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40 SWAT Officers Face Utah's Deadliest Shooter Situation · The conspiracy

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: This sniper just took a shot at an armed fugitive
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: holding a family of five hostage in their home. The gunman,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Joseph Anthony, is a man with a purpose. He has
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: a vendetta and he's going on a rampage planning to
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: kill his ex girlfriend and multiple other people who wronged
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: him in the past. Police don't know how far he's
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: gone on his list of targets, and if they don't
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  Speaker 1: capture him here, this family could be next.
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  Speaker 2: Running across the freeway.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: Look at the.
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  Speaker 1: Second, we're gonna wait for the helicopter.
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  Speaker 4: All you hold your position.
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  Speaker 5: Upre you.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, September ninth, and the first sign that something
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: is seriously wrong comes from an alarming nine one one call.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely one one. What is the address of Demercy late
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  Speaker 6: and so my brother he's on the loose right now
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  Speaker 6: and he's certainly kills girls in a couple days ago.
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  Speaker 6: He just showed up at my house, Joseph Manhart. She
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  Speaker 6: has a firearm on him and his arms. Where is he?
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  Speaker 6: She's outside my front door right now. I need the
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  Speaker 6: cops here asap. I thought Eda's on their way. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 6: you gotta hurry you gotta hurry that home dead to.
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  Speaker 1: Just twenty four hours earlier, Joseph Manhard kidnapped his ex girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: assaulted her, and threatened to kill her. After managing to escape,
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  Speaker 1: she called police, triggering an arrest warrant for Joseph's immediate capture.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, Joseph vanished and police had no indication of
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  Speaker 1: where he might strike next. Until now, with an active
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  Speaker 1: warrant and a report that Joseph is armed and dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: officers are dispatched immediately advancing towards the house, fully prepared
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  Speaker 1: for a shootout.
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  Speaker 7: I've just talked to the homeowners. He said that if
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  Speaker 7: he didn't drive, the only place he could have went
• 2:21
  Speaker 7: is hopped the fence and is barricaded in that shed
• 2:24
  Speaker 7: that Swinson's got a view on. So he said, the
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  Speaker 7: best way to go through is us just knock on
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  Speaker 7: the door. He'll let us in. We'll go through the
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  Speaker 7: house and clear the shed. We're ready, Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 7: I got I'll get it.
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  Speaker 8: Bye.
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  Speaker 7: You want to show us where to go? Okay? And
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  Speaker 7: where's the shed over there?
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  Speaker 6: You got me?
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna have to go through and hit it and
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  Speaker 7: come swing it out wide.
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  Speaker 9: Swing out, White and I can step in front of Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Lease, anyone in there, please, anyone's in there, show me
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  Speaker 10: your hands come out.
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  Speaker 1: Just put me in the box.
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  Speaker 3: Right, step in.
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  Speaker 6: Right, okay, go.
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  Speaker 10: Your hands do in here.
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  Speaker 8: Claire, all right.
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  Speaker 7: He didn't make it in here, probably drove by one of.
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  Speaker 1: Us with no sign of the suspect. Joseph remains at large,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever he came here to do, he didn't finish it.
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  Speaker 1: So before officers leave the residents, they speak with Joseph's brother,
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  Speaker 1: trying to understand and why Joseph showed up and what
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  Speaker 1: he might do next. What he tells them reframes the
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  Speaker 1: entire situation. According to his brother, Joseph didn't come here randomly.
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  Speaker 1: He was likely looking for his ex girlfriend, the same
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  Speaker 1: woman who escaped his kidnapping just a day earlier. The
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  Speaker 1: two had recently broken up, a split that left Joseph
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  Speaker 1: without stable housing and increasingly angry. His brother also tells
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  Speaker 1: police that in recent conversations, Joseph had been talking about
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  Speaker 1: tying up loose ends and ending it all. Two officers,
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  Speaker 1: it begins to sound like Joseph isn't just running. He
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  Speaker 1: may be moving with intent driven by a personal vendetta
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  Speaker 1: and targeting people he believes have wronged him. If that's true,
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  Speaker 1: it has never been more urgent to locate Joseph before
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  Speaker 1: he reaches someone else. But it doesn't take long for
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  Speaker 1: those fears to be confirmed, because later that evening, police
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  Speaker 1: receive another alarming nine one one.
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  Speaker 6: Call my brother right now. Okay, where's the outside?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: He outside?
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  Speaker 6: Okay is he knocking on the door? What we're doing?
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  Speaker 7: They already have.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Okay, to be here right now. Okay, we're on
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  Speaker 6: the way. Tell me exactly where he's at. He's walking around, Hans,
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  Speaker 6: He's walking around.
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  Speaker 1: Following this terrifying call for help from Joseph's sister in law,
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  Speaker 1: officers are dispatched to the home once again, but by
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  Speaker 1: the time they arrive, Joseph has already vanished. This time, however,
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  Speaker 1: officers decide to canvass the surrounding neighborhood before leaving, a
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  Speaker 1: decision that will prove critical. Nearby CCTV footage captures Joseph
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  Speaker 1: getting into a car and speeding away from the property
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the day. For the next few hours, patrol
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  Speaker 1: units surge across the city, but the white Hyundai remains
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  Speaker 1: at a sight, but over the next several hours, Joseph's
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: decisions will force officers into one of the most dangerous
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  Speaker 1: men hunts of their careers. For the next few hours,
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  Speaker 1: patrol units search across the city, but the white Hundai
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  Speaker 1: remains at a sight. Then, around one thirty am, a
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  Speaker 1: lone patrol unit spots a vehicle matching the description and
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  Speaker 1: immediately initiates a pursuit. Found just as the officer begins
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  Speaker 1: to close the distance, he suddenly loses sight of the
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  Speaker 1: car Joseph is believed to be driving. But just minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: as patrol units continue canvassing the area, one officer spots
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's car park on nearby train tracks. With no way
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  Speaker 1: of knowing whether Joseph is still inside or hiding close by,
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  Speaker 1: the officer cautiously approaches the vehicle.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I have civilians here.
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  Speaker 10: Soon that there's a car parked on the tracks of
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  Speaker 10: building Hotel three on the southwest end.
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  Speaker 2: Can I get up more of this way?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty one? Cut it that way.
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  Speaker 5: We have built up the seventy sixth I have visual
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  Speaker 5: on the vehicle. It looks like it was still might
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  Speaker 5: be oppied.
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  Speaker 6: I forget.
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  Speaker 1: The south corner of the hotel three.
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  Speaker 2: We'll thlick vehicle might be abandoned if we can start
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  Speaker 2: into containment, close in and then they can start my dog.
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  Speaker 1: The car turns out to be empty, and there's no
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  Speaker 1: sign of Joseph anywhere nearby by. Abandoning the vehicle here,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph appears to have given office is an advantage. He's
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: now on foot without transportation. Police finally have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to corner him, but that window closes almost immediately, as
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  Speaker 1: just twenty minutes later, Joseph makes his next move nine.
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  Speaker 6: On the utility trader. I just had a lady walk
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  Speaker 6: in the front door, said her car was pulling and
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  Speaker 6: she was shot. At what kind of car? We're in
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  Speaker 6: the area looking for this guy? Could she tell you quick?
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  Speaker 6: What kind of car? What kind of car? He optom.
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  Speaker 1: As dispatch gathers details from the call, patrol units across
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  Speaker 1: the area are alerted to be on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: a stolen Waikiya Optima taken at gunpoint. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: one patrol unit is sent to the scene of the
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  Speaker 1: carjacking to speak directly with the victim, where they'll learn
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  Speaker 1: just how close Joseph is to committing his first murder.
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  Speaker 8: Do you mind if I talk to you for a second, man, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: do you mind just tell me what happened.
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  Speaker 4: So I was sitting in my car and he was like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: do you have a cigarette or no? He has me
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  Speaker 4: if I had a lighter, sorry, And I was like yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I only rolled down my window like this far,
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  Speaker 4: and I had it in my lighter and then he
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: was handing it back to me and then he just
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  Speaker 4: shut his arm in my window and I just started
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  Speaker 4: rolling it up and I started screaming, and he was like,
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  Speaker 4: I have a fucking gun, and then he pulled it
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  Speaker 4: out and I just kept rolling the window trying to scream,
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  Speaker 4: and then you just shot out the window. And then
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  Speaker 4: I just opened the door and I see it, I
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  Speaker 4: have it, and then I just got out ran.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: By this point, it's clear Joseph has lost control and
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  Speaker 1: this woman is lucky to be alive. But that might
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  Speaker 1: not be the case for whoever crosses his path next,
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  Speaker 1: because just minutes later, around two am, a patrol unit
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  Speaker 1: spots the stolen car speeding down the highway heading toward
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  Speaker 1: Utah County. As soon as the pursuit begins, Joseph starts
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  Speaker 1: swerving across lanes, forcing other drivers to react and putting
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  Speaker 1: innocent lives directly in danger. With Joseph refusing to slow down,
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  Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
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  Speaker 1: So to bring the pursuit to an end, an officer
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  Speaker 1: approaching from the opposite side of the highway pulls over
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  Speaker 1: and prepares to deploy spike strips. At highway speeds, there's
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  Speaker 1: no margin for error. The spikes have to go down
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  Speaker 1: seconds before Joseph reaches them too early, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: them in time to swerve around and put innocent lives
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  Speaker 1: at even greater risk. Good spikes, Good spikes.
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  Speaker 10: Southbound, Shepherd, you eat it.
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  Speaker 2: He's running across the freeway. He's running across the freeway.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the north balane. He's in the north balane.
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  Speaker 6: Red jacket, let.
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  Speaker 2: Us hear a hot He's hopping the fence. He's over
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  Speaker 2: the fence. Now he's over the fence. Now we need
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  Speaker 2: to us the frontage. He's on front is now on front,
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  Speaker 2: is going to housing complex over here file a white
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  Speaker 2: like fence is about to off. He's hopping it into.
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  Speaker 1: All his backyard after abandoning his car, Joseph runs towards
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  Speaker 1: a residential area surrounded by homes where families are asleep inside.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing how dangerous and unpredictable Joseph is, officers now have
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  Speaker 1: to cut through the busy highway and move quickly to
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  Speaker 1: find him before anyone else has put at risk.
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  Speaker 2: No, wait, behind that picket fence right there, whatever adds
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  Speaker 2: that is? I don't know what the hell that is.
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  Speaker 2: He's behind that.
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  Speaker 3: Shut off fund.
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  Speaker 9: More, colleague, was that.
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  Speaker 6: That they come out that way.
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  Speaker 2: A way that's mine right here, that's right away, and
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  Speaker 2: that's that young by.
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  Speaker 6: Copy Sharon, I will be headed our direction shortly. Where
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  Speaker 6: are you?
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  Speaker 5: He hoped this one?
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  Speaker 1: I All units, I'm gonna secontainment. We're gonna wait for
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter.
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  Speaker 6: All units, hold your positions.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go walk around. With Joseph disappearing into a residential area,
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  Speaker 1: the situation becomes far more unpredictable. By now, more than
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  Speaker 1: thirty officers are flooding the scene, and without coordination, every
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  Speaker 1: decision risks putting innocent families in danger. This is when
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Sheldon arrives and takes control.
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  Speaker 3: You got myself standby, I'm said containment A right sorry, bro,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have all the information because I switched this
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  Speaker 3: last minute. Okay, so what do you guys got?
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  Speaker 2: So he already shot someone in the free coort center, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna take a catnar for that birth to go.
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  Speaker 2: He hopped over that fans right there?
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  Speaker 5: Which fans that one.
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  Speaker 1: After a quick brief, Sergeant Sheldon forms a plan to
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  Speaker 1: flush out Joseph. First, a helicopter is called in to
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  Speaker 1: scan the neighborhood from above. Second, a tactical operations center
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  Speaker 1: is established near Joseph's last known location to coordinate every
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  Speaker 1: unit in real time. And third, officers set up a
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  Speaker 1: wide containment zone covering more than a square mile, with
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  Speaker 1: units positioned throughout the neighborhood to cut off any possible
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  Speaker 1: escape routes. But just as the plan goes into motion,
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  Speaker 1: officers are abruptly interrupted by a sharp sound in the distance.
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  Speaker 5: Sure that's where Victid innt right, we're pressing that.
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  Speaker 3: That's whe the shots came from those one single shot
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  Speaker 3: Prester you okay, hold your position. I'm sending a unit
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  Speaker 3: around to you go.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna get if we can get someone over here
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  Speaker 5: to the north.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five North brun your single entertainment, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: you get some all secondtainment. You guys come up with
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  Speaker 3: a plan to systematically search this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the gunshot confirms one thing immediately, Joseph is still
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: in the area. But what officers don't realize yet is
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  Speaker 1: that the shot wasn't random. It was Joseph forcing his
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  Speaker 1: way into a nearby home, and in the next few
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  Speaker 1: hours the situation will escalate in ways officers aren't prepared for.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get to that, Sometimes the scariest horror
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  Speaker 1: stories happen in your own head, like disturbing thoughts you
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  Speaker 1: don't want but can't stop replaying. Thoughts like you're going
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  Speaker 1: to cheat on your partner and ruin everything, or that
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  Speaker 1: memory doesn't feel clear. What if I did something terrible
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  Speaker 1: and forgot. These thoughts can feel so real and threatening
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  Speaker 1: that you start behaving in life altering ways to try
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  Speaker 1: to make them go away. Maybe you spend hours trying
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: to figure out what these thoughts mean, or constantly seek
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: reassurance that you're not a bad person, but the thoughts
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: just get more persistent. If this sounds familiar, you might
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: be experiencing OCD. Contrary to what many people think, OCD
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: isn't about being neat or organized. Real OCD involves distressing,
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• 15:30
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• 16:00
  Speaker 1: It's n OCD dot com. Approximately an hour after the
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  Speaker 1: gunshot was fired, the helicopter finally arrives and begins a
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  Speaker 1: full aerial sweep of the neighborhood, but Joseph is nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to be seen on the ground. Officers spread out searching
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  Speaker 1: for Joseph and cautiously prepare for an ambush.
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  Speaker 8: Forerunner, gotcha. The homeowners already.
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  Speaker 9: Out of the police Hi got the please? Oh sorry,
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  Speaker 9: We're just looking for somebody in the area. You're only
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  Speaker 9: secure and not thinking suspicious. Okay, if you have a
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  Speaker 9: white male red shirt, you see someone like that, give
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  Speaker 9: us a pup if you find them or see them.
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  Speaker 8: All right, thank you, Oh you're good. Fine, just my
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  Speaker 8: shirlock your door.
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  Speaker 3: And the hills this galable Johnny crazy.
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  Speaker 1: After more than two hours of knocking on doors and
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  Speaker 1: checking backyards, there's no sign of the suspect. Joseph's absence
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  Speaker 1: becomes increasingly unsettling, and Sergeant Sheldon quickly recognizes what it
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  Speaker 1: likely means.
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  Speaker 3: If Star nine can't find him, we have a totally
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  Speaker 3: different situation, right because he potentially could be any one
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  Speaker 3: of these houses. He could be taking people hostage, he
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  Speaker 3: could have broken in and it's unoccupied. So we have
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  Speaker 3: all this shit that we're gonna have to filter through,
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  Speaker 3: and that's going to have to take how.
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  Speaker 1: Many houses over the greasehources?
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  Speaker 3: I would estimate eight on this side, six to ten
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  Speaker 3: on this side.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Sergeant Sheldon and his team are forced
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  Speaker 1: to consider multiple scenarios, including a barricaded suspect holding hostages inside,
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  Speaker 1: but they won't have to weigh those possibilities for long
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  Speaker 1: because one phone call is about to answer that question
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  Speaker 1: for them. Emergency much my family's being own hostage. Immediately
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  Speaker 1: after this, officers spread out and quickly locate the collar nearby.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Samuelson, a father who managed to escape the house
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  Speaker 1: just a moment's earlier. What he tells them is chilling
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  Speaker 1: inside the home. His wife, two daughters, and his daughter's
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend are still being held at gunpoint, and Joseph is
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  Speaker 1: inside with them. With this new escalation, Sergeant Sheldon knows
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  Speaker 1: this is now beyond the scope of a standard response
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  Speaker 1: and prepares to bring in specialized tactical support.
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  Speaker 6: All you're in priority traffic. All you're in this priority traffic.
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  Speaker 1: We have at so information from the citizens leading out
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  Speaker 1: jeez all bounable florid knock called returnock.
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  Speaker 5: Victim's wife, daughter, and daughter's boyfriend are all on a couch.
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  Speaker 6: Suspect was sitting in a chair just behind the couch.
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  Speaker 5: The daughter has another daughter that was sleeping downstairs that
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  Speaker 5: should be waking up in the next couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Susnet gain access to the house through an unlocked window.
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  Speaker 1: In the basement. After SWAT teams arrive and are quickly
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  Speaker 1: briefed on the situation, they begin coordinating their next steps,
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  Speaker 1: preparing to establish containment and open negotiations with Joseph. But
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  Speaker 1: before a plan can fully take shape, someone is spotted
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  Speaker 1: exiting the back door of the Samuelson home.
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  Speaker 3: Side from so.
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  Speaker 1: Miraculously, the daughter who'd been sleeping in the basement somehow
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  Speaker 1: managed to slip outside without Joseph ever noticing and without
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  Speaker 1: realizing it. Joejoseph's hostage count is now down to three.
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  Speaker 1: With that update, commanding officers begin reassessing the situation in
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  Speaker 1: real time. They review everything Joseph has done over the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: past thirty six hours and determine that he has shown
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  Speaker 1: a complete disregard for human life and willingness to escalate
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  Speaker 1: when under pressure. Based on that assessment, commanders make a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: critical decision. SWAT teams are authorized to use deadly force
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  Speaker 1: if a clear opportunity presents itself. From this point forward,
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  Speaker 1: the priority is clear, protect the hostages at any cost.
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  Speaker 5: God fucking right, it's a show time, okay, Diana, make
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  Speaker 5: sure we have to score it away.
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  Speaker 4: As well.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Question, I got do it again.
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  Speaker 5: So we're throwing a baying as soon as the door
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  Speaker 5: gets open. Jay's back. I know we're going yet, well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Darley B vi Burnett are we doing.
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  Speaker 3: Any left.
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  Speaker 5: Right, baking e arrivees on the right. That's for the
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  Speaker 5: mandor is gonna be. That's gonna be our secondary. Okay,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: front door opens in.
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  Speaker 8: This is the living room, got set up.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: This is the kitchen area. Okay, that wrong side on that, yep,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: the wrong side of that right, all right, pul preach.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: You're gonna practice the right to get behind the stair way.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: If daughter's knuck out window, that means the bottom windows open.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: This is the fastest way to get it. It's the
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: fastest way. We have a flash bag. We're gonna reset
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  Speaker 5: a loop and come in. Let's keep practicing wherever he's at.
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  Speaker 3: In this room.
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  Speaker 5: You guys are gonna put two banks, two banks. Want
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: to do two banks?
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  Speaker 1: Its deadly force authorized. A coordinated plan is put into motion,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: one designed to end the threat and extract the hostages safely.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: A sniper will be positioned nearby, ready to take Joseph
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: out if he's exposed and a clear shot presents itself.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: At the same time, negotiators will make contact with Joseph,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: work to slow him down, gain compliance, and convince him
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to release the hostages and surrender peacefully. If that fails,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they have one secondary objective, get Joseph to step outside,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: because if he does, even briefly, it could create the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: opening the sniper needs. With three innocent lives at risk,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there's no room for error. One wrong move and everything
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: ends tragically.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: For good thanks.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: The officer assigned as the sniper as Jared Tadahara, a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: long serving police officer who moved from patrol and street
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: crime work into a specialized swat sniper role. After arriving
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: on scene, Tadehara conducts a quick tactical assessment and moves
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: into a nearby house facing the Samuelson home. From here,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: he has a clear view of the backside of the house,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a position that allows observation without being easily visible to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the suspect and provides a safe distance to avoid interfering
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: with perimeter officers. But today Hara isn't working alone. Every
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: sniper has a spotter, a second officer responsible for range calculations,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: wind assessments, and most critically, confirming that the shot is
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: clear before Todahara pulls the trigger. Across the street, negotiations continue.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: For the past three hours, officers have been trying to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: reason with Joseph urging him to surrender and release the hostages,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: but Joseph refuses. He won't let anyone go and threatens
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to kill the entire family if officers attempt to force entry.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: With three people at fatal risk, a precise sniper shot
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: becomes the only way to end the standoff before it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: turns deadly. But before Officer Todajarra gets that opportunity, he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: receives crucial information that makes things a lot more risky.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Pat suspet fish to have a shorter white mouse.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Okay, slightly rounded fish.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it has a thing.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Tadahara, the situation just became far more complicated.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: One of the hostages inside is a male who closely
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: resembles Joseph. One wrong shot and an innocent person could
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: be killed. With that in mind, Tadehara shifts his position
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to a different house across the street. He needs an
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: angle facing the front door of the Samuelson's home. The
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: shot at this distance travels roughly seventy five to one
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: hundred feet and takes less than a second from decision
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to impact. At the same time, negotiators reassess their what's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: been alarming them throughout the standoff is that Joseph hasn't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: made any traditional demands. He didn't ask for money, car,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: or safe passage. Instead, he's simply refusing to let anyone go.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: That behavior begins to make sense once investigators provide more
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: insight into Joseph's condition. According to them, his mental state
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: has been deteriorating for hours, He's been heavily using drugs
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for days. His thinking is no longer rational or strategic,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and his behavior is increasingly volatile. Most concerning of all,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Joseph isn't releasing the hostages or surrendering. His endgame appears
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to be killing people he blames for all his problems,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: then forcing police to kill him or take his own life.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Because of this assessment, SWAT officers remain positioned far back
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: to avoid provoking him. Negotiators then ask Joseph to step
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: outside the front door with the hostages to prove they're
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: still alive. If he does, it will give toady Hara
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a clear view and a chance to take the shot.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It takes time, but Joseph eventually agrees to walk to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the front door with the hostages while warning he'll shoot
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: them if officers make any aggressive moves. After two days
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of chasing Joseph, officers finally have a chance to bring
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: his violent rampage to an end. With a SWAT team
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: nearby staged for immediate entry, Officer Toddyjarra prepares to take
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the shot. He stabilizes his rifle using a bipod, a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: small stand attached to the gun, then lies prone, steadies
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: his aim, and slows down his breathing. A few seconds pass,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and then the front door begins to open.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Out go go, go.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I think we're good yet, unless they start calling the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: body the store.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Let's got the start.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Pullies, pollies, pollies, Polly, gotcha, we got we got him.
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: We gotta hands up, hands up.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know, maybe if a piece of
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: his scold.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: At me or something.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: You're good, you're good?
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: You sure, yeah, you're good.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: We said we see maybe a piece and I hit
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: someone hit me an point, someone got right?
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Hold on?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: What do you see? He's o ye ye, jac you
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: got him going okay, you got an easy here, you
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: got you, I got.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: You, just hold on, hold on, I got you.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: You're safe.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: You are safe.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: After more than six hours trapped in with an armed
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: unstable man, the entire family survives, an outcome that just
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: minutes earlier felt far from guaranteed. At the front door,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Joseph Manhard lies critically wounded. Paramedics rush him to the hospital,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: but despite life saving efforts, he's later pronounced dead. Investigators
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: later determined that Joseph's actions were driven by a rapid collapse.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: His failed relationship and heavy drug use pushed him into
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: increasingly violent and reckless behaviour. By the end, he wasn't
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: trying to escape or survive. He was acting like someone
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: who had nothing left to lose.