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Good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, i'm still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything he's saying. i can hear everything that's going on. >> sergeant kellerman and i joke when he said that, i just wanted to give some level of normalcy to him. >> everybody had a role out there on that scene. the officers that responded by shooting back had a role that they played. officer raleigh, when he arrived, he took on the role of being by my side. he knew i've been hit, and i can't say enough about him and what he does because me being on the ground and seeing all that...

Communicate with him. hey, buddy, put the gun down. get a personal communication with him. and he was going to put the gun down. i don't 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 he's leaning on blow out. that was my first shot. >> in an instant, several officers open fire on the gunman as officer tyson raleigh races to the aid of sergeant...

Event and it's 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, i've been shot. i don't know if i'm going to make it. i love you, okay? >> though sergeant kellerman is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasn't as bad as i thought. i mean -- of course, i lost my vision. but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. months later, sergeant kellerman and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot. and they explain what we didn't see on dash cam. >> but ...

An officer and a gunman in a tense standoff -- >> put it down! >> no! >> -- that ends with both men shot. >> put the gun down, buddy! >> the first thing i thought is i'm losing way too much blood to make it. >> april 2nd, 2011. conroe, texas. sergeant james kellerman responds to an emergency call. a man is wielding a shotgun outside a nearby bakery. >> at the time, it was pretty much all of the comments i had while en route. i was the first responding officer. typically here in conroe a supervisor isn't dispatched primary to the call. i was the closest when i went out so i knew there were two ...

Walked across the front of the building and put his focus on me. then and there i knew i was in the wrong place. >> he's got the gun aimed at me. >> the man with the shotgun is james richard hill. he's in the thick of a heated dispute with his girlfriend who works at the bakery. >> we've got people in the store. tell them to get away from the windows. >> even before officer ashley brockett arrives on the scene, he knows the situation is dire. >> the fact that he got on the radio and told dispatch to have the people inside the store move away from the windows, that told me that he was trying to...