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what s your first name? [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. what s going to happen shut the [ bleep ] i m going to jail! members of the fire department showed up. he refused to answer any questions for him. [ bleep ] you. yeah, i m allergic to [ bleep ] cops and [ bleep ] paramedics. the suspect, kevin hutchins, is taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries. toxicology results show his blood alcohol level is more than twice the legal limit. and it turns out he has two prior convictions for dui. he pleads guilty to multiple charges, including recklessly endangering safety and fleeing an officer and is sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. deputy griffin is also taken to the hospital and at first doesn t believe his injuries to be that serious. ....
Had bomb-making materials, he had books on how to dispose of bodies, close-quarter combat. despite yelling kill me, police don t think he d planned to committing suicide by cop, based in part on the materials found in his car. i think we stopped the suspect from doing something. i think he was planning on doing a lot of harm to a lot of people. officer thomas is treated for her gunshot wounds. her hand is so badly damaged that doctors are forced to amputate her left index finger. when i look down at my hand i have a constant reminder what was we went through that day. and the pain never stops. but i always remind myself that it could have been a lot worse. and that s what gets me through it. for officer savage, the incident leaves scars that are less visible. something that i deal with on a daily basis. but i feel that if i go out and do my traffic stops and talk ....
Including the mobile or cottage unit along with u.s. marshals. i remember asking the question, document me to take the lead? he said, yeah, take the lead, we re the marked unit, let s go. take the lead? yeah, take the [ bleep ] lead. that s all i needed to hear from that point on. this suspect had no points, no limits. he didn t care about anybody. he did everything in the world he could to get away from us. you can t see it in the dash cam video but the officer spots something that raises the stakes. he s picked up a rifle or something. when i saw the suspect pick up the rifle, my worst fears had come true. this is about to go bad. stand by, stand by. he s firing. speeding down the highway, the suspect blasts out his back window and hits the top of the cruiser s windshield. ....
That s when deputy mcclain dialed in on the suspect. i knew at that point, stop shooting into the vehicle, focus and kill him quick. hearing these shots, i progressively worked my way up. boom, boom, boom. kept continuing up until the last few rounds. at that time i could realize that i was hitting around the headrest. mcclain s final shots hit the suspect and the blazer veers into the guardrail. when he bounces off, you can actually see his body go limp. i actually watched the suspect roll to the right, almost laying over into the passenger seat, and the vehicle bounces off and continues due to the momentum, continues to go. the chase comes to an end. and other units converge on the blazer. not knowing if the suspect is dead or alive. ....
once you have alcohol or you have drugs in your system and you re compromised and you re driving at a high rate of speed, running from the police, that can be extremely dangerous. the suspect rapidly approaches a fork in the road and has a decision to make. the suspect vehicle was in the left lane. at the very last minute, the suspect vehicle makes a very quick right turn. unfortunately, he didn t make that. it looked like he was trying to fool us into which way he was going and ended up crashing into some barrels. the car went airborne. and everything kind of slowed down at that point. the car plows into the sand barrels. deputy griffin is too close to swerve out of the way. i remember seeing the suspect vehicle go airborne, and i thought in my mind, oh, [ bleep ]. and then the suspect vehicle s rear passenger side quarter ....