1 00:00:18,185 --> 00:00:20,225 [narrator] In Texas... 2 00:00:23,423 --> 00:00:25,463 ...officers race to a bank robbery. 3 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:28,933 Stopped my car at about 20 yards off of his truck. 4 00:00:30,364 --> 00:00:32,374 [gunshots] 5 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:34,069 [Officer Clint Brandon] 6 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:37,935 [dispatcher over radio] 7 00:00:37,971 --> 00:00:40,841 The suspect just tried to murder me at 9:00 in the morning. 8 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:43,444 [gunshots] 9 00:00:43,477 --> 00:00:45,677 There’s about 100 witnesses standing around. 10 00:00:47,281 --> 00:00:49,921 [narrator] In the city of Indio, California... 11 00:00:51,285 --> 00:00:53,555 ...a routine callout... 12 00:00:53,587 --> 00:00:56,717 Dispatch radioed and said there was a welfare check 13 00:00:56,757 --> 00:00:58,787 of a male at an apartment complex. 14 00:00:58,825 --> 00:00:59,825 [knocking on door] 15 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:04,605 [explosion] 16 00:01:04,631 --> 00:01:06,031 [Division Fire Chief Mark Oakley] I couldn’t even see his feet. 17 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:07,966 He was engulfed in flames. 18 00:01:08,001 --> 00:01:09,301 [narrator] And... 19 00:01:09,336 --> 00:01:14,136 ...in Georgia, a crash victim fights for his life. 20 00:01:18,045 --> 00:01:19,215 [defibrillator] Shock delivered. 21 00:01:20,647 --> 00:01:23,447 [indistinct radio chatter] 22 00:01:25,018 --> 00:01:26,488 [officer] Put your hands up and come outside! 23 00:01:36,997 --> 00:01:38,767 [narrator] Just South of Waco, Texas... 24 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:41,500 ...is the city of Hewitt. 25 00:01:43,804 --> 00:01:47,274 [Brandon] February 5, 2019 was a Tuesday. 26 00:01:47,307 --> 00:01:49,137 And about 9:00 that morning... 27 00:01:49,176 --> 00:01:51,506 [dispatcher] 28 00:01:51,545 --> 00:01:55,385 [caller] 29 00:01:55,415 --> 00:02:00,115 Dispatch put out the call over the radio of a possible robbery in progress 30 00:02:00,153 --> 00:02:02,593 at Point West Bank on 420 North Hewitt Drive, 31 00:02:02,623 --> 00:02:05,733 which was less than a block away from where I was at. 32 00:02:40,527 --> 00:02:42,527 [narrator] During the robbery, 33 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:47,502 the masked robber forces the bank clerk to fill his bag with cash... 34 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:51,436 ...at gunpoint. 35 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:13,660 [Brandon] Yeah, I pulled into the back of the bank through the drive-through teller area. 36 00:03:17,297 --> 00:03:21,597 I could see a pickup backed in right by the front door in a handicapped spot. 37 00:03:23,236 --> 00:03:26,236 Stopped my car at about 20 yards off of his truck. 38 00:03:28,008 --> 00:03:30,678 [Brandon] 39 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:35,653 [dispatcher] 40 00:03:35,682 --> 00:03:38,482 [Brandon] And, uh, a hooded subject running out of the front of the bank. 41 00:03:41,354 --> 00:03:43,794 Drew my weapon on him and ordered him to show me his hands, 42 00:03:43,824 --> 00:03:47,234 and that was when he opened fire with a semiautomatic .22 rifle. 43 00:03:52,165 --> 00:03:54,525 [gunshots] He ended up firing between six and ten rounds. 44 00:03:55,635 --> 00:03:57,695 [gunshots] 45 00:03:57,738 --> 00:03:59,308 I immediately returned fire on him. 46 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:01,439 [gunshots] 47 00:04:04,778 --> 00:04:07,308 This is the first time I’ve ever fired my weapon in the line of duty. 48 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:13,221 I ended up getting pinned behind my car, 49 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:16,523 and that was when his rifle jammed on him 50 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:19,586 and he got back in the truck and took off, 51 00:04:19,626 --> 00:04:20,986 and that was when the pursuit started. 52 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:27,999 You have an individual encountering a police officer in full uniform, 53 00:04:28,034 --> 00:04:33,514 driving a marked police car, with no question as to who he is, 54 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:36,410 -fires a weapon at that officer. -[gunshots] 55 00:04:36,443 --> 00:04:39,883 This individual displayed some of the most evilness 56 00:04:39,913 --> 00:04:41,513 that I’ve seen in this business. 57 00:04:42,783 --> 00:04:45,293 Had no care for humanity whatsoever. 58 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:50,961 As we’re pulling out of the parking lot, we just miss an 18-wheeler... 59 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:54,131 [horn blares] 60 00:04:54,161 --> 00:04:55,731 ...that’s headed Northbound on Hewitt drive. 61 00:04:56,663 --> 00:05:00,203 -[dispatcher] -[siren blares] 62 00:05:02,169 --> 00:05:04,939 [Brandon] At 9:00 in the morning on a, on a weekday 63 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:09,011 is a pretty busy time for the City of Hewitt. 64 00:05:09,042 --> 00:05:12,182 To avoid all the other traffic, he’s running down the center turn lane. 65 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:18,349 [Brandon] 66 00:05:19,586 --> 00:05:22,086 [dispatcher] 67 00:05:22,122 --> 00:05:23,592 [siren blares] 68 00:05:23,623 --> 00:05:26,463 [Brandon] And, uh, we made it about a block or two down the road 69 00:05:26,493 --> 00:05:28,393 before he stops in the middle of the road. 70 00:05:28,428 --> 00:05:30,758 [Brandon] 71 00:05:31,965 --> 00:05:36,605 [gunshots] 72 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:44,840 [Brandon] 73 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:56,960 [dispatcher] 74 00:05:56,990 --> 00:06:01,030 As he’s stopping, I’m trying to give out a description of his license plate. 75 00:06:01,061 --> 00:06:04,261 And by the time I realized what he’s doing, he’s already out of the car, 76 00:06:04,297 --> 00:06:07,127 he’s got a shotgun in his hand, and he’s shooting into my windshield. 77 00:06:09,236 --> 00:06:15,606 [gunshots, siren blares] 78 00:06:15,642 --> 00:06:18,282 I can hear him firing the weapon, 79 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:20,151 I can hear the rounds hitting the windshield. 80 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:22,220 I can hear him working the slide on the shotgun. 81 00:06:22,249 --> 00:06:23,779 That’s how I knew it was a pump-action, 82 00:06:23,817 --> 00:06:26,247 I could actually hear him working the action on it. 83 00:06:28,021 --> 00:06:29,991 To realize that those are real bullets coming at you, 84 00:06:30,023 --> 00:06:32,763 and it’s really somebody trying to kill you... 85 00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:35,702 I could hear the thwack of every round hitting the windshield. 86 00:06:35,729 --> 00:06:36,799 [gunshots] 87 00:06:36,830 --> 00:06:39,000 One shot right down the driver side door, 88 00:06:39,032 --> 00:06:41,632 hit my spotlight, hit my rearview mirror. 89 00:06:41,668 --> 00:06:45,768 Uh, one shot went right over my head. Uh, 90 00:06:45,805 --> 00:06:49,875 hit my light bar, sent a few rounds a couple of inches over the top of my head. 91 00:06:49,910 --> 00:06:53,210 Uh, one round hit the dash camera and destroyed it. 92 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:55,616 One hit my onboard computer and destroyed it. 93 00:06:55,649 --> 00:06:58,019 One hit my radar and destroyed it. 94 00:06:58,051 --> 00:07:00,251 And that’s also the round that hit me. 95 00:07:00,287 --> 00:07:02,757 I got hit twice by buckshot while I was in the car. 96 00:07:03,790 --> 00:07:05,120 [gunshot] 97 00:07:05,158 --> 00:07:08,058 They say you just kind of go to a different place, and... 98 00:07:08,094 --> 00:07:10,534 ...fall back on your training and do what you have to do to stay alive. 99 00:07:11,798 --> 00:07:13,398 I’m bleeding and I’ve been hit. 100 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:16,403 We’re in the middle of traffic, so I can’t really shoot back. 101 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:19,306 I’d risk hitting somebody else. 102 00:07:19,339 --> 00:07:23,139 My really only option at that point was to put my vehicle into reverse 103 00:07:23,176 --> 00:07:24,736 and try and put some distance between us, 104 00:07:24,778 --> 00:07:26,878 and make myself a harder target to hit. 105 00:07:28,381 --> 00:07:30,321 [dispatcher] 106 00:07:34,821 --> 00:07:38,931 [Brandon] 107 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:40,989 I immediately knew I was hit in the shoulder. 108 00:07:41,027 --> 00:07:43,997 I could feel it and I looked down. I could see blood, 109 00:07:44,030 --> 00:07:47,830 but I could see that it wasn’t gushing blood, so I knew an artery wasn’t hit. 110 00:07:47,867 --> 00:07:50,537 And my arm still worked, so I knew a bone wasn’t broken. 111 00:07:50,570 --> 00:07:54,340 At that point, I didn’t really see any reason to stop chasing him. 112 00:07:54,374 --> 00:07:58,014 And then I started giving information on the pursuit again. 113 00:07:58,044 --> 00:08:03,224 And that was the point when Sergeant Sprung and Officer Wood showed up on scene. 114 00:08:11,424 --> 00:08:13,834 I was dealing with a massive adrenaline dump. 115 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:18,060 Three or four rounds went within a few inches of my head. 116 00:08:18,098 --> 00:08:20,968 A suspect just tried to murder me at 9:00 in the morning 117 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:25,141 in the middle of Hewitt Drive with about 100 witnesses standing around. 118 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:29,711 Um, rather than panicking, it just kinda made me more hyper-focused on him 119 00:08:29,743 --> 00:08:32,653 and kind of ignoring everything else going on around me. 120 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,149 I just wanted to keep chasing that guy ’til I caught him. 121 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:39,649 The pursuit got going. We started picking up speed. 122 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:44,316 I got a lot of wind noise coming through the vehicle from all the bullet holes. 123 00:08:47,894 --> 00:08:50,734 The back windshield had been completely blown out, 124 00:08:50,764 --> 00:08:53,234 because some rounds went all the way through the car. 125 00:08:53,266 --> 00:08:56,036 Starts making it very hard for me to hear anything over my radio. 126 00:08:57,470 --> 00:08:59,110 [Sergeant Sprung] 127 00:09:00,206 --> 00:09:04,606 [Brandon] 128 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:09,377 Sergeant ended up getting behind me, 129 00:09:09,416 --> 00:09:11,276 and was trying to get me to get out of the pursuit. 130 00:09:11,317 --> 00:09:12,787 He was telling me to pull over. 131 00:09:12,819 --> 00:09:16,389 And it took a minute for it to register that he was talking to me. 132 00:09:16,423 --> 00:09:18,293 I could hear chatter on the radio. 133 00:09:18,324 --> 00:09:19,994 But I couldn’t make out what it was. 134 00:09:26,733 --> 00:09:29,343 Officer Brandon showed extreme poise. 135 00:09:29,369 --> 00:09:31,939 The way he handled that situation was second to none. 136 00:09:31,971 --> 00:09:33,541 [gunshots] 137 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:37,313 The damage to that vehicle, it... It looked like it had been in a war. 138 00:09:37,343 --> 00:09:40,213 Not knowing the extent of his injuries, 139 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:43,516 we had to make sure that he was gonna be in good condition. 140 00:09:43,550 --> 00:09:46,290 So we needed to get him to medical help. 141 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:55,859 Catching bad guys like that is why people become cops. 142 00:09:55,895 --> 00:10:00,695 And he’s probably one of the worst people I’ve ever come across in my career, 143 00:10:00,733 --> 00:10:03,803 and now, I’m being told that I can’t chase him anymore. 144 00:10:06,573 --> 00:10:07,943 That was pretty painful to hear. 145 00:10:09,342 --> 00:10:13,312 [Brandon] 146 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:19,847 [dispatcher over radio] 147 00:10:19,886 --> 00:10:21,946 [Brandon] Pulled over onto the shoulder. 148 00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:26,088 Got my trauma kit out, took my outer carrier vest off, laid it on the hood, 149 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:30,226 and then started administering some first aid to myself where I had been shot. 150 00:10:30,263 --> 00:10:34,003 Just a few seconds after that was when some other units started showing up on scene. 151 00:10:37,270 --> 00:10:38,800 [officer] 152 00:10:45,879 --> 00:10:48,309 [Brandon] They put me in the truck and drove me to the hospital. 153 00:10:48,348 --> 00:10:51,548 [officer] 154 00:10:52,986 --> 00:10:54,716 [officer] Okay, Edward, we’re coming up on him 155 00:10:54,754 --> 00:10:56,324 but we’re not gonna be able to catch up with him immediately. 156 00:10:58,558 --> 00:11:00,088 [dispatcher] Texas Patrol is negative. 157 00:11:00,126 --> 00:11:01,356 [officer] 158 00:11:02,262 --> 00:11:04,232 Being dispatched. 159 00:11:04,264 --> 00:11:07,474 There’s a mix of emotions that are... That are going on. 160 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:11,370 We weren’t too far behind, uh, Sergeant Sprung and the suspect. 161 00:11:11,404 --> 00:11:14,814 I know Officer Brandon. We went through the police academy together. 162 00:11:14,841 --> 00:11:18,981 Our mind is focused on ensuring the safety of the public. 163 00:11:19,979 --> 00:11:22,719 Stay calm, and, and get your job done, 164 00:11:22,749 --> 00:11:26,819 in making sure that suspect is in our custody. 165 00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:29,423 As we approached, uh, Highway Six, 166 00:11:29,455 --> 00:11:31,385 it, it got a little busy. 167 00:11:31,424 --> 00:11:33,294 [officer] Chad, do you say we just roll in there and take him? 168 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:36,925 [Officer Woods] 169 00:11:39,899 --> 00:11:41,499 [dispatcher over radio] 170 00:11:42,969 --> 00:11:45,669 [Woods] Shortly after going underneath the interstate... 171 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:47,965 [officer] 172 00:11:48,007 --> 00:11:51,437 [Woods] ...he hit a wooden fence, and he wrecked out. 173 00:11:51,477 --> 00:11:55,107 Suspect’s vehicle was inside of a fence. 174 00:11:55,148 --> 00:11:59,448 He had taken out one side of the fence on the right side of the roadway, 175 00:11:59,485 --> 00:12:01,885 crossed over the street, and took out another fence. 176 00:12:01,921 --> 00:12:03,291 And that’s where he came to a stop. 177 00:12:06,059 --> 00:12:08,959 Sergeant Sprung, he was our number one vehicle. 178 00:12:08,995 --> 00:12:10,405 He was stopped. 179 00:12:10,430 --> 00:12:13,130 Uh, myself and Officer Nines, we were number two. 180 00:12:13,166 --> 00:12:14,996 And we positioned our vehicle 181 00:12:15,034 --> 00:12:19,414 to somewhat block the roadway from where we just came from. 182 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:25,475 When he got out of the truck, I had my rifle. 183 00:12:28,248 --> 00:12:31,778 Pulled my rifle up, and I remember looking through my scope and looking at him. 184 00:12:37,123 --> 00:12:39,163 [sirens] 185 00:12:39,192 --> 00:12:41,592 [Woods] And the suspect got his rifle and got the backpack, 186 00:12:41,628 --> 00:12:44,758 he took off down, I don’t remember what street it was. 187 00:12:44,797 --> 00:12:47,927 I remember Sergeant Sprung getting in a position where he could see him. 188 00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:51,242 Which we were all trying to do. 189 00:12:57,043 --> 00:12:58,683 At that point, we lost sight of him. 190 00:12:58,711 --> 00:13:02,181 So we all held our positions until we can get more units in the area. 191 00:13:03,816 --> 00:13:05,376 [officer] 192 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,360 [Woods] 193 00:13:09,389 --> 00:13:10,919 [officer] 194 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:12,557 [Woods] 195 00:13:19,365 --> 00:13:20,825 We didn’t know what he was doing. 196 00:13:20,867 --> 00:13:23,067 We didn’t know if he was going into somebody’s back yard, 197 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:25,702 or to somebody’s house to hold up a position, 198 00:13:25,738 --> 00:13:31,538 or if he had that shotgun somewhere in somebody’s fence line, pointed at us. 199 00:13:31,911 --> 00:13:34,081 [officer] 200 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:36,653 [Woods] 201 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,490 When I arrived on scene, we began to coordinate a perimeter. 202 00:13:46,626 --> 00:13:50,356 [Woods] 203 00:13:50,396 --> 00:13:52,026 [Devlin] 204 00:13:52,065 --> 00:13:53,505 [Woods] 205 00:13:53,533 --> 00:13:56,973 [officer] 206 00:13:57,003 --> 00:13:58,843 [officer over radio] 207 00:13:58,871 --> 00:14:00,941 [Devlin] My officers have seen this person. 208 00:14:00,973 --> 00:14:05,283 So now, we have good visual identification of who this person is. 209 00:14:05,311 --> 00:14:08,081 [officer] 210 00:14:08,114 --> 00:14:09,384 [officer over radio] 211 00:14:09,415 --> 00:14:11,915 So we begin to formulate a game plan and set up a perimeter. 212 00:14:11,951 --> 00:14:13,691 We don’t wanna rush the situation, 213 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,490 ’cause we wanna get a coordinated effort 214 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:17,361 surrounding the immediate area. 215 00:14:19,092 --> 00:14:21,332 Let’s not go in right away guns a-blazin’. 216 00:14:21,361 --> 00:14:23,101 It’s more of a back-off. 217 00:14:23,129 --> 00:14:27,929 This isn’t our area, so I don’t know where to send people in this neighborhood. 218 00:14:27,967 --> 00:14:30,497 [indistinct chatter] 219 00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:32,666 But it’s a Waco PD neighborhood. 220 00:14:34,607 --> 00:14:35,567 They know where to send people. 221 00:14:37,944 --> 00:14:42,724 [narrator] Waco PD units begin to systematically comb the local neighborhood 222 00:14:42,749 --> 00:14:45,549 for any signs of the suspect. 223 00:14:49,088 --> 00:14:50,288 [Waco officer] 224 00:14:54,093 --> 00:14:56,233 [Devlin] We don’t need to go in and get ambushed. 225 00:14:56,262 --> 00:14:57,362 [officer] 226 00:14:57,397 --> 00:15:00,167 [Woods] 227 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,701 [Devlin] And then we begin to move in. 228 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:07,636 And we’ll utilize K9s or we’ll utilize the helicopter, 229 00:15:07,673 --> 00:15:10,013 we’ll start to try to flush this individual out. 230 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:13,310 [dispatcher] 231 00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:18,853 [Waco officer] 232 00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:53,224 [dispatcher over radio] 233 00:15:53,753 --> 00:15:55,393 [officer over radio] 234 00:15:55,421 --> 00:15:57,361 Most suspects can’t sit for very long. 235 00:15:57,390 --> 00:15:59,760 They don’t wanna sit for very long, because they wanna get moving. 236 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:04,162 And ultimately, he came out and attempted just to walk down the street, 237 00:16:04,197 --> 00:16:09,837 when he was physically grabbed by a couple very, uh, keen, astute officers from Waco PD. 238 00:16:13,606 --> 00:16:15,906 [Waco officer] 239 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:18,980 You know, ’cause he’s bloodied from the accident. 240 00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:22,181 It doesn’t fit. It’s not as if he’s walking in the neighborhood. 241 00:16:22,215 --> 00:16:23,825 He sticks out like a sore thumb. 242 00:16:23,850 --> 00:16:26,390 And they just, they automatically take him into custody. 243 00:16:26,419 --> 00:16:31,289 [narrator] The suspect had hidden the bag of money and shotgun behind a building, 244 00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:34,094 then attempted to walk out of the area 245 00:16:34,126 --> 00:16:37,696 through police lines as an innocent bystander. 246 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:40,130 [Woods] Had this gone any other way, 247 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:42,836 I believe that there could have been more damage done. 248 00:16:42,869 --> 00:16:46,309 You know, more civilians hurt, officers hurt. 249 00:16:48,107 --> 00:16:49,937 [Woods] 250 00:16:49,976 --> 00:16:51,176 [dispatcher over radio] Copy. Yeah, re-identify... 251 00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:52,610 [officer] 252 00:16:52,645 --> 00:16:55,555 [Woods] 253 00:16:55,581 --> 00:16:58,521 [Woods] It coulda turned out a lot worse than, than it actually did. 254 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:05,387 Look, we got a .32 caliber buckshot pellet still in my shoulder right now. 255 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:07,764 I can feel it pretty much every day. 256 00:17:07,793 --> 00:17:10,233 Uh, as far as the round, it hit me in the vest, my vest stopped that, 257 00:17:10,263 --> 00:17:13,033 so I didn’t get any damage from that. 258 00:17:13,065 --> 00:17:15,425 And then basically, my right arm was, uh, 259 00:17:15,468 --> 00:17:18,398 completely shredded from the glass that was in it. 260 00:17:18,437 --> 00:17:21,807 And I had some bits of glass in my face, as well. 261 00:17:21,841 --> 00:17:24,681 [narrator] The suspect is Dallas Bohanon. 262 00:17:25,811 --> 00:17:28,751 [Devlin] He confessed to three bank robberies. 263 00:17:28,781 --> 00:17:31,751 He was sentenced to three life sentences. 264 00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:36,092 I had been in some adrenaline-pumping situations before, 265 00:17:36,122 --> 00:17:37,662 but none quite like this. 266 00:17:37,690 --> 00:17:40,360 [gunshots, siren blares] 267 00:17:42,495 --> 00:17:46,105 In the immediate aftermath, before I was able to go back onto patrol, 268 00:17:46,132 --> 00:17:49,802 I had to go sit with the psychiatrist for a little bit. Uh, that... 269 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:54,465 That meeting took about 10, 15 minutes before he cleared me to go back to work. 270 00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:58,137 Just determined that I wasn’t suffering any PTSD or anything like that from it. 271 00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:00,451 Which I wasn’t. 272 00:18:00,479 --> 00:18:04,419 [Devlin] Bohannon had no empathy during his sentencing. 273 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:06,050 Uh, just didn’t seem to care. 274 00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:09,593 And that to me makes a dangerous individual. 275 00:18:09,622 --> 00:18:12,692 So Bohanon got exactly what he deserved. 276 00:18:18,864 --> 00:18:21,934 [narrator] 20 miles East of Palm Springs, 277 00:18:21,968 --> 00:18:24,298 in the middle of the California desert, 278 00:18:24,337 --> 00:18:26,337 is the City of Indio. 279 00:18:34,246 --> 00:18:38,976 Officer Nathan Quintana of the Indio Police Department is on patrol. 280 00:18:41,387 --> 00:18:46,187 His partner, 25-year-old trainee Israel Campoa, 281 00:18:46,225 --> 00:18:49,325 has been on the force for just three weeks. 282 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:54,431 [Officer Nathan Quintana] We were towards the end of our shift. 283 00:18:55,868 --> 00:18:57,098 It’s August. 284 00:18:59,205 --> 00:19:02,885 It was probably about 100, 110 degrees out that day. 285 00:19:06,579 --> 00:19:11,149 [narrator] At 3:25, an Indio Police Department dispatcher takes a call. 286 00:19:12,351 --> 00:19:14,521 [dispatcher over phone] 287 00:19:14,553 --> 00:19:17,863 [caller over phone] 288 00:19:22,261 --> 00:19:27,131 [dispatcher] 289 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:28,626 [caller] 290 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,868 [dispatcher] 291 00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:33,913 [caller] 292 00:19:33,939 --> 00:19:36,209 [dispatcher] 293 00:19:36,242 --> 00:19:38,442 [caller] 294 00:19:38,477 --> 00:19:39,507 [dispatcher] Okay. 295 00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:45,621 [Quintana] Dispatch radioed and said there was a welfare check 296 00:19:45,651 --> 00:19:47,491 of a male at a apartment complex. 297 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,560 Take a right right here. 298 00:19:50,589 --> 00:19:54,629 [Quintana] I recognized the address and the, uh, the name in the call. 299 00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:58,260 I’ve had past contacts with this gentleman before. 300 00:19:58,297 --> 00:20:01,167 He gets agitated easily, and he gets really loud and aggressive. 301 00:20:02,635 --> 00:20:04,305 It heightens your senses. 302 00:20:12,311 --> 00:20:14,651 We park down the street. 303 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,080 We start walking up to the apartment complex. 304 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:22,490 [Quintana] 305 00:20:35,801 --> 00:20:36,901 [Campoa] 306 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:43,037 [Quintana] 307 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,335 [bystander] 308 00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:51,948 [Quintana] 309 00:20:55,187 --> 00:20:58,087 [caller] 310 00:20:58,124 --> 00:20:59,224 [Campoa] 311 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:00,458 [caller] 312 00:21:00,493 --> 00:21:01,593 [Campoa] 313 00:21:04,363 --> 00:21:05,203 [caller] 314 00:21:05,231 --> 00:21:06,531 [Campoa] 315 00:21:06,565 --> 00:21:07,925 [caller] 316 00:21:15,674 --> 00:21:20,314 -[Campoa] -[caller] 317 00:21:20,346 --> 00:21:21,876 [Campoa] 318 00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:28,820 [Quintana] The manager of the apartment complex tells us that the day before, 319 00:21:28,854 --> 00:21:33,494 he had thrown his, uh, stove out of the front door, 320 00:21:33,526 --> 00:21:35,726 um, which is a gas stove. 321 00:21:35,761 --> 00:21:39,161 She said that she believes he has turned on the gas today, 322 00:21:39,198 --> 00:21:41,728 and he has access to turn the gas on and off 323 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:43,637 from the valve that comes out of the wall. 324 00:21:44,937 --> 00:21:47,337 My first thought was, we need to get this person out 325 00:21:47,373 --> 00:21:49,373 before something bad happens. 326 00:21:49,408 --> 00:21:53,308 [Quintana] I was concerned about if there’s a gas leak and it’s big enough, 327 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:56,315 and it ignites, it’s gonna create a big fireball. 328 00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:03,562 [Oakley] I was in my office when the call came out. 329 00:22:03,589 --> 00:22:06,759 We were dispatched to a possible structure fire. 330 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,060 Proceed with caution. 331 00:22:13,833 --> 00:22:16,843 I’m about three miles from where the call came from. 332 00:22:19,205 --> 00:22:22,245 I could see that there’s no fire, there’s no smoke, 333 00:22:22,274 --> 00:22:25,244 I don’t see anything in that vicinity. 334 00:22:25,277 --> 00:22:28,807 As I’m getting closer, I’m talking to my dispatch, 335 00:22:28,848 --> 00:22:33,388 are you receiving any additional 911 calls, they’re saying, no, uh, 336 00:22:33,419 --> 00:22:39,159 possible gas leak, uh, reported by another 911 call, but nothing about fire. 337 00:22:39,191 --> 00:22:41,661 [Quintana] 338 00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:43,564 [maintenance man] 339 00:22:43,596 --> 00:22:45,156 [Quintana] 340 00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:48,497 I requested the, uh, maintenance man to come over to, to help us out. 341 00:22:50,135 --> 00:22:50,895 [caller] 342 00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:51,696 [Campoa] 343 00:22:51,737 --> 00:22:54,167 [knocking on door] 344 00:22:55,474 --> 00:22:56,214 [caller] 345 00:22:57,476 --> 00:22:58,206 [Quintana] 346 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:03,882 We wanted to make contact with the, uh, gentleman inside the apartment, 347 00:23:03,916 --> 00:23:06,176 to, to check his welfare and make sure he was okay. 348 00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,148 [knocking on door] 349 00:23:08,187 --> 00:23:11,487 We knock on the door a few times, and we get no response. 350 00:23:14,927 --> 00:23:19,727 [Campoa] I can smell the gas coming out from the, uh, windows and the door. 351 00:23:19,765 --> 00:23:25,295 The worst case scenario was a fire or something bigger, like an explosion. 352 00:23:25,337 --> 00:23:27,637 And the person still being inside the apartment. 353 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:31,484 I started running scenarios through my head, 354 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:33,950 you know, are we gonna have to start evacuating people? 355 00:23:33,979 --> 00:23:35,179 [knocking on door] 356 00:23:35,214 --> 00:23:37,384 The gentleman inside, is he conscious? 357 00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:40,050 Indio Police! 358 00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:43,045 I got my, my baton out to knock on the door louder. 359 00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:44,818 [baton knocking on door] 360 00:23:44,857 --> 00:23:48,857 Right after I did it, the gentleman inside either threw something at the door, 361 00:23:48,894 --> 00:23:50,064 or kicked the door. 362 00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:52,102 [Campoa] 363 00:23:52,131 --> 00:23:53,371 [indistinct shouting] 364 00:23:53,399 --> 00:23:54,429 [Quintana] 365 00:23:59,338 --> 00:24:00,568 [indistinct shouting] 366 00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:02,906 [Quintana] 367 00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:14,290 I was like, okay, well, he’s fine. 368 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,560 You know, he’s breathing. He was yelling and cussing at us. 369 00:24:16,588 --> 00:24:17,588 [indistinct shouting] 370 00:24:17,623 --> 00:24:18,823 [Quintana] 371 00:24:25,331 --> 00:24:28,131 [siren blares] 372 00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:33,808 [Quintana] 373 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,739 [caller] 374 00:24:45,617 --> 00:24:47,317 I saw the fire trucks pulling up on the street, 375 00:24:47,353 --> 00:24:50,663 so I’m gonna go out on the street, so the firemen can do their job. 376 00:24:53,926 --> 00:24:54,856 [Quintana] 377 00:24:54,893 --> 00:24:55,933 [maintenance man] 378 00:24:59,298 --> 00:25:04,938 -[explosion] -[Quintana] 379 00:25:04,970 --> 00:25:17,680 [bleep] 380 00:25:17,716 --> 00:25:20,946 -[explosion] -[Quintana] 381 00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:27,659 [Campoa] 382 00:25:27,693 --> 00:25:28,633 [Quintana] 383 00:25:29,261 --> 00:25:30,301 [Quintana groaning in pain] 384 00:25:31,797 --> 00:25:32,797 [Quintana] 385 00:25:39,605 --> 00:25:44,385 As I’m walking past the apartment, I hear the air suck in. 386 00:25:44,410 --> 00:25:49,080 I felt a, uh, surge of hot air, like a missile striking something. 387 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:52,224 -[explosion] -[Quintana] 388 00:25:52,251 --> 00:25:54,891 And alls I see is debris passing me. 389 00:25:57,089 --> 00:25:58,789 [Campoa] I heard a noise. 390 00:25:58,824 --> 00:26:02,134 I saw the roof of the apartment go up in the air. 391 00:26:02,161 --> 00:26:04,761 I saw fire coming out of the roof. 392 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:08,367 I felt the air pushing you back after an explosion. 393 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,100 [Quintana] [bleeping] 394 00:26:11,136 --> 00:26:15,736 When the fireball and the debris started to engulf me, 395 00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:17,444 it seemed like everything slowed down. 396 00:26:19,111 --> 00:26:23,111 I hear a, a rush of air coming at me. 397 00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:27,148 I remember ducking my head and trying to get as small as possible as I’m running, 398 00:26:27,186 --> 00:26:28,746 because I knew a fireball was coming. 399 00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:32,117 [explosion] 400 00:26:32,157 --> 00:26:35,027 And I could see every piece of debris passing me, 401 00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:36,830 the flame, the smoke. 402 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:45,136 [Oakley] I saw the fireball consume the IPD officer. 403 00:26:45,170 --> 00:26:48,640 I couldn’t even see his feet. He was engulfed in flames. 404 00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,438 I just saw him disappear into a fireball. 405 00:26:52,478 --> 00:26:55,408 You know, and, and then you’re thinking, oh, God, come out of there alive. 406 00:26:58,450 --> 00:26:59,450 [Campoa] 407 00:27:03,388 --> 00:27:06,458 [Campoa] As soon as I saw his hand, I saw that it was burned. 408 00:27:07,426 --> 00:27:09,086 It was burned bad. 409 00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:13,058 To the point that I was, like, this is not something that he could just walk away. 410 00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:15,368 [Quintana grunts] [bleep] 411 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,330 [firefighter] 412 00:27:16,368 --> 00:27:18,468 [Campoa] 413 00:27:19,705 --> 00:27:23,545 My first thought was, you know, the gentleman inside. 414 00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:27,075 [Quintana] 415 00:27:30,082 --> 00:27:33,022 I looked down at it and I could see that my arm has been burned. 416 00:27:33,051 --> 00:27:34,851 I don’t know to what extent. 417 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:44,259 It felt like when you burn your, your hand on the stove. 418 00:27:44,296 --> 00:27:45,096 [Campoa] 419 00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:46,330 [Quintana] 420 00:27:46,365 --> 00:27:49,575 That kind of feeling, but just all over my, uh, my arm. 421 00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:50,701 [Quintana] 422 00:27:50,736 --> 00:27:51,736 [Campoa] 423 00:27:52,571 --> 00:27:55,311 [Quintana] 424 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,680 The fire department was already there getting their gear on. 425 00:27:57,709 --> 00:27:58,539 [firefighter] 426 00:27:58,577 --> 00:28:01,247 [Quintana] 427 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,450 [firefighter] 428 00:28:02,481 --> 00:28:04,921 [Quintana] I didn’t want to bother them too much, 429 00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:08,920 ’cause I knew they had to go in and, and help the, the gentleman inside. 430 00:28:08,954 --> 00:28:11,164 [Quintana] 431 00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:12,760 [firefighter] 432 00:28:13,959 --> 00:28:16,529 [Oakley] I just remember him kinda holding his arm up, 433 00:28:16,562 --> 00:28:18,802 and seeing the skin sloughing off. 434 00:28:19,231 --> 00:28:20,131 [Quintana] 435 00:28:20,165 --> 00:28:21,825 [Campoa] 436 00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:24,467 I’m also concerned, did he inhale anything? 437 00:28:24,503 --> 00:28:28,173 How’s his breathing? How’s his lung capacity? 438 00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:33,777 If you’re damaged internally in your lungs, you literally have minutes to live. 439 00:28:33,812 --> 00:28:35,012 [Campoa] Is there evacuating people? 440 00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:37,447 [Quintana] 441 00:28:37,482 --> 00:28:38,652 [sirens blare] 442 00:28:38,684 --> 00:28:40,754 [Oakley] That officer, I could tell he was in shock. 443 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:43,790 But he still wanted to do his job. 444 00:28:44,823 --> 00:28:46,163 [Quintana] 445 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:47,691 [firefighter] 446 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:51,396 Working with his partner, trying to assist getting other people out of there. 447 00:28:51,797 --> 00:28:56,167 [Quintana] 448 00:28:58,070 --> 00:29:00,810 And I was just like, no, you are now a patient. 449 00:29:04,176 --> 00:29:06,136 And he still was in police mode. 450 00:29:06,178 --> 00:29:08,948 [indistinct chatter] 451 00:29:08,981 --> 00:29:10,781 [Quintana] I don’t know how bad the damage was. 452 00:29:10,816 --> 00:29:12,846 I didn’t know if anybody else was hurt. 453 00:29:12,884 --> 00:29:14,554 If other buildings were on fire. 454 00:29:14,953 --> 00:29:18,793 [Quintana] 455 00:29:20,092 --> 00:29:21,362 [firefighter] 456 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,100 [Quintana] 457 00:29:32,304 --> 00:29:33,574 [Campoa] 458 00:29:38,076 --> 00:29:41,346 I knew there was probably someone still inside that building. 459 00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:43,680 That person didn’t wanna come out. 460 00:29:43,715 --> 00:29:47,515 Let’s get the people that are listening away from harm’s way. 461 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,260 Huh? 462 00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:53,589 [Campoa] 463 00:29:57,829 --> 00:29:59,329 [officer] 464 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:02,869 [Quintana] 465 00:30:29,294 --> 00:30:33,364 [Oakley] Looked like he had about 90% third degree burns. 466 00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:37,398 Most people that are exposed to any type of explosion, 467 00:30:37,436 --> 00:30:41,936 they’re gonna feel that temperature go up to 800, maybe 1,000 degrees 468 00:30:41,973 --> 00:30:44,413 within a split second. 469 00:30:44,443 --> 00:30:49,353 You’re probably gonna take one or two breaths and inhale 800 degrees. 470 00:30:49,381 --> 00:30:52,581 So your chances of survivability are not good. 471 00:30:52,617 --> 00:30:55,387 [EMT] 472 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:59,418 [Quintana] I took off all my gear that I had on, 473 00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:03,428 and just felt like I just ran, you know, a marathon or something. 474 00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:08,497 I was glad to be in a ambulance, you know, laying down. 475 00:31:10,669 --> 00:31:11,439 [Quintana] 476 00:31:11,470 --> 00:31:13,940 -[Campoa] -[Quintana] 477 00:31:13,972 --> 00:31:16,072 [Campoa] 478 00:31:16,108 --> 00:31:20,808 [Campoa] Officer Quintana seemed okay inside the, uh, ambulance. 479 00:31:20,846 --> 00:31:26,376 He was taken to a local hospital, to a, uh, burn unit. 480 00:31:26,418 --> 00:31:30,088 [Quintana] When they brought me in, they determined it was a second degree burn. 481 00:31:30,122 --> 00:31:36,592 I got transported from, uh, JFK Hospital in Indio to Arrowhead Hospital. 482 00:31:36,628 --> 00:31:40,028 [Campoa] It took the fire department about an hour 483 00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:41,875 to, uh, put down the fire. 484 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:45,870 And for the, uh, helicopter to get there. 485 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:50,114 [Quintana] The gentleman in the apartment was airlifted also to Arrowhead Hospital. 486 00:31:52,043 --> 00:31:54,913 He died the next day from his injuries. 487 00:31:54,946 --> 00:31:57,946 [Oakley] When we began investigating, 488 00:31:57,983 --> 00:32:00,293 we could see that the stove was removed. 489 00:32:00,318 --> 00:32:03,018 There were some markings on the valve. 490 00:32:03,054 --> 00:32:05,294 And the valve was still open. 491 00:32:05,323 --> 00:32:10,363 Um, from there, we start to look at how did the gas explode. 492 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:12,795 Has there been any maintenance done lately? 493 00:32:12,831 --> 00:32:17,471 Has there been any call out for, hey, I’m having a gas leak in my apartment. 494 00:32:18,203 --> 00:32:20,173 Everything came back negative. 495 00:32:20,205 --> 00:32:23,345 Everything just pointed back to the resident inside, 496 00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:27,685 that he intentionally took the, uh, the piping off, 497 00:32:27,712 --> 00:32:31,722 opened the gas valve, so it leads to that reasonable suspicion 498 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:35,690 that he wanted to commit suicide and was successful at it. 499 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:41,390 [Campoa] I think a few seconds on that day made a, uh, big difference. 500 00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:47,995 If I would have been right in front of that window when the explosion happened... 501 00:32:48,934 --> 00:32:50,374 ...I think I woulda died. 502 00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:53,102 Or my injuries would have been really bad. 503 00:32:53,138 --> 00:32:55,438 I don’t think I would be here. 504 00:32:59,778 --> 00:33:02,108 [Quintana] Put me out of work for about five or six weeks 505 00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,877 just to let the, the skin to grow back to a good thickness, 506 00:33:05,917 --> 00:33:08,117 where I could work, uh, safely. 507 00:33:08,153 --> 00:33:11,523 I don’t really have any big scars from it. 508 00:33:11,556 --> 00:33:14,486 I, I do have a line on the back of my tricep. 509 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:19,196 You wouldn’t even notice it if you just, uh, looked at it real quick. 510 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:26,905 [Oakley] ANy time that there’s a massive explosion, 511 00:33:26,938 --> 00:33:29,808 if it’s confined in any type of building, 512 00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:33,911 think of it as a bullet that’s encased, 513 00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:36,345 and then it goes down the barrel of a gun. 514 00:33:36,381 --> 00:33:38,821 All that energy has to come out someplace. 515 00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:45,317 The walls are, in this case, cinderblock, 516 00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:47,787 the weakest part is the door, 517 00:33:47,826 --> 00:33:51,426 the windows, and then secondary, the roof. 518 00:33:51,463 --> 00:33:56,573 And the conditions that were set up, uh, that day were perfect. 519 00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:59,941 Hollywood couldn’t even do a better production, 520 00:33:59,971 --> 00:34:04,281 ’cause what I saw, all the windows and the fireball blow out, 521 00:34:04,309 --> 00:34:07,979 the roof literally lifted up, and came back down. 522 00:34:12,484 --> 00:34:15,054 [Campoa] I think we were extremely lucky that day. 523 00:34:23,762 --> 00:34:25,562 [Oakley] It always amazes me. 524 00:34:25,597 --> 00:34:31,497 Police officers who have minimal firefighting knowledge and training 525 00:34:31,536 --> 00:34:34,236 will be the first ones to run into a building, 526 00:34:34,272 --> 00:34:36,372 whether it’s on fire or full of gas. 527 00:34:37,576 --> 00:34:40,006 Yeah, they have a bulletproof vest. 528 00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:44,085 It doesn’t mean anything to a fire, let alone an explosion. 529 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:48,715 For them to put their lives at risk like that, that’s another hero. 530 00:34:59,931 --> 00:35:03,501 [narrator] In Georgia, 20 miles North of Atlanta, 531 00:35:03,535 --> 00:35:05,005 is Roswell. 532 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:12,811 Veteran officer Jeffrey Sanders is on patrol, 533 00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:16,154 and leaving a service station. 534 00:35:16,181 --> 00:35:21,351 [Officer Jeff Sanders] I see this, uh, large SUV on the other side of the median. 535 00:35:21,386 --> 00:35:22,946 [siren blares] 536 00:35:22,988 --> 00:35:25,958 The vehicle’s either stalled, or it was involved in an accident. 537 00:35:25,991 --> 00:35:28,691 It was just hard to say at first what was going on. 538 00:35:34,332 --> 00:35:37,402 We deal with seven to eight accidents a day. 539 00:35:40,038 --> 00:35:43,608 This one struck me strange, because it wasn’t up against a tree, 540 00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:45,312 It was just kinda sitting in the roadway. 541 00:35:46,578 --> 00:35:48,378 The airbags had been deployed, 542 00:35:48,413 --> 00:35:51,753 and I noticed a individual sitting in the driver’s seat. 543 00:36:08,466 --> 00:36:10,766 I really can’t see what’s going on, 544 00:36:10,802 --> 00:36:13,642 so I walk around to the passenger side. 545 00:36:23,214 --> 00:36:25,524 I thought, we have a pretty serious accident. 546 00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:26,850 You know, he’s knocked out. 547 00:36:26,885 --> 00:36:30,055 [narrator] The driver cannot be safely moved. 548 00:36:30,088 --> 00:36:32,388 He could have a neck or spinal injury. 549 00:36:45,170 --> 00:36:48,040 All of a sudden, he goes into an agonal breathing, 550 00:36:48,073 --> 00:36:51,213 which means he’s not getting any air whatsoever. 551 00:36:51,242 --> 00:36:52,712 This guy’s in a serious situation. 552 00:36:52,744 --> 00:36:54,454 I need to help him quick. 553 00:36:57,682 --> 00:36:58,822 This guy’s large. 554 00:37:01,186 --> 00:37:04,816 The only thing to do is just to give him a big bear hug. 555 00:37:04,856 --> 00:37:07,826 I was able to grab a hold of him and squeeze him tight, 556 00:37:07,859 --> 00:37:10,559 and start pulling this guy out of the driver’s seat. 557 00:37:12,831 --> 00:37:14,371 [Sanders grunting] 558 00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:28,413 When I got him laid down on the ground, I started doing CPR, 559 00:37:28,446 --> 00:37:29,906 started doing chest compressions. 560 00:37:29,948 --> 00:37:33,478 I didn’t have time to get my defibrillator from my vehicle. 561 00:37:33,518 --> 00:37:34,688 Let’s go! 562 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,619 I just knew that his heart needed to start pumping blood. 563 00:37:36,654 --> 00:37:39,264 [Officer Jordan Wenslow] I know I need to get there. 564 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:41,490 And I know I’m the closest unit to him. 565 00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:44,930 I turn the lights on, turn the siren on, 566 00:37:44,963 --> 00:37:47,573 and I was there, probably within two minutes. 567 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:51,399 [siren blaring] 568 00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:56,375 [Sanders] When you hear sirens approaching... 569 00:37:57,675 --> 00:38:00,205 ...it’s like, whoo. You know, I got help coming. 570 00:38:00,245 --> 00:38:01,115 You know, help’s here. 571 00:38:06,217 --> 00:38:10,487 I remember seeing my partner, Officer Wenslow, running up the roadway. 572 00:38:10,522 --> 00:38:12,192 He had the defibrillator. 573 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:20,365 As he was unzipping the bag and pulling out all the contents, 574 00:38:20,398 --> 00:38:22,128 and getting ready to get the pads ready, 575 00:38:23,034 --> 00:38:25,174 I continued CPR chest compressions. 576 00:38:25,203 --> 00:38:27,673 [Sanders panting] 577 00:38:28,773 --> 00:38:30,373 [victim breathing with labor] 578 00:38:30,408 --> 00:38:33,538 [defibrillator] Begin by removing all clothing from the patient’s chest. 579 00:38:33,578 --> 00:38:35,508 These AEDs, they’re very simple. 580 00:38:35,547 --> 00:38:39,377 Soon as you open the bag, the machine itself is telling you 581 00:38:39,417 --> 00:38:41,987 where and how to apply the pads to the patient. 582 00:38:42,020 --> 00:38:43,950 [defibrillator] Place pads exactly as shown... 583 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:45,358 [Sanders] 584 00:38:45,390 --> 00:38:46,290 [defibrillator] Press firmly to place... 585 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:47,564 [Sanders] 586 00:38:50,728 --> 00:38:52,258 [victim breathing with labor] 587 00:38:52,297 --> 00:38:56,267 [defibrillator] No one should touch the patient. Analyzing. 588 00:38:56,301 --> 00:38:59,471 He immediately put the pads onto the chest area. 589 00:38:59,504 --> 00:39:03,044 [defibrillator] Shock advised. Stay clear of the patient. 590 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:04,044 -[Wenslow] -[Sanders] 591 00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:05,105 [defibrillator] Shock delivered. 592 00:39:05,143 --> 00:39:07,113 [Sanders] 593 00:39:07,145 --> 00:39:09,785 I was like, wow. That was a big shock. 594 00:39:09,814 --> 00:39:10,884 [Sanders] 595 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:13,375 [defibrillator] 596 00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:19,416 We stood clear. It gave one shock. 597 00:39:20,091 --> 00:39:21,431 We continued CPR. 598 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,063 [Sanders] 599 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:30,601 [Wenslow] 600 00:39:30,635 --> 00:39:33,105 [Sanders] 601 00:39:33,137 --> 00:39:37,437 As I was doing the second part of the chest compressions, this guy’s eyes fluttered. 602 00:39:39,277 --> 00:39:42,577 And I look at Officer Wenslow, he looks at me, and we’re like... 603 00:39:43,414 --> 00:39:45,854 ...did that just happen? 604 00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:48,294 [Sanders] 605 00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:49,989 -[Wenslow] -[Sanders] 606 00:39:50,021 --> 00:39:52,561 This guy, he just opens his eyes. 607 00:39:52,590 --> 00:39:55,760 It’s like, [laughing] hey, welcome back to the living, you know? 608 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:58,163 And he’s, he’s just, just staring at us. 609 00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:00,463 [Sanders] 610 00:40:00,498 --> 00:40:02,098 -[Wenslow] -[Sanders] 611 00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:05,443 [Wenslow] The best way to describe it is almost suddenly in a deep sleep, 612 00:40:05,470 --> 00:40:07,140 to all of a sudden, they’re awake now. 613 00:40:07,171 --> 00:40:12,281 That surprise on their face, and the surprise on your own, that they’re now awake. 614 00:40:12,310 --> 00:40:15,110 -[Sanders] -[Wenslow] 615 00:40:15,146 --> 00:40:16,706 -[Sanders] -[Wenslow] 616 00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:17,648 -[Sanders] -[Wenslow] 617 00:40:17,682 --> 00:40:19,022 -[victim] -[Sanders] 618 00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:21,850 [Wenslow] 619 00:40:21,886 --> 00:40:24,756 [Wenslow] The fact that he was talking, he was becoming alert... 620 00:40:26,124 --> 00:40:27,224 ...made it even better. 621 00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:28,728 [defibrillator] 45 seconds ... 622 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,260 [Sanders] 623 00:40:32,297 --> 00:40:33,457 [Wenslow] 624 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:37,370 [Sanders] 625 00:40:37,402 --> 00:40:38,102 [Wenslow] 626 00:40:38,136 --> 00:40:39,236 [Sanders] 627 00:40:40,738 --> 00:40:41,568 [victim] 628 00:40:41,606 --> 00:40:43,236 [Sanders] 629 00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:47,244 I remember when the EMS, the ambulances, arrive, 630 00:40:47,278 --> 00:40:53,448 you get a sense of, [sighs in relief] relief knowing that this guy’s, 631 00:40:53,484 --> 00:40:55,054 is still in serious condition. 632 00:40:56,621 --> 00:40:58,021 [Wenslow] 633 00:40:58,056 --> 00:40:59,586 [EMT] 634 00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:00,324 [Wenslow] 635 00:41:00,892 --> 00:41:01,592 [victim] 636 00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:04,733 [Wenslow] 637 00:41:05,496 --> 00:41:06,196 [victim] 638 00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:10,030 [Wenslow] 639 00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:11,968 [defibrillator] 640 00:41:12,003 --> 00:41:14,713 -[Wenslow] -[Sanders] 641 00:41:14,739 --> 00:41:17,979 [Wenslow] So Jeff and I, when that relief hit us, 642 00:41:18,009 --> 00:41:19,409 we shared a fist bump, 643 00:41:19,444 --> 00:41:21,014 and then it was back to business. 644 00:41:21,746 --> 00:41:23,646 We had work to continue to do. 645 00:41:24,983 --> 00:41:28,193 [Sanders] 646 00:41:28,219 --> 00:41:31,759 [narrator] Emergency responders take the 56-year-old to the hospital. 647 00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:35,191 He survives the ordeal. 648 00:41:36,861 --> 00:41:40,831 Now, the officers turn their attention to the SUV. 649 00:41:40,865 --> 00:41:42,295 [Sanders] 650 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:43,233 [Wenslow] 651 00:41:44,736 --> 00:41:46,136 [Sanders] 652 00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:49,540 [Wenslow] 653 00:41:49,574 --> 00:41:52,984 [EMT] 654 00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:53,981 [Sanders] 655 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:55,012 [EMT] 656 00:41:56,814 --> 00:42:01,124 It could have been a lot worse as far as his foot continuing to be on the accelerator, 657 00:42:01,152 --> 00:42:04,022 and the vehicle gaining a lot higher speed. 658 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,329 [Wenslow] Obviously, in our job, we have days 659 00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:11,701 that are just horrible. 660 00:42:11,729 --> 00:42:14,369 And then one day, you’re gonna have a great day like this, 661 00:42:14,399 --> 00:42:16,269 where you save someone’s life. 662 00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:19,340 And you go, yeah, that’s, that’s why I got into this job. That’s... 663 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:21,410 That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to make a difference. 664 00:42:22,473 --> 00:42:25,583 [narrator] Officer Sanders has since retired. 665 00:42:25,610 --> 00:42:28,050 [Sanders] I’m not as young as I used to be, 666 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:29,479 or as strong as I used to be. 667 00:42:29,514 --> 00:42:30,754 And being able to, 668 00:42:30,782 --> 00:42:33,022 to help this guy out of this vehicle, get him back 669 00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:38,061 to where he could be with his family, was just, uh, something to, uh, 670 00:42:38,089 --> 00:42:39,659 end a law enforcement career with. 671 00:42:39,690 --> 00:42:42,790 It was, uh, something pretty, uh, special and exciting.