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Was real, but she surprised herself with how she reacted. what i did is not right, but, you know, sometimes you never know what you re going to do, how you re going to act. today she still works long hours at the store and is thankful that lucky ax was close by. it s the early morning hours of june 3rd, 1999, at this albertson s supermarket in las vegas. 23-year-old zack emmenneger is working the graveyard shift. it s a typical day. i mean nothing was out of the ordinary at all. at all. at 5:15 a.m., a security camera is trained on the east entrance of the store. an employee can be seen pushing a row of carts away. seconds later, a man named zane floyd strides through the door with a shotgun. he shoots the worker point blank in the back. 40-year-old thomas darnell is killed instantly. floyd roams the store in search of more victims. ....
Units arrived. by 5:19, the police have arrived. but zack doesn t know that. despite his severe injury, he decides to go for help. zack has already cheated death twice, but he s in for another close call. i tried to get up to go to the back room to use the phone. and i just couldn t handle it. i just fall down. and i m lying there, and here he is, and he could have seen me, you know. he could have seen me get up. and then i try and lift up my head again, and that s when he walks out the store. at 5:20 a.m., floyd exits the store. code red, he s coming out. he s coming out. your way. we ve got him at gunpoint. after an eight-minute standoff, zane floyd surrenders. incredibly, floyd is in and out of the store in seven minutes. but the devastation he leaves is permanent. four people killed and one left gravely wounded. zack undergoes multiple surgeries and painful therapy. but even as his body slowly heals, zack remains haunted by his encounter with zane floyd. ....
At 5:16 a.m., one minute after floyd s entrance into the store, a worker hiding there is able to place a frantic 911 call. 911 emergency. we need help, please. what kind of help? this is albertson s. we re on sahara and valley view. there s a guy with a gunshot in here. oh, my god. hold on. oh, my god, he s running all over the store. the police are on their way. but zack is still trapped in the store with a killer. some instinct tells him not to move, that it isn t over yet. and it isn t. floyd is coming back. here he s walking up the aisle in the produce department. he s almost out of frame when suddenly, he doubles back toward zack. he walks over me and he just kind of leans over me to make sure, you know. i was just lying there, closing my eyes. i didn t exactly know where he was. i did kind of hear him come back. so i was just laying there. he bends over me and walks looking for more people. one, robert. give us a code red. ....
He s chasing me around, and i m just scrambling, trying to get away. and he just comes right over me and shoots me. and i got hit right here, and like it came through and collapsed both my lungs, and it felt like i got hit by a truck. but floyd isn t finished with zack. he turns away and he sees i m still moving, and he comes back and shoots me again. it comes across my forearm, blew a big chunk out of my arm. zack knows there s only one way he can survive. i knew at that point he wasn t going to stop until he thought i was dead. so immediately after he shot me the second time, i just jerked my whole body and laid back like i was playing dead. watch as floyd walks right up to zack to make sure he finished him off. he goes, yeah, you re dead. i closed my eyes. i was like, god, if you re going to take me, take me now. meanwhile, floyd continues his deadly sweep of the store. he finds and kills 60-year-old store clerk lucy tarantino. ....
i was so scared being in the hospital. i was afraid he was going to come in the door with a shotgun and just kill me. i remember asking my mom, was i the only one? they didn t tell me until later that he killed four people. the next time zack comes face to face with zane floyd, it s in a courtroom. zack is called to testify, and even with zane floyd s strikingly different appearance, zack had no problem identifying him. i saw him in the courtroom. it was the same person i saw in the store. he was just evil. zane floyd is convicted on four counts of first degree murder and receives the harshest penalty allowed by law. verdict. we the jury in the above-entitled case impose a sentence of death. floyd s case is on appeal in federal court. coming up, a mom out for a day of shoplifting, and you ll never guess who s helping. i ve never seen anything like ....