[narrator] In Long Beach, California,
an argument leads to a hostage situation.
[woman speaking]
[man] He is inside and he is still actively shooting.
It's a scary situation to be in.
[officer speaking]
[narrator] In Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[officer speaking]
So now, it went from a nothing call to, I might not go home.
[narrator] In Kenosha County, Wisconsin,
a suspect disappears.
[McGrath speaking] From the time of seeing the vehicle crash
and me getting up to the vehicle
was about six seconds.
It felt like he just disappeared.
[narrator] About an hour south of Los Angeles, California,
is the city of Long Beach.
[Sgt. Owens] Long Beach is a very diversified city.
We service about a half a million residents.
We're about 52 square miles.
On this particular night, there was a Laker game that was playing.
It happens so many times and a lot of times
we have zero altercations, right?
And that's, I think, we all hope for,
is that people can behave themselves
and celebrate, and cheer on their teams
without causing problems.
[narrator] The Lakers lose to their hometown rivals, the Clippers.
[Hazlewood] When those games happen, we got bars,
we got parties. People have had a lot to drink.
And if a team has lost people's tempers kind of raise up.
[gunshots]
[phone dialing]
[dial tone ringing]
[911 officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[911 officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[gunshots]
[woman speaking]
[911 officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Hazlewood] So I was driving eastbound on Artesia Boulevard
and I happened to be in the area.
I was approaching the bar and I noticed
a few people hiding behind vehicles in the street.
I knew something wasn't right.
[officer 1 speaking on radio]
[officer 2 speaking on radio]
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Hazlewood speaking]
I could see people coming out of the bathroom.
I'm watching and seeing, like, the fear on their face.
[Hazlewood speaking]
[gunshots]
[people clamoring]
[gunshots]
[Hazlewood] We get seconds to determine
what we have and how we're gonna react to it.
I saw a male with a Lakers' jersey
and he was holding a firearm in his right hand,
pointed at the people coming out of the bathroom.
I knew that was the suspect.
[gunshots]
And I fired two shots.
[man] Take cover.
He fell very quickly behind the bar.
So I wasn't sure if I struck him
or if I scared him and then he's hiding.
I mean, it's... It's a scary situation to be in.
That's probably worst case scenario
for patrol officers, especially by themselves.
He's of, uh, location...
[narrator] Police don't know exactly where the shooter is.
And there are still people in the bar.
[Hazlewood speaking]
[Sgt. Owens] For them to get out, those civilians would then have to
potentially cross in the field of fire
to get to the exits.
It is a risky maneuver, but we do have to take those chances.
[sirens approaching]
[officer 1 speaking]
All right. Yep.
Approaching a doorway is always a dangerous spot.
They call it the fatal funnel for a reason.
But I had faith in the officer
that was with me, covering me.
[upbeat music playing]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Hazlewood speaking]
The male subject that I pulled out, he was extremely scared.
But he was not hit.
It was a big relief knowing that
at least those people were safe.
[officers clamoring]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Hazlewood speaking]
I checked and asked the people that were coming out.
They were telling us that there was more people inside the bathroom.
Not knowing who else was injured or who else was in the bathroom.
Obviously, he is inside and he is still actively shooting.
It's a scary situation to be in, even though we train in it.
[man speaking]
[Rhonda speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] The 911 caller who is trapped inside
is still on the line.
[woman speaking]
[911 officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
When we arrived at the location,
the initial report was that it was an active shooter with hostages.
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
[911 officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The SWAT team will enter on the east side of the bar,
while Long Beach officers cover the front.
[Sgt. Owens] Patrol officers had established a perimeter
and basically had eyes on the interior of the bar.
It's a very small location.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
[officer 4 speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[Sgt. Owens] When we make entry,
we're kind of going a slow and deliberate speed.
We're just basically trying to cover all the angles.
The suspect's maybe lying in wait.
It's just a matter of communication
and moving together as a pod.
We had people in the bathroom, so that was our main concern.
[911 officer speaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
Even after we made, uh, entry and opened the door,
it was still a struggle to convince the victims inside to come out.
They were so scared that even with us
protecting them and putting ourselves between them
and the suspect behind the bar,
they were still pretty scared.
I had to basically convince them that
they were okay, they were gonna be fine
and finally got them out of the restrooms.
[officer speaking]
[woman crying]
[Hazlewood] I heard them...
Heard that there was...
The suspect down behind the bar.
And everyone else from the bathroom got out safely.
[Sgt. Owens] One of our officers could see the suspect.
He could see that he still had a weapon in his hand.
But he appeared to be incapacitated.
[Hazlewood] I was relieved that the suspect wasn't a threat
to anybody else and nobody else got injured.
-[officer 1] You all right? -[officer 2] Yeah.
[narrator] The suspect is identified as 48 year old Delfon Kinney.
He is pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were never able to determine his motive.
[Sgt. Owens] So as we continued on,
the same officers, when they cleared the back of the bar,
they saw a second subject down behind the bar.
So it appeared that the second person
was also deceased.
[narrator] The victim is 44 year old Manuel "Manny" Marquez.
He'd recently taken the job in the bar
to support his mom.
[Hazlewood] I didn't learn that the suspect killed
the other victim behind the bar
until a few hours later.
My heart kinda dropped at that moment.
Unfortunately, one of those two shots
that I heard in the beginning when I first arrived...
[gunshots]
[Hazlewood speaking]
...was when the suspect basically executed
the victim behind the bar.
To this day, I still wonder...
how things would've been different
if I was either there sooner,
if I would've reacted different.
I wish there was something I could've done
to that split second difference.
Knowing what I know now,
um, seeing the video, the CCTV inside the bar.
One hundred percent I believe this could've been
a lot more, uh, devastating outcome
had officer Hazlewood not been there,
not done what he done.
He did an excellent job.
[narrator] It was found that Officer Hazlewood
acted in self defense and in the defense of others
at the time he fired his weapon.
[Hazlewood] I'm glad that I was there
and I'm glad that I was able to react
and stop the threat before any of the other victims were shot.
[gunshots]
Officer Hazlewood's actions that night
absolutely saved lives.
[narrator] In the heart of the state of New Mexico...
is the city of Albuquerque.
Lieutenant Brock Knipprath is out on patrol
with rookie officer Kyle Fredrickson.
It was my second week with Officer Knipprath.
I felt like we got along pretty well right away.
My favorite part of the job has always been training.
And it's just fun to impart knowledge to the next generation.
[narrator] The officers respond to a robbery in progress at a local store.
The loss prevention officers had observed an individual concealing items
and that they had prior run ins with him.
[Lt. Knipprath speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath] We saw him kind of walking around the store.
He would go to an area that was less crowded
and then he would conceal an item in his backpack.
We begin to see him kind of come to the front of the store.
We obviously watch him pass all the registers
without making any attempt to pay for any of the merchandise
that he's got concealed in his backpack.
That's when we decide to go take him into custody.
So you kind of psyche yourself up.
You start game planning,
"If he runs, I'm gonna do this.
If he gives up, we can do this.
If he fights, we're gonna do this."
[Fredrickson speaking]
[man speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath speaking]
[Fredrickson speaking]
This is my first foot chase.
Is my training good enough to keep up with this guy?
[gunshots]
[Fredrickson speaking]
He grabbed a gun and pulled it out of his waistband.
The barrel of the gun was within a foot or two of my face.
It was a feeling that
this is going to hit me and this is going to hurt a lot.
[officer shouting] Stay down!
-[Lt. Knipprath] You good? -[Fredrickson] Okay.
I pulled my gun out and I pointed it towards him.
I didn't shoot.
There is a chance that I would've missed,
and I don't wanna take the chance of hitting somebody else.
[Lt. Knipprath speaking]
I didn't know if a round had hit him.
But we can't stop.
We've gotta keep going.
[panting]
[Fredrickson] I felt like I had noodles for legs
and I was having to force my feet to keep moving.
He's armed now. We know he's fleeing towards a busy intersection.
My biggest concern is, like, I don't want him
to have an opportunity to, you know,
steal somebody's car at gun point
or take a hostage.
[Fredrickson] Officer Knipprath was telling me to stop
and check myself to see if I was shot.
I didn't think I was.
[panting]
[Lt. Knipprath speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath speaking on radio]
[Fredrickson speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath] We don't follow him when he jumps over the wall
because it presents a danger to us.
Obviously he's got a firearm and he could be waiting
on the other side of the wall to ambush us.
It's a feeling, when somebody gets away from you, that you failed.
[Fredrickson speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath] This guy just shot at me, shot at my recruit.
We will figure out who he is. We will eventually find him
and get him and bring him to justice.
We had police units on the perimeter
making PA announcements over the loudspeaker
telling citizens to stay inside.
You know, if anything happens, to call us.
Once we kind of get the perimeter set up,
Kyle and I get pulled back to the command post.
SWAT teams starts arriving to get units into the area.
The search was difficult for our SWAT team
just because of how big the geographic area was.
[officer speaking]
With several city blocks,
they're having to go house by house,
which takes a tremendous amount of time
to do things the right way so that everybody's safe.
One of our biggest fears was that he was going to
break into a home and take hostages.
[narrator] Four hours into the search,
the suspect is still at large.
But then, a call comes in to 911.
[man speaking on phone]
[narrator] Officers are now able to identify the suspect as Charles Purvis.
[Lt. Knipprath] As soon as we had the 911 caller identify the house,
the SWAT team set up a smaller perimeter around the house.
[officer speaking on PA]
We wouldn't send officers directly to the door, to the windows.
We don't want somebody to get shot.
[narrator] Suspect Charles Purvis refuses to come out.
So officers change tactics.
[teargas fires]
The safest option is for us to try and force him out
with the use of chemical munitions like teargas.
Teargas is non-lethal.
[officer speaking]
It makes it hard to breathe. It makes your nose hurt.
It makes your throat hurt. It makes your lips burn. It makes your eyes hurt.
[officer 1 speaking on PA]
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
[Fredrickson] It was an abandoned house
and it had a boarded up front door.
So he couldn't get out.
He starts screaming inside the home that he can't get out.
We use our armored Rook to break down the front door
to get him to come out.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
Just because he is wanting to come out,
doesn't necessarily mean he's gonna give up peacefully.
[officer 2 speaking]
[Lt. Knipprath] Once Mr. Purvis is in custody, the SWAT team
goes in and checks the house.
They were able to verify that there wasn't anybody else inside.
They also weren't able to locate the gun
that Mr. Purvis had used either.
[Fredrickson] Once he's in the police vehicle,
they request myself and Officer Knipprath
to come up and identify the male
to confirm that this is the same individual
who had shot at me earlier.
Another officer shined a flashlight in so I could see him.
And I remember Charles looked up at me
and he said, "I'm really sorry, Officer."
It doesn't matter if you're sorry.
You tried to kill me.
[narrator] Charles Edward Purvis pleads guilty
to assault with intent to commit a violent felony on a police officer.
And tampering with evidence.
He is sentenced to four years in prison,
two years on parole,
and five years supervised probation.
Charles Purvis absolutely made the wrong decision
when he decided to run and when he tried to fight with us.
It's absolutely not worth what happened.
[Lt. Knipprath] One of the rounds that the suspect fired
actually struck a vehicle that was in the parking lot.
And at the time, the owner of the vehicle
was loading groceries in the car.
It really is a miracle that nobody
in that parking lot got hit by any of those rounds.
[gunshots]
My outlook at being a police officer changed on that day.
It went from...
this is my job to, now this is just part of me.
I remember seeing our armored vehicles
and all the tactical guys and the dogs,
and every person that I'd never met
because I'm new, and there's dozens
upon dozens of officers showing up
and missing time with their families to come and help me.
That was a feeling that I'll never forget.
[narrator] Thirty-nine miles south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
is Kenosha County.
[McGrath] I've been a sheriff's deputy
for a little less than four years now.
It's always been a lifetime dream of mine to become
a law enforcement officer.
My patrol area is very rural, packed with farm fields.
For the most part, it's pretty relaxed.
While doing our job, you have to expect the unexpected
every turn that you make.
Complacency will get you killed.
[indistinct radio chatter]
I was coming into work. So at that point,
I really was still off duty.
I'm still letting the coffee run the course
and trying to get to roll call.
[narrator] Deputy McGrath hears a call over the radio.
A car is driving dangerously in the area.
The only description that we had on it was
that it was a black sedan with a dealer plate.
When you attempt to run a dealership plate out,
it doesn't come back with a registered owner listed.
Not knowing who's actually driving the vehicle
heightens your threat level.
Lo and behold, I see the dark colored sedan.
You don't really know why the vehicle is
trying to evade the police.
You don't know if they're a murderer or if they're...
just kidnapped somebody.
Deputy Kasulke was coming south bound
and after we passed the intersection,
he got in right behind me.
[Kasulke] Most people do not run from the police.
But I've seen 12, 13 year old children that have stolen cars.
Sixty year old men that are drunk
and don't wanna go to jail.
[McGrath speaking]
[siren wailing]
When the chase began,
your adrenaline starts to pump.
You're always concerned that a suspect that you're trying to stop would be armed.
[Kasulke speaking on radio]
[Kasulke] At that point, my main job was to take over the radio duty
and Deputy McGrath, his only job is
just drive and follow the car. Don't worry about anything else.
Roundabouts are very new to the Kenosha County area.
A lot of people don't know how to maneuver around them.
They don't know how they work.
And it becomes a very dangerous situation.
[McGrath speaking]
I saw the suspect vehicle activate its brake lights,
but it wasn't enough for him to slow down.
In the middle of the roundabout, there are ten large boulders.
At a hundred and some miles an hour,
flipped his car in the air several times
and then landed upside down.
While I see the suspect vehicle traveling through the air
and flipping on its roof,
all I can think to myself is, oh, my God,
he's going to die.
Once I heard that it hit the roundabout,
I got in my car and it took me about
two minutes to get to the crash site.
[McGrath] At that point, you kinda get into rescue mode.
[Brady] Once I got there, I went to go assist Deputy McGrath.
The airbags were off, everything that's in your car
is now on the roof of the car.
We had to get all the way down on the ground
to look at the car.
If there was somebody in the trunk,
they could've been severely injured.
I just wanted to get into the trunk
to see if there was a person in there.
[Brady speaking]
[McGrath speaking]
[Kasulke] I have a police dog that's assigned to me.
His name is Arlo. When we get to where we're going,
he'll start howling and crying or barking.
[howling]
He knows that lights and sirens means,
oh, there's maybe a bad guy and I might get to
come of out the car and do something.
[McGrath] Knowing that no other person was in the vehicle
and that the moaning that I heard was actually
coming from canine Arlo
gave me great relief.
From the time of seeing the vehicle crash
and me getting up to the vehicle
was probably about six seconds.
And seeing that nobody was in the vehicle
threw me for a loop.
Felt like he just disappeared into thin air.
At that point, a lot more things are going through your head
such as, were they ejected?
You know, possibly hanging in a tree someplace
because the crash was so violent.
[McGrath] The only thing we can do at that point was
try to find any type of signs on where he may have gone to.
[siren wailing]
[McGrath speaking]
[howling]
[Kasulke] There's no better tool
than a dog's nose to find a person.
[McGrath] It felt like there was a ticking clock at that point.
You don't know if he's bleeding out
and he's going to die, or going to go to
a nearby residence and try to break in
and possibly take somebody hostage.
[officer speaking]
[Arlo barking]
The chances of human footprints being in
a cut cornfield were probably slim to none.
[McGrath] At that point, Deputy Kasulke took his canine partner Arlo
and began tracking the suspect.
I remained with the vehicle.
[Brady] That's when me and another deputy
started following Deputy Kasulke.
[Kasulke] When it comes to these conditions
and the terrain, I've lived here
for 35 years. So it's just another day
in Wisconsin for us.
-[Arlo barking] -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Kasulke] When I have Arlo out,
I follow him. I watch his head,
I watch his tail, I watch his demeanor.
I can tell by Arlo's body language
how close we are to the suspect.
We weren't very far behind.
[Brady] I didn't know who the suspect was.
I didn't know why he was running.
There is a possibility we could be running in an ambush.
I redirect other units to that specific area.
We're kinda just trying to stay one step ahead of 'em.
[Brady] There's always a possibility that you're never gonna find the suspect.
I don't like losing.
[Kasulke] The snow kinda started to peter out
and it got a little harder to see the footprints.
[Brady speaking]
[officer speaking on radio]
[Kasulke speaking]
[Kasulke] They just kinda stopped.
So let's just follow the dog.
I would confidently say that I would trust that dog
more than 90 percent of human beings.
[Brady] When the tracks ran out,
it was the edge of the tree line.
[Brady speaking]
[Kasulke speaking]
[Kasulke] My thought was, well, he probably went
at least minimum, straight, but Arlo's standing there
trying to pull me into the woods.
He's sitting there, hey, come on.
Let's go in the trees.
[Brady] I went left through the tree line
to look for the footprints.
[Arlo barking]
[Brady] Where's he at?
[Kasulke speaking]
[Brady speaking]
Arlo, he just wants to run in there.
The faster he gets in there,
the faster he finds the bad guy.
We're looking in the trees with the flashlights.
I can see a pair of feet.
[Arlo barking]
[Kasulke shouting indistinctly]
[narrator] Deputy Brady circles to the left.
[Brady] I was able to see a face inside the tree line.
Your adrenaline pumps up a little bit more 'cause you know that
he's here, we just need to get him in custody.
[Kasulke] He didn't really move or talk.
He probably didn't think we really saw him.
Well, let's just sit here for a second,
see if they just go away.
[Kasulke speaking]
All I could really see was the bottom half of the suspect.
[Kasulke] You don't know if he's holding a weapon.
It could be he's loading a gun.
It could be he's getting a knife out of his pocket.
[Brady] ...sending the dog in!
[Arlo continues barking]
It was at the point where he didn't come out of the trees
that Arlo was going to get sent into the trees.
[Arlo barking]
Right here!
At that point, he realized his goose was cooked.
He had nowhere to go.
Luckily for him, he decided to give up.
Yeah, that's a good boy.
Yeah.
[Brady] Once he was on the ground, he was very compliant.
He probably didn't wanna get bit by a dog.
[Kasulke speaking]
Once the suspect is arrested, we didn't find any weapons.
[Kasulke] Hey...
You wanna look for any injuries,
especially since he flipped his car.
[suspect speaking]
-[Brady speaking] -[McGrath] There were multiple flips in the car.
Deputy Kasulke escorted the suspect back to the scene.
They took him into the ambulance to check him out.
It was determined that he didn't have any severe injuries.
[Brady] Because the way that the car landed,
you'd think that he would either have hurt himself,
broke his back, hurt his neck, or even cut himself with any of the glass.
The suspect was identified as Mohamed Yassir Rabbaa.
When he went to trial, he pled guilty to fleeing an officer,
OWI second offense, and obstructing an officer.
He was sentenced to 234 days of jail
and three years of probation.
[Brady speaking]
[McGrath] I asked him, why did you even run?
He mentioned that he just,
he wanted to get to his girlfriend's house in Chicago,
that he would not elaborate on that.
I'm very happy with the outcome of the incident.
I'm glad that the suspect was caught
and taken off the streets,
and that nobody, including the suspect was injured.
I feel Arlo performed spectacularly.
He was able to get the scent immediately.
[Kasulke] When he's out of the car,
he knows what he's supposed to do
and he just goes and does it.
It's just what he does, that's what he lives for.
♪
[narrator] In Florida...
There's no hiding that we're coming for him.
[narrator] And in Wisconsin...
[woman] Then I saw the vehicle go into oncoming traffic.
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