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Noise. >> it was worse than any concert i had been through. every round he fire othered was bouncing off the passenger window. the hot brass was going down hitting me in the neck. >> i started firing toward the back of the vehicle and worked my way up. >> the move also puts the cruiser back this the line of fire. >> i had enough faith in deputy mcclain, i knew if i gave him a stable shooting platform, there was no way we were going to lose the battle. >> the suspect fires back hitting the undercarriage of the cruiser. the deputy doesn't try to avoid the shots. >> just kept the vehicle at a pro...

Officials are also investigating reports that minutes before the crash, other trains in the area were also hit by projectiles. the windshield of a septa commuter train was shattered as was the passenger window of an amtrak excella train. >> we were definitely alarmed. we never heard that sound on a train. we take the train often between d.c. and new york. it was frightening. >> reporter: philadelphia native howard brown says these reports do not surprise him. he says the police rarely patrol this area. and kids get into trouble on the tracks all the time. >> the junkies will go up here hoping ...

>> if true it would mean that three trains were hit by -- reportedly hit by some object within the same area of the crash within a 20-minute span. now, the front windshield of that 729 local train along the same railway was hit, forcing the train into an emergency spot with 80 passengers on board. just moments before that passenger madison calvert witnessed a projectile hit the passenger window of his amtrak acela 2173. >> i was working on my laptop. i was just following up with e-mails. all of a sudden the crash. i quickly turned. didn't see what hit it but saw that everything to my left had ...

Stop, but he's required by regulations to sound his bell. i may have said horn. he's required to sound his bell as he goes through past a station stop and he did that. he recalled doing that. but he has no recollection of anything past that. >> reporter: the ntsb is not ready to draw any conclusions based on what they found so far. they will reassemble the train to inspect it. amtrak says they hope to have limited service by monday full service by tuesday. >> adam, so the area in which the accept take oig train and acela express train were allegedly hit by something, is that the same area pret...

Amtrak 188, a small circular marking in the lower left-hand corner. they called in the fbi to help with that forensic analysis. ntsb saying calling in the fbi for its forensics expertise is not unusual during the course of its investigations. adding to this mystery is reports from passengers of a third train that was in the area that night. we heard from cam desigh who was on board an amtrak acela train. he said that that train, about 15 or 20 minutes prior to the 188 derailment was also hit by a projectile. he said it struck the passenger window in front of him and he was terrified. take a li...