[officers and child speaking]
We need to get these individuals out, no matter what.
[dispatcher and caller speaking]
[Schickel] There's children involved and a person down.
We have to engage.
-[three gunshot blasts] -[sirens wailing]
[officer speaking over radio]
You're gonna have to get this person to stop.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Sheriff's Office, come outside!
[phone ringing]
[dispatcher and caller speaking]
[dispatch over radio]
[Turk] The call came out.
Luckily, I was about a mile away.
It wasn't the first house fire that I've been in.
But this is the first fire where I've had uh...
people trapped inside.
[dispatcher speaking]
[Bucaj] As patrol officers,
we're always out and about,
and we always arrive before the fire department.
As Officer Turk and I were going to the fire,
I could start smelling the smoke pretty quickly.
There's flames shooting out of the windows.
I had never seen anything like that.
[Turk and dispatch speaking]
[Turk speaking]
[Turk] Something about hearing, you know, a child's inside,
the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
[narrator] Officer Devin Hunt
joins officers Turk and Bucaj at the scene.
With the fire department still five minutes away,
it's all hands on deck to rescue the trapped family.
[Hunt] When I heard that there were kids trapped,
I knew that I was going inside
and I knew that would be dangerous,
but I -- I knew there was no...
no way that I could...
not go in and try and get them out.
I'm just trying to find --
[Hunt and residents speaking]
[Hunt] My first instinct was to try
and find a way towards the back of the house.
And Officer Turk
quickly followed behind me into the garage.
[objects clanking]
[screaming]
[Hunt] The first thing we could hear was a man screaming.
[officers and residents speaking]
[coughing]
[Turk] The smoke was so thick.
When I first went in
and took a deep breath of that smoke,
I mean, it was like somebody punched me in the throat.
[coughing]
In addition to the man,
officers have been told there are three children
trapped inside.
[exhales sharply] [groans]
[Bucaj] I was scared.
I was really worried for them.
[coughing]
[Hunt speaking]
You need to get down.
[screaming]
[Turk] Once I kicked that door in,
it helped ventilate the house.
Obviously, heat rises and, you know, cold air falls,
and it just created a nice flow underneath
the crawl as low as I can.
[Turk] It's a plus and minus in a way,
cause now you're feeding the fire oxygen.
[groaning]
-Hey, come here. -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Hunt speaking]
[child cries]
-[Hunt coughs] -[radio chatter continues]
He --
[Hunt] The first thing I saw
was the man laying on the ground on his back.
Looks like he's unconscious.
[child and officers speaking]
I'm stuck.
[Hunt] I looked up and ended up seeing the --
the guy that was screaming behind them.
[adult screaming]
[Hunt and Turk speaking]
[officer over radio] You got a girl?
[Hunt coughing]
[officer over radio speaking]
Officer Timothy Shingleton arrives next.
[Shingleton speaking]
[witnesses speaking]
[Shingleton speaking]
[Shingleton] Being a father myself,
whenever kids are involved with anything,
in -- in my opinion,
they're -- they're first priority.
That's my main focus as soon as I get there.
[Shingleton] There's definitely a sense of fear
uh...going into the fire,
but I didn't really take a lot of time
to think about consequences or anything like that.
I just wanted to get inside and help.
[Shingleton and Hunt speaking]
-[heavy breathing] -[indistinct chatter]
[Shingleton] Ah.
Officer Shingleton rescues the girl
who was pinned under the unconscious man.
-[indistinct chatter] -[Shingleton pants]
[indistinct exclamations]
[Shingleton] It was definitely amazing to reunite her with her mom.
[Shingleton] The family was crying
and just overwhelmed that we were able to free her
from the -- the situation that she was in.
But my mindset went back to...
I'm not sure if my partners are still inside.
I don't know if they've freed the other two.
So I kinda just headed straight back to the same door
that I had originally made entry into.
[coughs]
[Hunt and Shingleton speaking]
[radio chatter]
[Turk] The flames are starting to come close to us,
the environment is getting hotter,
the smoke is getting thicker,
we don't have the right equipment on
to stop us from burning.
We got to go.
I don't know how to save those two individuals
and how to get out of it alive.
2 Officers from the Farmington Hills Police Department
are desperately trying to rescue a family of eight
from their burning home.
In the chaos,
it is unclear how many people are still inside.
[Turk] I'm very stubborn.
It's not always a good thing, but in that instant,
it was like, "I'm not going to take a loss,
we need to get these individuals out no matter what."
[Turk] We try to get a hold of his hands, sweaty.
Your -- your palms are sweaty.
You can't really fully stand up,
because of how thick the smoke is.
[officers cough]
[Hunt] I go back in to takeover,
and...I grab onto his wrist,
and I start feeling him move.
And I'm blown away, because he's been unconscious for so long,
and seeing him sit up onto his arms and start crawling,
I didn't think that that was ever going to happen.
[Turk and Hunt speaking]
[Turk coughs]
[officer over radio] Girls outside?
[Hunt speaking]
The newborn baby has already been rescued from the home.
[Shingleton and Turk speaking]
Officers think they have everyone
out of the burning building.
[Turk] After pulling everyone out,
you start to go into,
"OK, are my partners safe? Are my co-workers safe?"
The fire department arrives on scene
to tackle the blaze.
Just when you think you're out of danger,
something else comes up.
OK, are we sure we got everyone out of the house?
[officer speaking over radio]
It was definitely panic inducing.
You know, I started thinking,
"What if we hadn't found all of them?"
[officers speaking over radio]
[Turk speaking]
[Hunt speaking]
It was a huge sign of relief that we did not miss anyone.
We got everyone out,
and all of my coworkers,
all the officers were safe outside.
[heavy breathing] [coughing]
We started to look into getting medical aid for everyone.
I was standing with the mother,
and she had fainted,
and I was trying to wake her up.
[Bucaj] I believe the mother did not realize
that her daughter was out of the house.
She was still in complete panic and shock.
[indistinct chatter]
[Hunt] I couldn't begin to imagine
how traumatic this was for the family.
I couldn't imagine, you know,
having a child and not being able
to help them out of the house.
I'm just glad that we were there and able to,
you know, make a difference for them.
All family members are accounted for.
[Bucaj speaking]
The family was asleep when the fire had started.
The cause of the fire remains unknown.
All the kids are out, yes.
I'll definitely never forget this incident.
It was really an incredible job by everybody that was involved.
[Bucaj coughs]
[Bucaj] I remember I was coughing, like, nonstop,
and one of the firemen was like,
"I think you guys might need to get checked out,"
cause I could barely say a sentence
without nonstop coughing.
[Hunt] So we ended up getting loaded into the ambulance
and taken to Corewell Farmington Hills Hospital
and inevitably getting intubated
and -- and requiring, you know, breathing treatment and...
and medical aid for a few days.
[Turk] There was some scar tissue built up in my lungs.
But luckily, recovery is doing good.
I'm back to full duty.
The family has recovered, and everyone's safe.
[phone ringing]
[operator and caller speaking]
Multiple officers from Oceanside PD
are dispatched to the location of the 911 call.
[sirens wailing]
[Schickel] Domestic violence is a frequent call that we get.
We can't get complacent.
If we get there and we don't assume the worst,
we might be surprised at what we're going to run into.
But if we assume the worst,
then at least we're somewhat prepared
to take action as opposed to trying to play catch up.
A second call comes in.
[operator and caller #2 speaking]
[Schickel] There's a shooting involved,
children involved, and a person down.
The people, my town, needs me in that moment.
We have to engage.
2 [phone ringing]
[operator and caller speaking]
We have what's called live 911 in the car.
You can actually listen to the caller.
Sergeant Schickel and Officer Moulder
are the first on scene.
[Schickel] As I get to the door,
one of the children comes out.
He says, "She's in the back."
The front door is wide open.
We actually entered the bedroom
where the victim was lying on the ground.
[Moulder] Her pupils were dilated.
She wasn't breathing.
She had a head wound that was significant.
She had a couple of other injuries that I noted.
They appear to be gunshot wounds.
The woman is Kimberly Foster,
mother of four, including a four-year-old boy.
Yeah, we just got to get --
[officers and family speaking]
[Schickel] They saw their mom get shot,
saw her on the floor,
definitely gonna be in crisis.
We need to remove them from the scene
for their own safety and well being.
[Moulder] That little boy that was in that room
is gonna remember the last time he saw his mother,
lying on the floor,
and that's gonna -- that's gonna be with him
for the rest of his life.
[Schickel] Where there's a shooting,
we can have a couple of casings.
In this case, there were eight,
all directed at her.
I would argue that there was some level of hatred,
at least in that moment, towards her,
and he was gonna make her pay for it.
[Schickel speaking]
[officer speaking over radio]
[Moulder] We had other officers
who interviewed the victim's children,
and they actually identified who the suspect was by name,
Dorian Larkin.
[radio chatter]
Kimberly Foster's neighbors
say she and Larkin had a volatile relationship.
He brought extreme violence in front of children.
He needs to be brought in.
[indistinct chatter]
[officer speaking over radio]
[Schickel] We did receive information
that he was driving a silver passenger car.
With the technology,
there's license plate reader cameras really everywhere.
You can't really drive without hitting one of these cameras.
It's harder to hide.
At that point, we have a hit at a particular location.
Came back to Temecula, California,
30 miles away.
Riverside County Sheriff's deputies engage in a pursuit.
They lead Larkin back within city limits,
where Oceanside Police can pick up the chase.
[officer speaking over radio]
Larkin won't pull over.
Officer Cisneros joins the chase.
[officer speaking over radio]
[Cisneros] We were alerted
that he's going southbound on the 15.
Deputies are in pursuit of him,
and he's coming back to Oceanside.
He's doing the same turns, he's doing the same things,
and he's buying time for himself to plan his next move.
I don't know how much gas he has in his car
or how many rounds he has in his gun,
but something's gonna happen.
[officer speaking over radio]
[sirens wailing]
Officers get ahead of the chase to set up stop sticks.
[officers speaking]
[Cisneros] We're pursuing a murder suspect
who is still armed with a handgun.
It's still very dangerous.
The only appropriate thing to do
is stop him as quickly as possible,
before he can hurt anyone else.
[sirens wailing]
[Schickel] The community is at risk.
We need to catch this guy.
2 [sirens wailing]
The murder suspect's vehicle
runs straight over the stop sticks.
But the chase isn't over.
[officer speaking over radio]
[Cisneros speaking]
[Cisneros] He hit some spikes,
and he continued pretty fast.
At that point, I'm now number two in the pursuit,
trying to maneuver my way around
to put myself in the best position
if he did crash and foot bail.
[officers speaking over radio]
Larkin pulls his damaged car
into a shopping center parking lot.
[sirens wailing]
[three gunshot blasts]
[officers speaking over radio]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[three gunshot blasts]
[multiple gunshot blasts]
The suspect, Larkin, was coming out of the driver's seat
and had the gun in his right hand,
kind of shooting it across his body like this at us.
[Cisneros] That front door of his car pops open,
and I'm looking right at him.
I see his face, and he's squaring me up.
[three gunshot blasts]
I'm hearing the gunshots go off.
[three gunshot blasts]
[Cisneros] That's when it kind of slows down and...
those gunshots get pretty muffled,
but I can see the orange flashes
right in front of me.
It was just...
kind of just...
just survive at that point.
Don't get hit.
[three gunshot blasts] [sirens wailing]
[multiple gunshot blasts]
That's when I get up on my gun
and I start shooting at him.
[multiple gunshot blasts]
We have to engage violence, not because we want to,
but because we have to.
Yeah, I won't hesitate to bring it.
[Cisneros] We don't have, like, night vision or stuff like that,
so I don't know if he gets hit or not.
[sirens wailing]
Larkin abandons his car
and flees on foot.
Now we're going from a closed shopping center
to occupied homes,
so now the immediate threat is,
is he going to break into some somebody's home,
and then are we gonna have a barricade,
hostage-type situation?
[Cisneros and officers speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
Officers close in and surround Larkin,
who is lying in the middle of the road.
Get up!
He is on the ground, laying on his back
and not moving.
[beeping]
[officers and Schickel speaking]
We're gonna approach him.
-Right in. -OK.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Schickel] As we started to walk up,
you definitely could see a -- a handgun
in his right hand, right at his head.
It was my belief at that time,
he had inflicted his own gunshot to himself.
[officers speaking]
The deceased subject is identified as Dorian Larkin.
[Schickel] Once we confirmed that he was dead,
I won't say it brings me back down,
but now we know that the threat is neutralized.
[Cisneros] I mean, the biggest thing
is he's not a threat to officers anymore.
[Cisneros speaking]
-[radio beeping] -OK.
He tried to kill a lot of people on scene.
[three gunshot blasts]
[multiple gunshot blasts]
He's shooting at the police. He's shooting at the badge.
I don't take it personal.
At the same time, people didn't get put to justice.
Him being dead on the ground,
he decided that for himself,
and he ended on his terms.
[Schickel] I think the most significant thing that stands out here
is the violence in front of children,
cause that's pretty rare.
The child that walked me into the apartment,
you could clearly see the sense of urgency to help his mom,
but...there was nothing we could do.
That family's gonna be devastated.
those children are gonna be devastated
for the rest of their life.
[race announcer] Three, two, one!
[starter pistol pops]
[race announcer] And there they go!
The Skyway 10K is underway!
The annual Skyway 10K race
is taking place across the iconic Skyway Bridge
between Terra Ceia and St. Petersburg.
[news anchor] The bridge's southbound lanes
will be free-flowing and open to traffic,
but the northbound lanes will be closing at 3:30 AM
and will reopen at 11 AM.
You're looking at anywhere from 7,000 to 8,000 runners
coming northbound across that bridge
over the course of several hours.
Sergeant Carter and Trooper Schuck
from the Florida Highway Patrol
are stationed at the I-275 northbound Toll Plaza.
I am the closest to the race participants,
so if anything's going to happen,
the last person they're gonna get to is me.
Everybody was having a good time,
and, you know, it was getting towards the end of the race.
[officers speaking over radio]
[Schuck] Came over the radio,
and said that a vehicle had broken through the detour
and was traveling northbound
in the closed section of the roadway.
[sirens wailing]
On the south side of the bridge,
a driver has smashed through the barricade
and is speeding toward the runners.
[officer speaking over radio]
[Schuck] I was worried because this hasn't happened before.
We have now people on a bridge,
and they have nowhere to go, if a car comes through this.
[officers speaking over radio]
[Gaskins] There were still
thousands of people still on that bridge,
and so I said, "Toni, Allan, go stop her."
[Carter] I just accelerate as fast as I can
to go southbound
to try to intercept the car coming northbound.
I want to get as far away from the bridge as possible,
because I want to have
enough time to do whatever I need to do to stop the car.
At that point, you get
a little bit of a knot in your stomach.
You get, um, you know,
the hairs on the back of your neck stick up,
and you're thinking,
"OK, what's going on? This is not normal."
Officers station themselves in front of the Toll Plaza
and try to get the driver to stop.
[officers speaking over radio]
[Schuck] It's going through your mind.
What's the intentions?
A possible terrorist attack does play into it.
Was she going to plow through the runners
and, you know, try to hurt and kill people?
We didn't know at the time,
and that's why it was so critical to stop her.
When she hit the Toll Plaza,
she was roughly about a half mile
from where the runners actually started running.
The suspect driver is coming up behind them.
They're running in the opposite direction,
so it's not like you could even see this coming.
[Schuck] There's a wall, and then there's a wall,
and then there's water.
There's nowhere for them to go.
[Carter] Even if somebody at the tail end started screaming,
the people in the middle wouldn't know anything about it.
[Schuck] Watching her coming past that second checkpoint there
with those other officers, you now realize
that you're gonna have to take some sort of action
to get this person to stop.
2 [loud crash]
[sirens wailing]
[indistinct automated voice]
Take it easy.
She's right here.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Schuck] After she goes through the Toll Plaza,
she encounters Sergeant Carter, who's directly in front of me.
She kind of veers around him.
In my mind I'm thinking to myself,
"I'm the last one.
"Slow her down, block the road.
"Be an obstacle,
"Force her either to stop
or veer off."
It was just within those last seconds
that I realized she wasn't gonna stop,
and then that's when I pretty much braced for impact.
[loud crash]
I don't initially have pain
because I have all that adrenaline going on,
but I wanted to get out of the vehicle,
because, of course, you know,
your next concern is, is the car gonna catch on fire?
[Carter] Come on, Toni.
-[Schuck speaking] -[Carter] She's right here.
[Shuck] Did it stop her?
Realizing that she did stop,
you kind of have that...
[exhales] you can just breathe a little bit,
but it's not the end.
[sirens wailing]
[officer and suspect speaking]
[suspect screams]
[paramedic and suspect speaking]
When I arrived on scene, uh,within a few minutes
of -- of the crash occurring,
Toni's vehicle was still on the roadway,
devastating damage to the vehicle.
Toni was already being treated by emergency medical personnel.
The suspect's vehicle, again,
devastating damage to that vehicle as well,
uh,had spun out along to the shoulder.
Trooper Schuck sustained a concussion,
two herniated discs,
and a tear in her back,
leaving her with lifelong injuries.
[Schuck] We are not trained to go head-on with any vehicle,
and that was not my intention that day.
My intention was to get her to slow down
or to get her to swerve off and stop.
The crash was not the intent.
The crash was, um...
the crash was -- was her choice.
She struck me.
The suspect, Kristen Watts,
sustains a broken ankle in the crash.
After stating she suffers from mental health issues,
Watts pleads guilty to driving under the influence
with property damage and personal injury
and fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement.
She's sentenced to 10 years in prison
and four years probation.
[Gaskins] I don't even think she knew what she was doing.
Her level of intoxication
uh, was...
over three times the legal limit.
[Schuck] A head-on collision
is probably the deadliest collision
to get any vehicle to stop.
Ever since I've been in law enforcement,
I carried my grandmother's Bible.
My grandmother, um...
she, uh, was like a second mother to me.
When my mom was at work, she took care of me.
I think I had a guardian angel.
I hope it was her. I think it was her.
Following Officer Schuck's intervention,
the Skyway 10K event finished without incident.
[Gaskins] Toni Schuck is a hero.
The innocent people that were there
didn't even know it occurred.
So the word hero for her, absolutely, yes.
[Schuck] There's a lot of what-ifs, and you think,
"Damn, I'm lucky.
I'm lucky that I walked away from it."