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[Jeff]
My focus were those kids.
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I could feel it
through the phone line.
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They were absolutely terrified.
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It could be a matter
of life and death.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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[siren wailing]
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Sheriff's Office,
come outside!
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[tense tones playing]
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[phone ringing]
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[narrator]
An off-duty state trooper
has just called 911,
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saying a distressed woman has
seen a dead body in a house
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and claims another woman is
still trapped inside.
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Deputy Jeff Fentress is nearby.
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[Jeff] We respond to everything
as it's real.
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That's our job.
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But going to a run
like that is --
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is something you don't think
is ever gonna happen
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in your hometown.
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So you tense up,
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and you get ready
to go to work.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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Also on scene is Officer
Edward Kitzinger.
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The atmosphere of the officers
at this time was
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to make sure to get
in good positions
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and to have somebody watching
every angle of the house.
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As units surround
the suspect's house...
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...Detective Oakley arrives
at the front
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and locates the woman
who first alerted the police.
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[officer and Oakley speaking]
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[Jonathan]
We don't know at that time
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if she's involved
in this situation.
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Just because she's rambling,
that could be her body's way
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of processing it as a victim
or as an offender.
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[Jonathan and Cynthia speaking]
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She sat down
on what she thought was
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a rolled-up rug
that she soon found out
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was a deceased individual.
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It's shocking, and it is like,
OK, is she telling the truth?
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You know?
I mean, it doesn't sound
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believable at first,
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but she seems like
she is in a panic,
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but you don't know
if it's real or not.
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[Cynthia and Jonathan speaking]
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[Jeff]
There was a male inside.
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We knew who he was,
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that he was possibly armed
with a weapon,
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and that he had already
killed one person.
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[Jonathan] So in my mind,
I'm thinking, like,
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is there anybody else
that's in the house
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that we need to be able
to get out of this house?
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[Cynthia speaking]
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[Jonathan]
Cynthia said that there was
another female that was
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in the back room
that was crying and asking her
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to use the restroom.
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She's panicking.
She's hyper.
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She's almost in disbelief.
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I really didn't know
what to think at that point.
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I know that we had to get
her out of the house.
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[Cynthia]
Can you please help me?
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As Cynthia is
taken away from the scene,
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officers spot some movement
outside the house.
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[officers speaking]
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[Edward] An officer saw a female
next to the house,
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in between the house
and that minivan.
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We didn't know
who she was at the time.
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After initially hiding
from police,
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the woman begins
to follow instructions.
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But officers are suspicious.
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[officer speaking]
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[Heidi speaking]
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[Edward] Is she a suspect?
Is she a victim?
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We're treating anybody
that's near that house
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as a suspect
until we know different.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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[sobbing]
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[Jonathan] Heidi, when she came
over to the area
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where I was with Cynthia,
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uh, she was very,
very emotional,
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but we wouldn't allow them
to get close to each other.
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Uh, one thing we do
as police officers is
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we separate witnesses so that
their stories are not tainted.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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[breathing heavily]
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[Jeff]
I had a very young daughter,
and my wife was expecting
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our second daughter.
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When I heard that there were
kids in the home,
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I just imagined my kids
in a situation like this,
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and my focus were those kids.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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Carey Hammond is
a serial offender
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with a rap sheet including
drug charges and battery.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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He was in prison.
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Along with the two children,
officers believe there are
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three adults also in the house,
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Jason Harvey,
the children's father,
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a woman who is trapped,
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and Carey Hammond,
the armed suspect.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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With children inside,
officers can't risk
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entering the house.
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This has turned into
a barricaded gunman situation.
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We're gonna take our time
and slowly approach this.
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You want to find a way to get
the kids out of the house,
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but you also don't want them
coming down the steps.
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[officer over intercom]
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[Jonathan] We started by calling
on the intercom system
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to have Carey come
out of the house.
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[officers speaking]
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Come out the door!
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A male suddenly exits
the front door of the house,
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and officers don't know if
he is a victim or the suspect.
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[officers speaking]
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[Jeff] He went down to his knees
and put his hands
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on top of his head,
and I secured him in handcuffs
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and pulled him back
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to the rear of the squad car.
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[officer and man speaking]
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Bring your arm back.
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[man speaking]
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[Jeff]
I looked at him, and you could
see the fear in his eyes,
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knowing that...
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he just left his kids
inside a home...
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to where he knew...
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absolute horror was inside.
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[eerie tones playing]
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[officer and man speaking]
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With his children locked
in the upstairs apartment
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and the armed suspect
just downstairs,
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the father of two snuck
out of the house to get help.
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[Jeff] He knew that that was
his kid's best chance
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to make it out alive is
for him to come out
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and tell us what's going on
and where they're at.
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[officer speaking]
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The father had told us
that he had
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teenagers upstairs
and that they lived separate
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from the suspects downstairs.
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[officer speaking]
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Keep going, keep going!
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The father hands his phone
to Deputy Fentress
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to make contact
with his children
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inside the house.
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[officer and man speaking]
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Dad and female, we took the...
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[indistinct]
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-[voice on phone]
-[Jeff speaking]
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[dog barking]
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[Jeff] I could hear it,
and I could feel it
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through the phone line.
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They were absolutely terrified.
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[Jeff] He trusted me
with talking to his kids,
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and that's something
I'll never forget.
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Worst-case scenario is
the suspect harms the kids,
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they get caught in crossfire
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uh, if anything was to happen.
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So, it's definitely
nerve-wracking knowing
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that you have...
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them upstairs.
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[uneasy tones playing]
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[officers speaking]
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[Edward]
From where I was standing
at the adjacent house,
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I could see
through the front door,
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and I saw Carey Hammond
walk in front,
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uh, near the door,
and then he would retreat back
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to where I couldn't see him.
He did this several times.
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One time, I noticed him
placing the item down
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by the front door.
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[indistinct yelling]
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[officer speaking]
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[Edward]
I'm thinking, "Is this a gun?
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"Is he strategically
placing weapons
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inside the house
in case we do come in?"
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After more than 20 minutes,
the suspect shows
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no sign of coming out.
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[Edward] As time is going on,
tensions are rising.
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It was unusual for me
to see him come to the door
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and then retreat back.
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I didn't know
what was going on.
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His options are harming
the people inside,
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he could harm himself,
or he could come out
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and potentially try
to harm officers
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or just give himself up.
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[tense music playing]
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[officer over intercom]
Carey, come out
with your hands up now!
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[multiple gun shots blast]
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[Edward]
Officers fired upon Carey.
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Multiple bursts,
and then silence.
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As he come out and he's
got his arms
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out like he's
holding a handgun,
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the threat was there,
and he was fired upon.
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I believe in his mind,
he knew that he was caught.
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Carey Hammond, is declared dead
at the scene.
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With the suspect down,
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officers move to make entry
to the house.
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[dog barking]
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[Jeff] The whole time
we're on the perimeter
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of this residence,
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you're going through your mind,
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what's this home like inside?
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How can we safely and quickly
go search for people
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who need help?
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[officers speaking]
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[tense music playing]
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Yep.
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Kids are upstairs.
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Our south, west for them.
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We need to go two.
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[Edward] It's a strange feeling
to know that someone is
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possibly deceased
in this room that you're in.
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You can't do anything
right at that moment
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because you still have
the rest of the house
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to clear and make safe.
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Just the washer and dryer.
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-[dogs barking]
-Need one, need one.
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[barking continue]
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2
Where you at, where you at,
where you at?
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[officer and Amanda speaking]
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[Jeff] Her head's bleeding,
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there's blood on the sheets,
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there's dog feces on the floor.
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Um...
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And when I looked at her,
she was...
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so fearful.
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She did not want me
to get close to her.
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She didn't want to see any --
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any person.
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Before I took her off the bed,
I noticed that
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her hands were tied
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by some type of rope.
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But I knew after seeing
the wounds on her head
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that we had to get her
medical treatment
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as soon as we could.
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If anybody's upstairs,
make yourself known now!
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[indistinct]
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Guys, come on.
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[Jeff]
When I first saw the kids,
they were walking.
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They're alive.
They weren't hurt.
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A lot of weight lifted
off my shoulders.
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But I was just relieved to get
the kids out of the house.
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What happened?
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The female victim, Amanda,
is taken to the hospital.
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Open it.
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The body retrieved is
that of Timothy Ivy,
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Amanda's boyfriend.
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[Jonathan]
After the house was cleared,
a female officer responded
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to the scene, and we had
the female officer check Heidi.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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[Jonathan]
That's when the female officer
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found a gun on Heidi.
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[officer and Heidi speaking]
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[Jonathan]
The fact that she didn't tell us
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she had a gun,
made us believe
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that she maybe is trying
to hide something.
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So we have to figure out,
is Carey the only suspect
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in this, or is Heidi involved?
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Detective Steven Toney
interviews Heidi
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back at the police station.
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[Heidi] Mm-hmm.
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[Steven] Amanda had met Heidi.
They decided to get together.
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They went to Heidi's house,
met her there,
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spent time together drinking.
They did drugs.
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They began having sex together.
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Carey came into the house
while Amanda and Tim and Heidi
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are having sex together.
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And Carey comes in
and becomes just enraged
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and picks up a bat
and starts beating Tim,
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starts beating Amanda.
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[Steven speaking]
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Detective Toney compares
Heidi's story to the one he got
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from the victim, Amanda.
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Learning from Amanda that night,
what happened to her,
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she described it very vividly
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in terms of the same way
as Heidi.
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But there was also
the big difference
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in Heidi's and Amanda's
interview.
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Amanda said she felt
someone grab her
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by the back of her hair
and yank her to the floor.
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And when she looked up,
she saw Heidi pointing a gun
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in her face, telling her
that she's gonna do
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"Whatever we tell you to do,"
is what Heidi told her
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in that moment.
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By the end of that interview,
I knew that Heidi was
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telling me a lot of lies.
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Heidi was a suspect
in this case.
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She was not a victim as the way
she kind of made herself
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out to be when we initially
found her,
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but she was very much involved
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in the crimes that took place
in that house.
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Amanda was raped multiple times
throughout the day.
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Heidi was coaching Carey
on what he should do to her
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and how he should do
those things to her.
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Heidi never talked
about Cynthia in terms
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of being involved
in what happened in that house.
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She basically had invited
Cynthia over to help her clean.
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If Cynthia hadn't have escaped,
I think there's probably
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a good chance
that Tim, Amanda, and Cynthia
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could have all been killed
that day.
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Heidi Carter is charged
with aiding, inducing,
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or causing rape and murder.
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She is sentenced
to the maximum penalty
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of 65 years in prison.
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One thing that I've always
try to do is
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we always have to expect
the worst.
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[Jeff] A couple days later,
we met up, we talked about it.
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Is anybody struggling
with anything?
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To see something this brutal
and something of this nature,
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it's something that sticks
in your head,
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and it still sticks into my head
to this day.
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It's not something...
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people should have to see.
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[somber tones playing]
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[officers speaking over radio]
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The call is a boat that's
going, it seems to be
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out of control, just running
in circles in Lake Dias.
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So I called Deputy Seltzer
and told him, "Hey,
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grab one of the boats
and I'll meet you there."
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Our citizen on patrol
who called it in could not see
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if anybody was in the boat
at the time.
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[officers speaking over radio]
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[tense music playing]
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[Matthew] Lake Dias,
it's surrounded completely
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by trees.
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There's gators there,
there's logs in the water.
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[officers speaking over radio]
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[Brodie]
Somebody needs our help,
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and we need to do it fast.
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2
[tense music playing]
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[Matthew]
Once we knew that there was
somebody on board
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not responding
to our helicopter,
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now things get amped up
a little bit.
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Time is now of an essence.
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We don't just have
a runaway boat going in circles.
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[officers speaking over radio]
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[Matthew] Is it somebody
that was drunk and passed out?
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Is it somebody that had
a medical emergency, coma,
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heat stroke?
Did they have a heart attack?
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[Brodie] I don't know what
medical conditions
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he's suffering from.
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It could be a matter
of life and death.
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[officer speaking over radio]
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[Matthew] They're trying to get
on their PA
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on the helicopter, calling,
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"Hey, if you can hear me,
give us a sign.
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Tell us something."
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There was no sign
from that patient on board.
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[Matthew] I noticed a lot
of emergency vehicles
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already on scene,
patrol deputies,
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fire department was there, EVAC.
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Everybody, unfortunately,
is kind of standing around
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because I'm the one coming
with the boat
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to get us out there.
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Uh, fire?
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Sergeant Brodie Hughes jumps
on board to assist
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with the rescue.
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I also need medical personnel.
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John Kyp was able
to get on board.
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John is also familiar
with boating.
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So, as we're
approaching the boat,
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we're trying to come up
with a game plan.
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We're trying to just make
an initial assessment
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on what type of boat it is,
what kind of throttle it's got,
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where's the victim at inside
the boat, what's his position.
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[officer speaking]
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[Brodie] We were looking to see,
how can we stop this boat.
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Is there something we can grab?
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Can we yank a kill switch
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or yank the -- the throttle?
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[officer speaking]
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[John] Those guys trained
to work close quarters
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boating at speed.
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Those guys are some
of the best boat operators.
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[officer speaking]
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Looks like he's getting --
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[Matthew] The problem was, is
that the unconscious patient,
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his leg was on the throttle.
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So now we couldn't help
pull the throttle back
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to get that boat stopped.
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[indistinct]
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[Matthew] It's all about timing.
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I don't wanna hit the boat
and knock him overboard.
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[tense music continues]
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[Brodie] There's a lotta --
lot of risk in that.
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He causes that boat
to overturn, and the boat comes
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back around and hits him
with the prop.
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At that point, he's certainly
gonna die.
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2
[Matthew] It was working out
very, very well.
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Our waves were pushing the boat
closer to shore.
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We're hoping that the engine
will hit a log under the water.
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It'll hit sand.
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It'll hit shoreline
and disable it.
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But it started to bounce
off the land,
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it started to bounce
off the shore and come back out.
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[indistinct]
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[Matthew] I started hitting
bottom with my engine.
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We're running out of options.
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Eventually, my brain was like,
we're probably gonna have
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to get on the boat.
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And I'm mentally like
just seeing like,
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if I were to jump, hey, where
would the perfect timing be?
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But if I fall in the water
and get run over by a boat,
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not just one boat
with a propeller in it,
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but now a bigger boat
with a propeller in it,
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and you could end up --
you could get killed.
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[John] It bounced off the tree
just perfect.
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It came around.
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Our boat was
perfectly positioned.
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Parallel gunnels, the speed was
right, everything was perfect.
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Never thought about in my life
that I would jump off of a boat
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onto another boat to stop it.
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The boat drifts
right into the tree
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that we tried to stop it
into earlier,
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and then just assess
the patient.
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[John] Just eyes on him.
I thought he was deceased.
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There was a black diabetes kit
that we carry
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on our fire trucks
to check your sugar for your BGL
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when it's low or high.
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This might be what's caused
his medical emergency.
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I got to get with your boat.
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OK, one.
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[John] When you're a diabetic
and your sugar goes really low,
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you become unresponsive.
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And once it gets low
enough to come unresponsive,
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your body starts shutting down.
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And once it gets low enough,
you eventually pass away.
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He actually had a pulse,
and he was breathing.
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He had shallow respirations,
but he was breathing.
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[Jonathan] We need to get him
off the water
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and into an environment where we
can treat the patient.
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[John]
Getting him off the water,
our part was done.
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Once we got the patient
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in with the paramedics,
it felt good.
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Everybody was happy
with what we did,
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and it was a good vibe
on the dock.
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[soft music playing]
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[John] On our way back,
I stopped at the hospital
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and the crew that had treated
the patient was still there.
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And I was like, "Hey,
you know, what's going on
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with this guy?"
Like, well, he did have
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a medical emergency on the boat.
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They believed
that it was his sugar.
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They weren't, you know,
that it was low,
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and that he was up and talking.
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He was still -- still haven't --
you know, still being treated,
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but he was gonna make
a good recovery.
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We did something really good
that day.
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[Brodie]
Who knows how long
he would have been out there
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going in circles before his boat
either capsized
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and he went under
or, uh, whatever?
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The good Lord put
the right people
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in the right place
to make a difference that day
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and let that gentleman live
to see another day.
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[Matthew] I could go
the rest of my career
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and never know him.
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And that's OK.
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Because I can sleep better
at night knowing he's safe,
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knowing that he's back
with his family,
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back with his loved ones.
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And working as a team got him
back to where he is today.
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10-4.
Good job, guys.