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GUNSHOTS | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
INDISTINCT SHOUTING | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
SHOUTING CONTINUES | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
SIRENS | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
INDISTINCT SHOUTING | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
The LAPD is on heightened alert following a series of shootings... | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
Witnesses say that a gunman shot a man inside a car | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
at the corner of 81st and Hoover. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
This was at about four o'clock this afternoon. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
It's unclear if the shootings have anything to do with | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
social media posts about a gang promising 100 days of violence | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
as revenge for the murder of one of its members. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
MUSIC: Lucifer by Jay Z | 0:01:27 | 0:01:28 | |
# Lucifer, son of the morning | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
# I'm gonna chase you out of Earth | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
# Lucifer, Lucifer Son of the morning | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
# I'm from the murder capital | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
# Where we murder for capital | 0:01:37 | 0:01:38 | |
# Lucifer, Lucifer Son of the morning... # | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
An explosion of violence in south Los Angeles | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
has residents there on edge tonight. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
The latest happened at 48th and Budlong Avenue | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
in Vermont Square Park. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
We heard the pops, we were in our house. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
We waited, I heard more, and I realised they weren't fireworks. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
I went out... | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
just to right here, and our neighbours to the right of us | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
were outside and yelling at us to get back in the house. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
I went back and got my partner and told him to grab some shirts, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
I grabbed some gauze. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
Then we headed toward the park. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
We could see a couple people that were... | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
that were still over there that were hurt, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
and then somebody laying on the floor. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
He had been shot several times, he was laying in a pool of blood. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
We ran out of gauze really quickly. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
He was bleeding so much, there was so much blood. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Um... | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
Yeah. There was so much blood. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
I was actually at another shooting, um... | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
..not too far from here. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
And heard the dispatch for this one, so we came over. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
Set up a camera right about here. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Pretty much right about here. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
I started filming the scene. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
Right over where all the benches are, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
right underneath the awning over here. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
Noticed we had three victims suffering gunshot wounds. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
No idea who the shooters were or what the actual motive was. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
They were calling it 100 dead in 100 days. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
There was a free-for-all. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:31 | |
-I think they called for... -Yeah, we did. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
The US gun homicide rate | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
is 20 times higher | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
than that of our 22 peer nations. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
86 people die every day from guns. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
That's four Sandy Hooks, | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
ten Charlestons... | 0:03:58 | 0:03:59 | |
every day. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
-OFFICER: -What's your last name? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
That's why, you know... | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Yeah, about two steps. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
911, location of your emergency? | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
Rockford Beach. Someone just got shot. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
They were screaming, they were all fighting. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
There's a whole bunch of kids. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
OK, listen to me. The person who shot the subject, where is he? | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
He's in a white suburban. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
He's in a white suburban. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
They were threatening him, and he turned around and shot them. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
He's got six kids in his car with him. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
OK. We've got help on the way, OK? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
The guy that's laying on the ground, it looks like he's dead. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
He was my best friend. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
This is one of me and him. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
He's kissing me. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:01 | |
This is one of him just being his usual goofy self. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
-INTERVIEWER: -Did you call him Patrick or Pat? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
-Trouble. -Trouble. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
OK. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
Pat went by Trouble, I don't know, it was just kind of a nickname. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
And it stuck. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
-Trouble in a good way, though. -Right, yeah. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
Never trouble in a bad way. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
I mean, he's got a history, everybody's got a history, but... | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Definitely wasn't a troublemaker. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
These are... | 0:06:28 | 0:06:29 | |
Actually, here are some from the day it happened. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
Here we go. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
Ryan constantly snapping pictures. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
"My brother and his boyfriend." | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:06:38 | 0:06:39 | |
This is one of my favourites, that just shows... | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
us having a good time. Pat's enjoying himself. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
Everybody's smiling. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:47 | |
And then it turned into a nightmare...that quick. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
MUSIC: One Step closer by Linkin Park | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
# Everything you say to me... # | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
I think I worked till two that day. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Patrick had texted me. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
# Cos I'm one step closer to the edge | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
# I'm about to break | 0:07:04 | 0:07:05 | |
# I find the answers aren't so clear... # | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
We had talked about it earlier in the week, about going to the river. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
St Louis, that's what we do when it's hot. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
Go to the closest water. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
# All these thoughts They make no sense... # | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
He said, "All right, I'm down here. Waiting for you." | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
Asked him if I needed to bring anything, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
he was like, "No, bring yourself." | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
# ..Just like before... # | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
This is my first time back since it happened. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
This is basically the hang-out spot where we was hanging out. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
Us three were right here. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Drinking, dipping, pushing each other in, | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
roughhousing, doing what guys do. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
A tall guy approached us. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:52 | |
Didn't he say something about our beer cans or something? | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Yeah, I believe so, yeah. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
-He said something... -Asked if we was going to pick them up. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
-Yeah, he said... -We were still here, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
so we was going to pick them up when we left, of course. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
But that was the first time he approached us. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
And we told him to mind his own business. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
We just basically let him know, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
"Hey, when we leave, we'll pick up our trash. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
"You don't gotta worry about that." | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
And that's when he just, like... | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
kept coming, like... | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
Just looking for reasons to start something. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
Like, who would approach three males who have been drinking | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
by his self? | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
I just... I could tell he was looking for trouble. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
Basically, after the second time he approached us, that's | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
when we came to the conclusion that it was time for us to leave. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
He asked if we had a problem. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
Yeah... He was real insistent on, if we had a problem. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
Like I said, I was the more sober, and I was like, | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
"Look, dude. No, we don't got a problem." | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
And honestly, I was just... | 0:08:56 | 0:08:57 | |
My brother and Pat, they was drunk | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
so I was just trying to get them out of here, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
cos I knew, if he kept stirring shit, | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
there was going to be a problem. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
Words was exchanged. People started getting...mad. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
And... | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
I guess his wife approached and kind of calmed him down | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
and got him back in his vehicle. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
He drove past, somebody said something, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
and when I looked up, the truck was up... | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
up further, and Pat was back here. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
Basically, he just leaned... | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
leaned out of the window and... | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
GUNSHOT | 0:09:26 | 0:09:27 | |
I mean, he was in a full-sized SUV. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
There was a clear path, road, ahead of him. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
All he had to do was hit the gas. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
If he feared for his life, like he says, I mean, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
he could have just drove off. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
-OFFICER: -Trouble? -Yeah. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Who would you say is trouble? | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
Patrick, his nickname was Trouble? | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
Well, how did he get that? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
-Causing trouble? -No. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:13 | |
Trouble seemed to follow him? | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
OK. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:18 | |
The three guys were obviously... | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
drunk. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:27 | |
And if you look, like, where the dirt's at? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
They had thrown beer cans and stuff there. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
Lots of beer cans. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
Lots of beer cans. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
It was getting loud and... | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
and I didn't want to be around any more. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
There was a dad and a mom, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:46 | |
and the kids were running around and playing and stuff. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
The dad had come over and introduced himself. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
He had served in the military. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
Whether it was the beer cans or the cussing, | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
because he did make a comment, | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
you know, "My kids are here. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
"Come on," you know, "I got my kids here." | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
-Over and over again. -Over and over again. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
They kept... | 0:11:11 | 0:11:12 | |
screaming and pushing him around, it seemed. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
Belligerent. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:17 | |
It seemed like he was just trying to get out of here | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
and make sure his wife went with him. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
The three guys that were harassing him followed him the whole time | 0:11:23 | 0:11:28 | |
and he kept saying, "I got a gun, leave me alone, I got a gun." | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
And they were beating on his truck. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
And I could hear this, I couldn't see it. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
They were beating on his truck, he said he had a gun | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
at least three times. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
And then all of a sudden, you heard the shots. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
As I told the officers that night, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
I don't know what my response would have been, you know, | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
if my children...if I felt like my children were being threatened, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
and...I don't know. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:00 | |
I don't know what the mother lion would...do. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
It's Detective Johnson, I'm out with Summer Kovach | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
in reference to the shooting at Rockford Beach. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
-You're married to Michael Kovach, correct? -Yes. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
What I'm going to ask you about is the gun in question, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
that Michael had. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
When did he pick up the gun? | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
He bought it Friday, mad at you? | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
And why was he mad at you? | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
OK. So he bought the gun to intimidate you, or...? | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Till death do us part. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:57 | |
He knew I was leaving. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:02 | |
But you didn't drive away? | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
There was nothing I could do at that point... | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
I had... | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
OK. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
I'd already pulled the pistol. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
Get back, man! | 0:13:49 | 0:13:50 | |
That's what we need to understand here. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Because the man was at my window and... | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
How's that contorting? | 0:14:25 | 0:14:26 | |
And this is why me and him aren't together right now. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
And none of them were thinking properly. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
I really didn't. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:52 | |
He's not alive? | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:15:02 | 0:15:04 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:09 | |
He actually bought the gun the night before, he bought it on a Friday. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
And Saturday, he killed my best friend. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
Detectives investigating 13 shootings this week, | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
and three of them deadly. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
Detectives arrested a 20-year-old man, charging him | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
with firing at officers who were responding to a large disturbance | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
and gunfire inside the Tyler apartments. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
I mean, I don't like to talk about my past because, you know, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
I still... | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
You know, I just don't want to talk about that type of stuff. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
I was one of these reckless guys, shooting people | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
and all that stuff, you know, saying, "Well, we 'bout to go." | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
Like, I got attempted murder up here, you know what I'm saying? | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
And that was my first attempted murder charge. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
But it's time for me to mature, you know what I'm saying? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
I mean, there's only so long you can do dirt, | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
know what I'm saying, before it catches back up with you. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
ENGINE REVS | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
MUSIC: Believe Me by Lil Wayne ft Drake | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
# I'm the only one that get the job done | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
# I don't know of no-one that could cover for me | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
# Got some game from my daddy | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
# He said she might say she love me | 0:16:54 | 0:16:55 | |
# She don't love me like she say she love me | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
# Believe me | 0:16:57 | 0:16:58 | |
# Believe me... # | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
We was hoping to have a good night, because we was bored. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
ENGINE REVS | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
It was king of the hill weekend. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
Like a bikers' party. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
I was planning to go where everybody else was at. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
Reka, she's my sister. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
And Diamond, she's my sister's best friend. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
We would go out, like, every weekend. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
# ..I'm the only one that get the job done | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
# I don't know of no-one that could cover for me. # | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
My mom was watching my kids that night. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
I have four boys. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
# ..Believe me, believe me... # | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Reka got on my Facebook page and she wrote Marcus. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
That night was the first night she met him. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
Google me, I ain't got no Google, no Facebook. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
Look me up... | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
Marcus is goofy. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
INDISTINCT | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
HE RAPS ALONG WITH RADIO | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
# Are you gonna tell another lie? # | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
It was Marcus, Fred and Cornelius in the car. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
I'm sitting next to Cornelius, and he was cute. Real fine. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
Cornelius Rayshard Morris was my little cousin. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
He was a good guy, you know, probably the best guy that I know. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:31 | |
I know he's the best out of the family. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:32 | |
The sharpest dresser that I know. He's the guy that... | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
He brought New Balances back into style, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
and you know how New Balances look. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
He had it, know what I'm saying? | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
It was crazy. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
We was on T all night. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
# If she get a job at DOA I drop her off a tip | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
# I had to get it poppin' off the rip | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
# I'm the one they tell ya been reppin' in the six | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
# Come into the city and ya... Get to trippin' | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
# We'll take ya to the Scarborough Bluff and drop you off a cliff... # | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
We hear about a party, | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
and then go to the club afterwards. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
Just pure insanity out here. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
This is the spot right here, where we at. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
My brother was like, "Hey, man, that car following us." | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
And I'm like, "Bruh, ain't nobody following us, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
"you know what I'm saying? You trippin'. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:38 | |
"There ain't nobody following us. You paranoid," I said. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
"You paranoid." I just brushed it off. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
It's loud. We can't hear... | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
They were saying that they think somebody was following us, | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
but we ain't hear it the whole time. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
We start hitting, like, 100, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
cos he says a car was following us, | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
so I just hit it down this road | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
and I left that car way behind. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
But we were stuck at that light so long that they caught up to us. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
I mean, I seen them when they started shooting. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
I was looking in the rear-view, so I was like, "Duck!" | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
He hung out the window. I seen him, he hung his whole body out. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
That's when I was like, "Duck!" | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
And then pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
It felt like I was being Tased. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
It's like somebody set me on fire. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
We pulled up to the gas station. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
When I got out the car, I didn't feel it in my leg. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
I got shot twice. I got shot in my leg and my lung. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
I can't even explain it. I was so scared. I cannot explain it. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
I tried to talk but I really couldn't. I don't know. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:08 | |
I thought I was going to lose my life. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
-PHONE CALL: -911. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
INDISTINCT SHOUTING | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
Sir, I can't hear what you're saying for all the noise in the background. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Somebody's shooting at us! They shot the car! | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
Then I walked around to my cousin's side and I shook him. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
I'm like, "Wake up. Wake up." | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
Trying to shake him, know what I'm saying? "Wake up. Wake up." | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
And I could see, like, white foam on his head, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
and that's from where the bullet went through the seat. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
The cushion from the seat was stuck in the back of his head. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
-PHONE CALL: My cousin's been shot. Help me. -Listen, listen. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
Are you with him right now? | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
I can't talk calm with you. Yes, he's right here. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
-Yes, he's right here. -Are you all in a car? | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
Yes. Come on. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
Sir. Sir. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
INDISTINCT SHOUTING | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
He's not dead. He's not dead. Pull up. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
INDISTINCT SHOUTING | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
Within the past 40 minutes, we've learned the male victim | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
in an early-morning shooting in Huntsville is dead. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
A female victim remains in the hospital | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
with life-threatening injuries. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
It was terrifying. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:34 | |
By the time I got in there, she was in ICU. She had been shot twice. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:41 | |
It was hard. It was really hard. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
I've never had to go through that with any of my kids. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
I didn't know if I was going to have to bury her or what. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
When I came out of surgery, | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
they had brought my mom and my dad in the room. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
That was the first person that I seen and they came back there | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
and I just burst out in tears | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
because I didn't ever think I'd see my mom again. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
I was just so blessed to see her alive. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
We saw the parents of the young man that got killed. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
Cornelius' parents. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
And they got the word that he had passed. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
It just broke my heart. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
Can we do the rest of this tomorrow? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
I just don't expect my kids or nobody's kids to die like that. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:59 | |
This is where Cornelius got killed there, for real. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
You know, they can say he died at the hospital but... | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
I don't think so. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
I think when he got shot, he was dead. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
The young generation, when they get mad, | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
the first thing they grab - a gun - | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
instead of doing like we did back in the old days, just knuckle it up. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:37 | |
You'd be friends right when you get through. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
He was one of them sons. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
Real special. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
"Can I come over there and spend the night?" | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
He always got to have his feet on me or his hands on me. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
I'd be trying to push him out the bed. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
I catch myself even just dialling his number... | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
..thinking he gon' pick up. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
But... | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
..I'd just be dialling just to be dialling. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
-NEWS REPORT: -Two suspects in custody | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
following this weekend's deadly shooting. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
Police are tweeting that multiple people have been shot. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
No official word on fatalities right now. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
-BARACK OBAMA: -You don't see murder on this kind of scale | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
with this kind of frequency | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
in any other advanced nation on Earth. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
Every country has violent, hateful or mentally unstable people. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:57 | |
What's different is, not every country is awash | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
with easily accessible guns. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
-RADIO: -Temperatures in the 70s and 80s, so a warm start to the day | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
but even warmer as we get into the afternoon | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
across the deserts here in Arizona. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
PHONE CHIMES | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
PHONE BEEPS | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
PHONE BEEPS | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
PHONE VIBRATES, BEEPS | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
Tucson police. Curtis. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
Hi, I'm just trying to report a suicide bid. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
PHONE BEEPS | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
I live in the Phoenix area | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
but I have a friend who's in the Tucson area and has basically | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
sent me a text sounding like a suicide note. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
PHONE BEEPS | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
What's the name and telephone? | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
Joshua. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
Yeah, do you have their address by any chance? | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
I don't, unfortunately. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
PHONE BEEPS | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
Tucson police. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
Yes, I wanted to see | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
if it's possible to get a well-check done on my son. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
He's threatened suicide in the middle of the night. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:31 | |
I'm his mom. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
Where is he? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
-He's in Tucson. -Do you know where? What his address is? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
It's 3052 North Alvernon Way | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
and it's apartment 201. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
He has been suicidal before. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
OK. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:53 | |
I woke up about an hour after he sent the text. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
I was really nervous | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
because I wasn't sure, really, what I was going to do when I got there. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
I just knew I had to go. I was shaking a lot. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
The way he's told me is that I've been one of his best friends. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:24 | |
From early on, I knew that he had a lot of stuff going on. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
He had issues with his father. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
His mother at the time was the only vaguely stable influence | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
in his life, and he didn't have a lot of good relationships. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:40 | |
But I helped him out the best I could. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
I pull in, the police are already there. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
I can't go up or anything. They told me to stay back. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:53 | |
There was a police officer on the staircase | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
and there was one on top and they were trying to talk to Joshua | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
and get him out and talk to him. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
I felt so helpless, | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
also relieved because, in my mind, they're well-trained | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
to de-escalate situations. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
I came to the shop early, | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
6.30, Sunday morning. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:25 | |
I noticed police across the street. I didn't think a whole lot of it. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:30 | |
I parked my truck and I was walking up to unlock the shop | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
and I heard the police yell, "Put down the knife!" | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
And at that time I turned around. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
I thought, you know, something was getting ready to happen. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
SIRENS WAIL | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
He eventually comes out and he has knives in his hands. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:54 | |
He was walking to them like this, like a knife-attacking position. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:59 | |
I was like, "Oh, he's doing this." | 0:29:59 | 0:30:01 | |
I saw one police officer down at the bottom of the stairs | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
and I saw one officer at the top of the stairs and then, | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
I mean, in less than a second it seemed like they had shot. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:13 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
I saw both of them shoot. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
He fell down and I had heard him saying, "Thank you for killing me." | 0:30:20 | 0:30:23 | |
I realised that he did it on purpose. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
I know you feel it. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
The threats are all around us. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
Politicians aren't there to protect you. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
Laws can't protect you. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
You're on your own. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
But you know what can protect you when no-one else can? | 0:30:51 | 0:30:56 | |
GUNSHOT | 0:30:56 | 0:30:57 | |
The iron-clad absolute safeguard | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
This is my everyday carry weapon. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
This is a Glock 19. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
It's small, it's concealable, holds 15 rounds plus one in the chamber. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
If I'm going down to the corner store to get gas, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
probably not a big deal, I'm going to take that guy. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
If we're going where we know there's riots out or there's the potential | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
for something like that happening, | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
I'm probably taking more than a pistol. I'll probably take a rifle | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
or something else with me and spare magazines in case. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
This guy here is one of my favourites. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
One of the good things about this one is, it folds down really small | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
with that short barrel, when you take the suppressor off it. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
If you're wearing a long coat or something, you could potentially... | 0:31:44 | 0:31:49 | |
put that underneath to hide it. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:51 | |
That little area there is where you want to hit. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:53 | |
That's where all the vital organs are. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
I'm not going to feel like a victim in my own city. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
If I needed to defend myself or my family, | 0:31:58 | 0:32:01 | |
at least I have some practice or skill set that I can do that with. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
Maybe it'll never happen. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:06 | |
Maybe I'll never need a spare tyre on my car | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
but I keep one in the trunk anyway. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
NEWS REPORT: It's a popular park this time of year. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
Rockford Beach sits along the Big River in Jefferson County. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
Investigators say it was near dusk, Saturday, | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
when a verbal argument escalated into gunfire. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
I was down at the lake at the Ozarks. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:29 | |
I got a message on my phone. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:36 | |
We get bad reception there, | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
so I have to go up on the hill to get my messages. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
And I went up on the hill and turned my phone on | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
and Patrick's girlfriend said, "Mike, please call me." | 0:32:45 | 0:32:49 | |
I could tell in her voice something was very wrong. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:51 | |
And I called her and she told me that Pat had been killed. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:56 | |
I had crazy emotions. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:05 | |
My mind was kind of scrambled, you know, with grief. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
It was... | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
I didn't know what to think, because I really didn't know what happened. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
I guess I still don't. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:18 | |
If he would have had a weapon in his hand, or something, | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
I could almost live with it. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
But knowing that he had no weapon whatsoever in his hand | 0:33:29 | 0:33:34 | |
is what bothers me so bad. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:36 | |
NEWS REPORT: Investigators say the victim was shot more than once | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
in the chest. The weapon was a semi-automatic handgun. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:46 | |
The shooter's telling us that he felt that he was in fear | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
of his safety at the time. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
Well, being raised Catholic, I was supposed to try to forgive him, | 0:33:51 | 0:33:57 | |
and I've tried. | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
But, er... | 0:34:00 | 0:34:01 | |
..I had a really bad temper as a child | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
and it really flared up there for a while | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
and I almost did something really stupid, | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
but I have the rest of my family to think about, so I'm not... | 0:34:10 | 0:34:15 | |
I don't plan on taking matters into my own hands. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
Although it could be really easy for me to do. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:22 | |
That man intervened where he shouldn't have intervened. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
At least, that's the picture I'm seeing. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
He was taken from me. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:34 | |
He wanted to run the company that I have. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
We have a small maintenance business, he was doing well. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
He was my foreman. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:46 | |
He'd always make comments about, "Dad, as soon as you retire, | 0:34:46 | 0:34:49 | |
"I'm going to, you know, run the show." | 0:34:49 | 0:34:51 | |
You know, I'm supposed to be the head of the household, | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
the man, the backbone or strength, | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
and I am, but they see that, er... | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
..you know, that hurt me, scarred me, made me a little bit bitter. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
So I catch myself snapping a little bit quicker than I normally would. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
I miss my Patrick. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
Yep, miss him bad. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
NEWS REPORT: ..Jefferson County investigator | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
took the suspect into custody on a voluntary manslaughter charge, | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
but prosecutors declined to file charges. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
INDISTINCT SPEECH | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
The suspect's been released. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:45 | |
I'd love to see the case be reopened | 0:35:48 | 0:35:51 | |
and justice be done for my son. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
You make a bad decision and you take somebody's life, | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
you need to suffer the consequences. | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
And while I got a gun to protect my family, | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
if I did that wrongfully, I would expect to get the same treatment. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:08 | |
So that's what we're really going for, we're going for justice. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:14 | |
NEWS REPORT: A string of shootings that left 11 people injured | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
and one dead over the weekend. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
An 18-year-old girl and two young boys were also shot. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
-NEWS REPORT: -Highs of 73 at the coast today. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
We do have high surf and strong rip currents, | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
so please be careful at the beaches. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:36 | |
We're going to see that cloud cover linger a little longer... | 0:36:36 | 0:36:39 | |
Julius is hard to explain in one word. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
Julius is, God, an intense, really smart, really smart kid. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:18 | |
Julius is bipolar and manic disorder, | 0:37:21 | 0:37:24 | |
so sometimes he's on a low, sometimes he's on a high. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:27 | |
Sometimes, he'll be totally normal, but then, when he's on that low, | 0:37:30 | 0:37:34 | |
he just loses it. | 0:37:34 | 0:37:36 | |
When he turned 18 I was like, | 0:37:38 | 0:37:39 | |
"Oh, no, now if he gets into trouble, now it's... | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
"You're going to go to jail." | 0:37:42 | 0:37:43 | |
Once, he was high on weed, cos he was, you know, misbehaving, | 0:37:45 | 0:37:50 | |
and he was passed out on the couch and I saw a bag | 0:37:50 | 0:37:54 | |
laying on the ground. I'm like, I don't know where this came from. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:57 | |
So, I looked in it and there's a gun in there. | 0:37:57 | 0:37:59 | |
I'm like, "Where in the world did you get that thing?" | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
He goes, "From my friend." | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
And then, once again, down here in Oceanside, he went to another | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
friend's house. He goes, "Mom, can you give them their gun back?" | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
Absolutely not. I'm not touching this. I don't want this in my car. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:11 | |
I go, "Where did you get this?" | 0:38:11 | 0:38:13 | |
Once again, from a friend, on the streets. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:15 | |
It's heart-wrenching and worrisome. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
Whenever the phone rings, you don't want it to be THAT call. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:25 | |
Always, "Please don't let it be about Julius." | 0:38:26 | 0:38:29 | |
My husband and I live about four apartments over | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
from where Jordan lived. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
I know another young man, Calvin, who lived with him. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
Calvin and Jordan, who had been in foster care, | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
and then, at 18, their foster care programme ends and they were in | 0:39:39 | 0:39:44 | |
an after-foster-care programme to try to help them become adults. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:49 | |
Our neighbour upstairs had told us that Jordan | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
and Calvin were not getting along at all. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:56 | |
The first time I encountered Calvin, I was coming home from work | 0:39:58 | 0:40:02 | |
and I saw this young man knocking on doors. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
I thought, "Oh, he must be selling something." | 0:40:05 | 0:40:08 | |
But then he came to our door and he asked if I knew how to sew | 0:40:08 | 0:40:13 | |
and if I could sew these patches on his shirts for work. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:17 | |
And it broke my heart. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
It didn't feel that they had enough support. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:25 | |
Calvin didn't even know how to operate a washing machine | 0:40:25 | 0:40:29 | |
or a dryer. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:30 | |
He may have been a grown man, | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
but he's a baby. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:33 | |
My husband and I were just getting ready to go to the pool. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:34 | |
We heard loud, loud voices and then we heard a few pops. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:40 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:41:40 | 0:41:42 | |
Somebody screamed, "Oh, my God, he shot him!" | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
As I came running up, | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
Jordan was lying right here. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
Very shocking thing to see, in person. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
The sights, the sound, the smell. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
Jordan had a bullet wound right through... | 0:42:01 | 0:42:05 | |
at least it appeared to me, right through to his neck. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:09 | |
His eyes were open, erm, his pupils were not moving. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
There was no pulse. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:16 | |
It was quite evident that there wasn't anything | 0:42:17 | 0:42:21 | |
that I could do for this man. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:23 | |
NEWS REPORT: Police say Calvin Glass shot two people in Oceanside, | 0:42:25 | 0:42:29 | |
killing one of them. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:30 | |
He's just sitting on the floor with blood all over his chest and | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
I'm seeing a trail of blood from the apartment to outside to his body. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
-CRYING: -I told them my baby's life was in danger. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
That's what I told. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:42 | |
I had no idea it was Calvin who had fired. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
Once I found out, it was just even more heartbreaking. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
Julius was standing right about here. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
He had been shot and I did see blood, | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
but he was very animated. He was very worried. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
I heard something about guns. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
I don't know how many guns were in the apartment, | 0:43:13 | 0:43:15 | |
but, apparently, there was more than one | 0:43:15 | 0:43:17 | |
and Julius was trying to make sure that they weren't there, | 0:43:17 | 0:43:22 | |
because, obviously, the police were coming. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:24 | |
The hospital called me. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:16 | |
"Julius has been shot." | 0:44:16 | 0:44:18 | |
I think guilt went through my mind, | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
cos I knew... Obviously, I didn't hear from him. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
I should've known or had some type of motherly instinct | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
that something happened to him. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:29 | |
So, that was the initial... initial, erm, reaction. | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
Why did I not know that something happened to my own kid? | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
When we got there, he was, you know, full of tubes... | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
coming from everywhere. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
He was black and blue all throughout his neck. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:47 | |
But it was bad, cos you have a hole... | 0:44:47 | 0:44:50 | |
He has the trach, the big hole in his neck, | 0:44:50 | 0:44:53 | |
and the poor kid couldn't talk. He's just crying and, erm, | 0:44:53 | 0:44:57 | |
just writing things down, and that was hardest for me. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
It's not good. You're like, "Why do you... | 0:45:03 | 0:45:05 | |
"Why do they have to go through this?" | 0:45:05 | 0:45:07 | |
You know, I never... I feel like I had a normal growing up. | 0:45:07 | 0:45:10 | |
I didn't have to go through that. Why are they... | 0:45:10 | 0:45:12 | |
Why does he have to go through this? | 0:45:12 | 0:45:14 | |
Then you're like, "Well, I'm grateful he's alive, | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
"cos look at Jordan." The child didn't make it. | 0:45:18 | 0:45:20 | |
How does an argument that kids would have got into a fist-fight over | 0:45:31 | 0:45:35 | |
years ago now escalate into, | 0:45:35 | 0:45:36 | |
"I'm going to kill you because I'm not getting along you"? | 0:45:36 | 0:45:40 | |
That's beyond me. | 0:45:40 | 0:45:41 | |
It gives them a false sense of security. | 0:45:46 | 0:45:49 | |
Julius feels empowered when he has the gun. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:53 | |
He feels, "OK, I'm strong, I'm empowered, I have this. | 0:45:55 | 0:45:57 | |
"So those people that are going to come to hurt me, they can't hurt me. | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
"I'm going to hurt them first, cos I have this gun." | 0:46:00 | 0:46:03 | |
NEWS REPORT: Police say Glass tried to flee, | 0:46:13 | 0:46:14 | |
but was caught at the Escondido Transit Center. | 0:46:14 | 0:46:17 | |
Glass is in Vista jail, facing murder and attempted murder charges. | 0:46:17 | 0:46:20 | |
We've lost a beautiful boy, Jordan, | 0:46:25 | 0:46:27 | |
and we've lost a beautiful boy, Calvin. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
Calvin is now going to spend the rest of his life in prison, | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
where they're going to teach him how to be a thug. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:38 | |
I'm sorry, I keep calling them boys but, in my mind, they were. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:45 | |
They... | 0:46:45 | 0:46:46 | |
They were just boys. | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
# I'm in trouble, I'm an addict | 0:46:56 | 0:47:00 | |
# I'm addicted to this girl | 0:47:00 | 0:47:01 | |
# She's got my heart tied in a knot | 0:47:01 | 0:47:04 | |
# And my stomach in a whirl | 0:47:04 | 0:47:05 | |
# But even worse I can't stop calling her | 0:47:05 | 0:47:08 | |
# She's all I want and more | 0:47:08 | 0:47:09 | |
# I mean, damn | 0:47:09 | 0:47:11 | |
# What's not to adore? | 0:47:11 | 0:47:14 | |
# I've been playing... # | 0:47:14 | 0:47:15 | |
So, anything I say in this video is not to offend anybody with, erm, | 0:47:15 | 0:47:20 | |
coloured skin or, erm, Jewish or even people with disabilities, | 0:47:20 | 0:47:26 | |
cos it's just me being retarded. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:28 | |
OK? | 0:47:28 | 0:47:29 | |
Oh, no, wait. Not that word, me being ding-y. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:32 | |
OK, so... | 0:47:35 | 0:47:37 | |
-DEEP VOICE: -Hey, how you doin'? You doin' good? | 0:47:37 | 0:47:40 | |
I heard you and your boy broke up last night. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:42 | |
Does that mean I can...? Yeah. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:44 | |
-HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: -I'm Chantelle, let me tell you, girlfriend, | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
you look at my boy like that one more time and I'm going to knock | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
that weave right off your head! | 0:47:50 | 0:47:51 | |
IMITATES COCKEREL | 0:47:51 | 0:47:53 | |
IMITATES SHEEP | 0:47:55 | 0:47:57 | |
# ..Because she so | 0:47:57 | 0:47:58 | |
# Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh | 0:47:58 | 0:48:02 | |
# Rock and roll | 0:48:02 | 0:48:04 | |
# And out of my league | 0:48:04 | 0:48:08 | |
# Is she out of my league? # | 0:48:08 | 0:48:10 | |
Me and Selena was back at my mom's. | 0:48:11 | 0:48:13 | |
We'd been to a party. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:15 | |
It was crazy, | 0:48:15 | 0:48:17 | |
everybody was getting into fights and stuff at the party and, erm... | 0:48:17 | 0:48:21 | |
you know, a lot of drugs and drinking. | 0:48:21 | 0:48:23 | |
Here, people like to drink and do drugs. | 0:48:26 | 0:48:29 | |
I think everybody I know does. | 0:48:30 | 0:48:32 | |
I guess that's the only thing they've got to do. | 0:48:32 | 0:48:35 | |
I know Selena because I met her on Facebook back in 2013. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:40 | |
We started chatting and became friends. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
She was a wild one. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:46 | |
You want to get the back of my ice-cream truck? | 0:48:48 | 0:48:51 | |
I got all the flavours. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:54 | |
Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla. | 0:48:54 | 0:48:57 | |
I even got that chocolate syrup, | 0:48:57 | 0:49:00 | |
yes, I do. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
Chris had been gone for a couple of days. | 0:49:08 | 0:49:10 | |
You know, him and Selena were together | 0:49:10 | 0:49:12 | |
and they had went to a party. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:14 | |
There was a pretty good age difference there | 0:49:16 | 0:49:19 | |
that I wasn't happy about. | 0:49:19 | 0:49:21 | |
Selena was 16, Chris was 20. | 0:49:21 | 0:49:24 | |
But they were cute together. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:26 | |
She didn't want to be like anybody else, and he's like that, too. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:32 | |
She wanted to be who she was, her own little style, | 0:49:32 | 0:49:35 | |
and she was a leader, not a follower. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:38 | |
And I think Chris and her connected on many levels. | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
She came in the house and I let her take a shower | 0:49:46 | 0:49:50 | |
and I gave her some new clothes to wear. | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
And I fed her, then I told Selena to call her momma, | 0:49:53 | 0:49:57 | |
cos I knew the story behind where Selena was supposed to be and where | 0:49:57 | 0:50:01 | |
she wasn't... You know, she obviously wasn't where | 0:50:01 | 0:50:04 | |
she was supposed to be. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:05 | |
They were in good shape when they left. I mean, I made sure they were. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:09 | |
I fed them and, you know, made sure they were good to go. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:12 | |
MUSIC: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
She was actually really funny to hang out with. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:35 | |
Even though she dead-legged me a lot. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
That really hurts. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:41 | |
"Hayley, change those shoes. They're horrible!" | 0:50:45 | 0:50:47 | |
"Brush your hair more!" I'm like, "I just brushed it two seconds ago." | 0:50:47 | 0:50:50 | |
"Brush it again." | 0:50:50 | 0:50:52 | |
"Wear make-up." I'm like, "No, I'm good. I don't like make-up." | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
"Too bad." | 0:50:55 | 0:50:56 | |
I know she called my mom and said, "Can I stay the night at..." | 0:51:15 | 0:51:20 | |
I don't know whose house any more. I can't remember. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:22 | |
And she said, "Yeah, but you have to be home in the morning." | 0:51:22 | 0:51:25 | |
I know she was with her friend Chris. | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
CJ came and picked us up. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:37 | |
CJ is my best friend. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:40 | |
We went to Walmart... | 0:51:40 | 0:51:41 | |
..and we hung out there for a little bit. | 0:51:44 | 0:51:46 | |
Then we went to his mom's work. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:48 | |
CJ went in, me and Selena stayed outside. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:52 | |
When he came back out, he said his friend had a gun for sale. | 0:51:52 | 0:51:55 | |
CJ wanted to sell it to make some money so we could get some drugs. | 0:51:57 | 0:52:00 | |
I told him it wasn't a good idea. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:03 | |
I felt like if we got caught with it, then I was going | 0:52:05 | 0:52:07 | |
to jail for a long time. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
I wasn't driving, he was, and he said it would be all right. | 0:52:09 | 0:52:13 | |
CJ is my best friend, you know, I've known him since sixth grade. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:20 | |
He's a really good person. CJ's a really good person. | 0:52:21 | 0:52:24 | |
INTERVIEWER: And how much did Selena know about that? | 0:52:25 | 0:52:27 | |
She knew everything. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
She actually said she had somebody that wanted to buy the rifle. | 0:52:29 | 0:52:32 | |
None of us had money. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:35 | |
So, we had an opportunity to make money to go get high. | 0:52:35 | 0:52:38 | |
So, that's the excitement that we had, we were going to go get high. | 0:52:38 | 0:52:41 | |
When they get to the house, | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
CJ backs in beside the truck that the rifle was in, and we get out. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:51 | |
He goes up to the truck and takes the rifle out and looks at it. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:57 | |
He takes a clip out of the back and he puts it in the rifle, | 0:53:00 | 0:53:04 | |
racks it back, turns around and shoots it through the woods. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:07 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
He takes the clip out, sets it down and he poses for the picture that | 0:53:11 | 0:53:15 | |
Selena was going to take before she could send it to somebody herself. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:19 | |
CLICKING | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
After she took the picture, he was pointing it around, you know, | 0:53:21 | 0:53:25 | |
looking through the sight. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:27 | |
Selena didn't have any time to react. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:29 | |
I didn't neither, cos it happened in seconds. | 0:53:29 | 0:53:31 | |
It happened two seconds after she took the picture. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:33 | |
You know, he posed for it, took the picture, | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
and he was pointing it around and it went off. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:38 | |
TRUCK HORN BLARES | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
It just took me a minute to register what happened, | 0:53:44 | 0:53:47 | |
and I walked around to her front and looked and seen the bullet hole | 0:53:47 | 0:53:51 | |
and blood coming out. I said, "Oh, my God! You shot her, dude!" | 0:53:51 | 0:53:54 | |
And about that time, she started screaming | 0:53:54 | 0:53:57 | |
and she dropped to her knees and started puking up blood. | 0:53:57 | 0:54:00 | |
And I picked her up and she walked about five steps | 0:54:01 | 0:54:04 | |
and fell down and hit her head on the pavement. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:07 | |
And I bent down and started holding her, | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
and as soon as it happened, he called 911 | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
and was on the phone with them the whole time until they got there. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
I got the phone call. | 0:54:19 | 0:54:21 | |
I got in my car and I was about 100mph all the way to the scene. | 0:54:21 | 0:54:25 | |
I could see them putting Selena in the ambulance | 0:54:28 | 0:54:32 | |
and I heard her call Chris's name, | 0:54:32 | 0:54:34 | |
and she told Chris to come in with her, and they wouldn't let him. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:39 | |
They shut the door. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:40 | |
Erm, and then you could see the helicopter come. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:44 | |
HELICOPTER BLADES WHIR | 0:54:44 | 0:54:47 | |
I seen it come... | 0:54:47 | 0:54:48 | |
..but then I seen it turn around and leave. | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
And that was my first clue that something was wrong. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:56 | |
Well, that shooting happened right over there, | 0:55:10 | 0:55:13 | |
next to that black pick-up truck. | 0:55:13 | 0:55:14 | |
Two men and the 16-year-old had come to the home | 0:55:14 | 0:55:17 | |
to look at a rifle for sale when she was accidentally shot. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:20 | |
Take a look at this video. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:22 | |
This morning, deputies showed us | 0:55:22 | 0:55:24 | |
the Ruger 1022 that they seized after the shooting, | 0:55:24 | 0:55:27 | |
along Rocky Ford Road. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
It was stored in the back of the pick-up truck. | 0:55:29 | 0:55:31 | |
If you look closely, | 0:55:31 | 0:55:32 | |
you can see the clip was not in the rifle at the time | 0:55:32 | 0:55:34 | |
but investigators say there was still a single round | 0:55:34 | 0:55:37 | |
in the weapon. Deputies say 16-year-old Selena... | 0:55:37 | 0:55:40 | |
Every day it's on my conscience... | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
..of a girl that I had never met, first time meeting her, | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
and I accidentally shoot and kill her. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:54 | |
Selena had the phone and I was holding the gun like this, | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
and she was taking pictures of it and it was after the fact... | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
That's where the papers got it wrong, | 0:56:04 | 0:56:06 | |
they said the gun went off while we were taking pictures. | 0:56:06 | 0:56:09 | |
That's not true. | 0:56:09 | 0:56:10 | |
She already took the pictures | 0:56:10 | 0:56:12 | |
and I guess she was sending the pictures to somebody. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:14 | |
Her and Chris was talking to off to the side | 0:56:14 | 0:56:16 | |
and that's when I, you know, | 0:56:16 | 0:56:17 | |
I was still looking at the gun, just inspecting it, | 0:56:17 | 0:56:20 | |
making sure everything was right about it, you know, | 0:56:20 | 0:56:22 | |
and that's when it went off. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:24 | |
I didn't even hear it pop. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
-INTERVIEWER: -What are you like with guns? | 0:56:31 | 0:56:33 | |
..and stuff. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:41 | |
You know, if you could turn back time, | 0:56:48 | 0:56:50 | |
what do you wish you could've done? | 0:56:50 | 0:56:53 | |
I wish I would've checked the chamber | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
and seen if there was a live round in it. | 0:56:55 | 0:56:58 | |
I wish I could've changed that. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:02 | |
So, we sat down and ate dinner, me, Hayley and her daddy, | 0:57:11 | 0:57:14 | |
and that's when the cops knocked on the door. | 0:57:14 | 0:57:17 | |
They showed me a picture of Selena they had gotten off the internet | 0:57:19 | 0:57:23 | |
and asked me, was this my daughter? | 0:57:23 | 0:57:26 | |
My response was, "Yeah, what did she do?" | 0:57:26 | 0:57:28 | |
Thinking she'd gotten in trouble. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
And, erm, of course, they said, "There's been an accident," | 0:57:32 | 0:57:36 | |
and after that I don't remember a whole lot, you know? | 0:57:36 | 0:57:39 | |
From what I've been told, | 0:57:39 | 0:57:41 | |
I covered my ears and tried to run away. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:43 | |
They took me in to see her. | 0:57:47 | 0:57:50 | |
TEARFULLY: That's not how you want to see your child. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
I seen her for a minute but I got... I left. | 0:57:55 | 0:57:58 | |
That's not how I wanted to see my daughter. | 0:57:59 | 0:58:03 | |
I told myself I wasn't going to break down. | 0:58:06 | 0:58:08 | |
I used to be that hard person, I used to be able to do that. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:19 | |
You know, Selena would brag that to everybody because... | 0:58:21 | 0:58:25 | |
you know, "My mom is the toughest person I know, you know, | 0:58:25 | 0:58:28 | |
"I've never seen her cry, you know, she don't put up with no crap." | 0:58:28 | 0:58:31 | |
I'm not a person any more, you know, half of me's gone. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:36 | |
I have Hayley so I have to be OK. | 0:58:40 | 0:58:44 | |
-DONALD TRUMP: -Sadly, the American dream... | 0:58:56 | 0:59:01 | |
is dead. | 0:59:01 | 0:59:03 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:59:03 | 0:59:05 | |
And we have to take care of the Second Amendment. | 0:59:05 | 0:59:08 | |
We have to take care of it, it's being whittled away. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:10 | |
They want to whittle, whittle, whittle. | 0:59:10 | 0:59:12 | |
We've got to protect our Second Amendment | 0:59:12 | 0:59:15 | |
and we've got to, very important, | 0:59:15 | 0:59:17 | |
let's get rid of these gun-free zones. | 0:59:17 | 0:59:19 | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:59:19 | 0:59:23 | |
Deputies say it all started with a road-rage incident. | 0:59:23 | 0:59:26 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:59:26 | 0:59:28 | |
You shot my husband! | 0:59:28 | 0:59:30 | |
Two males suffering from gunshot wounds. | 0:59:30 | 0:59:33 | |
It looks to be a robbery gone wrong. | 0:59:33 | 0:59:35 | |
I am totally for guns. | 1:00:04 | 1:00:07 | |
I have ten guns or more. I have lots of weapons. | 1:00:07 | 1:00:11 | |
That's not the problem. | 1:00:13 | 1:00:15 | |
The people holding the weapons are the problem. | 1:00:15 | 1:00:18 | |
I love shooting. | 1:00:18 | 1:00:19 | |
I like deer-hunting, I like turkey-hunting. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:22 | |
Definitely euphoric, you feel power when you shoot a gun, | 1:00:24 | 1:00:26 | |
that's the thing, that's what makes people crazy with weapons - | 1:00:26 | 1:00:29 | |
you feel power, you have that power in your hands. | 1:00:29 | 1:00:31 | |
What you feel like - you can stop anything. | 1:00:31 | 1:00:34 | |
SHOUTING | 1:01:08 | 1:01:10 | |
He did? | 1:01:19 | 1:01:21 | |
-Put your hands up in the air! -SCREAMING | 1:01:25 | 1:01:28 | |
Put your hands in the air! | 1:01:28 | 1:01:31 | |
CRYING | 1:01:31 | 1:01:33 | |
Yeah, we know, we know. | 1:01:35 | 1:01:37 | |
Taken him out. | 1:01:37 | 1:01:39 | |
Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground... | 1:01:39 | 1:01:42 | |
Officer-involved shootings in Oconee County, | 1:01:45 | 1:01:47 | |
they're very rare. | 1:01:47 | 1:01:49 | |
This is my third or fourth in my 24-year career. | 1:01:51 | 1:01:55 | |
Took me probably, you know, 15 to 20 minutes to arrive on scene. | 1:01:56 | 1:02:01 | |
I was unsure who was involved. | 1:02:01 | 1:02:03 | |
I was aware that no police officer was injured, | 1:02:05 | 1:02:08 | |
which was a relief. | 1:02:08 | 1:02:09 | |
The victim died at the scene. | 1:02:11 | 1:02:14 | |
In this case, the victim died at the hands of another individual | 1:02:16 | 1:02:22 | |
and the manner of death is going to be classified as a homicide. | 1:02:22 | 1:02:26 | |
It's not up to the coroner to determine if it's justified or not. | 1:02:28 | 1:02:33 | |
I was told that the young man was attempting to drive off | 1:02:35 | 1:02:40 | |
when the officer fired at the vehicle. | 1:02:40 | 1:02:44 | |
The female that was accompanying the victim just knew his name was Zach. | 1:02:57 | 1:03:03 | |
I've known Zach almost all of my life, | 1:03:14 | 1:03:17 | |
since kindergarten. | 1:03:17 | 1:03:19 | |
I just used to watch him ride his dirt-bike, like, | 1:03:20 | 1:03:22 | |
"Whoa, that's pretty cool." | 1:03:22 | 1:03:25 | |
Now, obviously, I have a huge dirt-bike but... | 1:03:25 | 1:03:27 | |
HE LAUGHS | 1:03:27 | 1:03:30 | |
..he kind of planted a seed. | 1:03:30 | 1:03:32 | |
He's always a good person to hang out with. | 1:03:36 | 1:03:38 | |
Always something to do, always some fun to be had. | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
Mischief to be made. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:43 | |
His last few months or years | 1:03:44 | 1:03:48 | |
were just kind of him figuring out who he was, | 1:03:48 | 1:03:52 | |
which is for everybody, when you're a young person, you... | 1:03:52 | 1:03:56 | |
you live and learn, you do stupid stuff. | 1:03:56 | 1:03:58 | |
-INTERVIEWER: -What about drugs? | 1:03:59 | 1:04:01 | |
As every teenager probably nowadays, | 1:04:02 | 1:04:04 | |
a little bit of weed smoking. | 1:04:04 | 1:04:06 | |
Cigarettes. I hate cigarettes, that's a drug to me. | 1:04:06 | 1:04:10 | |
I don't know what else he got into. | 1:04:10 | 1:04:12 | |
He wouldn't tell you everything. | 1:04:12 | 1:04:14 | |
We were on our way to bed when the doorbell rang. | 1:04:24 | 1:04:28 | |
I was already in my pyjamas, you know? | 1:04:28 | 1:04:30 | |
The coroner told us that Zach had run over | 1:04:32 | 1:04:38 | |
or tried to run over a police officer. | 1:04:38 | 1:04:41 | |
I just fell, you know, to my knees... | 1:04:41 | 1:04:44 | |
in disbelief. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:45 | |
He was my rambunctious little boy. | 1:04:47 | 1:04:50 | |
My dad used to call him Dennis the Menace, | 1:04:50 | 1:04:53 | |
if that tells you anything. | 1:04:53 | 1:04:55 | |
Didn't make sense to me. | 1:04:57 | 1:04:59 | |
But I was brought up to believe what the authorities tell you, | 1:04:59 | 1:05:04 | |
so I believed it. | 1:05:04 | 1:05:05 | |
My name is James Burgess but I go by Buddy Burgess. | 1:05:11 | 1:05:15 | |
Everybody calls me Buddy. | 1:05:15 | 1:05:17 | |
Things just weren't adding up. | 1:05:21 | 1:05:24 | |
Number one, there was no drug buy that was made, | 1:05:24 | 1:05:27 | |
there never was a buy. | 1:05:27 | 1:05:30 | |
There was very little marijuana in the vehicle. | 1:05:30 | 1:05:34 | |
There was no weapon in the vehicle. | 1:05:34 | 1:05:36 | |
When I worked Narcotics, we never arrested on the first buy, | 1:05:38 | 1:05:42 | |
we tried to make more buys and we would just step up the line, | 1:05:42 | 1:05:45 | |
till we got as far as we could go | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
and then you go back and arrest everybody. | 1:05:47 | 1:05:49 | |
Why call in an officer when, erm, | 1:05:50 | 1:05:54 | |
you haven't even made a buy? | 1:05:54 | 1:05:57 | |
And if there's no threat, | 1:05:57 | 1:05:59 | |
then why come in the way Officer Tiller came in? | 1:05:59 | 1:06:03 | |
There's a lot of questions that need to be answered. | 1:06:05 | 1:06:07 | |
A lot of them. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:09 | |
NEWS REPORT: Two Tucson police officers shot an armed man | 1:06:15 | 1:06:18 | |
this morning in midtown. | 1:06:18 | 1:06:20 | |
It all happened at an apartment complex | 1:06:20 | 1:06:22 | |
near Alvernon and Fort Lowell just before seven this morning. | 1:06:22 | 1:06:25 | |
So, Tucson police say both officers opened fire | 1:06:25 | 1:06:28 | |
and the man was struck multiple times. | 1:06:28 | 1:06:30 | |
I knew Josh had had that kind of a history with being depressed | 1:06:38 | 1:06:42 | |
but I didn't think it would come to the point where | 1:06:42 | 1:06:45 | |
the cops would come and shoot him. | 1:06:45 | 1:06:47 | |
So the first thing I saw when I came home were bullet holes | 1:06:53 | 1:06:57 | |
in this window here, | 1:06:57 | 1:06:59 | |
as well as a bullet hole in this door. | 1:06:59 | 1:07:01 | |
And then I came in the house... | 1:07:06 | 1:07:09 | |
See, the plaster here had been shot up as well. | 1:07:09 | 1:07:13 | |
I'm assuming it was the bullet that came through that window. | 1:07:13 | 1:07:16 | |
So that was all shattered and the place was really a mess. | 1:07:16 | 1:07:22 | |
There were dirty dishes over there | 1:07:22 | 1:07:25 | |
and all his books and everything were on the floor. | 1:07:25 | 1:07:28 | |
I don't know, it felt kind of like a horror movie, I guess you could say. | 1:07:28 | 1:07:33 | |
Erm... | 1:07:33 | 1:07:35 | |
Yeah, not to mention the smell was just in your face. | 1:07:36 | 1:07:41 | |
The worst part was when I came to the bathroom, | 1:07:41 | 1:07:45 | |
the sink had blood all over it | 1:07:45 | 1:07:48 | |
and the bathtub as well. | 1:07:48 | 1:07:50 | |
Erm, there was quite a bit of it | 1:07:52 | 1:07:55 | |
and looking at that made me a little nauseous. | 1:07:55 | 1:07:58 | |
You know, I felt a little bit responsible, | 1:08:00 | 1:08:02 | |
I felt like I should've been there for him, but I wasn't. | 1:08:02 | 1:08:06 | |
So...I feel like, if I was here, I could've prevented something. | 1:08:08 | 1:08:12 | |
VOICEOVER: Right after I was shot, | 1:08:18 | 1:08:21 | |
I dropped to my knees and I said, "Thank you for killing me." | 1:08:21 | 1:08:24 | |
I'm laying there going, "I'm going to die, | 1:08:29 | 1:08:32 | |
"I'm going to die, this is it." | 1:08:32 | 1:08:34 | |
And this voice, I assume it was in my head | 1:08:34 | 1:08:37 | |
but it sounded like someone was whispering in my ear, said, | 1:08:37 | 1:08:41 | |
"You're not going to die today." | 1:08:41 | 1:08:44 | |
Looking back on my life, I've always been different. | 1:08:50 | 1:08:53 | |
I've always felt like I stood apart. | 1:08:55 | 1:08:57 | |
I had been in a relationship with my fiancee, | 1:09:00 | 1:09:03 | |
we had been together for about two-and-a-half months. | 1:09:03 | 1:09:09 | |
It was a good relationship. | 1:09:09 | 1:09:11 | |
She really built me up and made me feel like I mattered | 1:09:11 | 1:09:16 | |
and that I had purpose. | 1:09:16 | 1:09:18 | |
That weekend, she was at her sister's wedding. | 1:09:19 | 1:09:23 | |
I decided to go to get a couple of sodas | 1:09:24 | 1:09:27 | |
and I get my sodas and I'm standing there in line | 1:09:27 | 1:09:31 | |
and this girl, probably 26, 27, starts talking to me, | 1:09:31 | 1:09:37 | |
there's a little bit of flirting going on | 1:09:37 | 1:09:39 | |
and then she invites me back to her apartment to have sex. | 1:09:39 | 1:09:44 | |
And... | 1:09:46 | 1:09:48 | |
I just say yes. | 1:09:48 | 1:09:51 | |
We have sex and then I go back to my apartment. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
My mood just starts to crash | 1:09:58 | 1:10:01 | |
and I plunge into an abyss of sorrow and despair for what I've just done | 1:10:01 | 1:10:08 | |
and decide I'm going to end my life. | 1:10:08 | 1:10:10 | |
The first thing I did was, I cut my wrists. | 1:10:13 | 1:10:16 | |
I apparently am a very considerate person | 1:10:16 | 1:10:19 | |
cos I took a Tupperware into the bathtub to catch the blood | 1:10:19 | 1:10:24 | |
so that they wouldn't have to clean up as much. | 1:10:24 | 1:10:27 | |
I sat in the tub for probably... | 1:10:28 | 1:10:32 | |
three, maybe four hours, just bleeding. | 1:10:32 | 1:10:36 | |
It would keep clotting so I knew that wasn't going to work. | 1:10:38 | 1:10:42 | |
So the police show up | 1:10:44 | 1:10:46 | |
and I see the first squad car pull in and then I go, "Well, crap. | 1:10:46 | 1:10:51 | |
"I can't be here any more. I have to be gone." | 1:10:51 | 1:10:54 | |
I start rummaging around the apartment, | 1:10:56 | 1:10:58 | |
trying to think of what I can do. | 1:10:58 | 1:11:00 | |
I grabbed the two kitchen knives that I ultimately held in my hands | 1:11:00 | 1:11:06 | |
and then they were pounding on my door. | 1:11:06 | 1:11:08 | |
I told them to leave and I wouldn't talk to them | 1:11:08 | 1:11:10 | |
and they're like, "Well, you're coming out or we're coming in." | 1:11:10 | 1:11:14 | |
One of them walks up to the door | 1:11:15 | 1:11:17 | |
and I saw him take his pistol out of his holster. | 1:11:17 | 1:11:20 | |
And immediately that registered in my mind as, "There we go. | 1:11:21 | 1:11:27 | |
"That's how I'll end my life. | 1:11:27 | 1:11:29 | |
"They have guns, I have knives, this is America, they'll shoot me." | 1:11:29 | 1:11:34 | |
I unlocked the door and stepped out. | 1:11:35 | 1:11:37 | |
He exited the apartment, | 1:11:46 | 1:11:48 | |
he basically came out quickly, | 1:11:48 | 1:11:50 | |
he had two knives in his clenched fists, | 1:11:50 | 1:11:52 | |
his shirt was soaked in blood. | 1:11:52 | 1:11:55 | |
And he said, "Now you can see that I'm serious." | 1:11:55 | 1:11:58 | |
He starts coming at me quickly | 1:12:00 | 1:12:01 | |
and I started giving him verbal commands to put the knives down, | 1:12:01 | 1:12:05 | |
I gave it several times. | 1:12:05 | 1:12:07 | |
You describe him as quickly starting to come towards you? | 1:12:07 | 1:12:10 | |
-Correct. -And what action did you take? | 1:12:10 | 1:12:12 | |
Er, I fired. I believe it was three shots. | 1:12:12 | 1:12:15 | |
GUNSHOTS | 1:12:15 | 1:12:17 | |
Tell me why, if you can explain to me, | 1:12:22 | 1:12:25 | |
why you chose to discharge your firearm | 1:12:25 | 1:12:30 | |
as opposed to possibly engaging him with a Taser | 1:12:30 | 1:12:33 | |
or trying to retreat some. | 1:12:33 | 1:12:35 | |
Erm, I didn't really have anywhere to retreat. | 1:12:35 | 1:12:38 | |
My back is to a waist-high railing. | 1:12:38 | 1:12:42 | |
So you had concerns about him possibly pushing you over? | 1:12:43 | 1:12:47 | |
-Correct. -And what else? | 1:12:47 | 1:12:50 | |
Stabbing me. | 1:12:50 | 1:12:51 | |
While he was on the ground and we were rendering aid, | 1:12:53 | 1:12:57 | |
he started saying, "Thank you." | 1:12:57 | 1:12:58 | |
And I go, "You guys are lousy excuses for marksmen. | 1:13:00 | 1:13:04 | |
"It's two to the head, one to the chest. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:07 | |
"Where did you learn how to shoot?" | 1:13:07 | 1:13:08 | |
-NEWS REPORT: -A South Carolina police lieutenant won't face charges | 1:13:17 | 1:13:20 | |
after he shot and killed unarmed 19-year-old Zachary Hammond | 1:13:20 | 1:13:24 | |
in the parking lot of Hardee's. | 1:13:24 | 1:13:26 | |
Lieutenant Mark Tiller claims that he acted in self-defence. | 1:13:26 | 1:13:30 | |
ANGIE: I had to see Zach, it just didn't seem real to me | 1:13:32 | 1:13:35 | |
until I saw him, you know? | 1:13:35 | 1:13:37 | |
And that was the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do. | 1:13:39 | 1:13:45 | |
But we found out that day that, erm, | 1:13:48 | 1:13:50 | |
Zach had not been shot in the front, in the chest, | 1:13:50 | 1:13:54 | |
he had actually been shot from behind. | 1:13:54 | 1:13:57 | |
Then our minds just started swirling, like, | 1:13:59 | 1:14:02 | |
"What's going on here?" | 1:14:02 | 1:14:03 | |
The police said that Zach had tried to run the officer over | 1:14:05 | 1:14:09 | |
and that he was shot in the chest. | 1:14:09 | 1:14:12 | |
But then, if that happened, how did he get shot in the back? | 1:14:12 | 1:14:17 | |
And that's when we really started thinking, | 1:14:17 | 1:14:19 | |
"Something is not right here." | 1:14:19 | 1:14:21 | |
We started demanding information from the police. | 1:14:25 | 1:14:28 | |
The narrative that was being advanced was that | 1:14:31 | 1:14:34 | |
Lieutenant Tiller was a hero, | 1:14:34 | 1:14:36 | |
that he himself was a victim of attempted murder | 1:14:36 | 1:14:39 | |
and that he had no other option but to use excessive and deadly force | 1:14:39 | 1:14:44 | |
to get himself out of trouble. | 1:14:44 | 1:14:46 | |
That was not the case. | 1:14:46 | 1:14:47 | |
They claimed that Zachary was a dangerous teenager, | 1:14:54 | 1:14:58 | |
although they had no evidence of that. | 1:14:58 | 1:15:01 | |
They didn't know that Zachary was going to be there | 1:15:01 | 1:15:04 | |
in the Hardee's parking lot. | 1:15:04 | 1:15:06 | |
All they knew that it was going to be was Tori Morton. | 1:15:06 | 1:15:10 | |
Zachary was with Tori Morton. | 1:15:10 | 1:15:13 | |
They had been on a couple of dates before, in a friendly fashion, | 1:15:13 | 1:15:17 | |
and this was really their first romantic date. | 1:15:17 | 1:15:20 | |
Tori wants to stop at McDonald's | 1:15:20 | 1:15:22 | |
and she buys a vanilla ice-cream cone. | 1:15:22 | 1:15:26 | |
Maybe it was chocolate dipped, we don't know, but... | 1:15:26 | 1:15:28 | |
a vanilla ice-cream cone. | 1:15:28 | 1:15:30 | |
A text was sent from Tori Morton's phone. | 1:15:32 | 1:15:35 | |
She is going to sell marijuana. | 1:15:36 | 1:15:39 | |
The text, though, according to the authorities, | 1:15:42 | 1:15:45 | |
is that the number was off | 1:15:45 | 1:15:48 | |
and went to a highway patrolman. | 1:15:48 | 1:15:50 | |
The highway patrolman then notified the local Seneca police authorities | 1:15:53 | 1:15:58 | |
and said, "There's a drug transaction | 1:15:58 | 1:16:01 | |
"that is going to go down." | 1:16:01 | 1:16:02 | |
As a result, a sting operation is set up... | 1:16:04 | 1:16:09 | |
..without a lot of preplanning, | 1:16:10 | 1:16:12 | |
without positioning the proper officers, | 1:16:12 | 1:16:15 | |
without getting authority from the proper chain. | 1:16:15 | 1:16:18 | |
And it's determined that BJ McCoy | 1:16:18 | 1:16:21 | |
is going to dress as an undercover officer, | 1:16:21 | 1:16:25 | |
park in the rear of the Hardee's in a truck | 1:16:25 | 1:16:28 | |
and that's where this supposed drug transaction | 1:16:28 | 1:16:31 | |
is going to take place. | 1:16:31 | 1:16:33 | |
We don't know why, but the drug transaction never takes place. | 1:16:47 | 1:16:53 | |
The undercover officer exits his truck | 1:16:53 | 1:16:56 | |
and starts to walk towards Tori Morton's side of the car | 1:16:56 | 1:17:01 | |
and at that point, Officer Mark Tiller | 1:17:01 | 1:17:04 | |
is coming at a high rate of speed through down the entrance. | 1:17:04 | 1:17:07 | |
TYRES SCREECH | 1:17:16 | 1:17:18 | |
He did? | 1:17:34 | 1:17:35 | |
SCREAMING | 1:17:40 | 1:17:41 | |
Put your hands in the air. | 1:17:43 | 1:17:44 | |
CRYING | 1:17:44 | 1:17:46 | |
Stop that. Get out, get out, get out. | 1:17:46 | 1:17:48 | |
Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground. | 1:17:52 | 1:17:54 | |
Lieutenant Tiller's life was never in danger. | 1:17:58 | 1:18:01 | |
Zachary Hammond never had the intent | 1:18:03 | 1:18:06 | |
to conduct a criminal act against Lieutenant Tiller. | 1:18:06 | 1:18:08 | |
He was just a kid that wanted to get away, | 1:18:08 | 1:18:12 | |
to drive away, and Lieutenant Tiller put himself in danger | 1:18:12 | 1:18:16 | |
and then used excessive force to get himself out of danger. | 1:18:16 | 1:18:20 | |
Lieutenant Tiller approaches the vehicle in a very reckless fashion. | 1:18:21 | 1:18:27 | |
Towards the front of the vehicle, | 1:18:29 | 1:18:31 | |
but never got in front of the vehicle | 1:18:31 | 1:18:33 | |
so that he was in danger of being hit. | 1:18:33 | 1:18:35 | |
More importantly, at the time, he makes the conscious decision, | 1:18:38 | 1:18:41 | |
"I'm going to discharge my weapon." | 1:18:41 | 1:18:43 | |
Three-quarters of Zachary's car has already passed him, | 1:18:43 | 1:18:47 | |
so unless a hurricane comes, or a tornado, | 1:18:47 | 1:18:50 | |
that's going to flip Zachary's car sideways, | 1:18:50 | 1:18:52 | |
Lieutenant Tiller is no longer in any danger, if he ever was, | 1:18:52 | 1:18:57 | |
of being hit with the car, and the law says | 1:18:57 | 1:18:59 | |
if you have that split second to make that decision | 1:18:59 | 1:19:02 | |
that I'm no longer in danger, then you must not use your weapon. | 1:19:02 | 1:19:07 | |
When you have the right to come in with a gun as an officer, | 1:19:08 | 1:19:11 | |
it escalates quickly. | 1:19:11 | 1:19:13 | |
It's already at the point where the next action is | 1:19:13 | 1:19:16 | |
to discharge your weapon. | 1:19:16 | 1:19:17 | |
It's very difficult to de-escalate force once force and guns are drawn. | 1:19:17 | 1:19:23 | |
Stop! Stop! Stop! | 1:19:23 | 1:19:24 | |
You need to know and the public needs to know | 1:19:30 | 1:19:33 | |
that this officer, two years before, has said to another witness | 1:19:33 | 1:19:38 | |
in a police training session that, | 1:19:38 | 1:19:40 | |
"Before I leave, I will shoot somebody." | 1:19:40 | 1:19:43 | |
Unfortunately, what ended up happening | 1:19:48 | 1:19:50 | |
was that a 19-year-old unarmed teenager lost his life | 1:19:50 | 1:19:54 | |
to the actions of an overzealous police officer | 1:19:54 | 1:19:57 | |
who wrongfully approached the car in a paramilitary outfit | 1:19:57 | 1:20:01 | |
saying, "I will shoot your fucking ass," | 1:20:01 | 1:20:04 | |
and a 19-year-old scared kid hit the gas to try to leave. | 1:20:04 | 1:20:07 | |
CRYING | 1:20:07 | 1:20:10 | |
I don't know what's going on. | 1:20:10 | 1:20:12 | |
Oh, my God. | 1:20:17 | 1:20:18 | |
Take that ball out your mouth. | 1:20:29 | 1:20:31 | |
HE LAUGHS | 1:20:31 | 1:20:32 | |
Can you say "nubby duddy"? | 1:20:32 | 1:20:34 | |
Ebby gubba! | 1:20:34 | 1:20:36 | |
Take your ball out and say it. | 1:20:36 | 1:20:37 | |
Ebba gubba! | 1:20:37 | 1:20:39 | |
Take the ball out of your mouth. | 1:20:39 | 1:20:41 | |
Now say it. | 1:20:41 | 1:20:42 | |
Nubby dubby! | 1:20:42 | 1:20:43 | |
Say it real good. | 1:20:43 | 1:20:45 | |
Nubby dubby! | 1:20:45 | 1:20:46 | |
THEY LAUGH | 1:20:46 | 1:20:49 | |
-# I love you -I love you | 1:20:49 | 1:20:51 | |
# You love me... # | 1:20:51 | 1:20:53 | |
VOICEOVER: You know, I know that, you know, | 1:20:53 | 1:20:55 | |
Zach shouldn't have been there that night. | 1:20:55 | 1:20:58 | |
But I also know that he shouldn't have been killed. | 1:20:58 | 1:21:01 | |
I don't believe that somehow justice is going to come. | 1:21:01 | 1:21:06 | |
One more time. | 1:21:09 | 1:21:11 | |
I chose this place because just right before Zach died, | 1:21:34 | 1:21:40 | |
he came up here really early in the morning to watch the sunrise. | 1:21:40 | 1:21:44 | |
Just can't imagine what he saw that morning. | 1:21:46 | 1:21:50 | |
He said it was beautiful. And, erm... | 1:21:50 | 1:21:53 | |
just really meant a lot to know that he came here. | 1:21:53 | 1:21:56 | |
-SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY: -This is a nation of dreams. | 1:22:30 | 1:22:33 | |
We have something called the American dream | 1:22:33 | 1:22:36 | |
which I say is known across the globe. | 1:22:36 | 1:22:38 | |
It is a bold dream, it is a humble dream | 1:22:40 | 1:22:43 | |
that this is a nation | 1:22:43 | 1:22:45 | |
where our children can grow up, | 1:22:45 | 1:22:47 | |
have the best of opportunity, | 1:22:47 | 1:22:49 | |
our children can do better than us, it is the American dream. | 1:22:49 | 1:22:52 | |
But the challenge I see with American reality, | 1:22:54 | 1:22:58 | |
where we have such liberal access to weapons, | 1:22:58 | 1:23:05 | |
what that has resulted in, I have seen it myself, | 1:23:05 | 1:23:08 | |
is so many children taken, killed, murdered. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:14 | |
How many of our children's dreams must be destroyed by gun violence | 1:23:16 | 1:23:22 | |
before we do the common-sense things to begin to shrink those numbers? | 1:23:22 | 1:23:27 | |
He appeared to be holding a weapon underneath a piece of paper, | 1:23:32 | 1:23:35 | |
like a small handgun that was pointed upwards | 1:23:35 | 1:23:37 | |
and then, within a few seconds, | 1:23:37 | 1:23:40 | |
I heard two shots fired and I saw the gentleman go back in. | 1:23:40 | 1:23:44 | |
911. Location of your emergency? | 1:23:50 | 1:23:52 | |
1402 and 1414's on the scene. | 1:23:52 | 1:23:55 | |
Talk to me. | 1:23:58 | 1:24:00 | |
On scene, 2009. | 1:24:00 | 1:24:02 | |
SHOUTING AND SCREAMING | 1:24:02 | 1:24:05 | |
SIRENS WAIL | 1:24:08 | 1:24:10 |