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Radio and told dispatch to have the people inside the store move away from the windows, that told me that he was trying to prepare to use deadly force against this guy. >> as the dash-cam rolls, sergeant makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill, but the gunman refuses to comply. >> put the gun down, man! put it down! >> no! >> whats going on? >> in talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and its pointed at him. he opened the breach of the rifle, the shotgun. i thought ...

>> im with you, okay? >> sergeant kellermann is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. >> i can talk about this whole, vent and its talk about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and i remember she answered. i remember her saying, baby, ive been shot, and i dont know if ill make it. i love you, okay? >> sergeant kellermann is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasnt a...

And what he did, because my being on the ground and seeing the blood, i knew i was going to die. >> im with you, okay? >> sergeant kellermann is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. >> i can talk about this whole event. its talking about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and thinking, god, i hope she answers. she answered. i remember saying, baby, ive been shot, and i dont know if ill make it. i love you, ok...

>> all right. >> stay right here. >> youre with me, youre going to be okay. >> youre going to be okay. i think youre going to be okay. all right? >> i keeping can him how bad it looked and how bads my eye? >> you dont look pretty. >> you werent pretty before, jim. >> he was even looking at me saying you didnt look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, im still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything hes saying and sergeant kellermann, and i joke arne a lot with ...

Me that he was trying to prepare to use deadly force against this guy. >> as the dash, rolls, sergeant kellermann makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill, but the gunman refuses to comply. >> put the gun down, man! put it down! >> no! >> whats going on? >> in talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and i pointed it at him and he opened with the shotgun, and i thought he would disarm it, and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police backup arrives and quickl...

My first shot. you see the window on the car that hes leaning on blow out, that was my first shot. >> in an instant, several officers open fire on the gunman, as officer tyson riley races to the aid of sergeant kellermann. >> the other officers that were there, i trust them with my life. i knew that they were going do anything they could to protect me and sergeant kellermann, and at that point i chose to holster my weapon and go to him. >> hill goes down. he is fatally wounded. >> stay down! sta...

Communicate with him and he was trying to put the gun down and trying to get some time of demeanor with him. i dont remember the gun blast. i remember hearing it, and i knew it was him that shot, and i felt the percussion on my face. >> just as i was about to fire my first shot he shot, and it kind of distracted me for a second. >> shortly after he shot i fired my first shot, and you see the window on the car that hes leaning on blow out. that was my first shot. >> in an instant, several officer...

Thinking god, i hope she answers. and i remember she answered. i remember saying, baby, ive been shot, and i dont know if ill make it. i love you, okay? >> though, sergeant kellermannn is lucky to be alive,ç the bult wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasnt as bad as i thought. of course, i lost my vision, and it wasnt as bad as it could have been. >> months later sergeant kellermann and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot, and they explained what we didnt see on das...

>> you werent pretty before, jim. >> he was even looking at me saying you didnt look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, im still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything hes saying. >> and sergeant kellermann and i joke around a lot with one another. and when he said that, i just wanted to give him some level of normalcy with him. >> everybody had a role out there on that scene. the officers that responded by shooting back had a role that they played. officer ...

In talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and its pointed at him. and he opened the breach of the rifle of the shotgun and i thought he was going to disarm it. i thought he was going to give up and put it down. and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. >> come on, man! >> i saw that he had taken a defensive posture and he was laying across the trunk of the vehicle pointing his f...