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Abacus. You can count on us. >> 56 years ago, the day wore
>> 56 years ago, the day wore
on the campus of the University
of Texas in Austin. A man fired
round after round from the top
of the campus clock tower. He killed 14 people and injured
He killed 14 people and injured
dozens more.
>> And tonight, KPRC 2
investigator Mario Diaz talks
with the police officer who ran
towards the gunshots and ended the rampage.
the rampage.
>> The mission was to stop the
shooting, get the shooter.
>> There are generations of
people living because of let me do my the Knicks play.
do my the Knicks play.
Martinez.
>> One of the bravest think of
ever met.
>> His story, a lesson in
response still relevant today. 56 years after the deadly mass
56 years after the deadly mass
shooting on the campus of the
University of Texas. >> Ladies and various a person
>> Ladies and various a person
shooting from, I think
University of Texas higher.
This is the first news Bulletin
month. Theme is heard on his
home television set on August. First 1966.
First 1966.
>> Martinez went to UT to help
direct traffic away from what
had become a tower of terror. >> Whitman shot me in the back.
>> Whitman shot me in the back.
Charles Whitman, a 25 year-old
Marine Sniper dealing with
mental health issues had taken
over the tower.
For well over an hour, Whitman picked off students on campus.
picked off students on campus.
Others heard the shots and
scampered to take cover.
Martinez’s focus shifted from
traffic duty to the town. What was going through your
What was going through your
mind as you sprinted towards
the tower knowing you had.
They killed her. Targeting anyone with a rifle. I didn’t
anyone with a rifle. I didn’t
step to fake. I just needed to
get to the power. I need to get
into the tower because I’m sure
that there are some of salt
squad.
>> Came from the police
department or something where, you know, and they’re going in
you know, and they’re going in
there and I need to go in there
and help them. Where was that
assault squad? When you got
inside the tower? There is
none.
>> With courage in his bones,
in faith, in his heart. The then 29 year-old month, Enos
then 29 year-old month, Enos
whipped up the tower passing
the debt and will.
>> There was a man that came
out and he had a white a pair of women’s shoes in his hands
of women’s shoes in his hands
and their blood.
who said let me have your gun
out and go kill So be upper.
He killed my family by this
point. Another man joined him on the news on his mission.
on the news on his mission.
He said, are we playing for
keeps?
And I looked at him and that’s
when I realized if you missed the civilian. And that’s it,
the civilian. And that’s it,
you d*** right. We are what’s
at the top. Martinez gave the
civilian strict deadly orders
that you stay here when you aim your rifle, that if he comes
your rifle, that if he comes
around the corner shooting
because I want to go look for.
>> Seconds later, another
officer named Houston McCoy
showed up backing Martinez up together. They came up
together. They came up
on Whitman.
>> I’m Tim a gun into him.
I mean, you know, I could tell
that I was scoring. I was
hitting.
And then the following the McCoy, the shooting, the court
McCoy, the shooting, the court
finally shot and hit him with
a shotgun.
>> Yet Whitman was still
moving.
>> So I fired one more round kind of football or, you know,
kind of football or, you know,
I mean, it’s offense. But at
the end of that work. The
realization that he does what it meant.
it meant.
I do feel sorry for him.
>> 14 dead.
31 injured Medina’s ending the
96 minutes of terror.
>> He wanted the carnage to stop. Adrian Littlefield was a
stop. Adrian Littlefield was a
19 year-old newlywed. That dat
both he and his wife were shot
to this day. He directs
gratitude at the Nus. My
thanks. Are.
>> Never ending for. Stopping
the situation. That could have
led to and much more
destruction and death. And what
we experienced.
♪
>> That was investigator Mario Diaz reporting on click 2