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[crowd cheering]
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Coach Kinne built
the best football team
Canton, Texas ever had.
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Play a little now,
and a little later.
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Right now, it's time.
You gotta play it now.
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He was intensely competitive.
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We've never seen
anything like that in Canton.
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When we came out
of the locker room,
we were fired up.
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We had something to prove.
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If your son didn't love
the game of football,
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then you weren't
gonna be on that field.
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But Kinne
had a lot of power,
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and if you start messing
with someone's children,
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well, you need to expect
you're gonna have a problem.
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[siren wailing]
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[theme music playing]
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[siren wailing]
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[crowd cheering]
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That day, it's like
a video tape in my head.
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I can see it.
I can remember it.
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[indistinct conversation]
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I remember the smells.
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Talking about it now,
I'm right there.
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It was a Thursday and,
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you know, school day
starting like normal.
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I did parking lot duty
in the back of the school
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and making sure everybody gets
where they're supposed to be.
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I went by the field house.
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And, of course,
I mean, it was April
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football, that time
of the year
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they just do an off season
and things like that
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so, there wasn't much
going on.
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[Eric Crapanzano]
The field house there,
it has our lockers.
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Then right in the middle
of all the lockers
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is the coach's office.
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I'd seen Coach Kinne
that morning
was in his office.
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We come in a little early,
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before first period
to work out.
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[KeaVon Milton]
After we lift,
we do our athletics stuff,
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you know, early morning
for half the period.
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Then you go up to the school.
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[school bell ringing]
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The bells rang, and I...
I get the stragglers...
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inside the building.
It's a decent walk
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from the back of the building
to my office.
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So, by the time
I get to my office,
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it's getting close
to the end of first period.
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And I sit down at my desk
and just start getting out
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whatever I need to do
for that day.
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And I had barely got
settled in and, uh...
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Janet Casey,
who is our secretary
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got a phone call...
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[phone ringing]
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And I could see her eyes...
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get huge instantly.
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I could just see the...
the urgency.
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I left at that moment
and headed to the field house.
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[Milton] So, I remember
sitting down in my desk.
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I just pulled my books
out of my bag.
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And the intercom kicks on,
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and it was a, you know,
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"Hey, school is on a lockdown.
This is not a drill."
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Everything kinda stopped.
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[alarm beeping]
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[Milton] We got up,
shut the door.
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Turned the lights off.
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And we're
sitting there waiting.
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Waiting instructions.
We have no clue
what's going on.
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[alarm continues]
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[Raina Varner] I just remember
hearing the alarm go off.
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And our teacher was like,
"Okay, you know, like,
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let's get up
against the wall."
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She immediately, like,
goes and shuts the door.
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Covers our blinds.
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And... I just knew
looking at her face...
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she just looked terrified.
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I remember trying
to get myself
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as far to the wall
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out of the sight
of the doorway,
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in case someone
opened the doorway
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that I wouldn't
be shot first,
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and I know
that's really messed up.
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[Crapanzano]
It was very shortly after,
our parents were texting us,
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like, you know,
"What's going on?
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There's a shooting
in your school.
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You know,
your coach got shot."
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[Milton] You know
word-of-mouth going around
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that Coach Kinne
got shot.
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And I remember sitting there
thinking like,
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"We were just down there.
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How? Why? What happened?"
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And it didn't seem real.
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'Cause when, you know,
you see Coach Kinne,
you hear him talk and...
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a man this tall becomes,
you know, through the ceiling.
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Just through
his presence alone,
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in a sense he's like,
almost like Superman.
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And that's just like,
Superman doesn't get hurt,
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what happened?
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Who would do that?
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[Truman Oakley]
I was running
for the field house.
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My mind is going
a thousand miles an hour.
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Well, I'm thinking,
"There's got to be
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a reasonable
explanation for this."
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And I know coaches,
they like to hunt,
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and that's the only scenario
I could come up with,
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was a coach has brought a gun
up to the field house
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to show it off
and there's just been
some kind of accident.
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When I got there,
Coach Kinne was just kind of
spilling out on to the ground.
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I saw him, I saw the blood.
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And I still,
as I talk about it,
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I can...
I can envision that blood.
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Gary had put his hand
right against the wall
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and when he slipped down,
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there was a long
trail of blood.
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Just inside his office
was a big high-back chair
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with the deep buttons
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and that chair
was level with blood.
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You knew how grave
this was, I mean,
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it was obvious
he had lost of lot of blood.
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Gary's bullet wound was
right about here, and, uh...
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it was... you know,
that was eerie,
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his skin was so white,
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the bullet hole was so round
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and, you know,
every time his heart beat
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blood was coming out and...
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We were grabbing
everything we could,
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towels and socks and things
and just putting it on there,
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but, you know, in my mind,
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I know any blood
we're stopping
from there is minor
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to the blood that's spilling
through his body.
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Gary was scared.
I mean obviously,
he was scared.
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"Tell Laurie I love her,
tell Kelly I love her,
tell GJ I love him."
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GJ, his son,
he was freshman that year.
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[sirens wailing]
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Very quickly
the sirens were there.
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[indistinct
radio conversation]
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[Crapanzano] We realized
something seriously wrong,
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'cause here comes an officer.
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They came and got
GJ out of the room.
It was right outside.
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He pulled GJ
outside the class
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and, to talk to him
and you can see him talking,
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through the little
glass window
in the door.
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You see GJ
start crying, get upset.
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Coach Kinne was dead.
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That's what
the officer told GJ.
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He was gone.
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[Milton] Not only is it
our coach, his coach,
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but that's also GJ's dad.
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That's Coach Kinne.
That's his dad.
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I couldn't imagine
what GJ was going through.
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At the same time,
I was kinda, I guess,
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kinda focused
on my own little world,
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trying to figure out
what's going on.
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I don't know
if it's one person,
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I don't if it's many people
or what.
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How the hell
am I getting out of here?
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[Tim McLemee] In '05,
we had already began
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the training
for active shooters
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on school campuses.
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Columbine was in
everybody's head.
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We had
a full response team to it.
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We asked for assistance
from the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
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They sent
everything they had.
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State troopers,
the Texas Rangers,
uh, immediately responded.
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I was there
within just a few minutes.
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We have an active shooter.
We don't know where he's at.
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We need to
pin that person down.
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We need to put him down
as quick as possible.
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[Oakley] I still had no idea
what had happened.
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We just knew
a coach had been shot
at a school,
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and the man who shot him
was unaccounted for.
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There'd been Columbine,
and there had been
those things
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and seldom did
somebody walk in a school
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and shoot one person
and leave.
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They were usually about
shooting more people.
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I fully
was prepared that...
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"We're about to get shot."
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[reporter] This was scene
at Canton High School
shortly after the shooting.
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Justin...
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[voice breaking]
Are you okay?
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Are you sure?
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[McLemee] The students
were totally locked down,
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until we could get
the shooter in custody.
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[Varner] The scary thing
was just not knowing
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if they were
in the school or not.
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We just didn't know.
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And eventually
you hear choppers
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and people walking
through the hallways
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and coming up
and rattling the door
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and making sure
doors are locked,
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and we didn't know
who the shooter was yet.
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My daughter's
panicking more in there,
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'cause they're watching
the news wherever she's at.
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[McLemee] Once we had
the field house secured,
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we go through
the rest of the school,
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so, it's time to,
attempt to identify
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and locate the shooter.
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In the very beginning,
all the scenarios
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start running
through your mind of,
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"Do we have a school shooter?
Do we have multiple shooters?
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Was it a family event,"
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uh, which we have seen
in work.
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It could have
been anything,
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from the hit man
hired by the ex,
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to, just some
random act of violence.
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Now, not being from Canton,
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I was unaware of
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all of the problems,
if you will.
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The background problems
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that led up
to the actual crime.
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Because, and speaking
with the Canton officers
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and then talking
to some other people,
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it become
very apparent to us,
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a lot of people
dislike Coach Kinne.
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[Crapanzano] Canton
is a very small town
in East Texas.
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You got your
different cliques.
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Big into farming, ranching,
and then of course
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and everybody is connected
to the football team
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one way or another.
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[Milton] Friday night lights.
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We played fast,
we played hard.
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We played with heart.
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Everybody rallies around,
you know, the football team.
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That's one of things
that I loved about the town.
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When the lights come on,
you can feel the cheers,
you can feel everybody,
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you know, screaming for you.
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You can feel the energy.
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You can get through Canton
pretty quick on a Friday,
because everybody is here.
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Everybody is here
at the game.
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When I arrived in Canton
in the summer of 1994,
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the Canton football program
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was not in a very good place.
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Their last playoff victory
was in 1964.
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But it did start
to turn a corner
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with the hiring
of a new coach.
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It was like this huge weight
had been lifted off
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the entire community
of Canton.
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Their Eagles were back.
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Play a little now
and a little later.
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Right now, it's time.
You gotta play it now.
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-Break!
-[all clap]
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Coach Kinne built
the best football team
Canton, Texas ever had.
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We did something
that wasn't done before
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and brought attention
to a small, little area
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and something in Texas
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where high school football
is everything.
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The year before,
we had made the playoffs.
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We know we were good,
but we had high expectations.
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It was time
to take it to next level.
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[players talking indistinctly]
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[coach] Toss it back,
toss it back.
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Coming from Canton,
I went to the NFL.
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I've been around some
pretty great coaches,
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Sean Payton, Bill Belichick,
Tomlin.
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Coach Kinne will
still always be
one of my top guys.
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Coach Kinne
changed everything.
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Now with change,
we have to always remember,
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change creates
good and bad.
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And change sometimes
is very difficult,
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very difficult for people
to accept.
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Coach Kinne
was described to me
as a difficult person.
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I had one man
that summed it up
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'cause I asked him,
"Describe Kinne."
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He said, "A dictator."
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When I played football,
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we had coaches
that would grab us
by the face mask
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and throw our heads around
and call us everything
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but child of God.
That was Texas football.
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However, it was described
to us that Kinne
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would carry it
to a different levels,
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and then he would
get personal about it.
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He wasn't telling the kids,
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you got to get
your job right, essentially.
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He was telling them that,
"You're a piece of junk,
you're not worth a flip.
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You're not gonna play.
Get on the sideline."
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That's Gary's mentality.
He was intensely competitive.
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I mean, he was a leader.
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He was take charge. He was,
"I'm gonna handle this stuff."
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[Crapanzano] Coach Kinne
gets pretty intense
when he was coaching.
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If you were messing up,
you know, he would be
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quick to let you know
about it,
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and then show you
the correct way to do it.
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What people
didn't understand
about Coach Kinne,
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what they didn't like
about him was that,
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"If your son,
or you the player,
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didn't love
the game of football,
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then you weren't
gonna be on that field."
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And he knew
how to weed that out,
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for what it took to make
a championship level team.
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Generally, when
a school brings in
a new head football coach,
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they want someone
to come in
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maybe bring some
different approaches
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and help the program
get back to winning ways.
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And that was
the stage set for
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when Coach Kinne took over
the program in late 2003.
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[Crapanzano] When Coach Kinne
first came to Canton,
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the biggest adversity
he had to overcome
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was GJ starting as a freshman
over a senior quarterback
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that had been there
the year before.
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He named GJ
as starting quarterback
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and then the town's like,
you know, "What's going on?
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How is this freshman
replacing a senior?
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Is it just because
he's the coach's kid?"
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[Britt] In the case
of Coach Kinne and GJ,
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it was a really
difficult situation.
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The way I looked at it
to basically come in and say,
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you know,
"We're gonna get this done,
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but my freshman son
is going to be
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directing the offense
on the field."
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That, I would imagine, would
raise quite a few eyebrows,
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and probably some
disgruntled murmurs.
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I mean, everybody loves
to be a second guesser.
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Everybody loves to be
a Monday morning quarterback.
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But it can lead to some
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very ugly moments in time.
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The rumor was that the reason
Coach Kinne had been shot
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had to do with playing time
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and that
there was another player
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who had gotten brought in.
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It was his first year
in Canton
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and he was getting
more playing time.
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That's always going
to stir some controversy.
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It matters
to the kids so much
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and to their parents,
because to be honest,
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for probably 90%
or more of them
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these are their playing days.
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They will not see a down
of college football.
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They certainly will not see
even a try out
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on the professional level.
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This is their playing days
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and it means a lot to them.
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Especially in Canton.
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Being that
the shooter essentially
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had stopped, went in,
carried out the crime,
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and then immediately fled,
that's a personal crime.
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We knew that
right out the gate.
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This was someone mad
at the coach.
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This is a personal
axe to grind
with Coach Kinne.
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This was one of
the longest days ever.
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Just being
stuck there in that chair,
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stuck there in that class.
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We were upset,
'cause we heard
Coach Kinne was dead.
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We didn't understand why.
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I think everybody
was still in a, like a,
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state of shock, like,
"No, that couldn't happen."
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You know, Coach Kinne
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is almost movie-like.
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But, you're like,
"Oh, man, that couldn't
happen in real life."
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And, you know,
it kinda did.
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[siren wailing]
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[Oakley] When Gary was shot,
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the emergency response
was very fast.
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Think I've heard it was
four minutes.
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When the paramedics
got there,
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I mean, before
I could realize it,
they're rolling him away.
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And that was it.
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That was the last
I saw Gary.
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Due to the shock effect
of the bullet,
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it bore a hole
the size of your fist all
the way through the liver.
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So, it's a very
significant injury.
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Uh, it's usually one
that is fatal.
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[Oakley] But then
a miracle happened...
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at the hospital.
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I called our superintendent
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and it was,
"We've gotten word
he died."
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"No, he... he didn't."
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Whatever people told you,
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that was wrong.
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He's alive and he's stable.
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But he is not
out of the woods at all.
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And now we've just
got to move on to next steps.
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Prematurely,
GJ had been told
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that, uh, Coach Kinne,
his father had passed away.
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I can't fathom
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how difficult and terrifying
that must've been.
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So, now it comes down
to the questions of,
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"Do we know
who the suspect is?"
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It appeared that
underlying issue
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was absolutely
Texas football.
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Texas football,
it has a lot of real
weird things to it.
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Many school districts,
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the head coach
as Kinne was,
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essentially makes
the same money
the superintendent does.
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So, he had a lot of power.
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And he had a lot of coaches
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that didn't
care for him either.
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It seems like
the vast majority,
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even players that started,
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even starting athletes,
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we spoke to some of them
and their parents
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and they even shared
a lot of the same
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disgust and dislike
of Kinne.
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That's one thing
about East Texas,
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if you start messing
with someone's children,
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well, you need to expect
you're gonna have a problem.
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[Crapanzano] It's not like
Coach Kinne was getting
into parents all the time.
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Didn't happen all the time.
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But that
was his football team.
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You know,
we were his players.
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If you were gonna
be on that team,
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you were gonna
do things his way.
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[McLemee] Kinne has a son
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that was the quarterback
of the team
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and his son
was a very good quarterback.
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But it appeared to some
that everything Kinne did
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was simply to promote
only his own son.
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Through the course
of the investigation,
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we did identify some
other events that occurred
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where there was some issues
between Coach Kinne
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and one of those players
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that wasn't getting
the playtime.
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At that point,
you start hearing
these things, you know, like,
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"Hey, well,
it was this person,
it was that person.
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You know, hey,
it was Baron."
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Baron played JV
at football,
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but he wasn't
a football player.
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I mean, just being a JV,
Baron just wasn't an athlete.
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I mean... he just...
just wasn't.
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[Varner] What I've heard
was that Coach Kinne
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would move players
from out of town,
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and it was affecting
Baron's playing time
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and he was upset.
That is the rumor.
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[Crapanzano] Baron
wasn't a star athlete.
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He was a JV. Baron didn't want
to be a star athlete.
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Baron, he was kind of punk.
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We all were. But, like,
he was a little extra.
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Baron liked to fight.
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00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:31,367
Guys will be guys.
Especially the older you get,
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guys cracking jokes
on each other,
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guys, you know, crack
the mama jokes and stuff.
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And maybe a joke or two
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might have been taken
a little bit too far.
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It might have been perceived
a different way.
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[Crapanzano]
When you're dealing
with high school boys,
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you know,
macho football players,
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there's a lot of giving
and taking out there.
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Making fun of each other,
you know, out of love
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and it seemed
that Baron was, you know,
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better at giving
than he was taking it.
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[Oakley] You know
there was one story
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I'd heard that
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these older boys had put
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Baron's shoulder pads
in a bunch of fire ants.
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And then he put 'em on
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00:23:07,533 --> 00:23:09,200
and got all the fire ants
on him.
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I heard about it,
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considerably
after the fact.
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[Crapanzano]
Baron was not getting bullied.
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Baron was a very
tough guy, you know.
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He stood up for himself.
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Plus from my recollection,
Baron seemed to be
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little bit hard
to coach, just,
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he kinda wanted
to do things his way
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instead of the way the coach
wanted us to do things.
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And then he wasn't shy
with his tongue.
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Coach Kinne had a...
had a very high standard
for his players.
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And he kicked Baron
off the team.
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[Milton] That happened
last July,
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year before
Coach Kinne got shot.
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You won't think that
all that bad blood
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would still be going on
and explode like that.
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Was Baron in school
that day?
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I heard stories he wasn't.
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I really thought in my mind,
I had seen him that morning.
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But after the fact,
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I really don't know,
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if he was there or not.
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[McLemee] I believe that
some of the Canton officers
attempted to speak to him,
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but you have to
also understand that
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this thing is fluid,
it's moving,
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and it is moving
very, very fast.
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The Canton PD guys
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were talking
to different people
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to figure out
who would be shooting who
on a school campus.
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I did not realize
at the time
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there was a couple of
student athletes
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that were down
around the field house
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when the shot occurred.
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One of them had
been right there at the time.
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We learned that
this young man,
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he knew who
the shooter was.
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A recap of our top story now,
an East Texas high school
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football coach
is in critical condition.
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The coach had
a greater likelihood
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of passing than surviving.
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00:25:24,667 --> 00:25:27,467
It was a brutal gunshot.
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It was a large
caliber handgun
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and it was to center mass,
a little low.
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So, we did not know
if he was still alive.
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All we knew is
he was in the operating room.
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The threat wasn't
still on campus.
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00:25:42,033 --> 00:25:44,734
But the school was still
totally locked down.
492
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,333
Just for safety.
493
00:25:47,266 --> 00:25:49,934
But now we have
the suspect identified
494
00:25:49,934 --> 00:25:51,667
because of the eyewitness.
495
00:25:51,667 --> 00:25:55,000
This young man,
this student athlete
knew him by name.
496
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,834
And seen him
getting into his truck.
497
00:25:57,900 --> 00:25:59,934
And he give us
a fair description of him.
498
00:25:59,934 --> 00:26:02,233
That he was a white male.
499
00:26:02,233 --> 00:26:04,033
He was approximately
6' tall.
500
00:26:05,834 --> 00:26:08,266
He had a unique tattoo
on his shoulder.
501
00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,233
of Yosemite Sam, said,
"Born to raise hell."
502
00:26:12,867 --> 00:26:17,333
And then, we instantly
get a name right thereafter.
503
00:26:19,467 --> 00:26:21,734
When I heard Jeff Robertson,
504
00:26:22,467 --> 00:26:24,233
you know, I wasn't shocked.
505
00:26:24,233 --> 00:26:25,934
I didn't know
Jeff personally.
506
00:26:25,934 --> 00:26:27,934
You know, he's few years
older than me.
507
00:26:28,667 --> 00:26:32,433
But I'd known Jeff's name
since I was...
508
00:26:33,033 --> 00:26:34,233
since I was a little kid.
509
00:26:35,767 --> 00:26:38,233
Jeff played football
at Canton High School.
510
00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:41,367
I knew he had a reputation
as having...
511
00:26:41,367 --> 00:26:43,467
anger issues
and this and that.
512
00:26:44,367 --> 00:26:46,934
There was a time in the '70s,
513
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,667
and, uh,
it was rural legend
514
00:26:48,734 --> 00:26:51,467
that there were
a group of guys
in that day that,
515
00:26:51,533 --> 00:26:53,233
they just liked to fight.
516
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:57,767
They had bicycle chains
and knives and they fought.
517
00:26:57,767 --> 00:26:59,567
Jeff's name was
one of those names
518
00:26:59,567 --> 00:27:01,166
that got tossed around
in that.
519
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,467
[McLemee] It was
made known to me that
520
00:27:05,533 --> 00:27:08,233
Robertson is a well-known man
there in Canton.
521
00:27:08,233 --> 00:27:12,066
He grew up there.
Owns a local business.
522
00:27:12,066 --> 00:27:14,333
He was well-liked
by a lot of people.
523
00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:17,367
And he knew Coach Kinne.
524
00:27:17,367 --> 00:27:20,233
Canton High School football
was important to him.
525
00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:23,467
And it was obvious
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
526
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:25,233
was mad at the coach
527
00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:28,133
because of the coach's
perceived behavior.
528
00:27:29,033 --> 00:27:33,567
And his perception
of how it is,
how it should be
529
00:27:33,634 --> 00:27:37,033
versus the
athletic director's,
the victim's.
530
00:27:38,767 --> 00:27:41,467
[Oakley] That fall
I saw Jeff at games
531
00:27:41,467 --> 00:27:43,734
and he got intense and he...
532
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,100
he would get down
by the rail
533
00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:47,834
and he would yell, and so
you keep an eye on that
534
00:27:47,834 --> 00:27:49,233
as an assistant principal,
535
00:27:49,233 --> 00:27:51,467
but he would dial back
and sit down.
536
00:27:52,767 --> 00:27:55,667
[Britt] You see it
in amateur athletics
all the time.
537
00:27:55,734 --> 00:27:58,033
Unfortunately sometimes,
538
00:27:58,033 --> 00:28:00,233
you know, parents
don't agree with a call
539
00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:02,266
by one of the officials.
540
00:28:02,266 --> 00:28:05,834
And sometimes
parents in those situations,
541
00:28:05,834 --> 00:28:09,567
do become belligerent
and will make a scene
542
00:28:09,567 --> 00:28:11,967
and that's kinda scary,
543
00:28:11,967 --> 00:28:13,533
to everyone concerned.
544
00:28:14,767 --> 00:28:17,000
Jeff Robertson
was Baron's dad.
545
00:28:22,133 --> 00:28:24,367
It's my understanding that
546
00:28:24,433 --> 00:28:28,133
Jeff felt his son
was being mistreated
547
00:28:28,133 --> 00:28:29,734
by Coach Kinne.
548
00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:32,834
I also learned from
549
00:28:32,834 --> 00:28:35,567
stories and interviews
550
00:28:35,567 --> 00:28:37,834
with people in the community
that, you know,
551
00:28:37,834 --> 00:28:42,367
he tended to, uh,
get angry and, um,
552
00:28:42,367 --> 00:28:46,100
there were some incidents
where that was evident.
553
00:29:01,033 --> 00:29:03,367
The barbecue,
we were all getting together,
554
00:29:03,367 --> 00:29:05,266
all the parents
and the community
555
00:29:05,266 --> 00:29:07,100
to just celebrate
the football team, you know,
556
00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,000
um, just kinda socialize.
557
00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:13,033
And then
I heard some hollerin'...
558
00:29:13,033 --> 00:29:14,467
[indistinct shouting]
559
00:29:14,467 --> 00:29:16,467
...and some,
some shouting going on.
560
00:29:16,533 --> 00:29:18,734
And then, you know,
I saw Coach Kinne and Jeff
561
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,800
just having
some words, you know,
it was pretty aggressive.
562
00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:25,567
I just remember
Mr. Robertson walking up,
563
00:29:25,634 --> 00:29:29,667
uh, yelling, screaming,
cursing, whatever, you know.
564
00:29:29,734 --> 00:29:31,233
Some of the coaches
had to hold him back.
565
00:29:31,233 --> 00:29:32,667
He was trying to get
to Coach Kinne.
566
00:29:35,467 --> 00:29:37,667
[Crapanzano] And then
Coach tell him that, you know,
567
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:39,367
he can't come
to these events no more.
568
00:29:39,367 --> 00:29:41,467
He was the athletic director,
and that was his right.
569
00:29:41,533 --> 00:29:43,166
[indistinct shouting]
570
00:29:43,166 --> 00:29:45,233
[Milton] I just remember
that they made him leave.
571
00:29:45,233 --> 00:29:47,367
So, when, you know,
that happened
572
00:29:47,367 --> 00:29:48,734
I didn't think anything, uh,
573
00:29:48,734 --> 00:29:50,467
like anything else
would happen
574
00:29:50,533 --> 00:29:52,233
that would come after that.
575
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,266
[McLemee] It was
common knowledge
576
00:29:54,266 --> 00:29:56,266
that there had been
a problem at a barbecue
577
00:29:56,266 --> 00:29:58,567
between Robertson and Kinne.
578
00:29:58,634 --> 00:30:02,834
It was common knowledge that
Robertson did get mouthy,
579
00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,066
but at the same time
580
00:30:04,066 --> 00:30:07,033
Kinne bowed up
and played that dictator.
581
00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:10,033
"You're gone!
You're out of here!
Your son's off the team!"
582
00:30:10,033 --> 00:30:11,233
You know, you don't ever
583
00:30:11,233 --> 00:30:12,634
step back
on a school property.
584
00:30:16,133 --> 00:30:19,367
You're telling a man
who has spent his entire life
585
00:30:19,367 --> 00:30:22,834
fighting for that school
either as an athlete himself
586
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,834
or as a supporter
and paying taxes,
587
00:30:25,834 --> 00:30:29,266
that he can't step foot
on that campus?
588
00:30:29,266 --> 00:30:30,934
That's not gonna go well.
589
00:30:32,066 --> 00:30:34,133
[reporter 1] Shortly before
nine o'clock this morning,
590
00:30:34,133 --> 00:30:37,734
Canton police say 45-year-old
Jeff Doyal Robertson
591
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,266
drove on to the campus
and entered the field house
592
00:30:40,266 --> 00:30:41,367
near the football field.
593
00:30:41,433 --> 00:30:43,233
Police say
a single witness saw
594
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:46,033
Robertson shoot
football coach Gary Kinne.
595
00:30:46,033 --> 00:30:49,266
Baron getting
kicked off the team
was the last straw for Jeff.
596
00:30:49,266 --> 00:30:51,867
[reporter 2] Detectives say
he had been banned
from the high school
597
00:30:51,867 --> 00:30:54,867
after allegedly assaulting
another coach last August
598
00:30:54,867 --> 00:30:56,533
at a football picnic.
599
00:31:01,867 --> 00:31:03,166
[McLemee]
So now we pretty much
600
00:31:03,166 --> 00:31:05,567
had got a pretty good picture
forming for us.
601
00:31:05,567 --> 00:31:08,834
We had
a suspect identified
602
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,567
including the vehicle
he was driving.
603
00:31:11,634 --> 00:31:14,734
That's when the manhunt
for Robertson busted loose.
604
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,467
[indistinct
radio conversation]
605
00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:21,266
The capture teams
on this event
606
00:31:21,266 --> 00:31:23,834
actually broke into
multiple smaller units
607
00:31:23,834 --> 00:31:25,767
because
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson,
608
00:31:25,767 --> 00:31:29,033
he's a Van Zandt County boy.
He's from Canton area.
609
00:31:29,033 --> 00:31:31,834
There's not a county road
over there he doesn't know.
610
00:31:32,667 --> 00:31:34,066
So he could've went
any direction
611
00:31:34,066 --> 00:31:35,834
because he knew
every direction.
612
00:31:37,567 --> 00:31:40,367
This is a typical
everyday school day
613
00:31:40,367 --> 00:31:44,166
and this man just
totally sent it into chaos.
614
00:31:44,166 --> 00:31:45,934
So, if he's gonna do that,
615
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,166
what else is he gonna do?
616
00:31:47,166 --> 00:31:49,834
Does he have other people
he wants to take out with him
617
00:31:49,834 --> 00:31:51,367
before we get to him?
618
00:31:54,266 --> 00:31:56,567
[Britt] It didn't
take long before
619
00:31:56,567 --> 00:31:59,367
word was going around
that it was
620
00:31:59,367 --> 00:32:02,000
uh, one of
the player's parents
621
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,667
who was the suspect
in the shooting.
622
00:32:06,867 --> 00:32:08,734
People everywhere
623
00:32:08,734 --> 00:32:12,033
were waiting and watching
and wondering
624
00:32:12,033 --> 00:32:13,333
what's gonna happen next.
625
00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:18,100
[Crapanzano]
Once they were hunting Jeff,
we turned on the news
626
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:20,133
and then
we were just watching it
627
00:32:20,133 --> 00:32:21,467
and that was scary.
628
00:32:23,066 --> 00:32:24,834
I can remember just,
you know, aerial view
629
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:26,467
of, you know,
the helicopter,
630
00:32:26,533 --> 00:32:29,066
you know, as it was moving
and stuff like that.
631
00:32:29,066 --> 00:32:31,433
And I just kinda closed
my eyes and prayed.
632
00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:34,533
I just prayed for
the safety of everybody.
633
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,667
[McLemee]
Just a few minutes later
634
00:32:41,667 --> 00:32:45,367
we get a report of a vehicle
matching the description
635
00:32:45,367 --> 00:32:46,667
east of Canton.
636
00:32:46,667 --> 00:32:49,867
And once we
got confirmation
637
00:32:49,867 --> 00:32:53,000
that we had the vehicle
in sight, someone did,
638
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:55,667
the entire world showed up.
639
00:32:55,734 --> 00:32:57,567
[reporter] Dozens
of law enforcement agencies
640
00:32:57,634 --> 00:32:59,834
converged on County Road 422
641
00:32:59,834 --> 00:33:02,266
just a mile
south of I-20.
642
00:33:02,266 --> 00:33:04,734
[McLemee] So we got
him in the wood line,
643
00:33:05,767 --> 00:33:09,133
and we seen him
from a distance
in some leaves.
644
00:33:09,767 --> 00:33:11,166
We knew he was armed.
645
00:33:12,567 --> 00:33:15,567
He raises that hand gun,
you're going to get killed
646
00:33:15,567 --> 00:33:17,734
in the state of Texas
by a police officer.
647
00:33:18,133 --> 00:33:19,433
It's just that simple.
648
00:33:25,834 --> 00:33:28,767
[reporter] Police say
Robertson shot
Canton High football coach
649
00:33:28,767 --> 00:33:32,567
and athletic director
Gary Kinne in the chest once
650
00:33:32,567 --> 00:33:34,634
with a large caliber
handgun.
651
00:33:35,767 --> 00:33:37,333
He was totally surrounded.
652
00:33:37,333 --> 00:33:39,567
There was probably
20 officers
653
00:33:39,567 --> 00:33:40,834
on him at that point.
654
00:33:40,834 --> 00:33:42,367
There was nowhere
for him to go.
655
00:33:42,367 --> 00:33:44,300
[indistinct
radio conversation]
656
00:33:46,834 --> 00:33:49,100
He wasn't really moving.
657
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:51,767
So we thought, "Well,
maybe he took his own life."
658
00:33:51,767 --> 00:33:54,066
But then he begins moving.
659
00:33:55,467 --> 00:33:59,233
He was laying in the woods
semi-conscious.
660
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,233
He had injury to his wrists
661
00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:03,734
where, apparently
is self-inflicted,
662
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,066
uh, a cut on his wrist.
663
00:34:10,266 --> 00:34:12,333
We put him
in custody right there.
664
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,734
[Milton] I still didn't know
what happened
665
00:34:24,734 --> 00:34:26,567
as far as Coach Kinne,
666
00:34:26,567 --> 00:34:29,200
not until I got home
and saw the news.
667
00:34:30,166 --> 00:34:32,333
We have an update tonight
on the East Texas
668
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,367
high school football coach
that was shot.
669
00:34:34,367 --> 00:34:36,233
He's in critical condition.
670
00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:39,100
The alleged gunman,
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
671
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:40,934
is charged with
aggravated assault
672
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,133
with a deadly weapon.
673
00:34:45,033 --> 00:34:49,066
I remembered my parents
telling me that Coach Kinne
674
00:34:49,066 --> 00:34:50,400
ended up living.
675
00:34:52,166 --> 00:34:55,033
So, finding out
that he'd actually survived it
676
00:34:55,033 --> 00:34:56,300
was incredible.
677
00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:01,834
[reporter] A blood drive
was held today
in the coach's honor.
678
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:04,667
And the line of donors
included citizens, parents
679
00:35:04,734 --> 00:35:05,667
and quite a few members
680
00:35:05,667 --> 00:35:08,233
of the Canton High School
football team.
681
00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:10,834
[McLemee] The entire town,
even a lot of the county
682
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,467
that didn't know Coach Kinne,
rallied around him,
683
00:35:13,467 --> 00:35:14,834
and was there.
684
00:35:14,834 --> 00:35:18,166
They put
their hard feelings aside
because of what occurred.
685
00:35:19,133 --> 00:35:21,567
But I will say
the Robertsons did have
686
00:35:21,567 --> 00:35:25,033
a lot of their own
family and friends
rally around them.
687
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,567
[Crapanzano] Jeff's from here.
Just being here that long,
688
00:35:28,567 --> 00:35:31,033
you know, Coach Kinne was new,
was an outsider.
689
00:35:31,033 --> 00:35:32,667
To the people outside
of that locker room,
690
00:35:32,667 --> 00:35:35,467
or outside of
the football part of Canton,
691
00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:38,166
they were close with Jeff
and were there for him.
692
00:35:38,166 --> 00:35:41,567
[McLemee] In the beginning
you initially think, "Well,
693
00:35:41,634 --> 00:35:45,734
who's gonna rally around a man
that shot a coach?"
694
00:35:45,734 --> 00:35:47,567
But then later on
you realize that
695
00:35:47,634 --> 00:35:48,967
there are still
a lot of other people
696
00:35:48,967 --> 00:35:51,233
that's been
affected by Coach Kinne.
697
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,333
My heart goes out
sincerely to Kinne family.
698
00:35:55,333 --> 00:35:58,567
But, you know, like,
to stop and think
about his son,
699
00:35:58,634 --> 00:36:00,133
like, the Robertsons' son,
700
00:36:00,133 --> 00:36:02,333
it's just, you know,
it's probably so hard on him,
701
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,867
you know, and like,
I feel for him, too,
702
00:36:03,867 --> 00:36:06,734
just as much as like...
as the Kinne family.
703
00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:10,667
[Oakley] Baron didn't
come back to school
for a little while.
704
00:36:10,734 --> 00:36:12,100
I don't remember
exactly how long.
705
00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:15,000
But ultimately, they decided
he's gone to school in Canton
706
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,934
all his life, he needs
to be back with his friends
707
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,667
and he came back
to school.
708
00:36:19,667 --> 00:36:21,033
I was fine with that.
709
00:36:21,033 --> 00:36:22,734
We don't treat kids
a certain way
710
00:36:22,734 --> 00:36:24,233
because of what
their parents did.
711
00:36:25,233 --> 00:36:28,000
It was not Baron,
it wasn't his actions.
712
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,567
There's no reason
to be mad.
713
00:36:36,467 --> 00:36:39,000
The East Texas football coach
shot earlier this month
714
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,667
is back home tonight.
715
00:36:40,734 --> 00:36:41,967
Gary Joe Kinne was released
716
00:36:41,967 --> 00:36:44,100
from a Tyler hospital
last night.
717
00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,567
I think a lot of people,
myself included,
718
00:36:46,634 --> 00:36:48,233
were quite surprised
719
00:36:48,233 --> 00:36:50,967
to learn that not only
did he recover
720
00:36:50,967 --> 00:36:53,100
and get out of the hospital
721
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:55,233
but he was back to work
722
00:36:55,233 --> 00:36:58,567
as head coach of
the Canton Eagles that fall.
723
00:36:58,634 --> 00:36:59,934
This is what
I've always done.
724
00:37:00,066 --> 00:37:01,467
I mean, I've always
been an athlete
725
00:37:01,467 --> 00:37:03,000
and, uh, I have always
wanted to coach,
726
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,667
and, uh, I knew that,
727
00:37:04,667 --> 00:37:07,367
uh, I wanted
to come back and, um...
728
00:37:07,367 --> 00:37:09,166
There was...
there was just
really no doubt I was,
729
00:37:09,166 --> 00:37:11,033
it was just when
I was gonna come back,
730
00:37:11,033 --> 00:37:13,634
and, uh, just...
just wanted to be out here.
731
00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:20,333
That season when
we came out
of the locker room,
732
00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:22,066
we were fired up.
733
00:37:22,767 --> 00:37:24,433
I feel like we had
something to prove.
734
00:37:25,467 --> 00:37:27,333
I just remember...
735
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,767
coming out and just that
feeling of knowing
736
00:37:31,767 --> 00:37:34,066
"we weren't gonna lose,"
just took over.
737
00:37:34,066 --> 00:37:39,233
And then the team carrying on
and winning like never before.
738
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,834
First district title
since 1980.
739
00:37:41,834 --> 00:37:45,333
First playoff win
since 1964.
740
00:37:45,333 --> 00:37:48,333
It was suddenly
the kind of feel-good story
741
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,867
that I think we all like
to read about or hear about,
742
00:37:51,867 --> 00:37:54,066
"bouncing back from tragedy."
743
00:37:54,066 --> 00:37:56,567
[crowd cheering]
744
00:38:02,567 --> 00:38:04,834
-[woman] Mr. Robertson,
is that correct?
-Yes, ma'am.
745
00:38:04,834 --> 00:38:07,734
[reporter]
Robertson made his initial
courtroom appearance today.
746
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,000
He's charged with
aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
747
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
A conviction could mean
up to 20 years in prison.
748
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,567
[woman] You have the right
to retain counsel.
749
00:38:15,567 --> 00:38:18,734
When we took
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
into custody,
750
00:38:18,734 --> 00:38:20,634
he really wasn't
saying much.
751
00:38:21,367 --> 00:38:24,567
And then, he lawyered up
pretty quick.
752
00:38:24,567 --> 00:38:28,200
Come to find out,
Kinne was his only
motive and target.
753
00:38:34,667 --> 00:38:36,834
So we go to trial on it.
754
00:38:36,834 --> 00:38:41,166
The jury came back with guilty
for aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
755
00:38:41,166 --> 00:38:43,967
So that means that
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
756
00:38:43,967 --> 00:38:46,634
cannot go to prison
for more than 20 years.
757
00:38:49,066 --> 00:38:50,166
[Oakley] I was really shocked
758
00:38:50,166 --> 00:38:51,934
at things I learned
about the legal system.
759
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,734
I mean,
the man almost died.
760
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,734
I mean, he pointblank
shot him,
761
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,367
but aggravated assault is
762
00:38:58,367 --> 00:39:00,734
about the best charge
they can bring.
763
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,567
It's like, "Well, why not
attempted murder?"
764
00:39:02,567 --> 00:39:05,800
And they're like, "It's so
hard to prove.
You can't prove that
765
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,967
he intended to kill him.
766
00:39:07,967 --> 00:39:09,834
All you can say
is he shot him."
767
00:39:12,967 --> 00:39:15,333
[McLemee] Kinne
was mad as hell at the jury.
768
00:39:15,333 --> 00:39:18,333
He wanted
Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
to serve life in prison.
769
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,433
He didn't get it.
He threw a temper tantrum.
770
00:39:22,233 --> 00:39:25,934
It's my opinion that
had Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
771
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,266
walked in
that field house unarmed
772
00:39:28,266 --> 00:39:33,100
and just whoop
the fire out of Kinne
or took a whoopin' from him,
773
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:35,467
he would've got
a little misdemeanor assault
774
00:39:35,467 --> 00:39:38,100
and everybody
would have got
a kick out of it.
775
00:39:39,133 --> 00:39:42,266
[Britt] I think
it speaks to a dark side
776
00:39:42,266 --> 00:39:45,233
of high-school
athletics today
777
00:39:45,233 --> 00:39:49,133
and a lot of lives
have been adversely affected.
778
00:39:50,967 --> 00:39:54,133
Coach Kinne left
the following year
for an opportunity
779
00:39:54,133 --> 00:39:56,066
as an assistant coach
at Baylor.
780
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:59,734
GJ decided to transfer.
781
00:40:01,166 --> 00:40:05,066
Canton football, I don't think
they've quite reached,
782
00:40:05,066 --> 00:40:08,000
you know, that pinnacle
of that 2005 season,
783
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,667
the last season
under Coach Kinne.
784
00:40:10,667 --> 00:40:12,367
[Crapanzano]
Coach didn't wanna
be here anymore.
785
00:40:12,367 --> 00:40:15,266
You know, then GJ
didn't wanna be here.
You can't blame 'em.
786
00:40:15,266 --> 00:40:17,567
There's people
in the community
that might be understanding,
787
00:40:17,634 --> 00:40:19,100
but just on
a selfish level
788
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,834
for sports reasons,
they're upset.
789
00:40:30,033 --> 00:40:32,734
When you get down
to Gary and Jeff,
790
00:40:32,734 --> 00:40:36,100
two incredibly passionate,
intense guys.
791
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:37,667
So, if I'm really honest
792
00:40:37,734 --> 00:40:41,233
without the passion
and the intensity
793
00:40:41,233 --> 00:40:44,667
that comes with
high school football,
especially in Texas,
794
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,467
I can't imagine
that it would've happened.
795
00:40:47,533 --> 00:40:49,834
I would think
you could very safely say
796
00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:52,066
in the biggest picture
797
00:40:52,066 --> 00:40:54,033
it happened
because of the intensity
798
00:40:54,033 --> 00:40:55,233
that comes from
high school football.
799
00:41:11,333 --> 00:41:12,667
I didn't think it could
have been
800
00:41:12,667 --> 00:41:14,634
anybody that I knew that
would have stabbed me.
801
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,533
This is, like,
a crazy story.
802
00:41:18,734 --> 00:41:22,066
We started interviewing the
entire 80-person football team.
803
00:41:23,367 --> 00:41:26,367
This case went in a direction
that no one was expecting.
804
00:41:26,367 --> 00:41:29,467
♪