[narrator] In Florida,
a pair of juvenile carjackers...
[Archuleta]
[narrator] ... clash head on with police.
[Archuleta]
[man on radio]
[crashes]
There's really no way to predict what they're gonna do.
[officer]
[officer 2]
[narrator] And in Michigan...
[Chris]
[narrator] A home invasion...
[gunshots]
[Hutson]
[Lobretto] A single shot rang out from the house.
Things suddenly amp up.
[narrator] ...turns into a deadly shootout.
[Hutson]
He was highly erratic.
[gunshots]
[man] He was playing, like, a deathly game of Battleship.
He's firing through the walls at me.
I was thinking, maybe he was just trying to bait us in,
so that he could kill as many cops as he could.
[narrator] In the north of the Sunshine state,
is the county seat of Florida's Marion County,
the city of Ocala.
[911 operator]
[man]
[911 operator]
[man]
[Schreiner] I was just doing my normal patrol
when the radio call came out over
that there had been a carjacking
on the north end of the county.
[911 operator]
[man]
[911 operator]
[man]
[Schreiner] They'd also put it out over to the radio to us,
vehicle description.
[911 operator]
[man]
[911 operator]
-[man] -[911 operator] Okay.
[sirens approaching]
Once we know that there's a firearm possibly involved,
it definitely heightens our alert systems.
The most important thing for us to do
was saturate that area
with as many officers as we can...
and locate the vehicle.
[narrator] Marion County Deputy, Dustin French
is first to arrive at the scene.
[French continues indistinctly in radio]
[narrator] The victim has some good news
that will help the search effort.
[French]
[Schreiner] There's a GPS tracker in a vehicle,
it makes our job a lot easier.
[dispatch]
[French]
[Schreiner] If we're having a hard time, we're on the company allowance,
it gets very frustrating.
[French]
[Schreiner] I understand sometimes, there are laws and there are rules
that require certain things to be done.
But we are law enforcement.
We are trying to track this vehicle.
[French sighs]
[man]
[man 2]
[French]
[man]
[continues indistinctly on radio]
[French on radio]
[Schreiner] The family was able to help
by being able to track the vehicle
at the time that it was stolen.
They were able to tells us that the vehicle was moving south
and it appeared to be on Interstate 75.
[French]
[French on radio]
[Schreiner] A couple of minutes later we were updated
that the vehicle was stopped on 484-75
at the pilot gas station.
[Archuleta]
I was advised by dispatch
that there might be a stolen vehicle
at a gas station.
And I was just sent out to see if it was there.
[digital beeps]
[Schreiner] Before other officers arrived on the scene
and you're there by yourself,
you gotta be really careful.
[Archuleta] Fair warning. 10-87.
[Schreiner] It's got your adrenaline going.
You deal with each part of the incident
one thing at a time.
And you try to maintain control
of how you're gonna handle that incident.
[man on radio]
[Archuleta] As I was there by myself,
I felt somewhat nervous.
I was thinking their escape routes,
my escape routes...
and also trying to listen to radio traffic
to see how far back up was out.
[Jenkins] On the day of this incident,
I was stationed at the Ocala Airport
at our aviation hanger.
We received the information that there was a...
a male and female suspect
that carjacked an individual.
So, we responded in the helicopter to assist.
[man on radio]
[Archuleta] The information that the suspect is possibly armed...
I like to take a more tactical approach...
for the safety of myself and for the others.
[continues indistinctly on radio]
[Archuleta] Waiting and observing does gain an advantage.
It allows for other units to get in the area.
At that point, it's our game.
[man on radio]
[Jenkins]
We arrived and we observed the vehicle
with the flashers on underneath the...
canopy for the gas station.
The suspects were supposedly armed.
So, we started just providing
surveillance and updating the ground units.
[Archuleta] Kinda just trying to play that,
"I don't know what I'm doing here."
"Not looking for you.
I'm just waiting for a gas pump."
Trying to kinda be, like, nonchalant about it.
[dispatch]
[Jenkins]
[Archuleta] If they leave the parking lot,
they are at risk of initiating a pursuit on our end...
to where they can ultimately crash
and hurt somebody.
There's different tactics that we use.
Sometimes, we wanna stay hidden.
Sometimes I feel like it will
change their decision if they know
that the helicopter is above 'em.
I don't believe that they knew we were there at first.
We're just trying to keep them in the camera.
I notice the female walking across the parking lot.
I noticed her look up at us.
That's when I believe they knew we were there.
Now that they know we're up there,
they're gonna make a decision.
Whether it's to flee or whether it's to give up.
[dispatch]
I knew that Deputy Schreiner was coming in the area.
[Schreiner]
[Archuleta] We could see that the vehicle
was moving towards the exit.
I felt that that was the time that we needed to
try to stop this vehicle.
[Jenkins]
[Archuleta]
[crashes]
[Jenkins]
[Archuleta]
Once the suspects crashed into the patrol vehicle,
it kinda changes it a little bit
and we kinda have the understanding that
they're not gonna go out peacefully.
[Archuleta] They hit my driver's side door...
to try to pin me in.
Deputy Schreiner tried to pin in the driver of that vehicle.
You're talking seconds. Five or six seconds.
I had to make a decision.
I didn't even slow down.
When you see of your officers
that's in harm's way like that,
it's very stressful.
There's an intent there for them to do harm.
[Archuleta]
[Schreiner]
[Archuleta] I had witnessed the suspect driver,
which was a male, pop over the passenger's seat
and flee out of the vehicle.
[Schreiner]
It's a split-second decision.
You know, do you stay in and try to help
or do you try to make sure the public is safe?
'Cause this guy is running through
a very crowded business.
For me, it was, you know,
"I have to try to stop the suspect."
[Archuleta]
I knew Deputy Schreiner would be capable of...
following the suspect, as well as having
Air one on his side.
But I didn't want that vehicle to go anywhere.
After me holding my service pistol at her,
I was shocked that she still made the decision
to try to get away.
Seeing the female leave in the vehicle,
I felt that I had let that suspect get away.
I knew that I couldn't dwell on that, because there was
still other business that had to take place.
One of 'em being trying to capture the male
that had took off on foot.
[Archuleta]
[dispatch] Signal four Alpha.
[Schreiner]
[Archuleta panting]
He was very fast moving
and there was a lot to process at that moment.
[Jenkins]
A suspect down foot in this location
is pretty dangerous.
We wanna try to maintain
visual of him the best we can.
[officer]
[Schreiner] I was listening in to my radio
and I could hear that
some of the South Central units
had begun the pursuit with the female.
[siren blaring]
[officer]
[Tortora] Down of 40-4.
[Archuleta] The K9 Deputy was almost on scene.
[siren blaring]
[Tortora]
[Jenkins]
[Archuleta] As I was circling around the gas station,
I observed the suspect running at me.
So, I draw my service pistol and I aim it at him.
It's not one asset, they capture somebody.
It's a combination of all of 'em.
We're looking at 'em.
[Tortora] Good boy!
[Jenkins] The canine's on the ground.
We have our patrol deputies that are providing a perimeter.
It was very unlikely that he was gonna get away that day.
[Archuleta]
[suspect]
[Archuleta]
[suspect]
[Archuleta] Discovering that the suspect wasn't armed
made me feel a little bit more at peace.
We still checked the surrounding area
to ensure the firearm wasn't laying around or hidden.
That it's not out there and it doesn't get in the wrong hands.
[Jenkins]
[officer]
[Jenkins]
- ...out there in the vehicle. -[man] Copy.
[Jenkins] The knowledge of the area
and the capabilities of the camera,
I made a leepoint of the camera down the road
and was able to get the vehicle in the camera view.
Then, it took us a minute or few to actually
get there with the aircraft.
But the camera was on them almost instantaneously.
[Schreiner] I believe that the Deputys coming from other zone
were able to get in front of her.
And spike-stripped the vehicle tires.
[officer]
[Jenkins]
[officer]
[crashes]
[Jenkins] The front tires on the vehicle were flat.
[continues indistinctly on radio]
[Jenkins] ...which starts affecting the controllability of the vehicle.
She begins a swerve over the roadway.
[officer]
[woman on radio] ...on 52.
[Jenkins]
[engine accelerating]
[Jenkins]
[officer]
[Jenkins] There's really no way to predict
what they're gonna do.
[officer]
[Jenkins]
[officer]
[Jenkins]
[officer]
[officer 2]
[Jenkins]
[siren wailing]
[Jenkins]
[siren blaring]
Suspect vehicle is actually slowing down
with the front tires being flat.
[Jenkins]
[woman on radio]
[officer]
[woman continues indistinctly]
[officer] ...stop here.
[officer]
[indistinct chatter]
[Schreiner] Whether you're actually the one
putting the handcuffs on them or not,
it's a huge relief off of you.
It really is. It's like taking a big, deep breath
and being able to sigh 'cause
you know you've now done what you're supposed to do.
[Jenkins] You see somebody take a ten-eight?
When both suspects were placed in the custody,
there was not firearm found.
[officer]
It made me feel so much better.
[woman] He hasn't taken anything in his car, right?
[narrator] Tanya Denson pled guilty
to attempting to allude police,
disregard for safety and carjacking.
She was sentenced to almost two years in prison.
[Tanya]
[woman officer]
[officer]
[narrator] Milad Boroojeni
was charged with multiple offenses
and is awaiting trial.
[Jenkins] Being able to track the vehicle played a vital role
in us being able to being this case to an end.
If we wouldn't have received that information,
we would've just been visibly searching for the vehicle.
To bring an incident like this to a close...
luckily nobody was injured.
[crashes]
[Jenkins] There's just a lot of scenarios
that could've ended a lot worse.
It was a good one. It ended on a good note.
[narrator] In Michigan,
seven miles east of Kalamazoo,
is the township of Comstock.
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[William]
[911 operator]
[William]
[911 operator]
[William]
[911 operator]
[William]
[Chris]
[William]
[911 operator]
[William]
[Chris]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[William]
[911 operator]
[Chris]
[William]
[Chris]
[William]
[Chris]
[William]
[Chris]
[William]
[911 operator]
[William]
[911 operator]
[dramatic music intensifies]
[siren blaring]
[Caleb] Being a part of that Kalamazoo Metro SWAT,
we're a part-time metro SWAT team.
You know, we respond if we happened to be on duty.
That evening there was three of us on duty.
Myself...
Sergeant Hutson and Sergeant Lobretto.
[Lobretto] Me and Hutson and Jones, all...
we went through our basic SWAT school together.
And we're all pretty close.
[siren wailing]
[Hutson] As soon as I arrived on scene, every colony unit
in the area was at the residence.
They appeared to have a perimeter set up.
[officer 2]
[officer 3]
The mother and the daughter were being held
hostage on the second floor.
And the father was being held hostage
by the suspect who's armed with two pistols
on the first floor.
I assumed the role of SWAT Team leader.
My priority was to start planning
a deliberate hostage rescue.
Hutson's one of the best leaders I've ever known.
And I trust him with my life.
[gunshot]
[Hutson]
A single shot rang out from the house.
And things suddenly amp up.
[continues indistinctly]
[Hutson]
We he fired that round, it led me to believe that
he was starting to execute the hostages.
So, I made the call that we're gonna go in.
[Caleb]
[Lobretto]
At that point, we didn't have SWAT issued gear.
As you're approaching the door,
you're just trying not to think about that.
[Jones] The door's what we would call the "Fatal Funnel".
He knows that you're coming through that door.
It didn't take us, but a couple of seconds
to realize that he was concealed
within the bedroom.
[William]
In fact, the suspect was screaming from in there.
[William]
[Hutson]
We took up positions of containment.
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Jones] He was highly erratic, screaming.
There was no rhyme or reason
to the things that he was saying.
[Caleb]
[Hutson]
I sent Sergeant Lobretto
and another deputy to the second floor
to search for and locate the mother and the daughter.
[William]
[Hutson]
[Chris]
The father told me that he was in there.
[Chris]
[Hutson]
And that he was unharmed.
I was glad that nobody had been hurt at this point.
And then I was also
thinking in my head, "Maybe he was just
trying to bait us in
to get us closer, so he could kill
as many cops as he could."
[William]
[Hutson]
[Chris]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[Caleb] It would've been very difficult to...
to breach that door.
Identify and then eliminate the...
the threat while he had a gun on us
and also the hostage.
[Lobretto] So, at that point we...
we slowed it back down.
[continues indistinctly]
[Hutson]
[Caleb] Just bring out through the front door.
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
[William]
[Hutson]
He was getting irate again.
I was starting to speak about obtaining a flash bang
to use as a distraction.
You know, put him off just for the few moments
needed for us to effectively
gain entry into that room should we need to.
And then, the other thing that I was calling for
was a shield.
Yeah, contingency.
[Lobretto]
[officer] I got handguns.
[Caleb]
[Lobretto] They have shield...
[gunshot]
[multiple gunshots]
-[Hutson] -[gunshots]
[Hutson]
[gunshot]
[Caleb]
[Hutson] You guys good?
The first round that he fired was
without warning.
I immediately breached and...
as soon as I kicked that door open,
bullets started flying through the wall.
And I could feel snapping right in front of me
and I was getting hit by debris and...
and all that stuff and...
I thought that I had been hit.
So, I backed away.
And he continued to fire at me
through the walls at where my voice was
when I was talking to him.
He was just firing in front of me and behind me.
It was almost as if he was just...
playing, like, a deadly game of Battleship.
Just firing through the walls at me.
[Caleb] And then, obviously, the door swinging back shut
was not ideal.
Got a brief visual into the room,
I did see the bed.
But I did not see him, I did not see the hostage,
I didn't see anybody in the room
to even begin to know where to direct my fire
if I had to.
[Lobretto] I knew that they were gonna need my help,
so I went back to the stairs
and started heading down to try and get to them.
I felt something brush past my leg and I looked down.
And there was just a hole in the wall.
Then, I realized I'm being shot at through the wall.
There's no doubt in my mind that
he was tracking me as I was coming down those stairs.
And he just misjudged when I stopped.
[Jones]
[Hutson]
[officer]
[gunshots]
[Hutson]
[Caleb]
[trooper]
[Hutson]
[Caleb] A Michigan State Trooper
stepped up with a shield
and then I was going to be what would be called his sub-gunner.
He has this shield and then, I bring my rifle around the side.
-[Hutson] -[William] No.
[Hutson]
[Caleb]
[Hutson]
[Caleb] Time was of the essence.
If you make entry into that room
and somebody gets killed,
then that's not a thing that I'd like to live with.
Inversely, if he initiates that move
and does harm to somebody else and then, we also lose.
[gunshots]
[multiple gunshots]
[Hutson]
[officer] Stop.
[Hutson]
[Caleb]
[Hutson] Our number one priority was saving the father.
And if we had to get hurt,
that was a risk that we were willing to take.
[Hutson]
At that point,
I had moved around to where
PSO Jones was.
I took the shield, I got up front...
Pull that off.
[continues indistinctly]
[Hutson] I wanted to confirm
if the father was still alive in the room.
[Caleb] Unfortunately, the shield
that was on scene was about as big as a pizza box and...
wasn't ideal for that situation.
[multiple gunshots]
[Caleb] I'm hit. Ah...
[grunts] [bleep]
[Hutson]
[Caleb grunting]
The suspect started firing at
that sound of my voice again.
One of the rounds hit the shield I was holding.
One of the rounds went over my head and hit...
PSO Caleb Jones.
[Caleb screams] I'm hit!
[grunts] [bleep]
[Hutson]
[Caleb grunting]
[Lobretto]
[Caleb continues grunting]
I didn't even know that I'd been shot.
It's kinda hard to say, but I thought it'd be different.
It was just kind of a blunt...
force impact and...
and the pain associated with it was pretty blunt.
When I fell down on the ground,
the first thing I did,
kinda took a deep breath, "I can breathe.
I'm kinda just...
My shoulder stings a little bit."
But then, I looked over and saw that it was...
spurting out blood pretty intensely.
[Hutson] I could see blood just pouring out of the patch
on his left shoulder.
And could see the bullet hole there.
I didn't know if there was a more significant wound
that could've caused death later on.
So, it was best to get him out of there.
[Caleb grunting]
[Hutson] I just grabbed him by the back of his collar
and pushed him towards the doorway.
[Caleb grunting]
[Caleb] I was incredibly pissed
that I had to leave,
but physically, I couldn't even move my left arm.
[Lobretto]
[Lobretto] I saw Jonesy get hit and go down.
But whether he's hurt or killed
or anything like that,
we have to...
we have to move past him,
to still try to the get to the civilian that's in the room.
[Hutson] I requested for an entire SWAT Team to respond.
[breathing heavily]
[siren blaring]
[Millard] When I heard the call,
I then immediately
began to run lights and sirens
to that location.
[siren wailing]
[Millard]
[man]
[Millard]
Okay.
[man]
[Millard]
What can we do to get them out?
Is it possible to get them out a window,
out a door?
[officer]
[Millard]
With the suspect being engaged in
verbal contact with officers interior,
can we use that as an opportunity
to get these people that are in there
out of this residence?
[Hutson]
[screaming in the background]
[Hutson]
The only people that were left on the first floor
were myself and sergeant Martin...
who was in the kitchen.
And was relaying any radio traffic for me
while I was trying to negotiate with the suspect.
[Hutson] Yes!
And called out to the father
to look for any sign of life.
-Talk to me. Hey-- -[gunshot]
[Hutson]
I believed that he'd been shot and killed at this point.
While I know that the suspect
is not gonna go down without a fight...
We're gonna go right into that room.
But until then, we were gonna
hold our position, prevent him from getting
to the second floor...
and make sure that no one else got hurt.
I heard some glass breaking.
I assumed that his attention was drawn away from the door.
[loud commotion]
[bleeping]
[Hutson breathing heavily]
I was expecting to get shot
and I was expecting to shoot the suspect.
The window on the south side of the house,
it was broken out.
And the suspect did
dove through the window to try to escape.
We cannot let him leave this area.
[officer] Stay there!
[Millard]
So, I'm immediately telling units move to him.
Let's get him secured.
[William screaming]
Don't shoot me!
Please, don't shoot me!
[Hutson]
[Caleb]
[Hutson]
[Millard] Once we knew that he was secured,
I then moved to the window
to check on the welfare of the victim.
[Hutson] The victim, the hostage was
laying face down on the ground
with a gunshot wound at the back of his head.
[Lobretto] You look down and you can see that the guy
that you're trying to get in there for is gone.
Give me a minute.
More officers start to file into the house.
And they get the female resident and the baby
to go down the stairs.
[Hutson]
We're always gonna view it as a failed hostage rescue.
We had failed that father.
We failed the hostage and we weren't able to...
to rescue him.
[Chris's wife]
[Hutson] That young mother and the little girl
were now without... without that man in their life.
[sniffles]
[narrator] William Jones, a convicted felon,
is found guilty of 18 charges,
including one count of first degree murder.
Jones is sentenced to life in prison.
He's awaiting an appeal.
[Lobretto] It was this random...
random innocent family being targeted.
[narrator] Officer Caleb Jones recovered
and returned to active duty one month later.
[Millard] This was a tragic event.
And to try and bring someone comfort
when their loved one has passed in this way
is such a impossible feat.
[Caleb] Chris was ready to do whatever he had to do
in order to ensure the safety of his family
if it meant the cost of his life,
which he ultimately made that decision
which is just an incredible act of heroism on his part.
[Lobretto] It's something
that for a long time after, you just keep replaying.
You're never gonna forget it.
Um...
It's gonna be with you for the rest of your life.