putting an end to my life. we took off again. but officer perry s car is barely able to accelerate due to the damage, and he watches as the men speed off. we were all running emergency mode trying to figure out where this is going to get stable enough that we can assist chuck. after two terrifying encounters alone, backup is on the scene. his cruiser is breaking down, but officer perry remains relentless in his pursuit. ahead, the harrowing chase is coming to a dramatic conclusion. the most amazing crash i ve ever seen. the car went up about 15 feet in the air. it spun sideways and did a barrel roll, at the same time flew about 35 or 40 feet going over an embankment. police immediately descend on the car including officer perry. miraculously, both the driver and the passenger survive the crash, but they are not ready to
he s able to slip out of the backseat and steal the police cruiser. the suspect doesn t get far, though. he loses control, slams into a tree and adds a few more lines to his rap sheet. and how about this one in oregon? an officer rushes to an emergency only to become one himself when a motorist fails to yield. the officer swerves but still hits the car and a house. the owner isn t home, but luckily no one is injured. but one of the most bewildering occurrences ever
july 1st, 2003, tallahassee, florida. officer chuck perry is patrolling a local bank parking lot when a slow moving car catches his attention. i looked at the two individuals who were the driver and the passenger. just they were completely surprised. they had a very shocked look. and it wasn t normal. they immediately did a very rapid turn out of the parking lot. they aroused my suspicion to such a point that i actually called james fairfield, my supervisor. he said i have something going. do you have any intel on a white crown vic or gray crown vic. he thought at first maybe this was a fraud suspect. it s clear to officer perry that the pair is deliberately trying to avoid him. with his suspicions and his dash cam now engaged, perry hits the lights and siren. i wanted to wait for backup, actually, but as it turned out, they ended up driving into a basically closed neighborhood.
actions. since the incident, the tallahassee police department uses officer perry s dash cam footage as a training tool for new recruits. opens fire with both hands. chuck s response? is to immediately disengage and get distance. time to plan on what to do is not once the guy s shooting at you. you need to figure this out before he s shooting at you and you need to put some plan in action. don t just sit there. move. do something. i m here today, and so i m happy. it was a good day. when i saw the video for the first time, it had captured everything that these two guys had done. and it brought back, one, a lot of anger that they were trying to kill a cop. and then, two, it also brought back a lot of the memories and the details. that i had not recorded in my mind.
surrender. watch his left hand! his left hand. as we approached he was still trying to get a gun. you are going to die if you move. don t move! the suspects finally give up and they re taken into custody. police confiscate several firearms, ammunition, duffel bags, a ski mask, duct tape and rope from the car, which leads them to believe the suspects were planning to rob the bank where officer perry first spotted them. the officers later learn that this is no ordinary crime team. they are father and son. the father, abdul shabazz, who fired multiple times on officer perry, is convicted of first degree attempted murder and is serving three consecutive life sentences. his son and accomplice, musa shabazz, is also convicted of first degree attempted murder and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. and perry was named police officer of the year for his