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What's next? what's going to happen? >> as the troopers wait for backup to arrive they begin to question the driver who seems perplexed by what just happened. listen closely as he describes how he met his passenger. >> i know that his cousin asked me to give him a ride out here. he was pretty nice to me. >> he even adds pleasantry to trooper goins. >> i'm glad nothing happened to you, sir. >> sydney byrd, a career prisoner who escaped prison while out on work release. >> he was not going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> the man hunt for byrd is on. >> the county c...

Troopers goin and andresen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all of this happened. >> i had gotten the camera put in the day before. it was one of those fluky things. >> he had three holes in his jacket. >> byrd is found guilty of aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon and sentenced to life in prison. >> i started that day as a rookie, but i went home that night as a veteran. ♪ ♪ >> coming up, with a gun in each hand, a man opens fire on police. >> he was hit several times. >> and later, a getaway attempt goes...

>> had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to the al and what penitentiary. he wasn't going back to the joil. >> backup is now on the screen and the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath leaves in a pasture less than 100 yards away. years after the ordeal troopers goin and andresen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> get that one round off right here. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when...

Trooper andressen arrests the driver who never left the scene. >> drop it! get down on the ground! >> you think you're there for 15 minute, but you're only there the whole thing was over in 10, 13 seconds. it seemed like you were there forever because you're always wondering what's going on? what's next? what's going to happen? >> as the troopers wait for backup to arrive they begin to question the driver who seems perplexed by what just happened. listen closely as he describes how he met his passenger. >> i know that his cousin asked me to give him a ride out here. he was pretty nice to me. >...

Work release. >> he was not going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is on the scene and the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county called the horse team and the dog team out. pretty quick, within an hour, hour and a half tops, the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yard away. years after the ordeal troopers goin and andresen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> that one round right here -- >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all of this happened. >> i had gotten the...