POLICE OFFICER: We just got a call on a guy who called 9-1-1.
Patrol got there.
And he started firing shots.
It sounds like he's got officers pinned down
on at least two sides of the structure,
stand a chance getting shot.
So we're heading up there to pull
them out and then work on getting
this suspect in custody.
[music playing]
He's shooting at that-- out of that window and that window.
He's got a complete field of fire.
So that's-- that's a primary concern.
The first couple were directed out.
But, OK, that's automatic fire.
[inaudible] is up there.
But what I need you to do right now is start the intel process.
Yeah.
RAUL MORENO: So you've got-- you've been driven to a corner.
And you've got the line in the sand.
Well, I tell you what, what has driven you into the corner
there, Mr. Dugger?
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Government interference, OK?
So the government's been interfering with your life
is what you're saying?
He's been drinking.
I can tell he's-- he's heavily intoxicated.
And he's mad at the government.
So it's going to be a tough one.
The guy's still firing shots.
And we've got a couple of patrol officers
down there in the line of fire.
First order of business is going to be to get them out.
He's-- he's in the line of fire.
He needs to be extracted.
We got to get that officer out of there.
He's shot, like, probably 20 times since we've been here.
We can't do anything until the APC arrives.
The suspect's down there still firing.
And we need some-- some hard cover
to get these guys pulled out.
RAUL MORENO: Sam, let me ask you something.
Yeah, you say you got 900 rounds.
OK, you got 900 rounds of ammunition
in there with you, right?
Sam, what kind of gun you got?
Right now, we've got him isolated on the line,
trying to talk to them, and trying to calm
him down, quite firing shots.
I'm trying to keep him occupied.
Hey, it's an armored personnel carrier here yet?
It just pulled up.
OK, let's go.
[music playing]
RICH EMBERLIN: OK, do you want lethal cover?
Not from you up top, unless you're--
Well, from where?
He needs it.
All right, Duane, hold up one second.
Go ahead and go.
Go ahead and go, Rich.
POLICE OFFICER: Is that him on the wall down there?
RICH EMBERLIN: Yeah.
OK, I'm going to have him run in front of the squad car
to get in.
RICH EMBERLIN: Have him run farther south.
Is the target south of us now?
I'm looking at the target.
POLICE OFFICER: And do we need to back him up some
to make him parallel with us?
OK, dude. Hold up here.
Hold. Hold.
Hold.
OK, dude, you get to climb over that hood.
POLICE OFFICER: Or he can go around the back.
No, I don't want him going around the back.
He's ready to go, you guys.
OK, he's still shooting.
POLICE OFFICER (ON RADIO): Shots fired again.
But I'm sitting here at the corner of--
I don't like this.
Hang on.
You guys ready?
Time to move.
POLICE OFFICER: OK, dude. Come on.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
OK, Sam, don't be firing shots while I'm talking to you.
RAUL MORENO: That guy needs out of there.
We're going to come get you.
Why don't I back up to him.
I'll keep the doors away from the target location.
You can open them up.
RICH EMBERLIN: Yeah, just back up to him, Duane.
Get the welcoming committee ready.
Yeah.
RICH EMBERLIN: Can you see him in your rear view
mirror, Duane?
OK.
Slow down, Duane.
POLICE OFFICER: Tell him to stay their,
Rich, until we tell him to go.
Hold on.
DUANE: Tell me when.
POLICE OFFICER: Rich, let me hold that door open.
OK. OK.
Hold it, Duane.
Let me hold the right door.
OK.
When I tell you, I'm going to give you hard cover.
And you jump in on this side.
OK?
POLICE OFFICER: As soon as he jumps out, you run in.
You ready?
One, two, three.
What's your [inaudible]?
214.
- All right. - 241.
I'm sorry.
241.
I'm going to take him back to the front of the Blockbuster.
[music playing]
We want to give this guy a chance to come out voluntarily.
But if it comes to the window with a weapon and fires,
we're going to have to return fire.
[phone ringing]
RAUL MORENO: It's ringing.
See if anybody can hear a phone?
Earlier, it was busy.
We had a busy signal.
Now it's ringing.
So I don't know if he put it back on the hook.
He plugged the thing back up.
We don't know.
Shots fired.
RICH EMBERLIN: Which one?
Which window?
C2.
RICH EMBERLIN: Jim, I can put it in Charlie
4 window and Charlie 2 window.
This guy's not responding to our negotiator's attempts
to make contact with him.
So we're going to escalate here a little bit.
Yeah, he's on the left side of that--
In that little hole?
POLICE OFFICER: Of the window, hiding behind the wall.
And there he is.
POLICE OFFICER: Did that go in?
POLICE OFFICER: Yes.
He thinks a SWAT team has been following him around?
OK.
And this has been going on for, like, the last week and a half?
POLICE OFFICER: He's got his head out the window.
He's trying to get air.
RICH EMBERLIN: You got any more ferrets in here, man?
POLICE OFFICER: Yeah, open that thing.
I got the others.
[interposing voices]
He's trying to get air.
OK, last few days he hadn't been acting right.
Do you know what he might be upset about?
His dad just died not too long ago?
Shot himself?
OK.
RICH EMBERLIN: OK, the guy's dad killed himself two months ago.
We're getting intel over the air.
And he says-- the suspect's now saying
he's going to do it, probably either shoot
himself or make us shoot him.
That's what it sounds like.
POLICE OFFICER: OK, he walked away from the window.
Yeah, it's clear.
He's gone.
That went in there.
That went in.
Yeah.
Say when, Jim.
That guy is wearing us out.
RICH EMBERLIN: He's quit shooting
for the last five minutes.
But now he's demanding that we shoot him.
We out of gas, right?
[phone ringing]
He's fixing to throw the gas on the window right now.
He's backing off.
Here it goes.
Get it.
POLICE OFFICER: Good job.
Outstanding.
Here comes the smoke.
Tell him to back out.
It's in good and it's filling up.
POLICE OFFICER: So you can't see in there anymore.
He's throwing up.
And he's-- he's on the A side.
Two alpha, two window throwing up.
They're there in case he pops out they can arrest him.
There in the adjacent apartment.
They say there's bullet holes through the walls.
POLICE OFFICER: Suspect's opened the door.
They're inside.
Bring the suspect out, out the door.
They got him in custody.
They got him.
Good job, guys.
Sam, how are you doing, bud?
You all right?
No sir.
Huh, what's going on?
RANDY LANCASTER: I don't know how
he stood all that gas in there.
It was bad just with a mask on.
It was bad.
Soon as you go in, you can feel it just eating
at your pores and the stinging.
--your mom, Sam.
RICH EMBERLIN: Well, I thought it was going to end a lot
more violently than it did.
I shot every single gas round I had.
And I usually carry too much.
RAUL MORENO: Sam, hey, talk to your mom.
OK?
We're going to call her and let her know that you're OK.
All right?
I'll do that for you, all right?
I appreciate that.
RICH EMBERLIN: What eventually got him out is
JT throwing that canister in.
That was the best throw I've ever seen in my life.
What you've been drinking?
Nothing.
Nothing?
I smell alcohol.
RICH EMBERLIN: Guy took a little tear gas
and a couple of handhelds and guys in custody.
Everybody's going home now.