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hostage but somebody that i was talking to, you know -- i hate to say friend, but i don't know another word for it. >> as for why he did it, jones maintains he snapped when he couldn't find work to support his family after his first stint in jail. >> every opportunity that i tried to open, you know, the doors were shut, and things led to another, and i just gave up. i guess symbolically running, running from the truth, running from reality. >> jones has one more request of his former hostage. >> i would hope one day she would see enough to say, well, you know, he spent enough time for the things that he's done, so let me forgive him. >> but christie says the mom in her will never do that. >> one day i may forgive him, and to a certain point there's a part of me that has, but not for
2006, at this now-closed gas station in the dallas suburb of fairview. the 51-year-old grandmother is in her truck, along with her dog hollywood, waiting to meet her daughter and son-in-law for lunch. that's when ex-con samuel jones enters the cab with a gun. >> he snatches the door open and his exact words was, drive, bitch, or i'll kill you. >> jones is on the run from police. the day before, the 32-year-old carjacked a vehicle at a lowe's parking lot. then crashed it. when a doctor pulled over to help, jones stole his car, too. >> next thing i knew, he put a gun to my head, just told me to get out of the car. so that's a lot of motivation, so i got out of the car. >> now jones has abandoned that car at the fairview gas station where he spots christie's truck. >> i asked him which way he wanted to go. i said north or south. he said south. >> christie pulls out and heads
>> minutes later police fire tear gas into the cab. >> you could see him coming out the driver's side, hanging out the driver's side door and they took him safely into custody. >> good morning, sir. >> jones is found guilty of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault and sentenced to life in prison. no chance of parole for 30 years. >> i did not have any intention of harming christie. >> in an interview from a state prison in livingston, texas, jones spoke to "caught on camera" about christie, five years after the incident. >> i decided to give her the gun, allow her to exit the truck. >> jones says christie didn't escape. he let her go. and of the gun itself -- >> it was not loaded during the time with christie. >> he even claims he considered her more than a hostage. >> there came a time where, me personally, i felt like she was no longer someone that i took
games until tim wolfe resigns as president, joining with student groups upset of his handing of the incidents. ben carson took his campaign to puerto rico today where he pledged to advocate making the u.s. territory america's 51st state. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. how we react when our life is on the line says a lot about who we are. one woman found herself in a do-or-die situation, staring down the barrel of a gun with only her wits to help her survive. a truck driver is abducted at gunpoint, taken hostage in her own rig, forced to drive or die. >> he goes, it's time to end this. i just didn't feel like my odds were that good at that time. >> christie lawrence's harrowing ordeal begins on july 23rd,
>> jones has a sea of police in tow, but no real destination. he directs christie to keep driving. thanks to local news coverage, christie's abduction is now drawing hundreds of people to the highways to watch the crisis unfold in real-time. >> it's crazy. you know, i mean, all these people tracking it and following it. us, too. just interesting. >> we've been at it for two hours now. we picked it up in arlington and came all the way out here with it. >> there really were no ways to take measures to ensure that the general public was safe because they kept involving themselves in the situation. >> s.w.a.t. negotiators reached jones by cell phone, but he won't agree to let christie go. texas department of public safety, or tds, decide on a risky rescue plan. while the rig is speeding on i-40, dps troopers shoot live ammunition at the 18-wheeler's engine. >> if you wanted to stop the truck, you needed to shoot the radiator. so they shot the radiator.
and he takes the gun and he puts his head down, and he's just shaking his head back and forth. >> at that moment christie turns to her late father for comfort. >> i knew he was in heaven watching over me. i knew this. i mean, he's been with me all of my life, so why would i think he wouldn't be with me at one of my hardest, toughest moments. >> and it's his voice that tells her what she needs to do. >> i could hear my dad's voice. he said, it's now or never. at the very, very end my daddy is what got me out of that truck. >> without hesitation, christie decides literally to grab the gun out of jones' hand. she jumps out of the truck, drops the gun, and runs to safety with her dog hollywood close behind. >> i don't even remember opening the door. i don't remember jumping over -- i don't remember nothing. >> she just outplayed him in the game. my hat's off to her. there's a lot of people who couldn't have done that.