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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a Tennessee deputy in a
- 0:10Speaker 1: coma and on a ventilator fighting for his life after
- 0:16Speaker 1: a brutal attack. When he answers the call along with
- 0:20Speaker 1: his partner to help a woman, instead, he has to
- 0:23Speaker 1: be dragged out of bush's his head believing and ends
- 0:29Speaker 1: up fighting for his life. Why good evening, I'm Nancy Grace.
- 0:37Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
- 0:39Speaker 1: being with.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Us for years.
- 0:41Speaker 3: A Deputy Dalton Swinger served with unwavering dedication at the
- 0:45Speaker 3: Knox County Sheriff's Office, a steady force protecting his community,
- 0:49Speaker 3: but one faithful call would thrust him and his team
- 0:52Speaker 3: into a life threatening confrontation that would change everything.
- 0:57Speaker 1: We are being told that Swanger needs a very complicated
- 1:02Speaker 1: and complex surgery that is offered at just a handful
- 1:06Speaker 1: of hospitals in our country due to a trachea closing.
- 1:11Speaker 1: He's going to have to have a tracheal re section
- 1:16Speaker 1: because of a brutal injury he obtained on duty. And
- 1:23Speaker 1: this is where it all starts.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Listen Saturday night, ten fifteen pm, Knox County, Tennessee. Nine
- 1:29Speaker 4: one one gets a report of shots fired on Stanley
- 1:32Speaker 4: road deputies, followed by On Patrol Live TV show camera crew,
- 1:36Speaker 4: are greeted onseen by a woman claiming she has a
- 1:38Speaker 4: crazy X and pointing officers toward a wooded area, announcing
- 1:42Speaker 4: their presence with shouts of Sheriff's office. A defiant voice
- 1:45Speaker 4: from the woods curses the deputies and begins throwing rocks.
- 1:49Speaker 5: Call about shots fired in Knox County, Tennessee, but as
- 1:54Speaker 5: he searched the perimeter of the woods, the here noises.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Deputy Dalton Swanger investigates further heads into the brush. He's
- 2:01Speaker 5: armed and he has no idea.
- 2:03Speaker 1: What's a waiting from our friends at On Patrol Live.
- 2:07Speaker 1: And this is where we're getting a really exact look
- 2:11Speaker 1: at what happened that night. And there's more.
- 2:15Speaker 3: The dark wooded area provides cover for the suspect, who
- 2:17Speaker 3: claims to have a gun as he is throwing rocks
- 2:19Speaker 3: at officers. Deputy spread out searching the perimeter, preventing the
- 2:23Speaker 3: suspect from running and getting away. Deputy Swinger goes into
- 2:26Speaker 3: the trees. The trees and brush prevent a clear view,
- 2:29Speaker 3: and Swinger tells the suspect show me your hands. It's
- 2:32Speaker 3: an ambush. As the suspect nail Swinger with a rock.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Imagine what it takes, day in, day out to go
- 2:40Speaker 1: into a darkened area where you think someone is in
- 2:45Speaker 1: their armed Yet you, Deputy Swinger, go in anyway because
- 2:51Speaker 1: it's your job. You don't question what could be in
- 2:56Speaker 1: the bushes, what could be in the dark the boogeyman
- 2:59Speaker 1: you can't see. You do your duty, and that's what
- 3:03Speaker 1: he did.
- 3:03Speaker 4: Listen, officers hear the ambush and see movement in the trees.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Then a thud has heard. His Deputy Swanger is hit
- 3:10Speaker 4: full force on top of his head and falls to
- 3:12Speaker 4: the ground. A deputy russies to Swanger, who says he
- 3:15Speaker 4: got knocked out. It was something hard. Fellow officers have
- 3:18Speaker 4: to drag the deputy from the woods and out of
- 3:21Speaker 4: the trees. A bloody gash can be clearly seen on
- 3:24Speaker 4: the deputy's head.
- 3:26Speaker 1: I want you to see what happened immediately after the attack.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Show me your pens. Who are you knocked out?
- 3:52Speaker 1: Anything that was from on patrol Lie to doctor Kendall
- 3:58Speaker 1: Crown's joining as Chief Medical Examiner Terrent County. He is
- 4:02Speaker 1: esteemed lecturer at the Burnet School of Medicine at TCU
- 4:05Speaker 1: at star of a hit podcast, Mayhem and the Morgue
- 4:11Speaker 1: Dodger Kimdl Crowns, thank you for being with us. Whenever
- 4:13Speaker 1: I hear the word a sud in connection with a
- 4:16Speaker 1: human body, it's never good. So how could Deputy Swanger
- 4:21Speaker 1: at first stand and speak saying I've been hit and
- 4:25Speaker 1: then suddenly end up in a coma?
- 4:29Speaker 7: When he was hit with the rock, he got a
- 4:32Speaker 7: what is called a depressed skull fracture, which means it
- 4:35Speaker 7: didn't break through completely to the skull getting to the brain,
- 4:38Speaker 7: but it actually pushed down onto the brain. And when
- 4:42Speaker 7: that happens, it bruises the brain. But much like a
- 4:45Speaker 7: bruise on your body, it takes a little while for
- 4:48Speaker 7: that bruise to blossom or get bigger and actually start
- 4:52Speaker 7: having effects. Why he was able to speak initially is
- 4:57Speaker 7: because that bleeding in his brain wasn't severe enough that
- 5:00Speaker 7: was affecting them. But as a short time continued, the
- 5:03Speaker 7: bleeding started getting bigger, and then he started seizing and
- 5:07Speaker 7: went into a coma.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, remember we're just lay people, okay. I
- 5:15Speaker 1: don't understand how you get hit on the outside of
- 5:19Speaker 1: your head and then your brain bleeds deep inside your head.
- 5:25Speaker 7: It's the hit to the head causes energy or kinetic
- 5:29Speaker 7: energy the wave to go into your brain tissue itself,
- 5:33Speaker 7: which is just liquid, and then that can cause a
- 5:36Speaker 7: disruption of the tissues and the blood vessels, resulting and
- 5:39Speaker 7: further bleeding. Plus also with the depressed skull fracture pushing
- 5:43Speaker 7: into the brain itself, it pushes on the brain tissue
- 5:47Speaker 7: causing damage as well.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Guys, I want you to brace yourself. I'm going to
- 5:52Speaker 1: show you video. Let's see it. Control room deputies arrived
- 5:57Speaker 1: to a nine to one one call of shots fired.
- 6:00Speaker 1: They go around the residence and a woman directs them
- 6:04Speaker 1: toward the woods. Deputy Swinger is about there. She is
- 6:12Speaker 1: directing him back to the woods, and they know the
- 6:15Speaker 1: perk could be armed, and what do they do. They
- 6:17Speaker 1: don't go high bind their patrol car. They go out there.
- 6:22Speaker 1: There's a guy in there with a weapon according to
- 6:24Speaker 1: the woman, and they go look for him before it
- 6:27Speaker 1: can hurt anyone. Deputy Swinger is in the woods with
- 6:32Speaker 1: another deputy watching. Now see the circle showing where Swinger
- 6:35Speaker 1: is when he is slammed on the top of the
- 6:38Speaker 1: head with a rot or. A brick, he falls over,
- 6:43Speaker 1: he's dragged out of the woods. He tries to stand
- 6:46Speaker 1: up with the help of another deputy, he can't really
- 6:50Speaker 1: stand and then in the end he has to be
- 6:55Speaker 1: dragged out of the woods. Watch this. That was from
- 7:07Speaker 1: on Patrol Live. Doctor Kendle Crowns. How is it? He
- 7:11Speaker 1: can talk and he can move his arms, but then
- 7:15Speaker 1: suddenly he can't move any of his limbs anymore, just
- 7:18Speaker 1: like that.
- 7:20Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the process of the hemorrhage and the brain
- 7:23Speaker 7: getting bigger over time. Initially it's small, and then as
- 7:27Speaker 7: the bleeding increases and it starts affecting the brain more
- 7:30Speaker 7: and more, the blood itself is irritating the brain tissue,
- 7:33Speaker 7: which causes the brain to swell. And when the brain's swelling,
- 7:37Speaker 7: it's starting to compromise those functions of your body that
- 7:41Speaker 7: the brain controls, like your movement and your speech and
- 7:43Speaker 7: everything like that, and puts you into a coma. Thankfully,
- 7:47Speaker 7: our brainstem, which covered our brainstem which handles heart rate
- 7:52Speaker 7: and lungs, is more protected, so your body is still
- 7:57Speaker 7: able to function even though the rest of your higher
- 7:59Speaker 7: function as compromised, and that gives surgeons the opportunity to
- 8:04Speaker 7: do an operation to save the individual.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Guys, you've seen the video, you've heard the story, and
- 8:10Speaker 1: now I want you to meet the man who goes
- 8:14Speaker 1: into the bushes in the dark, into the woods to
- 8:19Speaker 1: find an armed purp. He is putting on a brave
- 8:24Speaker 1: front tonight, but in that one moment, his life was changed,
- 8:30Speaker 1: and now he is looking at a very, very extensive
- 8:34Speaker 1: and complicated a complex surgery called a tracheal re section,
- 8:41Speaker 1: joining me along with his fiance, Stefania Pumphrey. Deputy Dalton Swanger, Deputy,
- 8:49Speaker 1: thank you for.
- 8:50Speaker 8: Being with us, Thank you for having me.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Man, Deputy Swanger, you're a medical miracle. When I learned
- 9:00Speaker 1: about what happened to you by chance meeting with your sister,
- 9:06Speaker 1: I was floored. I mean, I know you're presenting a
- 9:11Speaker 1: certain front tonight on TV, but I also learned a
- 9:17Speaker 1: little bit of what you've been through and what you're facing. Deputy.
- 9:23Speaker 1: What can you remember that night that changed your life forever?
- 9:31Speaker 2: So my partner, now Kursher, we were working patrol. I
- 9:38Speaker 2: had Opos TV crewing me that evening and we hear
- 9:42Speaker 2: a shots fired call come out behead of the massations.
- 9:46Speaker 2: So we ended up canceling the other an it's going
- 9:50Speaker 2: to that call, because we were close. And we got
- 9:52Speaker 2: to the call and we met with the complainants and
- 9:56Speaker 2: they seemed, you know, they were very startled and stressed.
- 10:00Speaker 2: And then we went to the woodline where the alleged
- 10:03Speaker 2: suspect was. When I started, you know, announcing and see
- 10:07Speaker 2: what was wrong, we were met by very aggressive virtle responses.
- 10:13Speaker 8: You see, you know, I could tell something was wrong.
- 10:15Speaker 2: He was very emotionally elevated, extremely just you know, through
- 10:20Speaker 2: the roof and everything, trying to talk to him, try
- 10:23Speaker 2: and get better, saying it's so dark that night, and
- 10:26Speaker 2: you can't really tell a TV because they use a
- 10:28Speaker 2: night vision, but it was just pitch dark. And so
- 10:32Speaker 2: we eventually go in the woods because if our recall
- 10:34Speaker 2: r actually there was a phoenix and so we couldn't
- 10:37Speaker 2: really see from that angle. So we go down a
- 10:39Speaker 2: hill into the woods and once we get the woods,
- 10:41Speaker 2: we begin staying something about a three fifty seven madium.
- 10:45Speaker 8: So we you know, that's when I turned my.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Light off, because you don't want to paint yourself as
- 10:50Speaker 2: a target when you're in the woods. And I thought
- 10:52Speaker 2: I was behind the tree. I was obviously he mistaking
- 10:57Speaker 2: and I started hearing things winding around us, and when
- 11:00Speaker 2: that happens the one of the folks. Next, I remember
- 11:05Speaker 2: just being there trying and I see a silhouette that
- 11:08Speaker 2: I'm in front of, like a kandescent life And the
- 11:10Speaker 2: next thing I know, it's like the green firework just
- 11:14Speaker 2: exploded in my face. It's the best way I can
- 11:16Speaker 2: describe it. Just looked like a green starburst were the
- 11:19Speaker 2: most overwhelming pain in the top of my head, and
- 11:23Speaker 2: my entire body locks up, and I'm blackout for what
- 11:27Speaker 2: felt like a split second, and I'm on the ground
- 11:30Speaker 2: and my entire body I can't belave it no matter
- 11:33Speaker 2: how hard I try. My body's in this slock. It's
- 11:35Speaker 2: like an entire body cramp amos. And I remember thinking
- 11:38Speaker 2: I didn't know if I was shot. I didn't know
- 11:40Speaker 2: what happened. And I remember thinking I was trying to
- 11:42Speaker 2: get my rifle up because I was terrified if I
- 11:45Speaker 2: hadn't been shot, Like what if he was advancing once
- 11:47Speaker 2: he was getting ready to finish the job, and I
- 11:49Speaker 2: was panicking and just trying to raise my rifle and
- 11:52Speaker 2: just see Casey was coming. A few moments later, my partner,
- 11:55Speaker 2: Kercher walks over and he asked me if I can
- 11:58Speaker 2: get up, and you know, I said, and he takes
- 12:01Speaker 2: in my hand and I remember Bristeman's hand as far
- 12:03Speaker 2: as I possibly could. And at this point, my body's
- 12:06Speaker 2: beginning to life. Winson up and he begins dragging me
- 12:09Speaker 2: out of the woods. And I remember feeling that as
- 12:11Speaker 2: I'm geting drug out of the woods, and I feel
- 12:13Speaker 2: something's running over my head.
- 12:15Speaker 8: I'm still you know, something pouring over my head. I say,
- 12:18Speaker 8: someone was pouring water on my head.
- 12:21Speaker 9: And so as I'm being drugged out of the woods,
- 12:23Speaker 9: hold on, just a moment, just a moment with me, guys,
- 12:26Speaker 9: is Deputy Dalton Swinger, Nots County Sheriff's Office, who was
- 12:30Speaker 9: putting on a brave front tonight, but he is awaiting
- 12:35Speaker 9: immediate and necessary life saving surgery.
- 12:42Speaker 1: I want you to hear what his friend and fellow
- 12:47Speaker 1: deputy Matt Kirchner said.
- 12:50Speaker 10: I love the Rocky drew in it and art. I
- 12:54Speaker 10: didn't realize that a first, because I thought it was
- 12:57Speaker 10: just a rocket and around.
- 13:01Speaker 7: I heard das Swinger.
- 13:05Speaker 1: And straight out to Deputy Dalton Swanger's partner, Deputy Matthew Kirschner,
- 13:15Speaker 1: his former partner Deputy Kirchner, thank you for being with us.
- 13:20Speaker 1: When I saw that video from w ATE, it was
- 13:27Speaker 1: the Knox County Court video of you testifying at a
- 13:30Speaker 1: preliminary hearing, my chest just seized up, my throat just
- 13:37Speaker 1: felt like I swallowed a lump of coal. At first
- 13:39Speaker 1: I thought it was a rock hitting the ground. A
- 13:42Speaker 1: few seconds later I heard my partner groaning. I saw
- 13:45Speaker 1: him lying on the ground. What happened from your perspective
- 13:50Speaker 1: that night, Deputy Kirchner.
- 13:54Speaker 10: Uh, during the Originally, when I first happened, I got
- 13:59Speaker 10: hit with a rock myself, and I knew that he
- 14:02Speaker 10: was throwing rocks. Hit me in the arm. But the
- 14:04Speaker 10: next one I thought was just a rock coming through
- 14:07Speaker 10: the woods, and I thought I hit the ground. But
- 14:09Speaker 10: if you said like I said before, it was I
- 14:12Speaker 10: heard Dalton gasping for air, and so I turned around.
- 14:16Speaker 10: I saw him on the ground. I asked him if
- 14:17Speaker 10: he could get up. I don't even remember if he
- 14:21Speaker 10: responded or not. My initial thing was to get him
- 14:24Speaker 10: out of there. I grabbed his hand and I took
- 14:30Speaker 10: him out of the danger zone as fast as I could.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Guys, I want to show you, believe it or not,
- 14:37Speaker 1: video from what happened that night, and here is that video.
- 14:44Speaker 1: This is from our friends from Peacock on Patrol Live.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Now you see the fellow deputy's looking for Swanger and
- 14:53Speaker 1: dragging him out. He came out stunned, bleeding and at
- 15:03Speaker 1: first thought he could stand. He's trying trying to stand up,
- 15:11Speaker 1: trying to stand up, and then he can't do it.
- 15:19Speaker 1: What happened to Deputy Swanger? This is from our friends
- 15:24Speaker 1: from Peacock on Patrol Live.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Knox County was no stranger to the public eye, making
- 15:29Speaker 3: periodic appearances on Patrol Live. But what started as another
- 15:34Speaker 3: routine shift for Dalgenswinger turned into a violent ordeal, one
- 15:38Speaker 3: that would send shockwaves through the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Deputy Dalton Swanger is joining us tonight and in a
- 15:48Speaker 1: few moments I'm going to publicize he did not ask
- 15:51Speaker 1: for this. I asked for it his GoFundMe. We send
- 15:57Speaker 1: our police, our law enforcement out every day. We don't
- 16:01Speaker 1: think about it. We just call nine one one or
- 16:04Speaker 1: we report an accident. We don't think about what's happening
- 16:08Speaker 1: with them protecting us. We take it for granted until
- 16:14Speaker 1: someone like Swinger and I'd like to report Deputy Matthew
- 16:17Speaker 1: Kirschner has now had his own incident and is about
- 16:21Speaker 1: to face surgery from an on the job injury. Every
- 16:28Speaker 1: day we ask them to put their lives on the line,
- 16:31Speaker 1: and they go to work every morning not knowing whether
- 16:35Speaker 1: they'll come home. I mean to use step Stefania Pumphrey.
- 16:38Speaker 1: It must be excruciating seeing him go out the door
- 16:41Speaker 1: every morning and never knowing will he come home.
- 16:47Speaker 11: Absolutely, it was something that I did take for granted
- 16:50Speaker 11: as well, and this has changed our lives and changed
- 16:54Speaker 11: our perspective on it.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Guys. She is, like her fiance Depputy Swinger, extremely humble.
- 17:04Speaker 1: They would never ask for anything. But I want you
- 17:07Speaker 1: to learn about how Stefania finds out what has happened
- 17:14Speaker 1: to Dalton.
- 17:15Speaker 4: While still on Zeene after being injured, Dalton seems all right.
- 17:18Speaker 4: His girlfriend sees everything live on TV and calls Dalton
- 17:22Speaker 4: while he is in the ambulance. They talk for him
- 17:25Speaker 4: in it and she meets him at the emergency room.
- 17:27Speaker 4: Dalton's condition worsens on the way to the hospital and
- 17:30Speaker 4: he's admitted into ICU at the University of Tennessee Medical Center,
- 17:33Speaker 4: where he ends up on a ventilator in a coma.
- 17:37Speaker 1: A doctor at Kendel Crowns what is a ventilator? Explain?
- 17:42Speaker 7: A ventilator is a machine that basically breathes for you
- 17:47Speaker 7: when you have had trauma or something like that and
- 17:49Speaker 7: go into a coma and it's potential that your brain
- 17:52Speaker 7: shuts off your respiratory drive and you're no longer are breathing.
- 17:56Speaker 7: The machine itself will breathe for you. They place a
- 17:59Speaker 7: tube down your throat that goes into your trachia and
- 18:03Speaker 7: then forces oxygen in, keeping your body full of oxygen,
- 18:07Speaker 7: essentially keeping you alive.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Stefania Pumphrey joining us along with Deputy Dalton Swanger and
- 18:13Speaker 1: Deputy Matthew Kirchner. Stefania, tell me about that night when
- 18:18Speaker 1: you learned Dalton was headed to the ICU.
- 18:24Speaker 8: Yeah, so I watched her lives.
- 18:26Speaker 11: With everybody else, and when I saw the blood start
- 18:30Speaker 11: pouring out of his head, I called him. It was
- 18:34Speaker 11: as he was going end of the seizure and we
- 18:36Speaker 11: didn't know, but he told me how to be scared
- 18:39Speaker 11: and that he loved me. And that was the last
- 18:43Speaker 11: I heard until I got to the hospital, and it
- 18:47Speaker 11: was hours until his captain called me and said that
- 18:52Speaker 11: he had actually gone into a grandmall' sezure for over
- 18:55Speaker 11: an hour.
- 18:56Speaker 8: We don't know if he's going to be okay, and
- 18:59Speaker 8: you need to.
- 18:59Speaker 11: For bears, We're going to get you back here to
- 19:01Speaker 11: see him as soon as possible.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Wait, let me says to Fini again. Whoa wa, whoa
- 19:06Speaker 1: whoa what? Okay, I don't need the victory sign right now.
- 19:10Speaker 1: I need to get back there.
- 19:11Speaker 10: You are.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Okay. They told you he's having a grandma seizure and
- 19:18Speaker 1: they don't know if he's going to make it. He
- 19:19Speaker 1: was just talking on the phone, right, Yeah.
- 19:23Speaker 11: The last I heard was that he had totally he
- 19:25Speaker 11: loved me and not to be scared. And then and
- 19:28Speaker 11: then he sees after we got off the phone, and
- 19:32Speaker 11: I found out when I got.
- 19:33Speaker 8: To the hospital.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. This is like everyone's worst nightmare,
- 19:50Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, I'm so glad you're with us tonight
- 19:53Speaker 1: because we need you. What is the grandma seizure?
- 19:59Speaker 7: So grand all seizure is a large seizure where the
- 20:03Speaker 7: entire bodies involved. The whole body shakes the person that
- 20:07Speaker 7: basically is no longer able to know what's going on
- 20:10Speaker 7: in their surroundings. They are essentially everything's shut off and
- 20:13Speaker 7: they're seizing, which is unlike an absence seizure, where it's
- 20:17Speaker 7: kind of a mild seizure where they may be a
- 20:19Speaker 7: little dazed or confused, but they're still able to breathe
- 20:23Speaker 7: and function, whereas a Grandma seizure is a is a
- 20:26Speaker 7: major seizure that affects the entire body and can actually
- 20:30Speaker 7: put a person into an arrhythmia and cause their death.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Deputy Swinger is joined by fiance Stefania Pumphrey Stefania. So
- 20:42Speaker 1: when you get to the hospital, that's when you learn
- 20:44Speaker 1: he had gone into grandmall seizures.
- 20:47Speaker 11: Yes, it was a couple hours still before I learned.
- 20:52Speaker 11: I had to wait for a little bit. But as
- 20:55Speaker 11: Captain called me a couple hours after I got to
- 20:57Speaker 11: the hospital and told me that had him too the
- 21:01Speaker 11: seizure and we didn't know much information and if he
- 21:05Speaker 11: was going to be okay, and that I need to
- 21:07Speaker 11: prepare myself and that they're gonna bring me back to
- 21:09Speaker 11: see him soon.
- 21:11Speaker 1: When you saw him, Stefan, yeah, describe what you saw.
- 21:18Speaker 8: He was still shaking a little bit and he wasn't.
- 21:23Speaker 8: He wasn't cleaned up at all, so he was he
- 21:25Speaker 8: was covered in blood still, and he just didn't look
- 21:29Speaker 8: like himself. You know, I had just seen him, I
- 21:33Speaker 8: had just kissed him goodbye.
- 21:34Speaker 11: It was it was my.
- 21:36Speaker 8: Adulton, and and he just didn't look like him.
- 21:39Speaker 11: He had the breathing to even he was covered in blood,
- 21:44Speaker 11: and the trembling from the end of the seizure was
- 21:48Speaker 11: was I think the.
- 21:48Speaker 8: Worst part for it.
- 21:51Speaker 1: What do you mean.
- 21:54Speaker 11: He was still it looked to me like his body
- 21:58Speaker 11: was kind of shop I guess, just not right. And
- 22:04Speaker 11: when I got there, he was still shaking just a
- 22:07Speaker 11: little bit, like all his muscles were.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Just completely him was shaking his whole body.
- 22:14Speaker 8: All of him yet, his chest, to his shoulders, his neck, everything.
- 22:19Speaker 1: And at that point, was he already on a ventilator.
- 22:23Speaker 8: M yep, yeah he was. They had already sedated him
- 22:28Speaker 8: and tried to get the senior to stop.
- 22:32Speaker 11: And that moment was probably the hardest because I called
- 22:37Speaker 11: my parents, who my dad was also law enforcement, and
- 22:41Speaker 11: they come running it and my dad ran in his side,
- 22:44Speaker 11: my mom ran to mine, and so I was watching
- 22:47Speaker 11: the officer that raised me hould the hand of the
- 22:50Speaker 11: officer I loved, and none of us know he's going
- 22:53Speaker 11: to be okay, and that moment is really frozen in
- 22:57Speaker 11: time for me.
- 22:58Speaker 8: I'll never forget seeing him for the first time like that.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Did you try to talk to him? M?
- 23:06Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we we all talked to him.
- 23:09Speaker 11: The doctor said that they're they're not sure how it works,
- 23:13Speaker 11: but but that there's a good chance that he can
- 23:16Speaker 11: still hear us, and so he said, talk to him
- 23:18Speaker 11: like he normally would, and so we all did.
- 23:23Speaker 8: We all did the whole time in the coma. Actually
- 23:27Speaker 8: we just we talked to him all all week.
- 23:30Speaker 1: What did you say?
- 23:32Speaker 8: I told him I loved him, and and I told
- 23:35Speaker 8: him I was trying not to be scared like he
- 23:37Speaker 8: told me to. I told him it was going to
- 23:40Speaker 8: be okay no.
- 23:41Speaker 11: Matter what happened, and and that if he needed whatever
- 23:45Speaker 11: he needed in the moment, we were gonna we.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Were going to do.
- 23:48Speaker 8: I wasn't going to leave aside, we were going to
- 23:50Speaker 8: stay with him. He had everybody here.
- 23:54Speaker 11: I just wanted him to know that he wasn't alone
- 23:57Speaker 11: and that and that we were here and we were
- 23:59Speaker 11: going to do anything we could or him.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Did he give any sign of response, not.
- 24:06Speaker 8: Not until later in the coma in the week, but
- 24:10Speaker 8: for the first three days now.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Deputy Swinger, did you hear her?
- 24:19Speaker 2: So that is one of the biggest things I think
- 24:22Speaker 2: people misconceived about commas and stuff, is like you do here,
- 24:27Speaker 2: and so that was just by far the most terrifying
- 24:31Speaker 2: and dramatic part of this for me is you're almost
- 24:35Speaker 2: in like a dream like state, and so I would
- 24:38Speaker 2: absolutely hear people's voices speaking to me, but it was
- 24:41Speaker 2: almost like I was changed in my own head and
- 24:44Speaker 2: you're trying to perceive things like that I would, I
- 24:47Speaker 2: assume to be that night. I whether it was a
- 24:50Speaker 2: dream hallucination, I don't know, but I pictured being in
- 24:53Speaker 2: a concrete allway surrounded by surgeons and I was I
- 24:57Speaker 2: remember I was pouring sweat in this and heeding as
- 25:01Speaker 2: much as I could to breathe. And I remember just
- 25:04Speaker 2: visualizing another guy on my shift telling me you can live.
- 25:07Speaker 2: You just have to be breathing. You have to keep breathing,
- 25:10Speaker 2: like you can't stop breathing or you die. And you
- 25:13Speaker 2: know that that was really traumatics through the colma. Absolutely,
- 25:18Speaker 2: you know, I heard people talking to me constantly. I
- 25:21Speaker 2: wanted to respond, I wanted to say stuff, but it's
- 25:24Speaker 2: like you're just trapped in in prison of your ownhead.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Deputy Swanger, you have answered a question for me that
- 25:30Speaker 1: I've asked since twenty sixteen. I always have wondered whether
- 25:35Speaker 1: my dad could hear me when I was talking to
- 25:39Speaker 1: him right before he died. And I'm taking great comfort
- 25:44Speaker 1: that you could actually hear Stefania. But you said that
- 25:49Speaker 1: was the worst part. Why was it the worst part
- 25:52Speaker 1: if you could hear her?
- 25:54Speaker 2: So the parts that the hard part was because you're
- 25:58Speaker 2: so confused. And last thing, you have no perception of
- 26:02Speaker 2: time in a coma, and I would hear some people
- 26:05Speaker 2: would be like, what was telling me goodbye? And not
- 26:08Speaker 2: to get too far in the wings on this, but
- 26:12Speaker 2: I've lost one of my partners and years of back
- 26:18Speaker 2: that was killed on a call and I spoke to
- 26:20Speaker 2: him when he was on a ventilayer and stuff. And
- 26:24Speaker 2: you hear these people, some of which it sounds like
- 26:28Speaker 2: they're telling you goodbye and you just want to spring.
- 26:30Speaker 8: Back and them like, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving.
- 26:33Speaker 8: I'm not going to die, but you can't.
- 26:35Speaker 2: And you hear these people and they're rubbing their shoulder
- 26:38Speaker 2: and they're telling you it's okay. You just got to relax,
- 26:42Speaker 2: And it's hard to explain to someone who's not been
- 26:45Speaker 2: in that situation. That's a it's a horrific thing when
- 26:48Speaker 2: the people you love and are surrounded by and telling
- 26:51Speaker 2: you goodbye and you want to respond so badly, but
- 26:54Speaker 2: all you can do is hear their words in despair
- 26:57Speaker 2: and how hurt they are, and you want to comfort them.
- 26:59Speaker 10: That they can and that.
- 27:02Speaker 2: That was a really terrifying moment for me. But the
- 27:05Speaker 2: moments I did have that we're really comporting with Sefami,
- 27:08Speaker 2: I was like to hear her. She's constantly saying I'm here,
- 27:13Speaker 2: I'm here, I mean, and so as alone as I
- 27:15Speaker 2: was in my head in all these terrific just traumatic hallucinations, nightmatters,
- 27:20Speaker 2: whatever you want to call them, it felt really nice
- 27:23Speaker 2: to hear her say I'm here.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Sometimes, responding to reports of gunfire, Deputy Swinger entered a
- 27:28Speaker 3: wooded area in pursuit of an armed suspect. Under the
- 27:31Speaker 3: cover of darkness. He disappeared into the trees, unaware that
- 27:35Speaker 3: within moments his life would be in danger.
- 27:39Speaker 1: After everything that we have seen and her tonight, this
- 27:43Speaker 1: is a miracle, A miracle that Deputy Dalton Swanger is alive,
- 27:52Speaker 1: A miracle that his partner, Deputy Matthew Kirscher is alive,
- 27:56Speaker 1: who has now had his own injury. Deputy Kirchner, what
- 28:04Speaker 1: was going through your mind as you see Dalton falling?
- 28:10Speaker 1: He can't stand up. You guys are dragging him away.
- 28:15Speaker 10: I was, I was in shock, but I was in
- 28:18Speaker 10: I was in survival, survival mode at that point point
- 28:23Speaker 10: when I saw him fall. I mean why I didn't
- 28:25Speaker 10: see him fall, but when I realized he fell and
- 28:27Speaker 10: he was on the ground, getting him out of there
- 28:29Speaker 10: was my number one thing. And the hardest part for
- 28:33Speaker 10: me on this whole thing is after we drug him
- 28:35Speaker 10: out and I had to leave him with a fellow
- 28:39Speaker 10: deputy instead of tending to him and that he's my
- 28:44Speaker 10: best friend. So it really killed me seeing him like that.
- 28:49Speaker 1: We're showing video right now from our friends at Peacock's
- 28:52Speaker 1: on Patrol Live. I've swung or trying to stand there,
- 28:55Speaker 1: he goes, there, he goes. They can't do it. They
- 28:59Speaker 1: have to literally drag him away and all over what
- 29:06Speaker 1: Dave MATC Crime Stories investigative reporter Dave this was all
- 29:14Speaker 1: about a SHOT's fired. They go out there and risk
- 29:19Speaker 1: their lives over.
- 29:20Speaker 4: What Dave mac nanthy, it was actually a domestic argument
- 29:24Speaker 4: between Hensley and his girlfriend. That's what they were. The
- 29:28Speaker 4: shots fired call domestic violence. They didn't know exactly what
- 29:33Speaker 4: was on tap for them when they got there, but
- 29:35Speaker 4: that's actually what was going on. Hensley was drunk and
- 29:39Speaker 4: he smacked his girlfriend and they called nine to one one.
- 29:43Speaker 4: That's what began all of this.
- 29:45Speaker 1: You know, I just to you, w Matthew Kushner. I
- 29:49Speaker 1: don't think people get it, And you know what, Kirshner,
- 29:52Speaker 1: I'm glad they don't get it, because if they did
- 29:56Speaker 1: get it, it would mean that they're exposed to crime
- 29:59Speaker 1: every like we are. And I don't want that for
- 30:03Speaker 1: other people. I want them to live in a bubble. Right,
- 30:07Speaker 1: So people like you and Swanger and me and so
- 30:11Speaker 1: many other people, we hear it for them, right, Yes,
- 30:18Speaker 1: But when you go out on something as simple as
- 30:22Speaker 1: a domestic or should be simple, but very rarely is
- 30:25Speaker 1: it simple, you can end up dead, Dad kurtsher over what.
- 30:34Speaker 10: Well, Unfortunately, domestics are like the most dangerous calls you
- 30:39Speaker 10: could possibly go on. The emotion levels are always higher
- 30:44Speaker 10: when people are fighting with the people they love. We
- 30:47Speaker 10: didn't know that's what we were dealing with. We just
- 30:50Speaker 10: thought we were dealing with somebody that was had shot
- 30:52Speaker 10: off some rounds and clearly was very intoxicated. Way he
- 30:58Speaker 10: was talking and yelling at us honestly had no point
- 31:01Speaker 10: that I expect rocks to be thrown at us. After
- 31:05Speaker 10: I got struck and then Dalton got struck and the
- 31:09Speaker 10: way he was out, I just never imagined that. In
- 31:14Speaker 10: every scenario I've been doing this for twenty seven years,
- 31:17Speaker 10: in every scenario I could play back in my head,
- 31:20Speaker 10: rock being hit in the head would be the last
- 31:22Speaker 10: one that I would think of.
- 31:24Speaker 1: It has been described as a thud. You heard a thud,
- 31:30Speaker 1: and what that was was this huge rock being slammed
- 31:35Speaker 1: into Dalton's head. Described that sound.
- 31:40Speaker 10: It It actually sounded like a huge rock hitting the
- 31:44Speaker 10: ground like a you know, it's just a sound that
- 31:49Speaker 10: it didn't bounce or anything. It just stuck. And that
- 31:53Speaker 10: sound was it hitting Dalton's head.
- 31:57Speaker 1: And when I say for what for what? All this for?
- 32:01Speaker 2: What?
- 32:01Speaker 1: I'm not talking about a domestic ament. On plenty of
- 32:03Speaker 1: domestics where the woman was practically killed all right. This
- 32:07Speaker 1: guy had his bottom revote on a theft by shoplifting
- 32:12Speaker 1: and fifteen hundred marijuana plants found in the home, and
- 32:17Speaker 1: here he is hiding in the bushes. You think he's armed,
- 32:21Speaker 1: and he attacks Swanger. That's why I'm saying a POC
- 32:26Speaker 1: technical legal term. This should have already been behind bars.
- 32:30Speaker 1: He's growing pot in his house for Pete's sake, according
- 32:34Speaker 1: to charges manufacturing delivering drugs. Yeah, he should have already
- 32:40Speaker 1: been in jail and then allegedly hits Swanger and lands
- 32:47Speaker 1: him in a coma. I mean, Deputy Swinger, when you
- 32:56Speaker 1: went out, what was in your mind if you can
- 32:59Speaker 1: remember when you go into those bushes, I mean, you
- 33:02Speaker 1: thought the guy might be armed, but you went into
- 33:05Speaker 1: the bushes into the woods anyway.
- 33:08Speaker 2: So it's a really chaotic thing and kind of has
- 33:11Speaker 2: Dipping Herscher explained. You know, we're constantly trained to assess threats,
- 33:16Speaker 2: and that's always what your mind is, especially in a
- 33:18Speaker 2: very vulnerable moment like that when you can't see, you're
- 33:21Speaker 2: an unfamiliar territory of the woods are super hard to navigating.
- 33:24Speaker 8: You don't know if you're going to step in, and
- 33:26Speaker 8: he did it.
- 33:27Speaker 2: The ground trip over a branch, get caught on the leads,
- 33:29Speaker 2: so you're trying to navigate the drain. You're trying to
- 33:33Speaker 2: see the threat, but it's so dark you can't turn
- 33:35Speaker 2: on your light because they din't give a beacon if
- 33:37Speaker 2: he does have a gun to where he could shoot,
- 33:39Speaker 2: and if I don't, if I recall correctly, I believe
- 33:42Speaker 2: you say. He even taunts us to turn our lights
- 33:44Speaker 2: back on. So that's making you think, like, oh, he
- 33:46Speaker 2: could be wanting to shoot. And then the way you
- 33:48Speaker 2: never don't think. I never until this perceive was a
- 33:52Speaker 2: threat coming from above on top of your head. And
- 33:55Speaker 2: so that is you know, you're scanning for like a
- 33:57Speaker 2: three sixty round you but you never picture something coming
- 34:01Speaker 2: down and hitting your head. So it was just just
- 34:05Speaker 2: like every other call, you're trying to assess the threat
- 34:07Speaker 2: and what's going on there. But in this particular situation,
- 34:11Speaker 2: we were in a complete starfus.
- 34:14Speaker 4: A prayer vigil is held for Dalton while he's in
- 34:16Speaker 4: the ICU. Organized by the community, the prayer vigil was
- 34:20Speaker 4: held at the UT Medical Center in an effort to
- 34:23Speaker 4: show support for Dalton and his family.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Suddenly chaos.
- 34:27Speaker 3: Deputy Swinger is struck in the head with a large rock,
- 34:30Speaker 3: he collapses to the ground. In ripping footage, his fellow
- 34:34Speaker 3: deputies are seen dragging into safety a desperate race against
- 34:37Speaker 3: time to save one of their.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Own, while he is putting on a brave face. Tonight
- 34:43Speaker 1: along with fiance Stefania Pomphrey, he is facing very comprehensive
- 34:48Speaker 1: and complex surgery.
- 34:50Speaker 4: Listen Dalton now suffers complications that stem from being on
- 34:55Speaker 4: the ventilator while in a coma trachyll stenosis. This narrow
- 35:00Speaker 4: of the trachea could be from Dalton having to be
- 35:02Speaker 4: forcefully intubated while he was having seizures, or possibly by
- 35:06Speaker 4: the breathing tube. He has already had three unsuccessful surgeries
- 35:10Speaker 4: and the next surgery he faces is very dangerous and
- 35:13Speaker 4: has an extremely long recovery time, and that is only
- 35:16Speaker 4: after they can find a hospital with a highly specialized
- 35:19Speaker 4: group known as a Complex Airway team.
- 35:23Speaker 1: A Complex Airway Team, Doctor Killer Crowns.
- 35:27Speaker 7: What is that so in this situation where the individual
- 35:32Speaker 7: or the officer sorry has a post intubation syndrome where
- 35:36Speaker 7: he's basically the tissue of his trachea was damaged from
- 35:39Speaker 7: the intubation and it's basically closing up and making his
- 35:43Speaker 7: airway smaller and smaller and smaller. They have to do
- 35:46Speaker 7: something to open that back up so he can breathe properly.
- 35:50Speaker 7: A complex airway team is one that's going to probably
- 35:54Speaker 7: take a pararion.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Crowns, crowns, crowns. I know in Milescale English, you had
- 36:01Speaker 1: the teacher write a sentence in dissected. Here's the verb,
- 36:05Speaker 1: here's the noun, here's the adjective average, Okay, slow it
- 36:08Speaker 1: down then all right? No problem was also very bad
- 36:14Speaker 1: when you have to have it, When you have to
- 36:18Speaker 1: have the ventilator, it goes down your track, your trich
- 36:22Speaker 1: you right here, I think, okay, And when you have
- 36:26Speaker 1: the ventilator forced down your trichia, it damages the trichia
- 36:31Speaker 1: or can damage the trich you. So yes, what would
- 36:35Speaker 1: that damage be? For instance, with swinger, what is the damage?
- 36:39Speaker 1: How bad can it be?
- 36:42Speaker 7: So your mucoastal membranes like your mouth are very very
- 36:46Speaker 7: easily disrupted or damage, And you're pushing this tube into
- 36:49Speaker 7: the throw while someone's seizing, and that damage can be
- 36:53Speaker 7: a rubbing away of the mucoastal lining, basically making an
- 36:56Speaker 7: ulcer and ulceration, and he has this tube in it
- 37:00Speaker 7: throat for a period of time and that ulceration can't heal.
- 37:03Speaker 7: So how it heals is by scarring, and the scarring
- 37:06Speaker 7: itself can become so bad that it will decrease the
- 37:09Speaker 7: airway and that is what has happened to the officers.
- 37:12Speaker 7: His scarring from the intubation has decreased his airway space,
- 37:16Speaker 7: making it hard for him to breathe. And what they're
- 37:19Speaker 7: going to have to do is take a piece of
- 37:21Speaker 7: his trachea out and try and attach the unaffected areas
- 37:25Speaker 7: of his trachea back together, which is called an anastmosis,
- 37:29Speaker 7: or potentially do a reconstruction where they use Carlage graphs
- 37:35Speaker 7: or synthetic material to try and rebuild the area.
- 37:45Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace, a deputy Dogg and Swanger
- 37:55Speaker 1: and Stefania. You may need to help him because I
- 37:58Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to tell me to try.
- 38:01Speaker 1: When you think about the fact you've already had three
- 38:06Speaker 1: very complex surgeries and now you have this ahead of you,
- 38:14Speaker 1: how are you holding up?
- 38:17Speaker 2: It's extremely mentally daunting, because you know, we were at
- 38:21Speaker 2: a point where you're like, oh, you know the TBI
- 38:24Speaker 2: out received GCS three, which is the most severe classification
- 38:27Speaker 2: you can get. I was like out of the frying pan,
- 38:31Speaker 2: but now it feels like I'm kind of in the
- 38:33Speaker 2: fire it. So it is extremely mentally daunting thinking of
- 38:38Speaker 2: them cutting a portion of your airway out. But you know,
- 38:42Speaker 2: I've relied heavily in my faith, and you know, relied
- 38:46Speaker 2: heavily on God for this, and that's problem and drinking Stevania.
- 38:50Speaker 1: I understand that there are only a few hospitals that
- 38:54Speaker 1: perform this is it because it's very dangerous and complex.
- 39:00Speaker 11: His is a unique case because of how quickly the
- 39:04Speaker 11: scar tissue is growing again. You're supposed to the surgeries
- 39:10Speaker 11: that he had that were unsuccessful, they're supposed to last
- 39:13Speaker 11: one to two months if they don't fix the problem,
- 39:17Speaker 11: and his were lasting maybe a week where he could
- 39:21Speaker 11: breathe slightly easier, and then he would just feel like
- 39:25Speaker 11: he was suffocating again and it would close up further.
- 39:29Speaker 11: So he's a pretty unique case. And it's also really
- 39:32Speaker 11: close to his vote, So it's just more complex than
- 39:37Speaker 11: what a normal caiece would be.
- 39:38Speaker 1: When it's very close to.
- 39:39Speaker 10: Is what.
- 39:41Speaker 8: Vocal courts. It's two centimeters below, so.
- 39:45Speaker 1: If anything goes wrong, he won't be able to speak.
- 39:49Speaker 1: W Kurtscher. I understand that since Swanger incident, you had
- 39:59Speaker 1: a head on Collis with a fleeting suspect.
- 40:03Speaker 10: Is that right, yes, ma'am. I was a passenger of
- 40:08Speaker 10: my trope bar with my training was driving. Yes.
- 40:11Speaker 1: And you are facing an upcoming surgery as well.
- 40:16Speaker 10: I've had three surgeries so far and I have a
- 40:22Speaker 10: very large surgery coming up on October thirtieth. What is
- 40:26Speaker 10: the surgery? My injury was a shattered ankle. I had
- 40:31Speaker 10: all three bones in the ankle shattered, but none of
- 40:36Speaker 10: the healing. None of the bones are healing, and after
- 40:40Speaker 10: several consultations and recommendation, my ankles to be amputated on
- 40:47Speaker 10: the thirtieth.
- 40:49Speaker 1: What is your frame of mind, Deputy Kursher.
- 40:57Speaker 10: It's an emotional roller coaster. I am trying to imagine
- 41:01Speaker 10: life without a foot. It's something that I never could imagine.
- 41:06Speaker 10: My pain is unbearable every single day of It's a
- 41:12Speaker 10: relief to know that that pain will be gone. But
- 41:14Speaker 10: I'm very sad that I'm losing my foot, and I
- 41:18Speaker 10: wish there was something else that could be done. But
- 41:20Speaker 10: doesn't seem like that's possible.
- 41:23Speaker 1: When you joined the force, Kirchner, did you ever imagine
- 41:29Speaker 1: this would happen?
- 41:33Speaker 10: No, I don't think anybody ever joins the force thinking
- 41:35Speaker 10: something's going to happen. You know, I went twenty seven
- 41:38Speaker 10: years before it happened. I've been very lucky. I'm blessed.
- 41:47Speaker 10: The agency that I work for has been fantastic, and
- 41:51Speaker 10: everybody around me has been great. But I never thought
- 41:54Speaker 10: that this would happen. Never.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Deputy Kirschner facing his own serious surgery, the amputation from
- 42:02Speaker 1: the ankle down after a head on collision with a
- 42:05Speaker 1: fleeing suspect. I'm donating to his GoFundMe and if you
- 42:11Speaker 1: feel so moved, it's on go fundme. Blue Line Tennessee
- 42:15Speaker 1: Ink Support Knox County Deputy Matthew Matt Kirchner k I
- 42:22Speaker 1: R C H N E R. He would never ask
- 42:24Speaker 1: for it on his own. I we researched it. He
- 42:28Speaker 1: did not ask us to do this. To Deputy Dalton Swinger,
- 42:38Speaker 1: You're facing a life threatening, extensive and complex surgery. What
- 42:45Speaker 1: is your frame of mind?
- 42:50Speaker 8: The way I'm getting it, the way I'm encroaching it.
- 42:54Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm relied very heavily in my face,
- 42:56Speaker 2: and I'm trying to you it's a positive thing that
- 42:59Speaker 2: God's given me a chance to see like what I'm
- 43:01Speaker 2: made of and Albasilia, I can be and I will
- 43:07Speaker 2: approach this in the absolute mindset that as painful and
- 43:10Speaker 2: growing as this is, being allowed from underneath it, do
- 43:13Speaker 2: whatever it.
- 43:14Speaker 8: Takes to get back to having a badge on the chifs.
- 43:17Speaker 2: And so it's terrifying, but I know, for landma heart,
- 43:22Speaker 2: no matter what happens and how bad it iss, I
- 43:25Speaker 2: want to get back to doing all love Swinger.
- 43:30Speaker 1: One more thing. You were telling me that when you
- 43:33Speaker 1: were in a coma, or when you're about to go
- 43:36Speaker 1: into a coma, you were hearing I believe you said
- 43:41Speaker 1: a fellow deputy. I don't know if it was real,
- 43:44Speaker 1: if it was in your mind telling you you have
- 43:47Speaker 1: to keep breathing, listen, how did you make yourself keep breathing?
- 43:56Speaker 10: And the visualization.
- 43:57Speaker 2: I was in a concrete hallway and it was almost
- 43:59Speaker 2: like a or maybe it's like it was like flickering lights,
- 44:02Speaker 2: and I was surrounded by just you know, gray man surgeons.
- 44:05Speaker 8: Kind of without a face.
- 44:07Speaker 2: And I was in this hospital bit and I remember
- 44:09Speaker 2: just oring sweat, and there's a death you saying you
- 44:12Speaker 2: can live, you can do this, but you have to
- 44:15Speaker 2: keep breathing or you will die. So I put in
- 44:19Speaker 2: that visualization I was having, whether it was a dream hallucination,
- 44:23Speaker 2: I just put all of them, I as in the
- 44:25Speaker 2: basket of if I can just keep breathing, I'll make
- 44:27Speaker 2: it out of this. So I just remembered sitting in
- 44:29Speaker 2: that hallucination going and I just did that over and
- 44:32Speaker 2: over for what felt like an attorney in that you know,
- 44:36Speaker 2: hallucinated halway or a dream like halway.
- 44:39Speaker 1: For those of you that are listening or watching tonight. Again,
- 44:44Speaker 1: they did not ask for this. We researched it and
- 44:47Speaker 1: found it. Please go to his GoFundMe. We are support
- 44:52Speaker 1: Deputy Dalton Swanger and family. Both of these deputies have
- 44:59Speaker 1: a very very long row to Hoe and I want
- 45:09Speaker 1: both of them to know how much you mean to us,
- 45:14Speaker 1: to all of us. We go about our days assuming
- 45:19Speaker 1: you're there, when the truth is, if you weren't there,
- 45:27Speaker 1: we wouldn't be here. Nobody would be protecting us, Nobody
- 45:32Speaker 1: would be catching the bag eyes and putting them away
- 45:35Speaker 1: from us and away from our children. But you do
- 45:40Speaker 1: that day and night, with no thought of your own safety.
- 45:45Speaker 1: And in addition to the Gofundmes well, you're bringing down
- 45:50Speaker 1: a power much more powerful. We are calling on a
- 45:53Speaker 1: power much greater than a dollar bill. You will both
- 45:59Speaker 1: be in our prayers until you are well. Thank you
- 46:06Speaker 1: for everyone joining us tonight, and now we stop to
- 46:10Speaker 1: remember an American hero officer, Brandon paul A. Storf of
- 46:15Speaker 1: Bay Saint Louis Police Department in Mississippi, just twenty three,
- 46:20Speaker 1: shot and killed in the line of duty, survived by
- 46:25Speaker 1: a grieving mother and father Ian also in law enforcement.
- 46:31Speaker 1: Siblings Lily Sophia, Giordana, Chloe and Andrew. American hero officer
- 46:39Speaker 1: Brandon paul Estorf. Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,