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- 0:00Speaker 1: Who shut? Who sat? The good?
- 0:13Speaker 2: Police are surrounding a house in the middle of Kenosha City. Inside,
- 0:17Speaker 2: an unknown gunman is holding wounded hostages and exchanging heavy
- 0:21Speaker 2: gunfire with officers.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Ma'am, you got moved, Get moving, Get the fuck out
- 0:33Speaker 1: of here.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Leave In the middle of this chaos, officers have no
- 0:42Speaker 2: idea who they're dealing with or why he's even firing
- 0:46Speaker 2: at them, But by the time police finally confront the gunman,
- 0:49Speaker 2: it will already be too late.
- 0:52Speaker 1: I haven't to cut your police.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Already.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Back around eight fifteen pm on a Monday night, multiple
- 1:11Speaker 2: gun shots ring out in a quiet neighborhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Minutes later, at eight nineteen pm, nine to one to
- 1:19Speaker 2: one dispatch receives an alarming call from a man claiming
- 1:22Speaker 2: someone just tried to kill him.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Kenosha nine on one.
- 1:26Speaker 4: What's the added to the emergency? I need medics and
- 1:30Speaker 4: I need ambulance. Some'm all the fucker who has heard
- 1:33Speaker 4: what happened? I think thirteen twenty four fifty sixth Street.
- 1:36Speaker 4: I've just been shot. Isn't a house or an apartment,
- 1:39Speaker 4: It's it's a house, it's it's it's a duplex. I've
- 1:43Speaker 4: been shot in the leg and possibly the arm. The
- 1:46Speaker 4: shooter is in the apartment next door, and I know
- 1:49Speaker 4: he's got so many works out of Ohio or New York.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Following this call, officers are quickly dispatched to the scene.
- 1:58Speaker 2: The caller also warns them that the gunman may have
- 2:01Speaker 2: felt any warrants out of state. At the time, it
- 2:04Speaker 2: sounded just like another detail and a frantic call for help,
- 2:07Speaker 2: but it was really a glimpse into someone far more
- 2:11Speaker 2: dangerous than police expected. Just minutes later, police officers arrive
- 2:17Speaker 2: at the scene. Almost immediately they hear a woman screaming
- 2:20Speaker 2: outside the duplex.
- 2:24Speaker 5: Hey, we have a suiting right here. Let me say
- 2:29Speaker 5: that he's in the house.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Who shot? Who shot? Sell me that where did Luke
- 2:49Speaker 1: come out here? Come out here? Okay? Who got shot?
- 2:57Speaker 1: Is this all one? Else? Okay? Where do we get
- 3:00Speaker 1: to his unit?
- 3:03Speaker 2: No?
- 3:03Speaker 1: Where do we get to his unit? I need to
- 3:04Speaker 1: know that. Where do we go?
- 3:06Speaker 6: You gotta tell us so we can help people split
- 3:09Speaker 6: it out?
- 3:12Speaker 1: Yes, the second one.
- 3:14Speaker 7: The lights out.
- 3:16Speaker 2: As soon as officers make contact with the shaken woman outside,
- 3:20Speaker 2: someone from inside quickly slams the door shut Before they
- 3:23Speaker 2: can get any answers. With the duplex having two separate
- 3:27Speaker 2: apartments and multiple firing angles, police can't afford to wait.
- 3:31Speaker 2: They need to move the woman out of danger and
- 3:33Speaker 2: secure the perimeter, But just as officers begin pressing the
- 3:37Speaker 2: shooter to surrender, things take a dangerous turn.
- 3:41Speaker 7: Yes, do.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Pitty, there's a gun.
- 3:52Speaker 5: There's a gun, Diddy, shots fired. He's in the house.
- 4:01Speaker 2: The gunman suddenly opens fire from the window, forcing police
- 4:05Speaker 2: to scramble for cover, with Officer Luke and his partner
- 4:08Speaker 2: retreating to the west side and Officer Bray diving behind
- 4:11Speaker 2: a car directly in the shooter's sights. It offers some
- 4:14Speaker 2: cover but leaves her dangerously pinned. But in the scramble,
- 4:18Speaker 2: police left the woman they'd just spoken to completely exposed
- 4:21Speaker 2: in the line of fire. Officer Luke quickly realizes that
- 4:24Speaker 2: she's still in danger and they'll need to get her
- 4:27Speaker 2: out before the situation escalates further.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Get that lady out of there. There's a lady in
- 4:37Speaker 1: the house. We have shots fired.
- 4:38Speaker 5: He's firing out the window at us.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Getting covered.
- 4:44Speaker 5: He's at the front of the house on the south
- 4:46Speaker 5: side of the road.
- 4:48Speaker 2: With danger escalating by the second, more backup units race
- 4:52Speaker 2: to the scene, and within minutes, multiple officers swarm the neighborhood,
- 4:56Speaker 2: unaware that this is just the beginning of a deadly shootout,
- 5:00Speaker 2: one that will put both officers and civilians at fatal risk.
- 5:06Speaker 2: In these types of high stake situations, officers must make
- 5:09Speaker 2: split second decisions, and every choice could mean the difference
- 5:13Speaker 2: between life and death. Over the next few minutes, we'll
- 5:16Speaker 2: follow how they manage chaos and respond under immense pressure,
- 5:20Speaker 2: starting with Sergeant Brian Miller and Adam Jurgens, who are
- 5:24Speaker 2: just arriving from the west and east side while the
- 5:27Speaker 2: gunman continues firing.
- 5:30Speaker 4: The house on the south side of the world.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Where's where's the house? Where's the stucker? What do you have?
- 5:52Speaker 1: What do you have? Okay, come back? Can you come back?
- 6:00Speaker 1: What's what? You gotta come to the road? Good christ ma'am.
- 6:12Speaker 1: You gotta move, get get moving. Ye second house of s.
- 6:31Speaker 7: Where all right?
- 6:40Speaker 1: He was in the front window? Yeah.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Clearly the situation facing officers is extremely unpredictable. The gunman
- 6:48Speaker 2: has already fired from three exposed windows at the front
- 6:50Speaker 2: of the house and another on the east side, where
- 6:53Speaker 2: Sergeant Jurgen's returned fire on the west side. Two more
- 6:57Speaker 2: exposed windows are accessible to the shooter as well. There's
- 7:00Speaker 2: a garage and a back exit. Officers don't even know about,
- 7:03Speaker 2: giving the gunmen even more ways to slip outside or
- 7:06Speaker 2: stage in ambush. But in the midst of all of this,
- 7:09Speaker 2: there are two urgent problems at play. First, police think
- 7:13Speaker 2: they're only dealing with an active shooter, but there are
- 7:16Speaker 2: hostages inside the house and officers have no idea yet. Second,
- 7:21Speaker 2: officer Bray and the civilian woman remain trapped and exposed
- 7:25Speaker 2: to the shooter's sites. The longer they wait, the more
- 7:28Speaker 2: likely they'll be caught in the crossfire.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Hey, Breay, can you move? Can you come back to me?
- 7:35Speaker 1: I can't, I can't four nine five? Do you have
- 7:39Speaker 1: the shield? We have somebody that stuck right in front.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Sheldesn't the square. I'm up on the front corner. So
- 7:49Speaker 1: my good miss you hey right there to stay beyond
- 7:52Speaker 1: the hands of block. I am anything else? You see
- 7:55Speaker 1: you there?
- 7:56Speaker 3: Or no?
- 7:57Speaker 7: We're just susperous lady yet from hey, don't you go inside?
- 8:17Speaker 2: This revelation finally puts everything into perspective for officers with
- 8:22Speaker 2: hostages involved. It's clear that the situation is becoming much
- 8:25Speaker 2: more complicated and a rescue plan is needed urgently. So
- 8:30Speaker 2: at the stakes now higher officers have two critical priorities. First,
- 8:35Speaker 2: they need to extract the pinned officer before the situation
- 8:38Speaker 2: becomes even more dangerous. Second, they must clear the perimeter
- 8:42Speaker 2: and breach the house to rescue the hostages trapped inside.
- 8:46Speaker 2: To move forward, Sergeant Adam Jurgen's requests a shield as
- 8:50Speaker 2: they prepare to move with the extraction plan. But before
- 8:53Speaker 2: we get to that, these cases often affects the mental
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- 9:15Speaker 2: feel every hour. Within days, the patterns were obvious, what
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- 9:54Speaker 2: back to the scene where officers are about to move
- 9:57Speaker 2: ahead with the rescue plan.
- 10:01Speaker 8: Hey, we need to should up here for the house.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Okay, we're coming up to you.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Staying here, staying here?
- 10:12Speaker 1: Do you see her? Do you see her right here?
- 10:14Speaker 1: Was she stuffed by the car? She's right over here.
- 10:17Speaker 1: We have to get her out of that way.
- 10:19Speaker 8: The house is this one right here? He was shooting
- 10:22Speaker 8: right from the front window towards me. Says there's somebody
- 10:25Speaker 8: in there. Okay, so let I think their priority is
- 10:29Speaker 8: we have to go get Bray out of there because
- 10:31Speaker 8: she's really stuck.
- 10:31Speaker 1: So you tell me what you want to do from here.
- 10:33Speaker 1: That woman is.
- 10:34Speaker 8: Saying that there's two people in here and that this
- 10:36Speaker 8: dude just has a guy hostage.
- 10:38Speaker 6: So all right, hey, here's telling me take your right
- 10:42Speaker 6: you just go that way, good, yeah, right.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Coming towards you.
- 10:47Speaker 9: Okay, Hey, we gotta get out.
- 11:05Speaker 10: At it fully, shit.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Got Fortunately, the extraction goes smoothly and Officer Brittany is
- 11:23Speaker 2: pulled to safety, though the real danger is still far
- 11:27Speaker 2: from over. By now, multiple officers have surrounded the house
- 11:31Speaker 2: from both the east and the west sides, with additional
- 11:33Speaker 2: backup units arriving from the east end. But things are
- 11:36Speaker 2: still dangerously unpredictable because in the middle of all of
- 11:40Speaker 2: this chaos, CCTV captures a car pulling slowly into the
- 11:44Speaker 2: parking lot near the house, seemingly oblivious to the active
- 11:48Speaker 2: gunfire unfolding just a few feet away.
- 12:03Speaker 8: Who is it, as it states, get the fuck out
- 12:12Speaker 8: of here.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Leave, I don't give a fuck. Move get out. Shooting
- 12:19Speaker 1: across the street at us. You're not paying attention.
- 12:25Speaker 2: With the civilians swiftly cleared from the scene, officers refocus
- 12:29Speaker 2: on the real danger ahead. They need to extract the
- 12:32Speaker 2: civilian woman still stuck at the corner of the house,
- 12:35Speaker 2: and then quickly devise a plan to confront the gunman
- 12:38Speaker 2: without risking casualties. But as officers begin coordinating their next move,
- 12:42Speaker 2: the gunman is already preparing to do something far worse,
- 12:46Speaker 2: something that will force police to act whether they're ready
- 12:50Speaker 2: or not.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Go ahead, go on.
- 13:01Speaker 4: T vni Amula's rug.
- 13:07Speaker 8: Emer Remember you hurt at all, sarge?
- 13:13Speaker 1: I got four? Okay. So there's a woman that's in
- 13:17Speaker 1: this corner of this house that's.
- 13:19Speaker 8: Going to be at the northeast side, and she's kind
- 13:23Speaker 8: of stuck right in here.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I think she's right there. Did you see that? Did
- 13:30Speaker 1: you see that? We can work a team to get
- 13:33Speaker 1: her out. That's what we want to do next.
- 13:36Speaker 6: This feeling or no, we have a female on this side,
- 13:39Speaker 6: just saying that they're shooting from the apartment out I
- 13:42Speaker 6: think on the east side.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Is she okay? With the injured?
- 13:46Speaker 7: Do you have and andia where the shots are coming from?
- 13:48Speaker 8: So and so when I was shooting, I shot towards
- 13:50Speaker 8: the house, and he was it looks like he was
- 13:52Speaker 8: shooting at this front window this way towards Braike. Now
- 13:56Speaker 8: I've seen him break windows and I can see gunshots
- 13:58Speaker 8: that are actually on all sides.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Of the house. So I don't know where he's.
- 14:02Speaker 9: At We're gonna move up a little bit.
- 14:06Speaker 3: A couple of brides.
- 14:07Speaker 8: We can say, cover up, all right, march On hired.
- 14:12Speaker 1: To go inside.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Those painful screams that followed the gunshot confirmed the worst.
- 14:20Speaker 2: The gunman has just shot one of the hostages inside
- 14:24Speaker 2: the house. Now more than ever, officers know they need
- 14:29Speaker 2: to act. If they wait any longer, more lives could
- 14:32Speaker 2: be put at risk. With that terrifying realization, officers immediately
- 14:41Speaker 2: scrambled to collect as much critical information as possible before
- 14:44Speaker 2: moving inside to confront the shooter. They still don't know
- 14:47Speaker 2: exactly how many people are inside, where the shooter is positioned,
- 14:51Speaker 2: or who exactly they're dealing with, but that is about
- 14:55Speaker 2: to change.
- 14:56Speaker 3: We need to figure out if we have a hostage
- 14:59Speaker 3: in there.
- 15:00Speaker 1: So she says, there is.
- 15:02Speaker 8: She told me that there's there's her husband is with
- 15:05Speaker 8: the shooter, and there's the only two that are in there.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Your name, let me, let me let me work on that, ma'am.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Who's inside the house again? And what's her name? Matthew Lopez?
- 15:22Speaker 7: Got it?
- 15:23Speaker 3: Okay?
- 15:23Speaker 1: See what you got associated for? Matthew Lopez in the house.
- 15:26Speaker 8: This woman out here is saying that that's the gunman,
- 15:28Speaker 8: and I believe that Gary Tubbs is the husband she's saying.
- 15:32Speaker 1: He's stuck inside with him with.
- 15:34Speaker 2: A suspect name. Identified officers can finally begin to piece
- 15:38Speaker 2: together who they're dealing with and what Dispatch relays back
- 15:42Speaker 2: raises serious concerns. According to their checks, Matthew Lopez is
- 15:48Speaker 2: a registered defender. Even worse, the initial nine to one
- 15:52Speaker 2: one caller also told dispatch that Lopez has felony warrens
- 15:56Speaker 2: in Ohio or New York and is possibly using a
- 15:58Speaker 2: fake name. His true motives would prove to be far
- 16:02Speaker 2: more complicated. With all this in mind, police realize they're
- 16:06Speaker 2: dealing with an armed defender with a violent, disturbing past.
- 16:09Speaker 2: But just as that information is syncing in, something completely
- 16:13Speaker 2: unexpected happens. The supposed perpetrator inside the home picks up
- 16:18Speaker 2: the phone and calls nine one one himself.
- 16:21Speaker 4: Hello connection, I almost adds to the emergency. I have
- 16:25Speaker 4: a hostage right here, and your fucking police officers are
- 16:28Speaker 4: trying to assume me. I'bout it's got two people already.
- 16:30Speaker 4: I'm not afraid of that. I'mbout to kill. I gotta
- 16:33Speaker 4: actually one plus.
- 16:35Speaker 3: You can a single bay this is the bottom of
- 16:36Speaker 3: the police I'm.
- 16:38Speaker 4: Out like a fly. Okay, I'll give the funk and
- 16:41Speaker 4: I don't have my better So if you got got
- 16:43Speaker 4: to get the fuck to be, got a fucking really
- 16:45Speaker 4: safey turing figure, lady that still got three bulks left?
- 16:49Speaker 1: How many people are in there with you too?
- 16:51Speaker 4: The people that are with you, are they injured? Yes? Okay?
- 16:55Speaker 4: Where do they have injuries?
- 16:56Speaker 2: To any semer?
- 16:58Speaker 4: And you'll keep coming in her eyes? The first simple
- 17:02Speaker 4: demand most of them shot in the femur see other
- 17:07Speaker 4: man with the incruiters scared to set on him.
- 17:17Speaker 3: I'm gonna hang out so that somebody can call and
- 17:19Speaker 3: talk with you, Okay, Okay, man, just make sure to
- 17:22Speaker 3: answer your phone.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Okay, I don't have to figure your Okay, what do.
- 17:25Speaker 7: You need me to do?
- 17:25Speaker 3: Okay?
- 17:26Speaker 6: Hang up, and then they're gonna call you.
- 17:28Speaker 4: I didn't mean Jarry, did she looking down?
- 17:31Speaker 3: Okay.
- 17:35Speaker 2: Although Lopez never explains his motives or makes demands, he
- 17:38Speaker 2: does confirm he's already shot two people inside the home,
- 17:41Speaker 2: and in the background of the call, a wounded hostage
- 17:44Speaker 2: can be heard groaning He's gonna do it. He's gonna
- 17:47Speaker 2: kill me. So with hostages already bleeding and the gunman
- 17:50Speaker 2: threatening to kill. The margin for error is razor thin,
- 17:54Speaker 2: and the choices police make within the next ten minutes
- 17:57Speaker 2: will determine who makes it out alive.
- 17:59Speaker 1: And who does what window window contact.
- 18:09Speaker 2: For now, the situation is becoming more hectic than before,
- 18:12Speaker 2: and the longer police wait to make a move, the
- 18:14Speaker 2: worse things will get. They have to get inside.
- 18:18Speaker 4: We have a mail on the phone. Thing is two.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Hostage is shot to already and then he has three
- 18:23Speaker 1: bullet him with the phone numbers.
- 18:24Speaker 4: In the narrative, he's living on the line.
- 18:35Speaker 1: Five five through who looks to that truck? Okay, I
- 18:40Speaker 1: am stay by talks towards the mail in the house
- 18:51Speaker 1: that he's seeing, that he's talking with an officer, and
- 18:52Speaker 1: that he's shot people. We have the contact team.
- 18:57Speaker 3: You got PEP, shanned O'Neil, and I got injury.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Okay.
- 19:02Speaker 8: Do you want me to try to call him first
- 19:04Speaker 8: and see if we can work this, If you can
- 19:10Speaker 8: make the team.
- 19:10Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think we're probably gonna have.
- 19:12Speaker 3: To go a team. Jill th we're there, Yeah.
- 19:18Speaker 1: All right, man go on cover.
- 19:26Speaker 2: At this stage of the standoff, multiple developments are happening
- 19:30Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Negotiators are patched in, calling Lopez his
- 19:33Speaker 2: phone and trying to draw him back into conversation as
- 19:36Speaker 2: the perimeter titans around him. Medics are staged just blocks away,
- 19:40Speaker 2: waiting at a nearby elementary school, and around the neighborhood.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Roadblocks are set up to keep any more civilians from
- 19:46Speaker 2: wandering straight into the middle of a gunfight. With all
- 19:49Speaker 2: these precautions in place, officers on the ground prepare to
- 19:52Speaker 2: make one final attempt to reach Lopez and push for
- 19:55Speaker 2: a surrender.
- 19:57Speaker 8: Keep doing your thing, but I'm gonna try to call
- 19:59Speaker 8: him to You guys are two or three.
- 20:01Speaker 3: I think go over here on the northeast corner of
- 20:03Speaker 3: the house. If we can move these guys up around
- 20:05Speaker 3: here on the trees and try to get them out,
- 20:06Speaker 3: I think that would be a benefit.
- 20:08Speaker 11: This is a multi fucking so where's just three doors?
- 20:10Speaker 11: Fuck so that that window on the southwest has reunds.
- 20:18Speaker 3: To it shattered.
- 20:20Speaker 1: We can get a rifle there. You just go in
- 20:22Speaker 1: the front. Probably the best option two is not working,
- 20:26Speaker 1: so I need the phone on for this guy. Please
- 20:35Speaker 1: two we come home. Well, it's just what the voicemail.
- 20:39Speaker 2: With Lopez's phone now going straight to voicemail. Any chance
- 20:43Speaker 2: of negotiating a peaceful surrender is gone. Officers realize they
- 20:47Speaker 2: can't wait any longer. It's time to go in. Sergeant
- 20:55Speaker 2: Brian Miller coordinates a contact team. Their plan is simple
- 20:58Speaker 2: but high risk. Enter through the front door with a
- 21:01Speaker 2: ballistic shield, neutralize the threat and extracts the hostages. At
- 21:05Speaker 2: the same time, other officers are instructed to reposition and
- 21:09Speaker 2: cover additional angles around the perimeter. Officers know this is
- 21:13Speaker 2: extremely risky and once they breached the door, they could
- 21:17Speaker 2: be walking straight into a gunfight.
- 21:19Speaker 1: All right, well, did you get moving? Is a shield team?
- 21:22Speaker 1: O'Neil wants you to.
- 21:23Speaker 11: I'll walk up with this put off and take that
- 21:25Speaker 11: that window on the southwest side.
- 21:27Speaker 1: I got it and make conta keep trying me. I
- 21:32Speaker 1: don't know me, I don't have well the clocks on,
- 21:34Speaker 1: so yep, who's at the shield? I got the shield?
- 21:37Speaker 1: All right, what's the plan? Where are we headed? Front door?
- 21:40Speaker 11: Run right there with the mailboxes, O'Neil to take the
- 21:44Speaker 11: window that's craft in the southwest side, right next to
- 21:46Speaker 11: the door. So peel off, shine sept move up your
- 21:52Speaker 11: right side the west side on the shield.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Alright, nights.
- 21:57Speaker 3: Were moving up?
- 21:58Speaker 4: All right?
- 21:58Speaker 3: Ready, got ready, all it moving?
- 22:01Speaker 5: This is slow.
- 22:03Speaker 11: I got the window tipped the left, left door, bring
- 22:08Speaker 11: that window, got it all the way around the corn. Okay,
- 22:13Speaker 11: hold it up.
- 22:13Speaker 4: They got.
- 22:23Speaker 7: Fact wrong side.
- 22:24Speaker 1: You need one?
- 22:25Speaker 4: What do you want?
- 22:25Speaker 1: What do you want? Hon't you killed the others of
- 22:27Speaker 1: the house, love Bud. We'll try to kick her. Kick
- 22:34Speaker 1: it yep, got do cottact what you want? Left? We
- 22:42Speaker 1: got what we got? WoT that window? What that fucking window? Window?
- 22:45Speaker 1: What's that window?
- 22:56Speaker 5: Where's the shoot up?
- 22:58Speaker 12: What do you got?
- 22:58Speaker 1: I don't get to dinner.
- 23:00Speaker 2: As police barge inside the house, they find two severely
- 23:04Speaker 2: wounded men, both lying on the floor, bleeding and barely responsive.
- 23:09Speaker 2: It's not yet clear who they are, but both appear
- 23:12Speaker 2: to be hostages suffering from gunshot wounds. However, the situation
- 23:16Speaker 2: is still far from under control. Beyond this room, there
- 23:19Speaker 2: is still a kitchen area, multiple bedrooms as well as
- 23:22Speaker 2: a basement, and with the shooter still unaccounted for, Lopez
- 23:26Speaker 2: could be anywhere.
- 23:29Speaker 1: Here right here, suck, I mean what I got the head?
- 23:37Speaker 3: Give? We need to drag him out.
- 23:42Speaker 7: Talk, We're METID, we got med and rock.
- 23:50Speaker 3: Hey, drag him out. He's probably got a gunshot to
- 23:54Speaker 3: the leg. MA, Nope, he's got a headshot to the wound. Hey,
- 23:58Speaker 3: we need to find they said there was you injured?
- 24:02Speaker 3: Were to the house five second we got two, apparently
- 24:08Speaker 3: floodshots to the Hi. Keep the stage for me.
- 24:14Speaker 8: Were gonna plays alight?
- 24:17Speaker 4: Okay, all right, let's go.
- 24:19Speaker 3: You're gonna take this right, I'm gonna take a while.
- 24:25Speaker 1: I'm hold on the kitchen. Give me what I forgot?
- 24:28Speaker 2: You right?
- 24:33Speaker 3: Check my neck on.
- 24:36Speaker 1: There?
- 24:37Speaker 3: Okay, room clear, room clear, Okay, I.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Close over to my left, kitchen opens up to the right.
- 24:43Speaker 7: Okay, switch out. She'll go first.
- 24:46Speaker 4: I got laid on in that ring.
- 24:47Speaker 3: Winnis all right?
- 24:50Speaker 1: I got open door right list So it looks like
- 24:53Speaker 1: a bad heads the door here?
- 24:56Speaker 3: Alright, there we can go.
- 24:57Speaker 1: Do you want to scroll a little bit here?
- 24:59Speaker 10: You want?
- 25:00Speaker 7: God?
- 25:03Speaker 3: Where does this lead to?
- 25:04Speaker 1: It might go to a basement.
- 25:05Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 25:05Speaker 1: I'm Lena say it, so just move this.
- 25:09Speaker 5: What let's see you?
- 25:14Speaker 1: Or hold on that?
- 25:15Speaker 5: I got it?
- 25:16Speaker 1: I got it? How many? How many people are still missing?
- 25:19Speaker 1: Right now?
- 25:21Speaker 3: So what pas? They had?
- 25:23Speaker 5: True hostages?
- 25:24Speaker 3: So far?
- 25:25Speaker 9: Got true?
- 25:26Speaker 1: Both shop and we don't know about anybody else. Okay,
- 25:28Speaker 1: so all three people accounted for No. Two two?
- 25:32Speaker 3: Hold that.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, Oh, they'll just come all right, just hit
- 25:40Speaker 1: that door out right, ye. Locked.
- 25:45Speaker 2: With the basement door being locked, a major complication faces officers.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Basement entries are some of the most dangerous spaces for
- 25:52Speaker 2: law enforcement. The narrow layout, blind corners, and poor lighting
- 25:56Speaker 2: make it almost impossible to clear safely. Spec Actually, when
- 26:00Speaker 2: a suspect is barricaded inside, if Lopez is down there,
- 26:04Speaker 2: officers could be walking straight into an ambush. So instead
- 26:09Speaker 2: of forcing the door, a sergeant makes the call to
- 26:12Speaker 2: hold the basement for now and shifts the priority to
- 26:15Speaker 2: secure the outside perimeter. Confirm whether the gunman slipped out
- 26:18Speaker 2: or is still hiding elsewhere on the property. Officer Eric
- 26:22Speaker 2: Glaum heads out to check the exterior, and that's when
- 26:24Speaker 2: they hear someone in the garage.
- 26:29Speaker 6: You guys, yeah, just come with me. I'll just hold
- 26:38Speaker 6: someone hold there, Yeah, are you guys in the garage?
- 26:47Speaker 1: How many? How many people are in there? Just you
- 26:51Speaker 1: and the two dogs?
- 26:52Speaker 7: Can you leave the.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Dogs in there? Come out?
- 26:55Speaker 6: Okay, We're gonna open the door. Okay, just make sure
- 26:58Speaker 6: I can see your hands all right, all right, okay, Rick,
- 27:07Speaker 6: who was all inside the apartment?
- 27:09Speaker 5: My husband?
- 27:11Speaker 1: And who else?
- 27:13Speaker 3: Is there anybody else?
- 27:14Speaker 1: We don't know?
- 27:14Speaker 3: Is there anybody else that was in there? No? Okay,
- 27:17Speaker 3: ma'm why don't you?
- 27:19Speaker 1: Jui lives in the side apartment.
- 27:24Speaker 2: Turns out the civilian woman from earlier managed to run
- 27:26Speaker 2: and hide inside the garage. According to her, there's someone
- 27:30Speaker 2: else still inside the house, in a different section of
- 27:33Speaker 2: the duplex that officers haven't cleared yet. Until now, all
- 27:37Speaker 2: attention has been focused on the front unit and the basement,
- 27:41Speaker 2: but the layout of the home is a two unit structure,
- 27:44Speaker 2: with the second unit still unaccounted for. But before Officer
- 27:48Speaker 2: Eric Glum can relay that information, Sergeant Brian Miller is
- 27:51Speaker 2: already patrolling near that side of the house, unaware it
- 27:55Speaker 2: hasn't been cleared.
- 27:57Speaker 10: You know, you don't know or anything's at Okay, where
- 28:03Speaker 10: this is the I should be the liver the kitchen, that's.
- 28:09Speaker 1: Living room, living room, living room, kitchen. All right, we
- 28:21Speaker 1: got here, we go. Okay, boo boo, Police one Personal
- 28:42Speaker 1: Police Department, Sergeant Miller.
- 28:48Speaker 3: By, come on here, guys, I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm shock.
- 28:51Speaker 1: You're shot in my leg. Okay, maybe else.
- 28:53Speaker 3: Here, No, just me and my dog.
- 28:55Speaker 7: Let's go off.
- 28:57Speaker 2: Okay, I've got officers right here by me. Okay, thanks
- 29:03Speaker 2: to the door.
- 29:04Speaker 12: Coming up, coming off, all right, for there to the steps.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Who else is here with you?
- 29:17Speaker 3: Nobody?
- 29:17Speaker 12: It was just me and my dog.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Is this crapper apartment?
- 29:22Speaker 3: No?
- 29:23Speaker 1: No, yes, we can't call it. Basically, this is a
- 29:31Speaker 1: different guy, different apartment. Okay, watch that one rise.
- 29:37Speaker 3: That's where I do believe he's at.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Inside the second unit, Sergeant Miller finds the same man
- 29:43Speaker 2: who first called nine one one. He's also suffering from
- 29:46Speaker 2: a gunshot wound, making him the third confirmed victim extracted
- 29:50Speaker 2: from the scene so far. But Sergeant Miller quickly realizes
- 29:54Speaker 2: something is not adding up. Earlier, Lopez claimed there were
- 29:58Speaker 2: only two hostages, but now police have found a third victim.
- 30:03Speaker 2: If this man is a hostage just like the other
- 30:05Speaker 2: two they extracted earlier, that means Lopez might have been
- 30:10Speaker 2: lying and there could be even more people inside the
- 30:12Speaker 2: house unaccounted for. Police proceed to check the unit, but
- 30:16Speaker 2: find no sign of the gunman. That leaves only one
- 30:19Speaker 2: place they haven't cleared, the basement. Officers quickly regroup and
- 30:24Speaker 2: head back towards the locked basement door, prepared to face
- 30:27Speaker 2: whoever might be hiding there.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Right open, I feel opens up.
- 30:47Speaker 3: He gets a shield up?
- 30:48Speaker 1: All right, Miller yet right y? Okay?
- 31:00Speaker 3: Hm, I about this sure, I'm gonna move open to
- 31:09Speaker 3: the door. Can wanta take you the left here?
- 31:12Speaker 7: Okay?
- 31:12Speaker 1: So flod out, Eric, let me clear this.
- 31:15Speaker 3: All right, I'm one yep, break blue book.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Okay, there's a dead corner here. I can't clear yet.
- 31:25Speaker 4: I got.
- 31:27Speaker 3: Talk Corn'm talking about peel off.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Okay, I'll peel off his left side here, you clear, Claire?
- 31:40Speaker 1: What do you kids?
- 31:41Speaker 10: So we got a big room to clear.
- 31:43Speaker 3: One more?
- 31:44Speaker 1: You got four? Yeah, fo Eric, I'm gonna go one.
- 31:48Speaker 8: I'm gonna go right, okay, all right, movie, I got
- 31:56Speaker 8: this story here, so.
- 31:57Speaker 10: I'm gonna check that corner.
- 31:59Speaker 1: He's got the corner on you of course, good good? Yeah, okay,
- 32:03Speaker 1: I'm all open this door.
- 32:06Speaker 4: The cellar door.
- 32:10Speaker 5: Dead space.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Officers go on to clear the rest of the basement
- 32:14Speaker 2: with no sign of Lopez or any additional hostages. For
- 32:18Speaker 2: a brief moment, they believe Lopez escaped during the chaos
- 32:22Speaker 2: and could still be at large. That changes when one
- 32:26Speaker 2: of the surviving hostages gives a description of the suspect,
- 32:30Speaker 2: a Hispanic male, early thirties, heavily tattooed, wearing a green shirt.
- 32:35Speaker 2: With that description, officers quickly realized Matthew Lopez isn't missing.
- 32:40Speaker 2: He was one of the wounded men they already carried
- 32:43Speaker 2: out earlier. He shot himself and was critically injured the
- 32:47Speaker 2: moment officers forced their way inside. With the scene fully secured,
- 32:53Speaker 2: Lopez and the injured hostages were transported to hospital for treatment.
- 32:58Speaker 2: In the meantime, detectives go to work piecing together the
- 33:01Speaker 2: knight's events, why Lopez opened fire, and what his true
- 33:04Speaker 2: motives may have been. What they discovered was a spiral
- 33:08Speaker 2: of paranoia and violence. In the days before the shooting,
- 33:14Speaker 2: Matthew Lopez had been living in the duplex with housemates
- 33:17Speaker 2: after moving from New York to start fresh, but over
- 33:20Speaker 2: the weekend, he disappeared with a friend to use drugs,
- 33:24Speaker 2: came back agitated and paranoid, claiming he was targeted and drugged,
- 33:29Speaker 2: that his phone was wiped, and ranting about a stolen
- 33:32Speaker 2: kilo of cocaine. On the evening of December nineteenth, while
- 33:36Speaker 2: others cooked and watched a movie, Lopez finally snapped. He
- 33:41Speaker 2: suddenly grabbed a woman, pulled out a pistol, shouted about
- 33:45Speaker 2: people outside trying to kill him, and fired two rounds
- 33:48Speaker 2: into the ceiling. The investigators later confirmed the bullet holes
- 33:52Speaker 2: above the living room area. As panics spread, Lopez turned
- 33:56Speaker 2: the gun and shot one resident in the femur. When
- 33:59Speaker 2: a neighbor stepped outside to investigate the commotion, Lopez shot
- 34:03Speaker 2: him as well. Detectives later concluded that it was the
- 34:06Speaker 2: peak of a drug fueled paranoia spiral that made Lopez
- 34:10Speaker 2: lash out at those around him before confronting police and
- 34:14Speaker 2: turning the gun on himself. The injured victims were treated
- 34:17Speaker 2: and discharged from hospital, but Matthew Lopez was later pronounced dead,
- 34:22Speaker 2: and with him, the true motive for the Kenoshas standoff
- 34:26Speaker 2: died as well.