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Put your hands behind your back. >> an ambulance arrives within minutes and takes daniel roy smith away. smith, as it turns out, is a career criminal, who had escaped from a halfway house. after this incident, he's convicted of attempted murder and firearm possession and sentenced to 50 years in prison. despite being shot at from point-blank range, corporal mecham escapes the incident without injury. he attributes that in part to a premonition he had the night before. >> basically, the night before i just had this feeling come over me that i needed to practice drawing my weapon and do that rep...

Been shot. shots have been fired. i switched to emergency lights and sirens and drove the fastest and best i could to get there. >> as corporal mecham is radioing for help, he also yells for smith to drop his weapon. >> buddy, put that gun down or i will kill you. put the gun down! get your hands in the air! now! [ siren ] >> when i heard simmons' sirens a feeling of relief came over me. i knew i had help and quickly it would be over with. >> i got to the scene, corporal mecham was behind his car. i couldn't see the suspect at that time. because he was in a ditch in front of his vehicle. >> ro...

Put your hands behind your back. >> an ambulance arrives within minutes and takes daniel roy smith away. smith, as it turns out, is a career criminal, who had escaped from a halfway house. after this incident, he's convicted of attempted murder and firearm possession and sentenced to 50 years in prison. despite being shot at from point-blank range, corporal mecham escapes the incident without injury. he attributes that in part to a premonition he had the night before. >> basically, the night before i just had this feeling come over me that i needed to practice drawing my weapon and do that rep...

Another pocket on the bottom of the planner, and i never saw him turn the planner over and unzip it. >> lay the satchel right there. >> when mecham asks him to put the satchel down, it sets smith off. >> right there. well, you might have a warrant on you. >> a warrant? >> when he started backing up, i immediately knew then, that's a telltale sign of when someone is not compliant that they're the guy you're looking for. >> corporal mecham pleads with him to stop. don't do this. don't do this. >> i really thought he was going to run, and then a foot chase would ensue and possibly him be tasered,...

>> lay the satchel right there. >> when mecham asks him to put the satchel down, it sets smith off. >> well, you might have a warrant. >> when he started backing up, i immediately knew then, that's a telltale sign of when someone is not compliant that they're the guy you're looking for. >> corporal mecham pleads with him to stop. don't do this. don't do this. >> i really thought he was going to run, and then a foot chase would ensue and possibly him be tasered, different things like that. that's what i meant when i said let's don't do this. don't do this, mr. smith. i certainly had no idea he ...