[instrumental music playing]
[indistinct shouting]
[narrator] In Georgia, mayhem engulfs
a quiet retirement community.
[Don speaking]
[gunshots]
That was when the fear actually hit.
[gunshots]
[Corley] It's game on then.
We're bringing all the troops in.
[narrator] In Flagler County, Florida.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Maxwell] Going into Walmart,
it's a very dangerous situation.
[officer] Everybody there, hands up!
They could be running around the store
with a machete.
[indistinct shouting]
[narrator] And in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
[gunshots]
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
They don't have a lot of time.
We have to go in.
[officer speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[indistinct shouting]
[narrator] In Georgia,
less than 40 miles south of Atlanta
is the city of Griffin.
[Darrell] Griffin is not a gigantic town,
but it is small enough
where you know a lot of people on a first-name basis.
I've been sheriff here since 2017,
and it's probably the best job I've ever had.
[Brandon] I've been in law enforcement
a total of 11 years.
I've always wanted to do this
just because it's been part of the family.
You know, I've got a father who's
the sheriff of the county.
It's not major serious,
like, violent crime that happened here.
But the one thing I've learned in this profession is
that no area is safe.
[Darrell speaking on phone]
[Don speaking on phone]
[Darrell speaking]
[Don speaking]
[Darrel speaking]
[Don speaking]
[Darrell] Don Hawbaker is an attorney,
also a Spalding County Commissioner.
He had been calling here,
cussing out some of my staff members,
being very derogatory
toward them.
[narrator] Hawbaker's threats stem from a home visit
by deputies the night before.
His family had called police over concern
for his well-being.
But Hawbaker's situation is
about to get much more serious.
[Darrell] It's at this point that I find out that his wife,
Gayle Hawbaker, is actually at the Sheriff's Office
being interviewed.
[indistinct conversation]
[narrator] Donald Hawbaker's wife says
that she wants to discuss an incident
that happened a few days earlier.
[Corley speaking]
-[Gayle speaking] -[Corley speaking]
I was getting a cup of coffee
and then I got called into Major Morris' office
to assist him on interviewing Miss Hawbaker.
[Gayle speaking]
[Corley speaking]
[Gayle speaking]
[Corley speaking]
[Gayle] I was in bed, and my husband came in
with the gun pointing at me.
I never thought something like that would happen.
[Corley] This is a very serious allegation.
I have never had a gun pointed at me.
I was shaking.
[Gayle speaking]
Okay, Okay.
[Gayle speaking]
First of all, I didn't want to report my husband
because he was an attorney
and a county commissioner.
I was...
yeah, I was scared to death.
I was scared to death.
[Corley] I think he felt like he was empowered,
that he may have been above the law.
No one's above the law.
[narrator] With Donald Hawbaker in the house alone,
officers move in to arrest him.
He lives in the Sun City Retirement Community.
[Darrell] Gayle Hawbaker told us
that he had at least two handguns in the house
and also had an AR-style rifle
and ammo.
[Brandon] Definitely a little nervous.
Not very many people say,
"If you come to my house,
you're going to be met with a hail of gunfire."
[Wilson speaking]
[Darrell] It does increase the threat level,
but we are going to let him know,
you're going to have to go to jail one way or the other.
[officer speaking on megaphone]
[gunshots]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Corley speaking]
[Wilson speaking]
[Brandon] When the shots rang out,
that was when the fear actually hit.
[gunshot]
[Brandon] He really is following through on his threat.
[Mayfield speaking]
We called in an LAV,
which is a Light Armored Vehicle.
It's game on then.
You're definitely going to jail now.
We're bringing all the troops in.
[Corley speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Darrell] We had the perimeter set up
around the house,
but we couldn't tell where in the house he was.
[Wilson speaking]
[Darrell] So it would have basically just been
shooting rounds into a house,
not being sure what you were going to hit.
[Mayfield speaking]
We live two houses down from Don and Gayle Hawbaker.
We knew them very well.
[Wilson speaking]
[officer speaking]
[knocking at door]
[Kathy] I was in my front yard,
and I saw about 10 vehicles coming up our street.
-[Wilson speaking] -[Kathy] Uh-huh.
[Wilson speaking]
[Kathy] Okay.
At that point, it was kind of frantic.
[Wilson speaking]
There were actually SWAT team members
on our back patio taking cover.
This is absolutely the strangest thing
that has happened in that community.
[Wilson speaking]
It was very horrifying.
Anyone could be killed
because he's shooting from the front of his home.
[Wilson speaking]
-[Waters speaking] -[Wilson speaking]
It was just a shock to me
that Don Hawbaker would fire on the police.
[Kathy] I thought, "Why, Don?
Why'd-- you know, why'd you do this?"
I guess you never know when somebody's going to snap.
[Corley speaking]
[narrator] To avoid a shootout
that could risk the lives of innocent bystanders,
officers fire non-lethal tear gas
into Hawbaker's house.
[officer speaking]
-[everybody] Gas. -[gunshot]
[Brandon] It causes you to cough,
and it's meant to induce panic.
-[officers shouting] -[gunshot]
[officer shouting]
[gunshot]
We used probably about 15 to 20 canisters of gas,
and I was very surprised that he didn't come out.
[gunshot]
[Fletcher speaking]
[Darrell] Because of the way some of those houses are built,
the canisters that we were firing
were lodging in interior walls,
stopping the amount of gas that we were putting in there.
So he was not feeling the full effect.
[Brandon] Also, at the time, he was intoxicated.
I imagine that probably had a lot to do with the fact
that he could take it easier.
[narrator] With Hawbaker showing
no sign of surrender,
Sheriff Dix tries negotiating with him over the phone.
[line trilling]
[Don speaking]
[Darrell speaking]
[Don speaking]
He's becoming more and more aggressive
as we're talking.
[Darrell speaking]
[Don speaking]
[Darrell speaking]
[Don speaking]
The suicide by cop is a very common thing.
We don't want to kill him,
but that shows that he is moving
toward a breaking point.
[Don speaking]
[officer speaking]
We had full 360 degrees of security.
[Wilson speaking]
[Brandon] My main objective was
to stay focused on the rear of the home.
[Wilson speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
You're sitting there playing the what-if game.
What if he comes out of the rear of the house?
What if he comes out and he points a gun at me?
What if he comes out and actually shoots me?
[officer speaking]
[gunshots]
[Wilson speaking]
I heard, "Show me your hands, show me your hands,"
and then I heard the three gunshots go off.
[gunshots]
[Wilson speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
[bleep]
[narrator] Gunshots are heard coming
from where Sheriff Dix's son,
Deputy Brandon Conner Dix, is stationed.
[Darrell] Not knowing if he had been shot or not,
that was the point
where it was hard
not to be a dad
because that was
my son.
[Brandon] I saw him raise a black handgun up.
I knew what he was about to do.
I immediately resorted to my training
and I fired at him.
[gunshots]
I didn't see Mr. Hawbaker standing
at the rear of the home anymore.
I didn't know if he had fallen.
I didn't know if I had hit him.
[bleep]
[Brandon] There was an initial feeling of shock
after I fired.
I just remember super-loud ringing in my ears.
I stepped back, and I reached up
and grabbed the right side of my head.
And my dad thought I'd been hit.
[officer speaking indistinctly]
[Darrell] That was very emotional.
I've been doing this a long time, and it is...
probably the most relief I've ever had
from anything in my whole life
that he was not hit with a round.
-[officer speaking] -[Brandon] Yeah.
-[officer speaking] -[officer 2 speaking]
[Darrell] Either Hawbaker has been hit
or we have missed,
and now he is
going to take some type of a drastic action.
[officer speaking]
[Darrell] So I gave the order for our LAV
to go ahead and breach the front of the house.
[Waters] A light armored vehicle,
you would expect to see on a military battlefield,
but you wouldn't expect to see those in Sun City.
-[crashing] -[officer speaking]
[crashing]
[officer speaking]
Ramming it with the LAV, it was very effective.
I mean, it opened a big gaping hole
in the house.
[officer speaking]
Here we go.
Let's go find Hawbaker.
[Don speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Don speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[Don speaking]
He didn't have anything else in his hands.
[officer speaking]
[Corley] We placed him on the floor and put cuffs on.
[Don speaking]
[Darrell] He was scuffed up,
but that's what happens.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Darrell] I think it is the best outcome.
We didn't have to kill him,
and he was taken into custody.
[Gayle] Someone let me know that he was apprehended.
And then when you look at the house, and you're like,
[softly] Oh, my God.
I mean, it is surreal.
But I'm very grateful to the police.
Not very many people would risk their lives like that.
[narrator] Almost two hours after the standoff began,
Captain Corley takes Donald Hawbaker
to the Spalding County Jail.
[Corley speaking]
[Don speaking]
He's just cussing and saying
he's going to have my job on the way to the jail.
But once we got to the jail, that's when it all changed.
[crying]
I think it really-- really sunk in
to what he had done.
-[Corley speaking] -[Don continues crying]
It was just so unlike Don Hawbaker
to do what he did.
[Corley speaking]
[narrator] Hawbaker's motives are unknown,
but his wife tells police
that difficulties in their marriage,
along with heavy drinking,
may have led to this violent outburst.
Donald Hawbaker pled guilty to multiple counts
of aggravated assault on law enforcement officers.
He was sentenced to 20 years,
10 to serve, 10 on probation.
And he is currently in the custody
of the Georgia Department of Corrections.
[Brandon] With him being a county commissioner,
we would have never expected this kind of,
you know, level of resistance, violence, or anything.
He earned that fall from grace.
[narrator] In Northeast Florida lies
Flagler County's largest city,
Palm Coast.
Twin brothers, Maxwell and Jaxon Dorsey,
patrol the county's streets.
[Maxwell] I've been working at the Sheriff's Office
for about three years now.
My brother started with me at the same exact time.
[Jaxon] Our father's in law enforcement,
so, growing up,
listening to his stories made us want to do the job.
And then we joined the academy together,
and we became cops together.
We're not in the same squad
'cause that would be a conflict.
We work the same exact days,
but when I'm on days, my brother's on nights,
and vice versa.
Given that we're on opposite shifts,
we don't really catch criminals together.
[Maxwell] But the only time this ever would happen would
be directly between 5:30 and 6:00,
where one squad's getting off and one squad's getting on.
[dispatcher speaking]
[man speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[man speaking]
[Maxwell] It was coming around the end of shift time
when this call comes out.
A homeless man stating that threats are being made.
[dispatcher speaking]
[man speaking]
Whether you're rich, you're poor,
whether you're homeless, or you have a home,
it's our job to come out and help them.
[indistinct conversation]
[narrator] Deputy Maxwell Dorsey arrives on scene
and meets with the victim.
[officer] All right, so...
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
Obviously, he was the victim of a crime,
and his thoughts are all over the place,
so it's our job to narrow down exactly what crime occurred.
[man speaking]
[Maxwell] He was letting us know
that he's hiding from law enforcement.
[narrator] As Deputy Dorsey interviews the victim,
his twin brother, Jaxon Dorsey, is
just starting his shift.
Patrolling the area where the suspect was
last seen,
he spots a man matching his description.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] He presents nervous indicators.
His voice is shaky.
And he's fidgety.
And he's keeping his bike in between us.
Alarm bells are ringing.
So I was trying to make small conversation,
keep him calm until I get more units on scene.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] Because he fits the description
of the suspect to a T,
I need his name from him
to confirm that he is indeed the suspect
that we're looking for.
[Jaxon speaking]
The way that the suspect was not providing his name,
I knew that there was something going on here.
[Jaxon speaking]
[narrator] Dorsey calls dispatch
to check the suspect's ID.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] So I ran his name and date of birth
and did not get a positive ID back.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] What is your first name?
Generally, the job is a game.
It's a game between criminals and law enforcement.
It's just who plays it better strategically.
Think logically
and try to figure out what's going on.
He was getting more jumpy.
[narrator] Deputy Finn also arrives on scene.
[Jaxon speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[officers speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[Finn] Drop your drink.
[Finn speaking]
[Jaxon] The suspect was hesitant to let me look
into his backpack.
Due to the allegations of a machete being used
and gasoline being brought back to the camp,
it did present a concern.
[Finn speaking]
-[suspect speaking] -[Finn] After we secure you.
[Finn] Stop, stop. Okay.
[suspect speaking]
[Finn speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[Jaxon] I like to run.
I run pretty much every day.
So I was ready to catch him.
He's very determined to get away from us.
Transients, they spend most of their time in the woods.
So when he made his way towards the wood line,
I felt like he could have an upper hand on me
because he could know the area better.
I had no idea that there was a retention pond there
in between those woods.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] The water's cold.
It's up to my thighs.
And at that point, I was in shock.
And I'd slow down a little bit.
I did lose visual on him.
-[sirens approaching] -[Jaxon speaking]
Now it's up to us to get there as quickly as possible.
At this point, it is like a game of cat and mouse.
Deputies are showing up.
They're establishing strong points
around the Walmart.
[narrator] Dorsey asks a store employee
for help with his search.
[Jaxon speaking]
I noticed that that Walmart employee was
the suspect.
[Jaxon speaking]
He managed to grab a uniform
and pretend to be an employee.
[Jaxon speaking]
[car screeching]
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] We don't know where he went.
I lost sight of him for a second,
so I have to figure out where he's going
and what's he going to do.
[Jaxon speaking]
[Jaxon] There was a chance that he was in Walmart.
Due to the possibility of him also having
a machete on his person,
we did fear
that there may be a threat to the public.
[narrator] As Jaxon Dorsey guards the loading bay,
his brother, Maxwell, enters the store
to search for the suspect,
who they know is now disguised as an employee.
[Maxwell speaking]
[man speaking]
[Maxwell] Going into Walmart,
it's a very dangerous situation.
He could be running around the store with a machete,
and we don't know what he's capable of.
[Maxwell speaking]
What's going through my mind most is
the safety of the people inside of Walmart.
What if he's possibly threatening other people?
[officer speaking]
[Maxwell] We figured out that he's likely not
inside Walmart itself.
It's a little frustrating
because you're hoping that you can resolve it
as quickly as possible.
[narrator] Master Deputy Marcus Dawson
and his K-9 partner, Baro, are called in.
-[dog barking] -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Marcus] It is pretty exciting when you get that call.
You're just thinking
of everything that you're going to need to make sure
this is as successful as possible
because everyone wants to find the bad guy.
Canine senses are
probably 100 times greater than ours.
He's looking for the one odor that doesn't belong here.
The last thing I knew that this subject was armed
with some kind of a machete,
so that's definitely posing a huge threat to Baro.
Especially if the subject conceals himself.
[Marcus speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[officer 2 speaking] -[Baro barking]
I noticed a person that's tucked very tightly
on top of the rear axle of the semi-truck.
[Baro barking]
[Marcus] Finding the suspect is
definitely a great feeling for us.
[indistinct chatter]
[narrator] Now under arrest,
deputies discover his name is Corey Kittle.
So once his backpack was searched...
[Maxwell] ...they find several grams
of methamphetamine
and a broken pipe that he used to smoke the meth.
[Jaxon] We also learned that he has multiple warrants
out of Pennsylvania
and a past arrest in Florida.
[Kittle] Please don't. Please don't. Please don't.
[narrator] Kittle is found guilty of resisting an officer
and possession of a controlled substance.
He is sentenced to 180 days in jail.
It felt very good to get Corey off of the streets,
knowing that he had warrants.
The game is over.
So this instance is the first time
and the only time since then
that myself and my brother have
located, apprehended,
and kind of dealt with a suspect in this manner.
It was a really good feeling.
[Jaxon] When we got to go back
and tell our dad what happened,
he was very proud.
We're very proud of what we're doing.
And we're very proud of our job.
[narrator] 40 miles south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
on the shores of Lake Michigan,
is the city of Kenosha.
[Bray] I was raised in Kenosha.
I did a few years
in the United States Air Force.
And I left that when I had my children
because it just wasn't necessarily family-friendly.
And I knew I wanted
to continue some sort of service,
only if it were in Kenosha.
Serve my own community
that I'm raising my children in.
[line trilling]
[911 operator speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[man speaking]
[man groans]
[operator speaking]
[man speaking]
[man groans]
[operator speaking]
[Bray] I'm listening to the radio traffic,
and the dispatcher says,
there is an active shooter in a house.
There was a victim,
and they had already been shot.
So I immediately start heading in that direction.
[officer speaking]
[operator speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Bray] If this is real,
we're going to need all hands on deck.
[Jurgens] I heard over the radio
that there was a potential shooting.
So I knew there was obviously a high priority
to respond there,
but also that we were entering
a dangerous situation.
[narrator] Officers arrive at the house
and find one of the residents standing outside.
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[woman speaking] -[officer speaking]
[officer speaking]
[narrator] Officer Bray arrives next.
[Bray] I drew my firearm
and started running in the same direction
that the other officers were going.
You just plain and simple couldn't see
where it was occurring
because of the darkness.
-[officer speaking] -[dog barking]
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The house is split into two properties,
one at the front and one at the back.
[woman] Spit it out!
[narrator] The shooter is in the female resident's property at the front.
-[woman speaking indistinctly] -[officer speaking]
[narrator] Police need to move the resident to safety.
-[officer shouting] -[officer 2 speaking]
[narrator] But then, all hell breaks loose.
[officer speaking]
I am still trying to speak to this woman,
and I hear the glass shatter.
-[glass shattering] -[officer speaking]
In my peripherals, I see
two officers running westbound away from the scene.
My brain starts kind of catching up
with what was going on.
[officer speaking]
-[Bray speaking indistinctly] -[operator speaks indistinctly]
[Bray] My best bet was
to find cover immediately, no matter where it was.
[officer speaking]
[Bray] I had a moment where I thought,
this might be it.
[officer speaking]
[narrator] The resident is
still standing outside in her yard
in danger of direct fire.
[Jurgens] I immediately see two individuals
that I believe are my officers
running across the street.
I see Officer Bray,
who is behind a pickup truck.
[officer speaking]
[officer speaking] [bleep]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Jurgens] That's when I noticed that
that woman is out in that yard.
She is in great danger because of where she's at.
[narrator] The 911 caller said he has been shot
and is in the attached property
to the back.
[Jurgens speaking]
We have multiple different issues
that are going on.
We have a woman that is held up in a yard
that isn't moving towards us.
We have an officer
who's trapped behind a motor vehicle.
We have someone shot inside of a house.
Plus, we have a shooter
who is engaging officers in gunfire.
[gunfire]
[Jurgens speaking]
I returned fire.
At the same time,
the woman starts to just retreat
to the back of the house.
[Jurgens speaking]
[Bray speaking]
[Bray] I believed it was too dangerous to move.
If I do, I'm going to get shot.
[siren wailing]
[Miller] It was very chaotic.
I hear officers in distress.
[indistinct radio chatter]
It was dark. There was gunshots.
And there's people yelling on the radio.
[Miller speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer speaking]
[Miller speaking]
[narrator] Sergeant Miller takes cover
behind a tree
on the opposite side of the house
to Lieutenant Jurgens.
[Jurgens] I felt that we could quickly remove Officer Bray
and then start focusing on moving the woman
from the front yard
and getting a game plan together
of a team that's going to make entry into the house.
[Jurgens speaking]
[Miller speaking]
[Bray speaking]
[Bray] I knew my best chance
of getting out of where I was at was
if someone brought out a ballistic shield
and came out
and extracted me from where I was pinned down.
[Jurgens speaking]
[Bray speaking]
[Bray] An engine block is a point of cover
that we're trained to utilize.
It probably was
the safest place for me to be at that point.
[Miller] I had that huge tree. I had a rifle.
I have a light on there.
So I put that light on that window
that I could see that wasn't covered.
That's where I heard that window break.
[glass shatters]
[Miller] My assumption was that he's kind of breaking
the glass with his gun
to have a clear shot out the window.
-[Miller speaking] -[man shouting]
[gunshots]
[Miller] I see movement.
I heard shots being fired out of that window.
So that's where I aim my shot at
and take two quick shots.
[gunshots]
I'm confident that the only person that's going to be
in that window is
the person that's shooting out of it.
[Miller speaking]
[Jurgens speaking]
[Jurgens] That information, it was vital
because if somebody exits that house,
I need to know, do we have the suspect?
Do we have a victim?
[narrator] But the lady in the yard reveals
crucial information.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The resident reveals
that her husband's being held hostage in the house.
And the 911 caller who's been shot is
bleeding out in the property to the back.
[Jurgens speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Jurgens] We have someone shot inside of a house
and one that is being held hostage.
We need to move as quickly as possible.
[narrator] Further backup officers arrive
to assist.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Jurgens] Two officers came to me,
and they had our ballistic shield.
The ballistic shield basically just covers one person.
So if you have two officers moving
towards that truck,
there's going to be some exposure.
[officer 1 speaking]
[Bray speaking]
I was so scared.
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[bleep]
[Bray] I couldn't handle the level of guilt
I would have carried around
for the rest of my life
if something had happened to them.
-[officer 1 speaking] -[Bray] Okay.
[indistinct conversation]
[officer 3 speaking]
[Bray] I did not truly feel safe
until I was on the other side of cover.
[Bray speaking]
[Bray] And then I knew I had to get my head
right back in the game.
I had no other option.
[narrator] Now that Officer Bray is safe,
police focus on the resident's husband,
who is being held hostage,
and the injured 911 caller in the rear property.
[Miller speaking]
[officer] Okay.
[Miller] In that type of scenario, with hostages,
we have to respond very quickly
to get them to safety.
[officer 1 speaking]
[Jurgens] If there was no one else in there,
we would have certainly slowed it down
and turned it into a full SWAT activation.
[officer 2 speaking]
We don't have that time.
[Jurgens speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Jurgens speaking]
That woman knowing
who these people are is extremely useful.
[Jurgens speaking]
[Jurgens] I can relay that to dispatch
who can then start working
on who these individuals are.
[Jurgens speaking]
[narrator] The resident then retreats back
to the rear of the property.
[line trilling]
[operator speaking]
[man speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
[narrator] The suspect has revealed
that he's shot two people,
thought to be the 911 caller at the rear
and the male hostage who resides at the front.
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Miller] So, back in my mind,
it's kind of that clock ticking, saying,
"All right, they don't have a lot of time."
We have to go in.
[officer 2 speaking]
-[officer 4 speaking] -[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
-[officer 2 speaking] -[officer 4 speaking]
[Miller] It definitely wasn't a good feeling
to take that position
and knowingly walk up toward this house
where this person had just shot at officers.
[Bray] Sergeant Miller is contact team one.
He said, "When you hear me call for contact two,
you guys need to come in immediately."
Trying to breach a house
where somebody is potentially barricaded
and has the advantage...
[officer 1 speaking]
[Jurgens] ...it is an extremely dangerous situation.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 4 speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[Miller] I go to the left
and all I'm seeing is a mangle of bodies.
[officer 1 speaking]
[Miller] Initially, I thought
he could be there at that door.
It was after that initial kick--
-[officer 4] Got... -[Miller] ...I hear
something like a male voice say, "I got him."
[officer 4 speaking]
[Miller] I took it to that the hostage or victim was
trying to secure or wrestle with the shooter.
[officer 2] Watch the window! Hands, hands!
[Miller] Maybe a second or two after that,
hearing one or two gunshots.
[officer 1 speaking]
-[officer 2 speaking] -[officer 4 speaking]
[narrator] Entering the house,
they discover two badly wounded men
on the floor.
-[officer 2 speaking] -[officer 1 speaking]
-[officer 3 speaking] -[officer 1 speaking]
[Miller] The old gentleman in front,
I could see his hands,
and there wasn't anything concerning.
Yeah, there was a gentleman behind him.
One of his hands was obscured.
[officer 1 speaking]
[narrator] Until they find the gun,
police can't be sure they're safe.
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
[Miller] In that moment, there was some relief.
This is our suspect. We have him.
[narrator] The shooter, Matthew Lopez, appears
to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound
to the head.
The older man is the injured hostage.
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 5 speaking]
[Bray speaking]
[indistinct conversation]
[Bray] I heard one gunshot.
Almost immediately,
they called for contact two to come in.
[indistinct conversation]
Our job was going to be
to extract any victims
that were in that house.
[narrator] Police quickly move the injured hostage
out of the house.
[Bray speaking]
[Jurgens] We can't bring in any medical professionals
in that hot zone of danger.
They're set up
approximately four or five blocks down the road.
[Bray speaking]
We ended up putting this victim
in the backseat of this unmarked squad car
and drove him to a med point
where we have paramedics,
multiple ambulances.
[officer 5] Give me one.
[narrator] The suspect is also taken
to the medical point.
[officer 5 speaking]
[narrator] But police still need
to find the 911 caller
in the rear property.
[Miller speaks indistinctly]
[Miller speaking]
-[man speaking] -[Miller speaking]
[man speaking]
-[Miller speaking] -[man speaking]
[Miller speaking]
[man speaking]
[Miller speaking]
[narrator] The 911 caller is taken to the hospital
and treated for a gunshot wound
to the leg.
The female resident is found unharmed
at the back of the house.
The hostage, her husband,
tragically dies later at the hospital
from his wounds.
The shooter is former felon 32-year-old Matthew Lopez.
He knew the residents
and had been staying with them for several days
before the incident.
He is pronounced dead
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
[Bray] One of the biggest struggles
for me after this incident,
I can't go and pull him out of a jail cell
and ask him, "Why?
You senselessly took others' lives,
and now you're not alive to tell me why.
And I want to know why.
[gunshots]
[Bray] Why did you try to take my life?
You don't know me.
I don't know you.
You have no idea all the things I have
to live for.
I have two daughters that need me.
To not get that conclusion is
something I'll probably carry for the rest of my life.
♪
[narrator] In Wyoming...
[shots blast]
It, like, went from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds.
[narrator] In Florida...
My heart just jumped.
[narrator] In Orlando...
The baby's hanging from one arm.