1 00:00:18,285 --> 00:00:19,725 In Ohio... 2 00:00:31,632 --> 00:00:34,302 It just feels like this is gonna go bad quickly. 3 00:00:37,004 --> 00:00:39,114 Then, in Georgia... 4 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,270 Routine patrol... 5 00:00:41,308 --> 00:00:43,208 It went from 0 to 100. 6 00:00:43,243 --> 00:00:44,983 ...turns deadly. 7 00:00:52,252 --> 00:00:55,392 My main focus was just hopefully stay alive. 8 00:00:55,422 --> 00:00:58,262 And the suspect is on the loose. 9 00:01:10,337 --> 00:01:11,697 Yeah, drop it, come outside! 10 00:01:17,144 --> 00:01:18,314 In Ohio, 11 00:01:18,345 --> 00:01:21,455 15 miles north of Cincinnati, 12 00:01:21,481 --> 00:01:24,721 is the city of Springdale. 13 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:30,658 Springdale has a lot of retail. 14 00:01:30,691 --> 00:01:33,291 We don’t have a very large residential population 15 00:01:33,327 --> 00:01:34,657 compared to a larger city, 16 00:01:34,695 --> 00:01:37,405 but the retail brings people in from outside. 17 00:02:41,328 --> 00:02:44,228 When you hear a person with a knife, you just never know. 18 00:02:44,264 --> 00:02:46,334 It could be a hostage situation. 19 00:02:46,366 --> 00:02:49,366 We’ve always got to be prepared for the worst. 20 00:02:50,837 --> 00:02:54,067 I was already out on patrol. 21 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:58,107 I could hear different officers come up on the radio saying, 22 00:02:58,145 --> 00:02:59,655 "I’m here. I’m responding." 23 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,820 That allows me as the commander to know who is going to be there. 24 00:03:03,850 --> 00:03:06,490 It helps me to focus on what we need to do when we get there. 25 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:15,660 The store worker comes out, she goes, 26 00:03:15,696 --> 00:03:18,156 "We got everyone out. The store is evacuated." 27 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:19,668 So that was phenomenal. 28 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:23,370 It was time to go in and see what we had on our hands. 29 00:03:52,866 --> 00:03:54,626 Call 8 Paul 81 on premises, making entry. 30 00:03:54,668 --> 00:03:56,668 We go in as four officers, 31 00:03:56,703 --> 00:03:59,143 and we start making our way through the store. 32 00:04:00,006 --> 00:04:02,506 We had officers with handguns out. 33 00:04:02,542 --> 00:04:04,882 We also had an officer with a taser out. 34 00:04:13,653 --> 00:04:15,693 It was very eerie. 35 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:18,022 It was quiet. Nobody was there. 36 00:04:18,058 --> 00:04:19,128 It felt wrong. 37 00:04:19,159 --> 00:04:22,259 Why isn’t this place filled with customers? 38 00:04:22,295 --> 00:04:25,195 Why don’t you hear messages on an intercom? 39 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,840 You’re walking through this eerie silence 40 00:04:29,870 --> 00:04:31,070 just waiting 41 00:04:32,072 --> 00:04:33,572 to see what is gonna be there. 42 00:04:35,342 --> 00:04:38,812 It’s like you’re waiting in a scary movie to get that scare. 43 00:04:57,597 --> 00:04:59,367 We didn’t know where the suspect was. 44 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:01,926 We knew where he last seen. 45 00:05:02,836 --> 00:05:04,366 He can move anywhere in a store, 46 00:05:04,404 --> 00:05:06,614 and it’s a very large store. 47 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,710 We’ve got to go there tactically. 48 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:17,020 Every single aisle is a hard corner, as we call it. 49 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:19,320 That’s an area where a person could hide. 50 00:05:24,024 --> 00:05:26,734 We don’t know the intentions of the suspect. 51 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,060 We don’t know if he’s here to hurt one of us. 52 00:05:31,398 --> 00:05:33,498 We don’t know if he wants us to hurt him. 53 00:05:35,302 --> 00:05:38,912 So as we go through there, we have to go nice and slow. 54 00:05:38,939 --> 00:05:42,839 And we have to look at those corners because we can’t be surprised. 55 00:05:42,876 --> 00:05:46,646 Because surprise is not a good situation for us or the suspect. 56 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:54,821 We hear a noise to our left. 57 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:57,665 So two of us kind of diverted to see what that was. 58 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:01,329 It was very difficult to assess. 59 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:03,461 All I have is sound and until I can see 60 00:06:03,496 --> 00:06:05,796 what made that sound, I can’t really react. 61 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:53,347 I take the corner and I see the suspect. 62 00:07:01,354 --> 00:07:05,534 I notice he’s looking down, he’s got a knife in his hand. 63 00:07:05,558 --> 00:07:07,188 He just looked... 64 00:07:07,227 --> 00:07:08,587 He looked defeated. 65 00:07:23,810 --> 00:07:26,310 He’s not responding to demands. 66 00:07:27,314 --> 00:07:29,754 He just stares, almost blankly. 67 00:07:29,783 --> 00:07:32,753 Like that 1,000-yard stare you hear about. 68 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:40,933 He stands up. 69 00:07:40,961 --> 00:07:43,901 He grabs a little can of propane. 70 00:07:43,930 --> 00:07:46,830 Now he’s got the propane in one hand and a knife in the other. 71 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:50,196 It just feels like this is gonna go bad quickly. 72 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:11,365 It felt like he wanted us to do something. 73 00:08:11,391 --> 00:08:13,491 What we call suicide by cop. 74 00:08:13,526 --> 00:08:17,856 That he wanted to put us in a situation we were forced to shoot him. 75 00:08:35,882 --> 00:08:41,122 Just to watch him physically grab the wires and yank them off, 76 00:08:41,154 --> 00:08:45,064 like it was nothing, was shocking to us. 77 00:08:45,091 --> 00:08:48,031 When he was tased, he dropped the cannister that he had 78 00:08:48,061 --> 00:08:49,401 but he did not drop the knife. 79 00:08:50,597 --> 00:08:52,927 He grabs the gas can again. 80 00:08:55,869 --> 00:08:58,439 We can take two shots with our taser. 81 00:08:58,471 --> 00:09:01,141 So again Officer Grindle hits him. 82 00:09:04,477 --> 00:09:07,477 But again, he’s shaking it off like it was nothing. 83 00:09:11,918 --> 00:09:14,318 I thought, "We’re gonna have to shoot him." 84 00:09:14,354 --> 00:09:17,864 We are gonna have to shoot him if he takes one more step. 85 00:09:22,262 --> 00:09:23,332 We don’t want to hurt anybody. 86 00:09:23,363 --> 00:09:25,873 Our job as police officers is to save lives. 87 00:09:25,899 --> 00:09:28,399 We wanna help in this situation. 88 00:09:28,435 --> 00:09:31,375 Unfortunately, he was making it difficult to do that. 89 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:40,576 If this guy were to just lunge at the officers they would have to shoot him. 90 00:09:40,613 --> 00:09:46,123 I had to think about some command decisions regarding what’s next. 91 00:09:46,152 --> 00:09:51,322 The officers have tried to use their less-lethal, their taser, with no effect. 92 00:09:51,357 --> 00:09:55,127 In a situation like where, uh, a deadly weapon is involved 93 00:09:55,161 --> 00:09:58,301 we might have to engage deadly force. 94 00:09:58,331 --> 00:10:00,231 SWAT was dispatched. 95 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:16,953 In the academy, they teach you 21 steps. 96 00:10:16,983 --> 00:10:19,023 If somebody has a knife out, 97 00:10:19,052 --> 00:10:21,122 and your gun is holstered, 98 00:10:21,154 --> 00:10:23,694 it’s impossible for you to get out and fire a shot 99 00:10:23,723 --> 00:10:26,593 if someone is within 21 steps of you. 100 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:31,796 We did have our guns out, so we had a little space that we could give up. 101 00:10:31,831 --> 00:10:36,341 People don’t realize that our vest will not stop a knife. 102 00:10:36,369 --> 00:10:39,539 If someone has a knife and they stab me, it’s going through. 103 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:47,910 How much leeway are we gonna give him to try and talk to him 104 00:10:47,947 --> 00:10:49,977 and give him a chance to drop that knife, 105 00:10:50,016 --> 00:10:52,146 before he forces our hand? 106 00:11:14,941 --> 00:11:17,811 We could kinda guess he maybe had a mental health issue, 107 00:11:17,844 --> 00:11:20,084 but we didn’t know that for 100%. 108 00:11:22,882 --> 00:11:27,192 A lot of our calls might not be categorized as a mental health call, 109 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:29,820 but once you get there, you find out that it is. 110 00:11:31,291 --> 00:11:34,231 I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology. 111 00:11:34,260 --> 00:11:37,200 But I also teach crisis intervention for our county. 112 00:11:37,230 --> 00:11:40,000 I have no idea what I can do to help, but I gotta be there 113 00:11:40,033 --> 00:11:43,943 because I know these guys, I know the fear in their voice. 114 00:11:43,970 --> 00:11:46,270 I immediately run into the building. 115 00:11:46,306 --> 00:11:51,676 But yet, there’s dead silence in store, other than just Erik Langevin talking. 116 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:59,286 Langevin is doing a fantastic job. 117 00:12:04,991 --> 00:12:06,731 But from my point of view and my experience, 118 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:10,599 I was worried about Erik because it is just so mentally exhausting 119 00:12:10,630 --> 00:12:14,500 to stay with somebody with the adrenaline pumping and anxiety, 120 00:12:14,534 --> 00:12:16,444 and there’s just a lot going on. 121 00:12:27,013 --> 00:12:30,953 I didn’t introduce myself as officer, detective, it’s Erik. 122 00:12:30,984 --> 00:12:32,894 ’Cause I wanna be on a personal level. 123 00:12:41,628 --> 00:12:43,598 It’s very important when you deal with anybody 124 00:12:43,630 --> 00:12:46,730 to establish a good rapport, especially in a crisis situation. 125 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,596 You want that person to be able to trust you. 126 00:13:09,155 --> 00:13:12,925 You don’t have to have a perfect script of what you’re gonna say, 127 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:15,429 he just talked, he just let him know he cared. 128 00:13:15,461 --> 00:13:17,601 We’re here to help you, let us help you. 129 00:13:35,181 --> 00:13:37,081 When I got his name, 130 00:13:37,116 --> 00:13:40,016 I felt like I had a giant smile on my face. 131 00:13:40,053 --> 00:13:41,223 I know I didn’t. 132 00:13:41,254 --> 00:13:43,124 But inside I was cheering. 133 00:13:43,156 --> 00:13:45,686 Because I thought, "Okay. We can do this." 134 00:13:50,797 --> 00:13:52,797 Now he’s not just any person, he’s Landen. 135 00:13:54,734 --> 00:13:56,774 He knows my name, I know his name. 136 00:13:56,803 --> 00:13:58,743 I wanna connect on that personal level. 137 00:13:58,771 --> 00:14:02,811 I want to remind him that he’s a person that’s worth saving 138 00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:06,012 before our SWAT come on the scene and take over. 139 00:14:52,658 --> 00:14:54,758 He just continued to keep talking to him. 140 00:14:57,663 --> 00:15:00,473 Erik had been talking to him for almost half an hour. 141 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,070 We did talk, should we switch somebody out? 142 00:15:03,102 --> 00:15:04,802 Just to give him a mental break. 143 00:15:04,837 --> 00:15:08,237 But we made the choice just to keep him going. 144 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:12,014 It’s really physically draining to be in this situation for that long. 145 00:15:12,044 --> 00:15:14,254 But I’ve got to keep him focused on me. 146 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:24,690 I just literally kept waiting for him to just either cut his neck, cut his wrists, 147 00:15:24,724 --> 00:15:28,264 or something because he would just not let go of this knife. 148 00:15:33,966 --> 00:15:35,396 There was points in the situation 149 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:37,975 where the knife would become looser in his hand. 150 00:15:38,004 --> 00:15:41,374 But then he would motivate himself by taking the taser barb 151 00:15:41,407 --> 00:15:43,937 and rubbing his chest, and he would tighten his grip again. 152 00:15:43,976 --> 00:15:47,106 It’s like pumping yourself up to do something. 153 00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:49,746 Like an MMA fighter or a boxer 154 00:15:49,782 --> 00:15:52,792 pumping themselves up before a fight. 155 00:15:52,819 --> 00:15:55,519 To me, Landen was doing this. 156 00:15:55,555 --> 00:15:57,795 He was preparing himself for a fight. 157 00:16:01,194 --> 00:16:05,464 He was mentally preparing himself to come forward and force our hand. 158 00:16:05,498 --> 00:16:08,928 I just have to slow the situation down. 159 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:14,038 And get Landen back focused on me, not on the pain. 160 00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:17,643 And I knew it wasn’t just gonna be a dropping of the knife. 161 00:16:17,677 --> 00:16:20,077 It was gonna have to be baby steps. 162 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:34,888 We’ve already asked him to drop the knife, he’s not gonna do it. 163 00:16:34,927 --> 00:16:36,997 So now my focus was the gas can. 164 00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:39,900 If I can get him to drop the gas can, 165 00:16:39,932 --> 00:16:42,742 then I know I have him mentally going in the right direction. 166 00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:30,647 When he drops that gas can that’s huge for me. 167 00:17:30,683 --> 00:17:34,123 We’re getting one more step closer to a peaceful resolution. 168 00:17:34,153 --> 00:17:36,293 It tells me we’re on the right path. 169 00:17:36,322 --> 00:17:37,862 He’s dropped the can. 170 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,690 He’s not charging towards us. 171 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:40,985 We’re gonna get him to drop the knife. 172 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:54,736 I felt like he was there. 173 00:17:54,774 --> 00:17:57,644 He was mentally ready to drop the knife, 174 00:17:57,677 --> 00:18:00,447 he just wasn’t letting himself do it. 175 00:18:15,528 --> 00:18:19,568 When SWAT walks in, to me that changed everything. 176 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:22,299 We had this situation calm. 177 00:18:22,335 --> 00:18:24,845 But you bring SWAT in and you’re thinking, 178 00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:25,970 "Okay, is this gonna help? 179 00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:29,010 "Or is this gonna hurt?" 180 00:18:49,028 --> 00:18:52,128 SWAT was gonna come in and take over the scene 181 00:18:52,164 --> 00:18:54,834 and deal with the subject ’cause that’s what SWAT does. 182 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:57,905 I didn’t want that to happen yet. 183 00:18:57,937 --> 00:19:00,907 Erik’s rapport was getting better. 184 00:19:05,645 --> 00:19:09,015 My worry is that Landen sees them as a threat. 185 00:19:09,048 --> 00:19:12,988 So now this might push him forward 186 00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:16,419 and to charge and have a knife and now we’re forced to do something. 187 00:21:32,091 --> 00:21:33,861 Once he was in custody, 188 00:21:33,893 --> 00:21:37,163 my job’s done. The SWAT team can take over. 189 00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:43,373 I’m still in that mindset now where I’m still going. 190 00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,243 Was over an hour, but in my mind, 191 00:21:47,273 --> 00:21:49,783 the time, it felt like it was no time at all. 192 00:21:50,943 --> 00:21:53,453 I’m happy that the knife’s dropped, 193 00:21:53,479 --> 00:21:56,279 but that adrenal dump happens, and I’m just... 194 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:57,445 I’ve gotta get away. 195 00:22:01,086 --> 00:22:02,446 I didn’t wanna be near anybody. 196 00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:04,258 I just needed a moment to myself. 197 00:22:05,858 --> 00:22:07,758 Kind of dropped my knee, 198 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:10,663 and just kind of said a quick prayer. 199 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:17,443 Just needed time away just to just relax. 200 00:22:25,978 --> 00:22:30,048 Landen is charged with one count of inducing panic 201 00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:32,752 and two counts of aggravated menace. 202 00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:37,716 The court finds him incompetent to stand trial 203 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:40,756 and orders he receive treatment. 204 00:22:40,793 --> 00:22:45,333 We really didn’t want to punish Landen, like he was a criminal. 205 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:47,034 We knew Landen needed help. 206 00:22:47,066 --> 00:22:48,866 We did that situation right. 207 00:22:48,901 --> 00:22:50,341 We handled that right. 208 00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:53,409 And for Landen, he’s alive, 209 00:22:53,439 --> 00:22:54,839 and he’s doing okay. 210 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:57,914 And his family who adores him, they still have him. 211 00:22:57,943 --> 00:23:00,283 And we were able to get him the help he needed. 212 00:23:00,312 --> 00:23:02,382 Just almost there. There you go, bud. 213 00:23:02,414 --> 00:23:04,224 There you go. 214 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,420 The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is now using the body cam 215 00:23:06,452 --> 00:23:09,762 in their police academies to teach de-escalation. 216 00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:12,218 So it’s neat to think something we did, 217 00:23:12,258 --> 00:23:16,928 in our little town, is being shown across the country 218 00:23:16,962 --> 00:23:19,772 for tips on how to handle a situation like that. 219 00:23:20,833 --> 00:23:22,073 We’re there to help people... 220 00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:24,268 ...make a difference... 221 00:23:25,204 --> 00:23:27,144 ...serve the community. 222 00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:29,882 And I think that day we did a great job. 223 00:23:32,144 --> 00:23:33,754 In Georgia, 224 00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:37,019 17 miles south of Atlanta 225 00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:38,949 is the city of Fairburn. 226 00:23:42,955 --> 00:23:46,395 It’s the 2019 Super Bowl weekend, 227 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:50,295 and the game is being held in the nearby state capital. 228 00:23:52,197 --> 00:23:55,427 Fairburn PD’s Corporal Krystal Wilborn 229 00:23:55,467 --> 00:24:00,037 has signed up for an extra shift to help with the influx of visitors. 230 00:24:02,308 --> 00:24:05,738 When you have, uh, big events like the Super Bowl, 231 00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:09,778 it effects not only Atlanta, but it effects the surrounding cities 232 00:24:09,815 --> 00:24:13,615 because people travel all around to come attend these events. 233 00:24:13,652 --> 00:24:15,792 But the criminals are also getting prepared, 234 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:18,291 literally getting prepared for the crowd that comes. 235 00:24:23,162 --> 00:24:25,862 We started at00 p. m. 236 00:24:25,898 --> 00:24:28,828 And our goal was the hotels. 237 00:24:28,867 --> 00:24:31,997 Our job was just to patrol, patrol, patrol, 238 00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:34,037 and, uh, look for anything suspicious 239 00:24:34,073 --> 00:24:36,743 to make sure that no one is breaking into these people’s cars. 240 00:24:42,014 --> 00:24:43,924 The hotels are packed. 241 00:24:43,949 --> 00:24:48,089 And as I’m driving, I see a burgundy F-250. 242 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:50,960 And I see condensation that’s coming out of the pipe, 243 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:54,860 so I knew that the vehicle was turned on. 244 00:24:54,893 --> 00:24:56,433 I just wanted to see what was going on 245 00:24:56,462 --> 00:24:58,662 and to make contact with the vehicle. 246 00:24:58,697 --> 00:25:02,997 I park forward, and I approached the vehicle. 247 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:07,145 As I approached, I smell a strong smell of marijuana. 248 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:09,912 And I seen that there was one male occupying the vehicle, 249 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:11,142 and he was asleep. 250 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:14,276 I realized it was a temporary tag out of Tennessee. 251 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600 I called Officer Sims for backup. 252 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:38,865 I did not wanna disturb the gentleman, 253 00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:41,144 especially with the smell of marijuana. 254 00:25:41,173 --> 00:25:44,213 I figured that he had a large amount due to the strong smell, 255 00:25:44,243 --> 00:25:46,413 and I am a female. 256 00:25:46,445 --> 00:25:48,585 That is a male inside of the vehicle. 257 00:25:48,614 --> 00:25:50,384 So no matter how strong I am, 258 00:25:50,416 --> 00:25:51,346 anything could happen. 259 00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:00,061 Well, nothing came up, 260 00:26:00,092 --> 00:26:02,062 but I wasn’t too surprised. 261 00:26:02,094 --> 00:26:04,334 It could’ve been just a system error. 262 00:26:04,363 --> 00:26:06,333 Um, it could’ve been a brand new vehicle. 263 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,600 The most that I was expecting maybe to detain 264 00:26:12,638 --> 00:26:15,568 find out who this person is, where he’s supposed to go, 265 00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:18,237 and that’s what I was hoping. 266 00:26:18,277 --> 00:26:21,747 But you just never know how things are gonna turn out. 267 00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:27,049 New recruit Officer Levar Sims... 268 00:26:28,287 --> 00:26:29,917 ...arrives on scene. 269 00:26:31,557 --> 00:26:34,087 I was training Officer Sims at the time. 270 00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:36,696 He had transitioned from being a firefighter. 271 00:26:36,728 --> 00:26:38,958 He was a good recruit. 272 00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:41,967 He literally did not cause me any problems. 273 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,770 Uh, he’s very coachable. 274 00:26:43,802 --> 00:26:45,602 Um, he’s teachable. 275 00:26:45,637 --> 00:26:46,967 Um, and he was smart. 276 00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:51,175 And that particular day was his first day out on his own. 277 00:26:51,210 --> 00:26:52,480 And he was doing well. 278 00:27:10,262 --> 00:27:13,032 Officer Sims flashed his flashlight 279 00:27:13,065 --> 00:27:14,505 inside of the vehicle, 280 00:27:14,533 --> 00:27:16,333 and that woke the gentleman up immediately. 281 00:27:31,416 --> 00:27:33,946 He was shocked because he’s just waking up, 282 00:27:33,986 --> 00:27:35,416 and now, you’ve got two cops. 283 00:27:35,454 --> 00:27:37,224 We were both kind of talking to him. 284 00:27:37,256 --> 00:27:41,256 We was asking him, you know, "Hey, how are you? We’re just checking on you." 285 00:27:41,293 --> 00:27:44,403 Um, not letting him know that we smelled the smell of marijuana 286 00:27:44,429 --> 00:27:45,899 so maybe he wouldn’t freak out. 287 00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:59,583 If you don’t have a reason to be here, 288 00:27:59,611 --> 00:28:00,881 then you’re loitering 289 00:28:00,913 --> 00:28:02,113 ’cause you can’t just sleep here. 290 00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:04,917 So I was just trying to identify him, who he was 291 00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:07,150 and what was his reason for being at the hotel. 292 00:28:10,255 --> 00:28:11,885 -Okay. 293 00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:16,386 When someone’s not answering questions like that, 294 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:20,728 it do raise a sense of something’s not right. 295 00:28:20,766 --> 00:28:25,566 He began to reach from the front to the back from the front to the back. 296 00:28:25,604 --> 00:28:27,014 He got drugs in the car. 297 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,739 Where there’s drugs most of the time there’s guns. 298 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:49,125 He’s definitely acting suspicious. 299 00:28:49,161 --> 00:28:51,661 He could’ve had a legitimate reason to reach back there, 300 00:28:51,697 --> 00:28:55,267 but only he knows where everything is situated in the vehicle. 301 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,530 The fact that I couldn’t see... 302 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:58,368 He couldn’t answer any questions. 303 00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:00,813 So I just didn’t want him reaching back there at all 304 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,309 ’cause I don’t know what’s the next thing he’s gonna pull out. 305 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:15,892 The gentleman jumped out of the truck, 306 00:29:15,921 --> 00:29:18,361 so I kind of stepped back to give the guy some room 307 00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:20,260 and then that way I can see his hands. 308 00:29:20,292 --> 00:29:22,692 I knew then that something’s about to go down. 309 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:26,363 Once he stepped out, 310 00:29:26,398 --> 00:29:28,868 Officer Sims went around the front of the vehicle 311 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:29,930 to try to make it to me. 312 00:29:43,315 --> 00:29:45,425 It went from 0 to 100. 313 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:49,090 Very quickly he opened that back door in my face, 314 00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:52,861 jumped back into the driver’s seat, and put it in reverse. 315 00:29:52,891 --> 00:29:55,391 I jump in the rear driver’s side, 316 00:29:55,427 --> 00:29:58,627 and I got him in a head lock trying to embolize him. 317 00:29:58,664 --> 00:30:00,834 Sims actually got into the passenger side. 318 00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:14,185 I was just more afraid for Sims ’cause he swings that truck so hard. 319 00:30:14,212 --> 00:30:17,252 I see the passenger door just fold 320 00:30:17,282 --> 00:30:19,222 until 180 degree. 321 00:30:19,251 --> 00:30:21,851 So I’m thinking either Sims got thrown out originally, 322 00:30:21,887 --> 00:30:22,887 or he was crushed. 323 00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:28,894 But I looked directly into the driver’s side window, 324 00:30:28,927 --> 00:30:30,497 and Sims still was giving a fight. 325 00:30:35,701 --> 00:30:37,771 That vehicle is now a lethal weapon. 326 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:40,613 And I would be very justified for shooting. 327 00:30:40,639 --> 00:30:43,269 But at the time, I was carrying a .45, 328 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:44,578 and those bullets are huge. 329 00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:46,539 It wouldn’t went through the metal of that truck, 330 00:30:46,578 --> 00:30:48,208 probably went through his body, 331 00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:50,676 and maybe could’ve hit Sims, and I didn’t wanna do that. 332 00:31:02,294 --> 00:31:05,804 When he hit that speed bump, it kind of threw Sims off balance, 333 00:31:05,831 --> 00:31:07,401 and he fell out. 334 00:31:07,432 --> 00:31:11,202 And when he fell out, he still was in line of that rear tire of F-250, 335 00:31:11,236 --> 00:31:12,836 and it ran over his abdomen. 336 00:31:35,427 --> 00:31:36,787 I immediately call for backup, 337 00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:38,558 and then I literally asked Sims, 338 00:31:38,597 --> 00:31:40,367 "What do you want me to do?" 339 00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:42,769 Because I didn’t wanna go chase after the vehicle 340 00:31:42,801 --> 00:31:45,201 and leave him there ’cause nobody else was around. 341 00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:47,907 That feeling of just been helpless is just, 342 00:31:47,939 --> 00:31:49,569 it’s really a horrible feeling. 343 00:31:54,546 --> 00:31:56,446 The call comes out over the radio, 344 00:31:56,481 --> 00:31:59,581 and it was time to go. 345 00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:09,559 When I heard it was Sims, I was like... 346 00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:10,904 My heart just sank 347 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,899 because I knew that this was his first night out on his own. 348 00:32:26,378 --> 00:32:29,578 The suspect left on the Highway 74 349 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:31,384 and was heading eastbound. 350 00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:33,176 Where he was at, there was only a few streets 351 00:32:33,218 --> 00:32:34,518 that he could’ve turned off from. 352 00:32:34,553 --> 00:32:36,523 So we had officers checking every off street. 353 00:33:01,947 --> 00:33:04,247 He was just in a whole lot of pain, 354 00:33:04,282 --> 00:33:05,282 a whole lot of pain. 355 00:33:06,952 --> 00:33:08,322 I didn’t see any blood, 356 00:33:08,353 --> 00:33:10,623 but he possibly could be internally bleeding 357 00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:12,385 ’cause crush ribs could’ve puncture lungs. 358 00:33:12,424 --> 00:33:14,464 He could drown in his own blood. 359 00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:16,063 Everything is going through my head. 360 00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:19,034 But my main focus was just him and just keeping him conscious 361 00:33:19,064 --> 00:33:21,534 and hopefully he stays alive. 362 00:33:25,370 --> 00:33:27,770 From the traffic that was coming over the radio, 363 00:33:27,806 --> 00:33:31,276 I understood that he’d been run over by a vehicle. 364 00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:33,339 I know that’s serious injury. 365 00:33:33,378 --> 00:33:37,248 So in the back of my mind, I have a lot of concern for him. 366 00:33:37,282 --> 00:33:39,552 The only thing really going through my mind was 367 00:33:39,584 --> 00:33:42,794 "Is Sims okay?" and "Where am I gonna find this guy?" 368 00:33:42,821 --> 00:33:46,961 You just click into your training mode, your police mode, 369 00:33:46,992 --> 00:33:49,232 and you just do what’s gotta be done. 370 00:33:58,737 --> 00:34:00,567 Another officer who was on shift 371 00:34:00,605 --> 00:34:02,435 located a vehicle matching the description, 372 00:34:02,474 --> 00:34:07,554 so we immediately responded to the area where he was at to help him. 373 00:34:09,581 --> 00:34:11,321 My heartrate tripled. 374 00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:13,349 It was... The amount of adrenaline... 375 00:34:13,385 --> 00:34:15,525 It was unreal, the feeling. 376 00:34:51,456 --> 00:34:54,256 But upon us arriving to where the truck was, 377 00:34:54,292 --> 00:34:58,602 we determined that it was not the suspect, was not the right vehicle, 378 00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:00,130 similar but not the right one. 379 00:35:00,165 --> 00:35:03,175 And the driver was a Caucasian male 380 00:35:03,201 --> 00:35:04,341 which didn’t match the description. 381 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,650 Just ’cause found the wrong truck doesn’t mean we gotta stop looking. 382 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,430 It’s a lot of pressure because you’re on a time crunch at this point. 383 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:33,763 There’s a good possibility that he’s already gone. 384 00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:36,428 But you have a sense of duty to bring justice 385 00:35:36,468 --> 00:35:38,998 to this officer who’s severally injured. 386 00:35:41,773 --> 00:35:45,183 Paramedics are now on scene at the Holiday Inn. 387 00:35:54,452 --> 00:35:57,022 Once EMT and the damlissic get there, 388 00:35:57,055 --> 00:35:58,625 I have already removed his vest. 389 00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:00,257 They ended up cutting his pants. 390 00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,591 And they put him on the board, and put him on the bed, and they loaded him up. 391 00:36:06,898 --> 00:36:10,668 After Sims left and went to the hospital, it kind of gave me a relief. 392 00:36:10,702 --> 00:36:13,772 But I still was kind of on edge only because... 393 00:36:14,739 --> 00:36:16,069 ...he was alive when he left me. 394 00:36:16,107 --> 00:36:18,007 I don’t know if he’s gonna survive the injuries. 395 00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:26,480 On the streets of Fairburn... 396 00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:29,916 ...officers continue the search. 397 00:36:34,592 --> 00:36:37,332 You can get a long way at night 398 00:36:37,362 --> 00:36:39,802 driving in 20 minutes. 399 00:36:39,831 --> 00:36:43,701 So I knew there was a chance that he’s gone now. 400 00:36:43,735 --> 00:36:46,945 But the truck had a Tennessee temporary tag on it. 401 00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:50,841 That gave some hope that he has no clue where he’s at. 402 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,205 He’s probably gonna hide and try to call somebody. 403 00:36:53,244 --> 00:36:56,314 If we’re gonna find him, it’s not because we got there fast 404 00:36:56,347 --> 00:36:58,147 because the time had already elapsed. 405 00:36:58,183 --> 00:37:02,223 So we kind of slowed it a little bit just to do a more thorough search. 406 00:37:20,772 --> 00:37:25,112 My first instinct was I’ve gotta get up to where he’s at. 407 00:37:26,478 --> 00:37:28,608 He saw me almost immediately 408 00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:29,946 and takes off down the road, 409 00:37:29,981 --> 00:37:34,321 so I take off after him as quick as I possibly can. 410 00:37:35,453 --> 00:37:38,293 He made a left in a yard 411 00:37:38,323 --> 00:37:39,893 and drove through the woods. 412 00:38:04,883 --> 00:38:07,853 We start scouring, looking. Where could it’ve gone? 413 00:38:07,886 --> 00:38:10,656 And that’s when we realized that there’s a trail that lead into the woods. 414 00:38:18,530 --> 00:38:20,160 Running through those woods, 415 00:38:20,198 --> 00:38:23,868 everything runs through your mind anything that could happen. 416 00:38:23,902 --> 00:38:26,502 Is that dude’s gonna come from my left, come from my right? 417 00:38:26,538 --> 00:38:30,778 He abandoned the truck, and he’s standing in the woods waiting to shoot us. 418 00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:34,509 The guy, he’s already done some pretty heinous acts. 419 00:38:34,546 --> 00:38:36,176 You gotta be prepared for anything. 420 00:38:59,270 --> 00:39:00,910 It was muddy. 421 00:39:00,939 --> 00:39:04,739 And I began to see trails of tire tracks leading away from the wood line. 422 00:39:04,776 --> 00:39:06,236 The truck had made it through. 423 00:39:06,277 --> 00:39:09,747 And, um, emptied out onto the main highway. 424 00:39:19,057 --> 00:39:22,987 It’s a plethora of roads that he could’ve chosen to go down. 425 00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:27,367 The more hands on deck, it really helps. 426 00:39:27,398 --> 00:39:30,368 We passed the information onto our surrounding agencies 427 00:39:30,401 --> 00:39:32,601 to help try to locate this guy. 428 00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:42,552 20 minutes later, officers from neighboring Tyrone PD 429 00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:44,950 get a lead on the suspect’s truck. 430 00:40:14,445 --> 00:40:15,705 When we received the information 431 00:40:15,747 --> 00:40:18,817 that Tyrone police had located the vehicle, 432 00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:20,790 way off the beaten path, 433 00:40:20,818 --> 00:40:22,248 we were real excited 434 00:40:22,287 --> 00:40:25,217 because no longer are we having to chase down a vehicle. 435 00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:27,256 This guy’s on foot. 436 00:40:27,292 --> 00:40:29,362 If we establish a perimeter around this guy, 437 00:40:29,394 --> 00:40:31,234 and we get him cornered in, 438 00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:33,132 there’s a good possibility we’re gonna catch him. 439 00:40:43,007 --> 00:40:44,837 The dogs, they’ve got a good hit. 440 00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:47,376 So we just start following the dogs. 441 00:40:48,579 --> 00:40:53,049 We went down roads, behind houses, through sheds, 442 00:40:53,084 --> 00:40:55,924 and eventually took off where the trail ended. 443 00:40:57,188 --> 00:40:59,018 It was very frustrating. 444 00:40:59,057 --> 00:41:02,127 We knew that there was only one way he could’ve gone out of there. 445 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,990 It was probably by vehicle. 446 00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:05,758 He probably up and left the state. 447 00:41:09,767 --> 00:41:11,637 The search isn’t over. 448 00:41:12,937 --> 00:41:15,637 Investigators identify the suspect 449 00:41:15,673 --> 00:41:19,283 as 33 year old Taurean McShan. 450 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:21,750 He is wanted for drug-related charges 451 00:41:21,779 --> 00:41:23,949 in his home state of Tennessee. 452 00:41:26,284 --> 00:41:32,294 Three days later, US Marshals locate McShan in Memphis and arrest him. 453 00:41:33,925 --> 00:41:36,795 He is currently awaiting trial on charges 454 00:41:36,828 --> 00:41:41,468 including hit and run, aggravated assault, and reckless driving. 455 00:41:44,535 --> 00:41:47,035 After undergoing emergency surgery 456 00:41:47,071 --> 00:41:50,411 for a fractured spine and lacerated liver, 457 00:41:50,441 --> 00:41:52,281 Officer Sims recovers. 458 00:41:53,444 --> 00:41:55,554 He retires from policing. 459 00:41:57,448 --> 00:42:01,018 I knew it was only a matter of time before he was caught. 460 00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:05,222 Then when we get word that he had been apprehended and was taken into custody, 461 00:42:05,256 --> 00:42:08,356 man, that was like a weight lifted off your shoulders. 462 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,660 I visit Officer Sims frequently. 463 00:42:13,698 --> 00:42:15,828 I didn’t miss too many days that he was up in the hospital. 464 00:42:17,568 --> 00:42:19,598 I think he’s very lucky to be alive. 465 00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,135 It’s definitely a learning experience 466 00:42:23,174 --> 00:42:26,244 where if it happens or a similar situation happened again, 467 00:42:26,277 --> 00:42:27,847 um, what would you do? 468 00:42:29,347 --> 00:42:33,547 It’s amazing that he lived through it. 469 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:37,524 He had really the capabilities to be a great police officer. 470 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:38,955 He was a blast to work with. 471 00:42:38,990 --> 00:42:40,860 And we miss him up here.