,266 All the emotions are kind of attacking you, 118 00:11:37,266 --> 00:11:39,066 and you're doing the best to keep them at bay. 119 00:11:43,667 --> 00:11:45,667 [Sgt. Jacob] I know he has body armor on. 120 00:11:48,967 --> 00:11:52,266 But I didn't realize that none of the rounds 121 00:11:52,333 --> 00:11:54,734 had touched any of his vest. 122 00:11:56,567 --> 00:11:59,233 We needed to get somebody to Matt, now. 123 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,066 So at the time, 124 00:12:20,066 --> 00:12:23,166 the the suspect is visibly deceased. 125 00:12:23,166 --> 00:12:27,233 We went ahead and checked his pulse. He was pronounced deceased. 126 00:12:28,567 --> 00:12:30,567 Corporal Aitken's bleeding profusely. 127 00:12:31,567 --> 00:12:35,333 You want to do everything you can to bring them back. 128 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:43,066 [Cpl. Aitken] The first round hit my neck. 129 00:12:43,066 --> 00:12:44,767 I heard it hit my neck. 130 00:12:44,767 --> 00:12:48,266 It was a high pitched ping, almost the sound of like aluminum bat hitting a ball. 131 00:12:53,867 --> 00:12:56,367 [gunshots] 132 00:12:56,367 --> 00:12:58,433 [Cpl. Aitken] When that first happened, I immediately fell. 133 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:01,433 I knew I had been shot. 134 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:05,767 I was gonna bring my hands underneath me, 135 00:13:05,767 --> 00:13:08,066 do a do a push up, get myself back up there. 136 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:11,567 [gunshots] 137 00:13:15,166 --> 00:13:16,767 I tried to move my hands under my body 138 00:13:16,834 --> 00:13:18,266 and my arms wouldn't move. 139 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,166 I couldn't feel anything. 140 00:13:21,266 --> 00:13:23,033 I actually thought I got shot in the head. 141 00:13:25,667 --> 00:13:29,567 I distinctly remember seeing black coming from the outside 142 00:13:29,567 --> 00:13:31,934 and eventually closed in on me and I passed out. 143 00:13:37,166 --> 00:13:39,834 I didn't hear the gunshot, the gunfight happening. 144 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,166 The rounds fractured C2, my second vertebrae. 145 00:13:46,233 --> 00:13:48,634 It controls all your motor functions from your neck down. 146 00:13:57,266 --> 00:14:00,066 The round itself did not hit my spinal cord, 147 00:14:00,066 --> 00:14:03,367 but there is a shockwave behind that round. 148 00:14:03,367 --> 00:14:04,867 The shockwave from a firearm 149 00:14:04,934 --> 00:14:06,867 is just as dangerous as the projectile. 150 00:14:06,867 --> 00:14:08,767 My body had to absorb all that energy, 151 00:14:08,834 --> 00:14:09,967 and that's what made me drop, 152 00:14:09,967 --> 00:14:12,467 and that's what made me paralyzed. 153 00:14:12,467 --> 00:14:14,467 And it also caused my diaphragm to drop. 154 00:14:14,533 --> 00:14:16,133 Our diaphragm is what controls our breathing. 155 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,066 And so, I wasn't breathing when I was hit. 156 00:14:28,367 --> 00:14:29,767 I was shot in my neck. 157 00:14:29,834 --> 00:14:34,066 I was shot in my wrist and it fractured my radius. 158 00:14:34,133 --> 00:14:37,667 And I was shot in the leg as well through the muscle. 159 00:14:37,667 --> 00:14:39,433 I didn't feel any of these rounds hit me. 160 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,834 I remember having a very real sensation of, 161 00:14:46,967 --> 00:14:50,567 this is how I'm gonna die in this backyard, in St. Petersburg. 162 00:14:50,634 --> 00:14:51,934 This is how it ends. 163 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:58,567 [Taco barking] 164 00:14:58,567 --> 00:15:02,333 I hear Jake say, "Stay in the fight, Mattie, don't stop fighting." 165 00:15:06,767 --> 00:15:08,266 And I remember hearing him say that. 166 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,533 I really feel like I clung on to those words 167 00:15:13,367 --> 00:15:15,667 and forced my eyes open. 168 00:15:18,567 --> 00:15:21,967 One of the other handlers, her name is Amanda Ettinger. 169 00:15:22,033 --> 00:15:28,467 She wrote an ambulance with me and she saw that I need to start calming down. 170 00:15:28,467 --> 00:15:30,367 She said, "I need you to look at me. 171 00:15:30,367 --> 00:15:31,934 We're in combat, we're together." 172 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,533 And I felt like if I looked away from Amanda, she was to my left. 173 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,467 I felt like if I looked away from her and I looked to my right, 174 00:15:42,467 --> 00:15:44,166 I would see the Reaper right next to me. 175 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:45,934 And that would be it. 176 00:15:48,567 --> 00:15:52,066 I just stared at Amanda and we breathed together, 177 00:15:52,066 --> 00:15:56,667 and I didn't stop moving my toes inside my boots 178 00:15:56,667 --> 00:15:59,367 until I got to the ER because I was terrified 179 00:15:59,433 --> 00:16:01,834 that if I stopped moving my feet, they would never move again. 180 00:16:09,467 --> 00:16:12,834 [Cpl. Aitken] The deputies had responded to provide medical aid. 181 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:14,567 A lot of those guys are new. 182 00:16:14,567 --> 00:16:16,066 They were newer deputies 183 00:16:16,133 --> 00:16:18,767 and talking to all three of my doctors. 184 00:16:20,667 --> 00:16:23,667 They are all very confident that if they did not provide 185 00:16:23,734 --> 00:16:25,667 the CPR in the time that they did, 186 00:16:25,667 --> 00:16:26,967 I would not have made it. 187 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,533 I just could not believe that the three of us survived this. 188 00:16:36,166 --> 00:16:38,467 If Jake wasn't on this call, I don't think 189 00:16:38,467 --> 00:16:40,467 this call would have worked out like it did. 190 00:16:42,467 --> 00:16:48,166 I still had this feeling like I could have done better for him as backup. 191 00:16:48,166 --> 00:16:50,767 [Cpl. Aitken] You know, Jake's wife depends on me to get him home, 192 00:16:50,767 --> 00:16:53,567 and my wife depends on Jake to get me home. 193 00:16:53,567 --> 00:16:55,867 I can't say enough about the guy. 194 00:16:55,867 --> 00:16:58,367 For some reason, and I don't know why I did it this way, 195 00:16:58,367 --> 00:17:00,834 I'll call it divine intervention. 196 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,467 Taco jumped the fence, I jumped the fence 197 00:17:04,467 --> 00:17:06,066 and I took off on the track. 198 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,867 Hey, there's always at fences. 199 00:17:12,867 --> 00:17:14,333 That's just something we know. 200 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,567 [Cpl. Aitken] I don't operate that way. 201 00:17:16,567 --> 00:17:19,533 I can't explain why I did it different this way. 202 00:17:22,667 --> 00:17:24,166 You know, I train ambushes. 203 00:17:24,233 --> 00:17:25,967 I teach how to prevent ambushes. 204 00:17:26,033 --> 00:17:29,066 I teach how to deal with an ambush once it happens. 205 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,066 We anticipate the suspect is going to shoot at the dog. 206 00:17:36,133 --> 00:17:38,567 But watching the body camera, it was obvious 207 00:17:38,567 --> 00:17:40,467 that the suspect wanted to kill me. 208 00:17:40,467 --> 00:17:42,066 He didn't care about killing Taco. 209 00:17:48,166 --> 00:17:49,467 [gunshots] 210 00:17:49,467 --> 00:17:53,867 Before my brain even recognized that he had a gun in his hand, 211 00:17:53,867 --> 00:17:55,967 I was already being hit and I was already on the ground. 212 00:17:57,266 --> 00:17:59,867 I think if Jake was right up on me at the time 213 00:17:59,867 --> 00:18:01,934 the shooting happened, Jake would've been shot as well. 214 00:18:04,767 --> 00:18:08,533 And that separation between Jake and I probably saved my life. 215 00:18:09,967 --> 00:18:11,867 [gunshots] 216 00:18:18,266 --> 00:18:22,066 It all comes down to, he saw me and hurt me long before I saw him. 217 00:18:22,767 --> 00:18:25,233 And I advanced on him and I paid for it. 218 00:18:26,867 --> 00:18:30,033 [narrator] Zion Bostick is pronounced dead at the scene. 219 00:18:31,967 --> 00:18:35,266 He had been arrested 18 times 220 00:18:35,266 --> 00:18:40,166 for a total of 34 felonies and 22 misdemeanor charges. 221 00:18:41,967 --> 00:18:46,533 Bostick was facing a five-year prison sentence at the time of this shooting. 222 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,734 To look back on and understand that I survived it... 223 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:54,233 is pretty remarkable. 224 00:18:57,367 --> 00:19:02,667 [narrator] In Wisconsin, 60 miles west of Milwaukee, 225 00:19:02,667 --> 00:19:04,734 is the city of Janesville. 226 00:19:08,266 --> 00:19:14,166 I've been a police officer with the city of Janesville for just over three years. 227 00:19:14,166 --> 00:19:16,367 We have a good relationship with the community 228 00:19:16,433 --> 00:19:19,533 which helps us when we're doing our investigations. 229 00:19:22,066 --> 00:19:25,467 Once you get past the city and get out into the county, 230 00:19:25,467 --> 00:19:27,100 it's just, it's a different world. 231 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:30,767 It's relaxed, the people out there 232 00:19:30,767 --> 00:19:33,033 are some of the nicest people that I've met. 233 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,867 Law enforcement, ever since I was younger 234 00:19:35,867 --> 00:19:37,567 has always been a dream of mine. 235 00:19:37,634 --> 00:19:40,066 I moved out here approximately seven years ago. 236 00:19:40,066 --> 00:19:41,367 It's fun. 237 00:19:41,367 --> 00:19:42,967 It's a lot of fun. 238 00:19:49,767 --> 00:19:53,467 [Michael] That night, I was driving on the north side of Janesville. 239 00:19:53,533 --> 00:19:56,367 I had heard other officers radioing out 240 00:19:56,433 --> 00:19:59,967 a suspicious activity involving a BMW 241 00:19:59,967 --> 00:20:02,166 that had a red trailer on it. 242 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:23,500 [man speaking indistinctly] 243 00:20:28,867 --> 00:20:32,734 [Michael] I immediately recognize the subject to be Jesse Seales. 244 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,567 Jesse's fairly well known for his drug use 245 00:20:41,567 --> 00:20:43,967 and drug activity that he's involved in 246 00:20:43,967 --> 00:20:45,333 in the city of Janesville. 247 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:26,834 [car starts] 248 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:55,467 [Michael] By the time I was able to get to my squad car, 249 00:21:55,467 --> 00:21:59,166 Jesse had already been quite a ways up the road. 250 00:21:59,166 --> 00:22:01,567 But I was still able to see him. 251 00:22:06,767 --> 00:22:08,467 Not stopping at the stop plates 252 00:22:08,467 --> 00:22:10,934 and driving into oncoming traffic. 253 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,767 At that point, the pursuit was terminated due to the risk. 254 00:22:24,834 --> 00:22:28,667 We already had information on who the driver was. 255 00:22:28,667 --> 00:22:33,066 We could then use other investigative tools to find Jesse. 256 00:22:36,266 --> 00:22:39,767 [Samantha] I was on routine patrol in a fully marked squad 257 00:22:39,767 --> 00:22:45,166 approaching a traffic light at the intersection of Highway 26 and McCormick. 258 00:22:51,967 --> 00:22:54,667 Our dispatch gave out that the Janesville Police Department 259 00:22:54,667 --> 00:22:56,767 was chasing a vehicle. 260 00:22:56,767 --> 00:22:59,667 I heard the description of the vehicle that it was a smaller vehicle 261 00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:02,767 with a trailer attached to it, which kind of sticks out. 262 00:23:02,767 --> 00:23:05,367 Usually suspects don't... 263 00:23:05,367 --> 00:23:08,066 flee with vehicles that are attached to trailers. 264 00:23:14,967 --> 00:23:17,333 I looked up in my rearview 265 00:23:18,767 --> 00:23:23,367 and I see a vehicle that had a trailer attached to it, 266 00:23:23,367 --> 00:23:26,567 approaching the intersection fast, coming towards me. 267 00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:58,266 When I saw the vehicle go into oncoming traffic, 268 00:23:58,266 --> 00:23:59,667 it's that shock. 269 00:23:59,734 --> 00:24:02,467 Your hair kind of stands up on the back of your neck. 270 00:24:04,066 --> 00:24:05,967 Does he want to get away? 271 00:24:06,033 --> 00:24:07,934 Is he trying to hit somebody? 272 00:24:14,767 --> 00:24:18,100 Being in a high speed pursuit, everything is fast forward. 273 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:19,767 Your thoughts, your emotions... 274 00:24:19,767 --> 00:24:22,867 He was showing no regard for human life that night. 275 00:24:22,934 --> 00:24:26,667 He did not care what happened to anybody on that road. 276 00:24:26,667 --> 00:24:28,333 He just wanted to get away. 277 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,367 Vehicles were not moving out of my way, 278 00:24:32,367 --> 00:24:35,433 which was causing more of a danger on the road. 279 00:24:42,667 --> 00:24:44,567 My sergeant came over the radio 280 00:24:44,634 --> 00:24:46,667 stating that they had identified the driver 281 00:24:46,734 --> 00:24:49,567 and there was to terminate the pursuit. 282 00:24:49,567 --> 00:24:52,767 Safety is a major, major factor 283 00:24:52,767 --> 00:24:55,367 when it comes to pursuing a vehicle. 284 00:24:55,367 --> 00:24:59,066 There was a big risk to the public. 285 00:25:07,367 --> 00:25:11,066 When you stop chasing a car, you hope that that vehicle stops on its own. 286 00:25:11,133 --> 00:25:15,867 But more times than not, they just continue to drive. 287 00:25:15,934 --> 00:25:18,333 You hope that the dangerous driving stops. 288 00:25:52,667 --> 00:25:55,433 [Samantha speaking] 289 00:26:05,767 --> 00:26:07,433 [indistinct radio chatter] 290 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:14,166 [officer on radio] 291 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,767 [Samantha speaking] 292 00:26:17,767 --> 00:26:21,667 All he had to do was turn north, and it would have been over. 293 00:26:21,734 --> 00:26:24,266 I was expecting him to turn north. 294 00:26:24,266 --> 00:26:26,000 I wanted him to turn north. 295 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,567 We knew who the driver was, so it was something, 296 00:26:28,567 --> 00:26:29,967 well, we'll catch you later. 297 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:35,467 But he chose not to and he turned south 298 00:26:35,467 --> 00:26:38,767 towards me into oncoming traffic. 299 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,000 I didn't really have time to think about me at that moment 300 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,567 when his vehicle was coming straight at my car. 301 00:26:46,567 --> 00:26:49,767 You have a moment to react, and your reaction, 302 00:26:49,834 --> 00:26:51,667 it needs to be the right one. 303 00:26:56,867 --> 00:26:59,967 When he hit my squad, 304 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:01,867 it was kind of like hitting a brick wall, right? 305 00:27:01,867 --> 00:27:04,367 Because I'm not going fast. 306 00:27:04,367 --> 00:27:08,567 At the time that he struck me, from my squad video, 307 00:27:08,634 --> 00:27:11,867 I believe I was going about 7 mph. 308 00:27:11,867 --> 00:27:16,767 I was almost at a stop and he was... 309 00:27:16,767 --> 00:27:18,967 he was well over 55 mph. 310 00:27:21,767 --> 00:27:25,567 I'm not too big of a person to say that I was scared in that incident. 311 00:27:25,567 --> 00:27:27,533 [loud boom] 312 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,867 I knew that there were Janesville officers very close in the area, 313 00:27:42,934 --> 00:27:44,867 and I knew that he wasn't going to get far. 314 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,266 Then I see that there's that second individual in the car. 315 00:28:28,867 --> 00:28:31,166 There was so much running through my head, 316 00:28:31,233 --> 00:28:33,967 and you're kind of in a daze just by being in a crash 317 00:28:33,967 --> 00:28:37,000 and then the crash and what it was and how it happened. 318 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,467 I kind of moved... Moved my hands, moved my feet. 319 00:28:39,533 --> 00:28:41,100 I'm like, all right, I'm good. 320 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:43,000 There was a pain in my leg. 321 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,367 I didn't want to look at it. 322 00:28:44,367 --> 00:28:48,100 I don't have time to kind of assess what that injury was, 323 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:50,266 refocused, but you just got to power through it, 324 00:28:50,266 --> 00:28:51,734 just got to go through it. 325 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,567 [Sgt. Andrew] So on the night in question, I was responsible 326 00:29:07,634 --> 00:29:09,266 for the southern portion of the county. 327 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:12,367 The moment I hear Deputy Valencia injured, 328 00:29:12,367 --> 00:29:16,066 I request as many units as possible to go to the scene. 329 00:29:16,066 --> 00:29:19,567 [Samantha] I saw the passenger reaching around on the floorboards. 330 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,767 He could be reaching for a weapon. 331 00:29:24,834 --> 00:29:28,667 Especially at the degree of how this incident was happening 332 00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:30,767 and where it was at, at that moment, 333 00:29:30,834 --> 00:29:33,266 this could've gone very badly, 334 00:29:33,333 --> 00:29:34,867 very, very badly. 335 00:29:34,867 --> 00:29:39,066 The primary concern of mine is her ability to defend herself 336 00:29:39,066 --> 00:29:41,266 against any suspect that might be unseen. 337 00:29:41,333 --> 00:29:44,066 But getting her assistance as fast as possible is a priority. 338 00:29:46,767 --> 00:29:49,567 [Samantha] While I was pointing my firearm at the vehicle, 339 00:29:49,634 --> 00:29:53,634 at the passenger, giving commands, multiple agencies arrived. 340 00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,867 Milton Police Department, 341 00:29:59,867 --> 00:30:04,433 he ran across the median, got behind my squad, stood in front of me. 342 00:30:18,567 --> 00:30:21,767 Janesville Police Department officer Erin Johnson, 343 00:30:21,767 --> 00:30:25,767 she was the first that I recognized being on scene. 344 00:30:25,767 --> 00:30:26,934 [Erin] She's still in her car. 345 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,834 [Samantha speaking] 346 00:30:43,467 --> 00:30:44,734 [Erin speaking] 347 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,667 I was relieved. 348 00:31:00,667 --> 00:31:03,166 I was happy that he was taken into custody. 349 00:31:10,266 --> 00:31:11,867 [officer 1 speaking] 350 00:31:11,867 --> 00:31:13,533 -[Samantha speaking] -[officer 1 speaking] 351 00:31:13,967 --> 00:31:15,767 [Samantha speaking] 352 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,166 The crash was pretty severe. 353 00:31:26,166 --> 00:31:28,066 It was a head on collision on a highway. 354 00:31:28,667 --> 00:31:30,066 [officer 1 speaking] 355 00:31:30,066 --> 00:31:31,834 [officer 2 speaking] 356 00:31:35,266 --> 00:31:37,567 [Sgt. Andrew] Deputy Valencia, she was in good hands 357 00:31:37,634 --> 00:31:40,166 with Sergeant Rowley and the Janesville Fire Department. 358 00:31:40,867 --> 00:31:43,634 My job was to apprehend Jesse. 359 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:47,033 [officer speaking on radio] 360 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,567 [Sgt. Andrew speaking] 361 00:31:59,567 --> 00:32:01,767 We were getting calls from some of the residents 362 00:32:01,767 --> 00:32:04,867 in that subdivision that had either seen Jesse 363 00:32:04,934 --> 00:32:06,767 or he was trying to get into their house. 364 00:32:15,967 --> 00:32:18,667 And so I set up a command post in my squad there. 365 00:32:20,567 --> 00:32:21,934 [officer 1 speaking on radio] 366 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,533 [officer 1 speaking on radio] 367 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:45,166 [officer 1 speaking on radio] 368 00:32:48,567 --> 00:32:50,967 [officer 2 speaking on radio] 369 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,567 [Sgt. Andrew] The subdivision where Jesse fled into, 370 00:32:54,567 --> 00:32:55,767 what made it different was 371 00:32:55,767 --> 00:32:57,967 it's not connected directly to the city. 372 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,567 You have to get on a township road or a highway 373 00:33:04,634 --> 00:33:06,433 to come out of that subdivision. 374 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,767 So it made this subdivision very easy to set up a perimeter on. 375 00:33:34,767 --> 00:33:36,367 At this point in the incident, 376 00:33:36,433 --> 00:33:38,967 it has gone on for about two hours 377 00:33:38,967 --> 00:33:42,734 and I have 20 officers who are still looking for him. 378 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,734 [officer speaking on radio] 379 00:33:51,166 --> 00:33:53,567 [Sgt. Andrew] The perimeter slowly starts to collapse 380 00:33:53,634 --> 00:33:56,367 toward his last reported location. 381 00:33:56,367 --> 00:34:01,266 From experience, suspects usually hide, they don't run. 382 00:34:09,767 --> 00:34:10,934 [dog barks] 383 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:04,033 [dog barks] 384 00:35:12,467 --> 00:35:14,967 [Sgt. Andrew] We've also elicited the assistance of the public, 385 00:35:14,967 --> 00:35:18,166 letting them know what we're doing so that they can call 911 386 00:35:18,233 --> 00:35:20,033 if they see anything that would help us. 387 00:35:29,166 --> 00:35:31,433 [woman speaking] 388 00:35:32,567 --> 00:35:33,734 [officer speaking] 389 00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:37,433 [officer speaking on radio] 390 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,367 [Sgt. Andrew] There was a call that someone was 391 00:35:48,367 --> 00:35:50,734 trying to come in the back door of a residence. 392 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:54,867 If he's willing to go inside of a residence that's occupied, 393 00:35:54,867 --> 00:35:56,433 there's no one knowing what he's willing to do. 394 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,333 I drove to that location. 395 00:36:10,467 --> 00:36:12,667 I was pretty confident that he was still nearby. 396 00:36:12,667 --> 00:36:14,567 I just didn't locate him. 397 00:36:14,567 --> 00:36:16,634 I began to walk back toward my squad. 398 00:36:49,667 --> 00:36:51,367 It was a pretty tense situation 399 00:36:51,433 --> 00:36:52,867 because I was the only unit on scene. 400 00:36:52,867 --> 00:36:56,567 I have to opt for my firearm and assume that 401 00:36:56,567 --> 00:36:59,066 deadly force is going to be used against me by Jesse. 402 00:37:00,467 --> 00:37:03,233 [speaking indistinctly] 403 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:26,367 [Jesse speaking] 404 00:37:26,367 --> 00:37:27,533 [officer speaking] 405 00:37:28,767 --> 00:37:30,166 [Jesse speaking] 406 00:37:30,166 --> 00:37:31,567 [officer speaking] 407 00:37:31,634 --> 00:37:32,667 [Jesse speaking] 408 00:37:34,667 --> 00:37:36,533 [officer speaking] 409 00:37:40,767 --> 00:37:44,367 [Sgt. Andrew] Even though Jesse has so many officers with him, 410 00:37:44,367 --> 00:37:47,667 there's no assurance that he doesn't have 411 00:37:47,667 --> 00:37:49,567 a firearm or a weapon on him 412 00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:51,433 that can endanger any of the officers. 413 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,166 [dog barking] 414 00:38:07,567 --> 00:38:09,734 [dog continues barking] 415 00:38:24,767 --> 00:38:27,133 [indistinct radio chatter] 416 00:38:27,867 --> 00:38:29,567 -[Jesse speaking] -[officer speaking] 417 00:38:30,166 --> 00:38:31,767 [Jesse speaking] 418 00:38:41,367 --> 00:38:43,767 [Sgt. Andrew] Jesse Seales was convicted of first degree 419 00:38:43,767 --> 00:38:46,667 endangering safety, fleeing an officer, causing injury 420 00:38:46,667 --> 00:38:49,033 and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. 421 00:38:50,667 --> 00:38:53,266 He was sentenced to three years in Wisconsin state prison 422 00:38:53,266 --> 00:38:55,467 and three years extended supervision. 423 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,433 The passenger was released from custody without charge. 424 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:05,100 [Samantha] I'm really lucky after being in that crash. 425 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:11,567 Honestly, that crash could have ended my life. 426 00:39:11,634 --> 00:39:13,233 It could have ended my career. 427 00:39:14,266 --> 00:39:15,767 [loud boom] 428 00:39:20,367 --> 00:39:24,767 The injuries I sustained were very minor cuts, scrapes, bruises. 429 00:39:26,467 --> 00:39:29,867 Knowing that Seales was intoxicated 430 00:39:29,867 --> 00:39:31,266 at the time of this incident, 431 00:39:31,266 --> 00:39:33,000 a lot of people were lucky that night. 432 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000 The vehicles that were swerving out of his way 433 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,367 while he was in those wrong lanes of traffic. 434 00:39:37,367 --> 00:39:38,734 They're lucky. 435 00:39:40,266 --> 00:39:43,934 Every scenario that I play in my head, I'm hitting that car. 436 00:39:44,667 --> 00:39:46,166 He wouldn't have stopped. 437 00:39:46,233 --> 00:39:49,667 He would not have stopped that night until he was taken into custody. 438 00:39:49,734 --> 00:39:51,333 [loud boom] 439 00:39:56,367 --> 00:39:58,767 [Sgt. Andrew] I was ecstatic to get Jesse into custody 440 00:39:58,834 --> 00:40:01,100 after having something like this happen 441 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:03,066 to someone that we worked with, 442 00:40:03,066 --> 00:40:04,767 someone that we see every day. 443 00:40:04,834 --> 00:40:07,567 It was closure to an incident 444 00:40:07,567 --> 00:40:10,266 that happened to all of us, not just Deputy Valencia. 445 00:40:10,266 --> 00:40:12,333 [dog barking] 446 00:40:13,567 --> 00:40:18,066 I'll never know why Seales decided to strike my squad. 447 00:40:18,066 --> 00:40:21,867 I'm lucky that I only received minor injuries from the incident, 448 00:40:21,867 --> 00:40:25,967 but it changes you as a person, you know, 449 00:40:25,967 --> 00:40:27,667 going through something like that is... 450 00:40:27,667 --> 00:40:31,166 it's alarming, and it's something where you just, 451 00:40:31,166 --> 00:40:34,533 you kind of, you'll heal eventually. 452 00:40:38,667 --> 00:40:41,667 It's that hard realization of, 453 00:40:41,667 --> 00:40:44,767 you know, this isn't... this isn't a game. 454 00:40:44,834 --> 00:40:46,667 This is real. 455 00:40:46,734 --> 00:40:51,567 When you get into this career, the probability of you being injured, 456 00:40:51,567 --> 00:40:53,100 it's pretty high. 457 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,066 -[indistinct chatter] -[dog barking] 458 00:40:56,066 --> 00:40:57,967 There are bad individuals out there. 459 00:40:57,967 --> 00:41:00,133 If they weren't out there, you wouldn't have law enforcement. 460 00:41:02,367 --> 00:41:03,533 [officer] Watch your head. 461 00:41:12,166 --> 00:41:13,433 [narrator] In Vermont... 462 00:41:16,467 --> 00:41:17,667 I thought I was going to die. 463 00:41:17,734 --> 00:41:18,867 [narrator] In Wisconsin... 464 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,033 This is the first time I've ever been in a police chase. 465 00:41:23,767 --> 00:41:24,834 [narrastor] ...and in Indiana. 466 00:41:26,867 --> 00:41:28,500 ♪