harbor walgreens. hovan is at work when two masked gunmen rush through the doors and seize one of the assistant managers. one of the managers ran across an aisle holding a piece of shelving and headed directly to the stock room. this frightened me and i suddenly realized that something was wrong. seconds later i saw another manager with a gunman in the pharmacy area. the gunman saw me. and i saw him. hovan moves back to call 911 but the gunman hurtles over the counter. hovan draws the handgun he legally carries in a concealed holster during every shift. the robber appears to fire his weapon, although it doesn t go off. the gunman repeatedly attempted to fire upon me. i feared for my life. and in self-defense, i fired my weapon as i continued to move from him. he shoots three times missing the robber who drops his weapon and flees with his accomplice.
camera. i m contessa brewer. rarely in a murder trial do you have the kind of evidence you re about to see. a killing captured on six seconds of videotape. no one who witnessed it could believe their eyes, nor would they be able to forget it, but would the videotape send a man to prison or help him get away with murder? we warn you, some of the video you re about to see is graphic and hard to watch. a professional photographer, haunted by the image he captured on camera. you go out and do stories and you have to wonder, is it going to happen again? the tragic story begins thanksgiving morning, 1992, in a little house in ft. lauderdale, florida. a 15-year-old girl named yolanda nunez commits suicide with her mother s gun. in a note she writes she s pregnant and writes that if her mother found out about it, she would never approve. it intensifies a hatred between emilio, the girl s father, and the girl s mother. emilio blames maritza for yolanda s suicide.
one of the managers ran across an aisle, pulled in a piece of shelving and headed directly to the stock room. this frightened me and i suddenly realized that something was wrong. seconds later i saw another manager with a gunman in the pharmacy area. the gunman saw me. and i saw him. hovan moves back to call 911 but the gunman hurtles over the counter. hovan draws the handgun he legally carries in a concealed holster during every shift. the robber appears to fire his weapon, although it doesn t go off. the gunman repeatedly attempted to fire upon me. i feared for my life. and in self-defense, i fired my weapon as i continued to move from him. he shoots three times missing the robber who drops his weapon and flees with his accomplice. another employee picks up the dropped gun. if hovan expects praise for his vigilante actions, he doesn t get it from his employer. instead he s fired.
he breaks it, and then he cusses. this was back in 2002 before youtube. the cylinder breaking isn t the only segment from the telethon that will catch fire on the internet. several hours later it s chris self-control that shatters. hey, what s so funny? [ burps ] excuse you. i need more pepto-bismol. i haven t opened it yet. i was eating my nuts. all right. anyway, almonds, folks. after 15 hours on the air it seems chris is unable to pick up the pieces. i was ready to answer a question. i have no idea what the hell you re going to ask. that s okay. i can foregive you for that. what the hell? i was laughing so hard i couldn t see. the only thing have you ever laughed so hard you re squinting, you re laughing so hard.
in the panic a few people are able to escape the store. zack is working in the back when he hears those shots. i looked down the aisle. i saw chuck lios on the ground just covered in blood. it still didn t click in my head that something was wrong. i started walking backwards and i found myself in the produce department. this is the view from the store camera covering the produce section. the floor crew guy that waxes the floors, he just runs right past me, and i knew something was wrong then. and i kept walking backwards. i was going to go towards the back room. but zack had just made the biggest mistake of his life. zane floyd is coming around the corner with a shotgun. there s tables in produce that have all the fruits and vegetables. and i dove between one of those, just trying to get down. and he takes a shot at me. and i m ducking under the table. and it goes over my head. he s chasing me around, and i m just scrambling, trying to get away. and he just comes right over