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Time i have my pistol out and point ed at him. he opened the shotgun and i thought he was going put it down but he was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police wait for hill to make a move. >> come on, man. >> i saw he had taken a defensive posture. he was laid across the trunk of the vehicle. pointing his firearm at sergeant kellerman. when you get on a scene like that and you made the decision that deadly force would have to be used which i made quickly after he looked to see if it was reloaded and popped it back i knew there was going to be some type of shooting involved. >> put the gu...

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. 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 a...

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 i took down a stance basically right here behind my car. most of me was shielded except for pretty much this part of me that was looking over my pistol. and that's when he took the shot. >> ambulance stopped. we went from your car to the ambulance and then the helicopter was stopped right out her...

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 kellerman. >> the other officers that were there, i trust them with my life. i knew that they were going do anything they could to protect me and sergeant kelle...

He walked across 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, that...