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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 2, 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 officer isn't dispatched primary to the call. i was the closest when i went out so i knew there were two units res...

Didn't look 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 and everything that's going on. >> sergeant kellerman and i joke around a lot with one another.k around a lot with one another and when he said that i wanted to give some level of normalcy to him. >> everybody had a role out there on the scene and 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, and i can't say enough about him, and i knew i was going to...

>> what's going on? in talking to him, the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and it's pointed at him. he opened the breach of the rifle, the shotgun, i thought he was going to disarm it. and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. >> come on, man! >> i saw that he had taken a defensive posture. he was laid across the trunk of a vehicle pointing his firearm at sergeant kellerman. i knew as soon as i pulled in and i looked over, i ha good shot. >> put the gun down! >> when you get on the scene ...

He walked away from the front door, 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, t...

Answers, and she answered. i remember saying, baby, i've been shot. i don't know if i'm going to make it. >> i love you. all right? >> though sergeant kellerman is lucky to be alive, but the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> 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 i took down a stance basically right here behind my car. most of me was shielded except this part of me that was looking over my pistol and ...