[narrator] In Florida, a felon breaks into an elementary school.
[officer on radio]
He was target locked on the subject.
That's why it was a perfect time to let Duder go.
[man shouting]
[narrator] In Arizona, a traffic stop goes bad.
The truck just barrels into me.
[narrator] And in Utah, a customer pulls a gun
at the drive-through.
[officer speaking]
It only takes an instant
for a gun to be pointed at you.
[female officer speaking]
[officer speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[narrator] In Florida,
75 miles northwest of Orlando is Marion County.
[Cpl. Luiken] I've been working with the Marion County Sheriff's Office since 2014.
Everyday, we deal with, uh, a wide variety of calls.
You know, stray dogs
or loose cows on the road, horses.
You'll have the boyfriend-girlfriend breaking up that are arguing.
The day was going as any other day
when one of our license plate readers
activated a car that was listed as stolen.
I started looking for the car.
As we got to an intersection,
I saw the car turning westbound in front of me.
I got behind it.
It started making a couple of turns
clearly trying to evade me.
[siren wailing]
[Cpl. Luiken] So I turn my lights on.
He went down that dead-end road.
I had to initiate the traffic stop.
I try to block him in.
[speaking on radio]
You are usually gonna just pull over and,
you know, cooperate.
[speaking on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] But he just hit the gas instead of the brake.
Now he's running away from me
without trying to hide that he's trying to run away.
[speaking on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] My first thought is, "I don't know if this guy is armed,
I don't know who the guy is."
I don't want to start a situation by myself.
I'd rather start a situation with 10, 15 other deputies.
[dispatcher speaking indistinctly on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] I called all the information to the dispatcher.
Then coordinating with all the other people,
K9, helicopter.
[speaking on radio]
And they're sending everybody my direction.
We got a call of a vehicle pursuit.
The reason to get involved with a pursuit is we can see
so much more.
We can help direct units to different areas
that they may not be able to see from ground level.
[Cpl. Luiken on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] During the pursuit, I'm only focusing on the car,
if he's gonna hit an innocent person.
He's running away into a residential neighborhood.
I knew the area really well.
[speaking on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] And I knew that the elementary school was nearby.
Are the kids out in the yard playing?
I'm just starting to panic a little bit.
It was probably another five or ten minutes
until the helicopter got in the area.
[speaking on radio]
I think he realized he wasn't gonna be able
to get away from me in his car.
So that's when he jumped out of the car and ran on foot.
I knew the school was there.
Every second a chase continues,
the risk of something terrible and catastrophic happening increases.
I know everybody else is coming to me.
But I don't know where they're at.
When the helicopter gets in the area,
when the K9 gets there,
they can start trying to track him down from there.
[speaking on radio]
[dispatcher on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] Once he got such a lead on me,
and I wasn't gonna be able to catch him,
I'm going to start questioning the-- the passenger.
What does she know about the guy?
Who is he? Where's he going? What's his name?
[speaking on radio]
[Cpl. Luiken] My whole responsibility at that point
is to stay with the vehicle,
let the other guys catch the bad guy.
It was all unfolding pretty quick.
As we get into the area, I'm looking out the door.
The ground units have given us a good description of the suspect.
[speaking on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] We spotted the suspect.
We have a moving map on board
so we can help everybody on the ground
trying to direct units in.
The fear is now that he could actually run
to the school. It's very concerning,
it stays in the back of our head
because school's in session that day.
[female officer on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] He could use the school as a safe haven.
You know, he's scared.
We know that there is a school resource officer on duty.
We immediately get with the school
to let him know why we're there, what's going on,
and to lock the school down.
[Chrissy Carter] It was an afternoon, around 02:30.
There was well over 100 students on the basketball court.
I saw a helicopter
flying overhead pretty closely.
And it was circling, and I recognized that
it was from our Sheriff's department.
So that kind of my first red flag.
I know that there's intense monitoring,
or a chase, or they're looking for somebody.
We decided to move everybody indoors
just out of precaution.
You do see what happens on the news
so you think of the worst.
[officer on radio]
We don't know what's going through his mind,
we don't know who he is, what he's capable of.
[officer on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] Does he have a weapon on him?
Is he gonna start shooting?
Is he gonna take a hostage?
[speaking on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] There's a lot going on inside that cockpit.
[speaking on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] You've got, uh, Corporal Jenkins running the camera.
He's also getting on the radio.
I am flying the aircraft, I'm looking outside.
I'm doing everything I can do to help.
I'm getting on the radio.
The school resource officer's listening to the whole thing going down on radio.
[speaking on radio]
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Chrissy] I heard on his radio,
"He jumped the fence, he's on the Maplewood playground."
And that's when I knew we had a pretty serious situation.
Now we are under a code Red.
That alerts everybody not only to lock that door
but to hide and get in a location
in their classroom away from windows and doors.
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio] 4470.
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] It gets to the point sometimes
that we don't wanna see him get hurt.
It's like, "Please, lay down. The dog's coming."
Um... He didn't listen.
[narrator] Corporal Mohammad Refaei brings his K9, Duder, to the scene.
[Cpl. Refaei] I heard the pursuit, it was initiated.
And then, that's when I put my lights and sirens
and I'm really heading to 'em.
[siren wails]
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[narrator] Mohammad joins a deputy who has already
spotted the suspect.
[deputy speaking]
Everyone is directing us, telling us where the subject is going.
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
[Cpl. Refaei] When I get Duder out of the car,
I'm amped up, he can sense it, he knows it.
He's ready to go.
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
[Cpl. Refaei] He's already got to work.
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
He could smell that fear scent
and he's dragging me towards it.
[deputy speaking]
[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
[deputy speaking]
[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Cpl. Refaei] We can slightly see the subject running.
Doesn't look like he has a destination,
he's just trying to get away from us.
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
Animals will give you away in a New York minute.
They'll run. They get startled.
We use all sorts of clues and that's one of 'em that we use.
[deputy speaking]
[Cpl. Refaei] There's a lot going on.
We have 30 pounds of gear on,
and we have the dog that wants to go full speed
so I have to kinda keep up with him.
There's fences, there's terrain,
there's divots in the grass.
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
I was running, Duder's going full speed
and there's a divot in the grass.
I heard a snap, uh, in my ankle.
[moans]
[officer on radio] You have to stop.
[Cpl. Refaei groans]
[deputy speaking]
[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
-[deputy speaking] -[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
-[Cpl. Refaei groaning] -[Cpl. Jenkins on radio] Stop.
Well, I kinda held my breath
or took a few seconds, kinda composed myself.
[groans]
We're maybe 100 yards away from the subject.
Duder's target locked, back at the run.
We had to push through it and, uh, try to go there and locate him.
[officer on radio]
[deputy speaking]
[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
[Sgt. Bruner] We're making his avenues of escape smaller and smaller.
Hopefully, he'll give up but even if he doesn't,
we have people all around him that if he pops out,
will be able to at least grab hold of him.
[Sgt. Bruner on radio]
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
Our perimeter circle tightened up a little bit
and that's when we kinda closed the gap on him.
[officer on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] I could see how many patrol units
we had that was encircling him.
[officer on radio]
[dispatcher on radio]
[Sgt. Bruner] And then I saw how close the K9 was to him.
I knew it was, uh, it was about to come to an end with a quickness.
Once the K9 gets on top of him,
he's not gonna get away.
I was maybe 25, 50 yards away.
[dispatcher on radio] The 14...
[Cpl. Jenkins on radio]
[Cpl. Refaei speaking]
Duder kind of got big, his ears went up
and to me, that's a proximity alert.
And he was target locked on the subject.
That's why it was a perfect time to let Duder go.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer on radio]
I had to walk over there and hop over the fence
and go but I had eyes on Duder and the subject the whole time.
His job is to bite and hold
until I get there and place him in handcuffs.
You don't want to be 50 yards away
and your dog lets go and he has a gun,
he shoots him and shoots you.
[officer speaking]
Patience sometime is kinda hard
when you've got something like this going down.
Uh, two seconds feels like an eternity.
-[officer speaking] -[man groaning]
[Cpl. Refaei] When we apprehended him, even till after,
he was reaching his waistband,
he was, just a lot of movements
that were, uh, pretty suspicious and weren't natural.
[officer speaks indistinctly] Dog bite...
I got him cuffed up.
But he was definitely in some pain.
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
We have paramedics come check on the subject,
make sure he's okay from the dog bite.
And that's when adrenaline wears off a little bit.
That's when I knew I gotta go to a hospital.
[man] Nothing in there.
[narrator] Clarence Dane Junior was taken to Marion County jail.
He was convicted of theft, fleeing police officers,
driving with a suspended license,
and trespassing on school property.
The female passenger was involved in no wrongdoing
and not arrested.
[deputy speaking]
-[Cpl. Refaei speaking] -[deputy speaking]
It was a pretty nasty ankle sprain.
I would say this is a great example
of, uh, communication and team work.
Duder, he did a good job for me and I owe that to him.
Definitely proud of him.
He was a great partner.
Duder's staying with me for, yeah, the rest of his life.
[Sgt. Bruner] Our main goal is to make sure everybody goes home safe that night.
On that day, we had such a good group of people,
you know that, uh, it's gonna turn out good.
[Chrissy] The individual was caught
which was a huge sigh of relief.
I am so grateful for the Sheriff's department.
It really does make a huge difference
and all of our students were safe.
[narrator] 13 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona,
lies Old Town Scottsdale.
[Officer Ryan] Kind of got a Western vibe to it.
You'll see families out and about,
up and down the sidewalks
pretty much all hours of the day.
It's a very safe city.
On that day, I come in specifically, um, to conduct traffic enforcement.
There was a white pickup truck that was heading in my direction
and it was going significantly faster than all the traffic around it.
We have so many people who call in and complain about people driving
freeway speeds on that city street.
Um, they noticed me behind 'em when I turned on my lights.
I could see that there were two individuals in the truck.
They pulled off into, uh, a parking lot.
They pulled forward into the shade which, being on a motorcycle in Arizona,
I was appreciative of.
[crashes]
[Officer Ryan speaking]
Um, it all happened really fast.
The engine revved and the tires began to scream,
like he's burning 'em out.
-[engine revs] -[crashes]
[Officer Ryan] The truck just barrels into me.
He smashed into that motorcycle.
I was still on the bike when he physically hit it.
As the bike's being pushed from under me,
I'm jumping off as quick as I can.
Luckily, we have excellent training here at this agency.
I'd already thought about this scenario
so I didn't really hesitate.
I just got out of the way as quick as I could.
-[engine revs] -[crashes]
[Officer Ryan speaking]
[speaking on radio]
[Officer Ryan] 999, which is basically an emergency call for help.
[speaking on radio]
They needed some help quickly.
[Officer Ryan on radio]
The utter destruction of the front end of my motorcycle,
it was something else.
-[officer on radio indistinctly] -[Officer Ryan grunts]
[Officer Blackwell] When I hear that the suspect had rammed into him,
I knew that he was willing to do whatever it took to get away
including hurting more officers or our citizens.
Officer Ryan confirmed what type of vehicle we were looking for.
That happened to be right when it went flying by in front of me.
[speaking on radio]
[siren wailing]
[Officer Blackwell] So I attempted to catch up to it,
and by the time I did, he had pulled into a parking lot.
[speaking on radio]
-[woman speaking] -[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[speaking on radio]
[Officer Blackwell] I was actually happy knowing that,
uh, he wasn't putting any of us or the citizens
at risk anymore with his reckless driving.
And I also know that we're much more successful
at catching people when they flee on foot.
We can set up a perimeter,
and we can use our K9s
to conduct an area search to locate our suspects.
[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[man speaking]
-[officer] Copy that. -[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[man speaking]
[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[man speaking]
-[Officer Blackwell speaking] -[man continues speaking]
-[Officer Blackwell speaking] -[man] I think.
[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Officer Blackwell speaking]
[dog growls and barks]
[Officer Blackwell] Searching for the suspect in an apartment complex,
we weren't actively searching with our dog out in front.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Blackwell] But instead,
we had him trailing our search team.
We had the dog there in case the need arises for him to be used.
The worst case scenario, uh, in this situation would be
that they break into one of these occupied apartments,
and they-- they hold them hostage.
We have officers at different locations in the apartment complex,
their cars staged with the lights on
in an attempt to contain our suspect.
Hey, hey, what you got there, Mikey?
We're keeping an eye out for any fresh damage to doors,
any places where either of them could be hiding.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Blackwell speaking]
-[device buzzes] -[dispatcher on radio]
[Sgt. Galbraith] Our patrol officers get information from
Scottsdale paramedics nearby
that one of their ambulances has been stolen.
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 2 speaking]
[paramedic speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] The medics were just out of the ambulance on a call in the area
and they had called another one
to take their patient that they were working with to the hospital.
[officer speaking]
[paramedic speaking]
[officer speaking]
[paramedic speaking]
[officer speaking]
[paramedic speaking]
[officer speaking]
When I first heard that they had stolen an ambulance,
I thought it was something right out of a movie.
And we were fairly sure that it was our two suspects we were looking for.
[paramedic speaking]
[Officer Blackwell] The current location of the ambulance
put it only about a half a mile away.
We broke down our perimeter
and moved our teams to where the ambulance was.
[dispatcher on radio]
[Officer Blackwell] At that point, for whatever reason,
-suspect continued to flee from law enforcement. -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Officer Blackwell] They were definitely committed to doing whatever they could
to evade and escape capture.
[officer speaking]
[dog whining]
[officer speaking]
Bump up that.
[speaking indistinctly]
[officer speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer speaking]
[Officer Blackwell] They were smart enough to just drive it
a half mile away and, uh, flee on foot at that point.
[police operator speaking]
[woman speaking on phone]
[police operator speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 2] Different clothing thought, right?
[officer speaking]
[officer on radio]
[dog barks]
[officer on radio]
[man speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] We don't know who we're dealing with
we don't know what they're thinking in those situations, so,
you just kinda take it as it comes
and you rely on your training.
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[Officer Blackwell] As we were searching for our suspect,
we developed more information that
the-- the white pickup truck our suspect had been driving
and used to ram Officer Ryan, uh, had actually been stolen.
[device beeps]
[officer speaking]
[narrator] In another part of the complex,
officers apprehend the female passenger.
[officer speaking]
C-R-O-O-K?
[Brittany speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] She immediately just started providing law enforcement
with information and that was huge.
We'll take her word for it initially
but then we do our own research and sure enough,
once we look up this individual,
we find what they look like, their demeanor,
especially this suspect 'cause he was around 6'6", 230 pounds, so,
we look at his criminal history.
Obviously we know by the initial incident
we're dealing with somebody that's fairly violent.
He had some robbery cases.
So, we're looking at, basically, a career criminal.
[officer speaking]
[dog barking]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] There was lot of concern that the suspect
uh, may be hiding or lying in wait to ambush officers.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[speaking indistinctly]
[officer speaking]
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 2 speaking]
[officer continues speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] Responding officers think it looks like our suspect,
there's a couple characteristics that are there.
[officer speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer speaking]
[officers shouting]
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[officers speak indistinctly] -[metal clanging]
[officer speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[man speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[dog barking]
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 1 speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 2 speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[man speaking] -[officer speaking]
[man] It's--
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
[narrator] Officers continue the search.
-[officer 1 speaking indistinctly] -[officer 2 speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] The patrol officers,
they came up with negative results for the suspect in the apartment complex.
Now it's our job to start figuring out
where's this person gonna go, um,
any type of intelligence that might get--
get us a starting point to where we could find this individual.
[Sgt. Galbraith] When we're operating for a fugitive apprehension,
we're gonna operate in plain clothes, jeans and a T-shirt.
Vehicles we drive, they're all fully unmarked,
they don't look like police cars.
Covert if we can, for as long as we can.
Through some record searching, we're able to find a possible address,
kinda in the Northeast Phoenix area.
We don't have any hard information but we're starting to move in that direction
and we're starting to set up surveillance units.
There was another two days of surveillance
and then day three, we were pretty confident
that our suspect was in this hotel.
And there was a convenience store that was nearby.
And he actually came around the back of the convenience store
around 5 p.m.,
so, at that point, we decided to coordinate an apprehension.
And as soon as he saw, he took off running.
-[man thrashing violently] -[sirens wailing]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] Started resisting, and not only resisting,
but actively fighting them, like, trying to punch them, that kind of stuff, so...
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Galbraith] And it ended up in a-- in a Taser deployment
and eventually they were able to get the suspect into custody.
[sirens wailing]
[narrator] Matthew Thomas Crook was found guilty
of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and theft of the ambulance.
He was sentenced to a minimum of seven years in prison.
The passenger, Brittany Cannon,
was found guilty of theft of the ambulance
and sentenced to one year in prison.
[Sgt. Galbraith] It's just a good sense of relief and accomplishment.
He could have actually killed the officer.
I knew my-- my colleagues weren't gonna give up.
I knew that they were working around the clock to apprehend this guy.
You-- You feel helpless, really.
It gives you perspective.
[Officer Blackwell] It's a good reminder that, uh,
even when we think we're making our routine traffic stop,
that we never know who's in the car,
and what their motives are that day.
[narrator] Ten miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah
is Midvale.
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
[male dispatcher on radio]
-[female dispatcher on radio] -[male dispatcher on radio]
When a firearm is involved in a call,
it-- it's definitely a scarier situation
because you don't know
what can happen.
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
If someone is pointing a gun on a fast food worker,
because they messed up an order,
that has escalated way too far over a hamburger.
My main thought was the safety of
the McDonald's employees, the people around.
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
[dispatcher speaking]
[woman on phone]
[device beeps]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
As I approached the car, the only thing I could see was
him in the driver's seat. It was a two-door small car.
It did not look-- appear to have a rear seat.
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
I could see through his tinted windows that
he had a cell phone in his right hand.
And he was looking at me like, "What's going on?"
And he was not complying.
-Open the door. -[Officer Lechuga] Open!
[Officer Linkenhoker] Open the door.
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[Officer Mathews] When somebody's not complying
knowing that there was a-- a firearm involved,
it-- it makes me start to worry.
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[Officer Mathews] I was looking for a gun inside the vehicle
without getting too close.
And the more he ignored, the more anxious I became.
It only takes an instant for a gun to be produced
and pointed at you.
[officer] Open the door!
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[man speaking]
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[officer] Get out of the car.
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
After we got the suspect on the ground,
my main thing was to get him in handcuffs.
I did not know if he had the gun in his waistband,
if he had the gun on his person.
[man shouting]
[Officer Mathews speaking]
I saw a gun hit the ground.
I immediately thought it was his.
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
-[man shouting] -[Officer Mathews] Gun!
[Officer Lechuga and officer 2 speaking]
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
I was able to secure it
to make sure that he couldn't use it against us.
[Officer Lechuga and officer 2 speaking]
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews exclaims]
[people exclaiming]
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews exclaims]
At the corner of my peripheral, on my right side,
I see something come out of the-- of the window.
And I look down and I see it's a gun.
At that moment, time stopped. It absolutely stopped.
I remember looking at the gun, being able to read the side, Smith & Wesson.
Yeah, that's real. You're about to get shot.
You need to act. You need to do it. And you need to do it now.
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews exclaims]
I was able to bat the gun away with my hand.
As I'm hitting the gun with my hand, it goes off.
[people speaking indistinctly]
-[gun fires] -[people gasp]
The bullet traveled up my arm. I immediately felt a heat sensation up my arm.
-[gun fires] -[people exclaiming]
I had the bad guy on the ground,
so, it was confusing.
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews exclaims]
Like, what is going on? Where did that shot come from?
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[Officer Mathews] I can see the gun pointed at me still.
I'm getting ready to shoot, return fire.
You don't put your finger on the trigger until
you've made a conscious decision to fire.
I had made that conscious decision.
And I was pulling the trigger.
[Officer Linkenhoker] Shots--
[Officer Mathews speaking]
The gun drops and,
I could see it was a young child,
holding a gun at me.
An infant child, roughly about four years old.
[Officer Linkenhoker] There are no protocols for this kind of situation.
[child crying]
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[Officer Mathews] He started crying.
You could tell he was scared.
And then we heard another voice.
And there was two cries coming from inside the vehicle.
-[child crying] -[Officer Lechuga speaking]
-[officer speaking]
-[Officer Lechuga speaking] -[officer] Yeah.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Lechuga speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[man shouting]
[Officer Mathews speaking]
I reached down and I picked it up.
I later found out it wasn't his gun
and that it had fallen out of a-- a partner's holster during the struggles,
we were trying to take him into custody.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Mathews] Once it was determined that there was nothing wrong with him,
he needed to be taken into custody.
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[Officer Mathews speaking]
-[Officer Linkenhoker speaking] -[Officer Mathews speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker speaking]
[Officer Mathews speaking]
[Officer Linkenhoker] Looked up to see in the side of the building,
that gun was fired right above my head.
It just kept playing over and over and over in my head,
uh, knowing how the situation was
and how it could've been.
-[gun fires] -[Officer Mathews exclaims]
My emotions were full of thankfulness and sadness.
Thankfulness that the kids were not hurt,
none of the officers were hurt,
and everybody is making it home safe.
And-- And the sadness was from just having those two kids
put in that situation by their father.
[narrator] Sadaat Johnson pleads guilty to aggravated assault
and child abuse or neglect.
He spends 120 days in jail and is released on probation.
His two young children are placed in protective custody
before being reunited with their mother.
This incident will always be with me.
It's always in the back of my mind of how quickly things can change.
[Officer Mathews] That incident has played a major role in my life.
Almost being shot, um... almost shooting back,
kinda changes your-- your, um, perspective on-- on life.
When I was told that's where the bullet went,
it made me feel very lucky that Morgan was there to
deflect the shot from us to somewhere else.
I was really thankful for his fast actions.
I'm grateful that I'm-- I'm close to retirement
so, I don't have to do this again.