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00:00You
00:14We can't let this guy die like we have to get him out of this vehicle
00:20So I'm gonna just detain you for a little bit until I figure out what's in your car
00:25Stop right there. Oh my god
00:27Oh
00:28She'd kill one person she could do the same to me
00:39I got loud and crazy really really fast and that was terrifying
00:57I
01:09Knew I had a lot of work to do that day and
01:13I was driving toward my Edgewood office and
01:16And
01:18That's when I stopped at the mr. Gas Mart's to get fuel for the day. I
01:26Saw a lady who worked at the gas station on the phone walking out toward me
01:30As soon as that young lady started walking up I hit record. I knew there was going to be a problem
01:41I don't I'm pretty sure she's in the Cadillac. Yeah, is there anybody else with her?
01:54Uh, there's a man in the car
01:56The driver's seat. Okay. Thank you
02:01Five zero one sink up
02:05All right, there you have an East Mountain unit
02:0710-4 show me 10-6 out at the mr. Gas Mart 344 and triple-3 gonna be out with a gray Cadillac looks like
02:21looks like
02:239-1-3
02:25The tenant over here at the gas station advised
02:28They're smoking drugs in the bathroom now sitting in the car. Can you also contact Edgewood and have them roll me a unit?
02:38I'm thinking drug use this early in the morning in a silver Cadillac silver Cadillac's a little higher-end vehicle
02:44I'm thinking this could be a higher slightly higher-end drug dealer of some kind
02:48But we have no idea what's going on the car. They're innocent until proven guilty
02:58All right, Jason can come
03:18I turn one second Tommy's attempting to flee. He ran my car
03:3410-4 is on that one
03:36I'm like kind of another unit if there's any East unit DCS over there to help him and come through there until he
04:05Uh, okay, we'll get back
04:10525, can you head out to 501 to 20 then come all units there is 10-3 at the side
04:195-6-4-6, I like you here that way
04:21He is out by pizza barn he is headed eastbound on their frontage of significant damage to my vehicle
04:37Also be advised. I don't have a sirens. I'm gonna be like someone
04:39I was a little surprised he was willing to smash his way out of there to get away
04:51It's gonna be a silver Cadillac female passenger male driver dark tinted windows
04:56He is coming out eastbound triple three now
05:0110-4 eastbound triple three
05:02This is a pretty brazen individual so i've got to stop him
05:17After one traffic light eastbound about 80 miles an hour and no instructions
05:24On the roadway
05:28Wrong side of the roadway back in Los Angeles
05:35I don't want to scare this gentleman into further erratic behavior and so i didn't want to be up on his bumper
05:43Or tapping his vehicle or driving so aggressively myself that i caused more problems than we tried to solve
05:48Oh
05:5410-4
06:03Um passing mountain valley
06:07Coming up on Cedillo hill road
06:1110-4 west valley to Cedillo
06:13Speed is 100 miles an hour traffic is delayed
06:22He's at 100 light traffic
06:2410-4 eastbound
06:3910-4 west valley to Cedillo hill vehicle is down
06:40Vehicle down Cedillo hill
06:4410-4 eastbound
06:4710-4 eastbound
06:5010-4 eastbound
06:51The male driver is hell-bent on getting away and opens fire on Lieutenant Vaughn as soon
07:07as he gets out of his car.
07:12Being shot at is terrifying.
07:17The sound was terrifyingly loud, and it got loud and crazy really, really fast.
07:3110-Colb, shot's fired, I'm down.
07:4310-Colb on hit, bleeding, subjects are fleeing, what? Female and a male.
07:49it was all very clear but it was strange it was very real it seemed slow and i was scared
08:06the fear of being shot was constant
08:16we got a gunfire on the overpass the city of hill
08:19501 do you have a weapon description negative but i'm hit please give me a 55.
08:30as lieutenant vaughn waits for a 55 which is police code for an ambulance he is running on
08:37adrenaline but it is clear that his injuries are severe
08:50that's affirmative uh cedillo hill overpass over i-40
09:06501 i think i'm okay i'm bleeding shot through the shoulder possibly the chest
09:20subjects are fleeing westbound a little bit of trouble breathing
09:27i'm able to observe the car good enough for me to decide there's nobody left in the car
09:31so far i was scared because now i have time to think about my injury
09:36and i don't know if i'm shot through the chest
09:40level one i'm just going to sit tight i'm not going to start
09:42so
09:52i'm not going to be able to see you
10:00officer jared mogling from the edgewood police department is nearby and responds
10:06to the chest whenever you hear an officer call for assistance you get that kind of sinking feeling
10:13in your stomach and then all that matters is trying to get to your brother quickly and safely as possible
10:25a civilian who witnessed the shooting is assisting lieutenant vaughn
10:29i've been through two shootings before this
10:40i was afraid and i couldn't articulate why to have him hold my hand that was super helpful
10:45any injuries yes okay you're hitting right in the neck
10:49is it bleeding a lot or yes it's bleeding
10:55409 that was deeply sent in the city of york
11:06all right man you get right in the neck right here everybody give me some pressure on it
11:10man i'm scared as you can see the blood coming out of my neck on the left side just pouring out
11:15right away and that was terrifying
11:29new mexico state police lieutenant jeremy vaughn has just been shot by the driver of a vehicle he was
11:35pursuing all right man he's hit right in the neck right here everybody give me some pressure on it
11:40okay thank you bye
11:44this side
11:45helping this crap off what he's in there he's in he's not bleak
11:50already stopped how do we get this vest off and just understand
11:53hold on hold on the velcro is like this on the other side
12:01i'm thinking do i have a hemo pneumothorax do i have a collapsing loan
12:05i don't know if it came out the back but it feels like it hit my scapula brother
12:22paramedics arrived to treat lieutenant vaughn
12:26what's your name jeremy jeremy you having any problems breathing just that scapula really hurts guys
12:32hurts in the back yeah let's get the journey the situation is critical and lieutenant vaughn is
12:39rushed to the nearest hospital my phone kept ringing my uh personal cell phone kept ringing and at the
12:49time i was helping a colleague with a project and we were intensely working on as one of those it's hard
12:55to i'm not going to just answer the phone unless it's something that's important
13:01my colleague from albuquerque police department she calls again
13:05and i hit ignore again and she sends me a message says pick up your phone
13:11and she says jeremy's been shot
13:21and my brain froze liz took me right to the hospital
13:28since jeremy had been in two shootings already i had some practice
13:34and i just know i have to keep it together and i have to be
13:39brave and i have to figure out where jeremy is and what is going on
13:45and i'm terrified
13:48because i don't know what i'm walking into
13:59after the shooting officers locate the gunman thanks to a tip-off from a local citizen
14:04he is arrested without incident and taken in for questioning
14:12so finally i i take a right i turn he puts me up against the bridge
14:17and uh honestly i i don't i i don't i i don't i right there i don't even remember i just remember
14:25after shots of fire i mean i don't know i just
14:27i can't tell you the shooter is caleb dustin elledge he has a history of drug abuse and firearms charges
14:40i remember walking into the er i sit down in a room and who comes in first
14:54is the chaplain and the social worker that those are not the people who i want to talk to
14:59i say no where is jeremy take me to jeremy now
15:12his carotid artery was nicked by the bullet
15:17the bullet was right next to his spine and broke off pieces of his spine
15:21i've spoken with a number of our nurses and we've seen many many medical professionals
15:29who every single one of them has remarked i don't know how you are alive and i don't know how you
15:36aren't paralyzed
15:40so the bullet entered the left side of my neck in a downward angle and stopped right behind my spine
15:4611 days later at the unm hospital trauma clinic they took the bullet out of my back entered it into
15:55evidence and the trauma from the surgery was hard they cut muscle the bones were fractured and there's
16:04a lot of pain in the back from that
16:09the shooter caleb ellich pleads guilty and is sentenced to nine years in prison
16:15and a further three years supervised release with sentencing on state charges still to come
16:21the female in the car alana martinez is charged with harboring or aiding a felon
16:27she pleads guilty and is sentenced to one year in prison and six months probation
16:33no proof of drug use by either suspect is found
16:37law enforcement are real people with real families who love them
16:49and so i went to jeremy after the third shooting
16:54and i said
16:56has three strikes
16:59has three shootings in almost three years and you almost died
17:03the state of new mexico has had you for 20 years
17:09i want our boys to have a dad i don't want to have you on a wall i want you can we please be done
17:18and he had to think about it
17:21you know victoria is a little bit of a terminator machine she she's a machine she's a federal agent
17:30she's a triathlete she eats nails for breakfast
17:35my wife gave me the look and i couldn't tie my shoes i couldn't drive i was a total mess
17:43and it was smart to take the duty injury leave and then go ahead and retire
18:00and then go ahead and get the job
18:08911. what is the address of the emergency
18:12um apparently on highway five uh at jay street i just heard a big crash and there's smoke over here
18:18your mother. Okay. I heard a loud bang fire house and now I see fire. Officer Kyle Roberts from the
18:31Chula Vista Police Department launches a drone to investigate the source of the fire. The drone
18:37can arrive on scene faster and it can get information back to the officers. Save vital
18:41seconds. The camera that the drones equipped with has a zoom capability as
18:47well as a thermal or infrared capability. I'm using the thermal cameras able to see
18:51a significant heat source. And then switching to the photo camera I can see
18:57that there was something on fire.
19:11Officer Donald Truong is one mile away and responds.
19:25My concern was if someone was in there and was there a family in there. You never know how much
19:34gasoline is left inside a vehicle and once the fire reaches the gasoline tank if there's enough
19:40gasoline it could cause an explosion. The fire could spread into the nearby
19:45neighborhoods. There's no time to waste.
20:00The vehicle was engulfed in flames and I couldn't see any of the doors open.
20:10I could hear someone yelling from the front driver's side.
20:17Come out through the back! Come out through the back! Come out through the back! Come on!
20:24Come out through the back! Come out through the back! Come on!
20:39Come out through the back! Come out through the back! Come out through the back! Come out!
20:51You could feel the flames at first but that's a person, that's someone's family member.
20:56Your adrenaline gets pumping and the feeling of the flames just completely goes away because now you're
21:06overcome with worry for somebody else's life.
21:17Officer Daniel Hernandez and agent Natalie Garnsey arrive on scene to help battle the blade.
21:23At one point I could feel it on my feet. My boots were actually burning.
21:30So when I first got there he was so far into the car we couldn't really get a hold of him.
21:44The back window was very, I guess it was smushed I would say.
21:51And the headrests were in the way so the individual could not like crawl out the back of the window.
21:56He was starting to burn from the waist down.
22:06The fire extinguisher wasn't going to fully extinguish the entire vehicle.
22:15He was buying him a lot more time in order for us to, you know, try to get him out of that vehicle.
22:21There's a lot of chemicals that are coming out of that vehicle that can potentially make the vehicle explode.
22:29I was not able to immediately pull him through because the exit way was too small.
22:50So I told the subject to just reach his hands out the rear window so that way we could try to just force him out by pulling him through.
23:00Hold on. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. Come on. Come on. Give me your hand. Come on. Come on. Come on. Yeah, you're doing good. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come out.
23:11I could tell by his screams that he was in tremendous amount of pain. I can only imagine.
23:16Give it. Come on. Hey, come on. Give me all the hands. Give me all the hands.
23:23We pulled on him for what felt like forever.
23:30I'm thinking we have him. Like, we just need to pull a little bit harder.
23:34Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
23:39We can't let this guy die. Like, we have to get him out of this vehicle.
23:42Keep going.
23:44Keep going.
23:46Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
23:51Keep going. Keep going.
23:56Hold on, man. You're going to be okay. Murder's coming.
23:59Hold on, man.
24:00Hold on, man.
24:01Hold on, man.
24:02Hold on.
24:03Hold on, man.
24:04His clothing was burned, and parts of his skin were essentially, like, rubbed off or burned off, and he was in a lot of pain.
24:14Hold on.
24:15Hold on.
24:16Oh.
24:17Oh.
24:18Oh.
24:19Oh.
24:20Oh.
24:21completely out of the face of danger yet because as we pulled the subject out the vehicle reignited
24:28its self about three to four seconds later the vehicle fully engulfed itself and when it did that
24:53the driver is rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for serious burns but eventually makes a full recovery
25:23i am proud i'm proud of the teamwork and knowing that when one of us goes to a call that's dangerous
25:35that we're all going to show up and essentially save someone's life
25:44three of the responding officers suffer minor burns they later receive bravery awards if we
25:51didn't take him out of that vehicle he would have definitely you know burned to death inside of that
25:57vehicle i'm proud of myself but i'm more proud of my partners for coming with me at a time like that
26:21it's a normal day patrolling i-40
26:33i noticed a vehicle parked on the side of the shoulder of i-40
26:37i was just taught if i see someone stranded i'm just going to be there to help and see if they
26:50need assistance help any way i can
27:07hello
27:07my car is something wrong yeah i can see that you got two flat tires
27:19your family's coming from where where is your family coming from where from right away i knew it was
27:29going to be a language barrier yeah but who's going to come help you my friend my friend your friend from
27:35where from where from where i don't i don't know here jess oh is it coming from albuquerque or
27:45majority edgewood i don't know here jess oh but he's coming to help you yes
27:52he is coming to help you okay your friend is he bringing a tire okay so you don't need my help
28:03okay good luck she looked okay she had friends coming to come help her so i felt safe of leaving
28:09her there you can clear me they have someone coming to help them
28:27the 109th detective squad was notified of a male unconscious
28:33when we arrived to the scene we did see a male underneath blankets and clothing on a bed
28:39male was was shot once in the head and was deceased the victim is identified as 26 year old
28:48justin lee at the time we did come up the suspect as he young dang who's a female chinese national
28:56residing in the united states
29:00the married victim had been having an affair with dang and investigators believe she shot him in a crime of
29:07passion she fled in a honda crv her phone later pinging on the highway in edgewood en route toward the
29:15mexican border when she did attempt to flee to new mexico from new york we knew that the only thing that
29:23she was thinking that she was thinking about was to go over the border of mexico
29:31hey please just let him wrap you hi how you doing uh this is the mexican state police
29:36yes sir hey how are you ma'am my name is detective hill i'm with the mypd i'm with the uh
29:41queen's north homicide squad um i was wondering if uh you guys could help us out with something we have a suspect for a
29:49homicide homicide that is currently in edward edward new mexico
29:56we have a phone uh phone number pinging we've got two flat tires
30:06you might be able to do the handguns we're not sure our victim was uh was shot ahead
30:19we have a suspect for a homicide that is currently in edward edward new mexico we have a phone uh phone
30:33number pinging new mexico state police have just received a call indicating that hyun dang wanted for
30:40shooting a man dead in new york is on the run in their local area you might be on through the handguns
30:47we're not sure our victim was uh the shot in the head the last vehicle she was in was a honda crd
30:55sergeant joshua campos is just finishing his shift when he hears about the call
31:00i had just parked in my driveway i had received a call from my dispatch center in regards to a
31:10possible homicide suspect i actually had overheard officer hernandez do a welfare check with a silver
31:18honda honda crv i asked for additional units then i made a phone call to officer hernandez
31:36hey serge
31:38you know i have him right here at the 188. she even had two blown out tires
31:42my sergeant gave me the rundown real fast i could not believe this lady's a homicide suspect out of
31:51new york that's most likely going to be her go ahead and detain her if you can oh man i hope she's still
31:59there
32:05yeah she's still there well her car is there let me drive by see if she's there still hold on
32:12so at that time i knew it was about to get real because my sergeant was telling me keep her out of
32:21the vehicle watch your hands at all times but i'm the only one on duty in a rural area so i don't know
32:28how long another officer is going to be there
32:33with no other units in the area hernandez needs to keep the driver at the location until backup arrives
32:39i'm worried that something might happen that i might have to pull out my gun and shoot it or i might
32:47get shot at
32:55you're still here you're still here
32:59yeah you're still here what happened he don't come in oh he's still not here yeah one hour one hour
33:17you just 30 minutes okay you want me to see if i can help you no my best come okay is he coming from
33:23albuquerque oh is he bringing you a flat tie is he bringing you a tire hey you can bring me the you
33:32can be you can tell me go here
33:40you can tell me go here thank you oh you want me to take you there yeah you tell me oh well um let me see
33:47i was never going to let her in my vehicle because if she killed one person she could do the same to me
33:53my game plan was to keep her there as long as i can without tipping her off that we knew she was
33:59a wanted subject let me see what your car looks like see it maybe i have a tire i can help you with
34:06it you can help me yeah let's see
34:10i just saw it coming
34:15i see oh you did a good job
34:18other units are still several minutes away
34:25it's just her by yourself
34:29you start second guessing yourself as a supervisor did i make the right call did i put my officer in
34:34harm's way just to make contact or should i have made the decision to hey you wait till i get there
34:39i had to think fast of how can i relay information to our dispatch without letting her know that
34:47i'm going to be talking to dispatch with my radio let me go see call someone see if they got a tire for
34:53you and they can come fix it come on yeah but you gotta go i gotta go see if they got a tire
35:04oh yes ma'am i was just wanting to know um you have any spare tires
35:10yeah i'm gonna see if they have spare tires for you she was thinking i was talking to a tow truck
35:15company but i was really talking to my dispatch where they could get my exact location hello hello
35:29no uh i'm out here with a stranded motorist i-40 westbound at the 191
35:36uh he's gonna be a reference to a uh homicide suspect out of new york
35:50when they said homicide suspect out of new york right away i knew she heard that
36:00they're gonna call me back
36:01i know for a fact it wasn't cold but she wanted to get back to her vehicle for a reason okay hold on
36:11just wait for a minute my mind was running wild is it cold what if she does have a gun
36:31so i get the car are you cold okay hold on just wait for a minute is it cold
36:40new mexico state police officer hernandez is on her own at the side of the interstate
36:45trying to stop a dangerous suspect from fleeing while she waits for backup yeah take the clothes huh
36:54i go to the car and take the clothes oh you need clothes from there okay hold on
36:58what did you what did you need from there what did you need from there what what do you need from
37:08there oh okay all right
37:19well just hold on okay right right here wait right here right right here i don't know because i don't
37:22know what's in your car hold on you just need a sweater yeah okay is it in the front or the back
37:28yeah let me see hold on
37:32you can open okay well i don't i don't know what's in there i just got to make sure there's no one else
37:37or anything else in there you can open it okay just for right now let me see if um your hands
37:44let me see your hand right so i'm going to just detain you for a little bit until i figure out what's in
37:49your car what let me see what's in your car and then i'll get you your jacket okay hold on hold on
37:53hold on hold on hold on what do you mean why huh because i'm going to see what's in your car what
37:58what are you how are you cutting me no i'm going to just detain you for i can see get your sweater yeah
38:06but but the what what are you telling me what will you touch me because i'm going to get your sweater
38:14hold on i'll get your sweater just hold on hold on hold on hold on what you mean hold on
38:21oh my god stop right there when she reached for that handle and was able to pull that door open
38:31i knew she was going for some kind of weapon because there was no way she wanted a sweater that
38:35bad oh you're not going to get back you can see it okay you can see i hold on okay you can see turn
38:46around okay right there oh hold me hold on oh my god stop get on your belly stop stop
39:16what happened she just kept on wiggling around and i could not get that second handcuff on her
39:26i was in panic mode i was worried she was going to get away
39:30stop moving but what happened nothing happened yours you're moving around i know stop moving
39:38what are you helping me stop moving
39:48stop moving i'm just going to get ahead help me get on your belly help me get on your belly
39:56put your hand on your back put it behind your back there's happened to be a good samaritan
40:02that stopped and i could just hear him saying what do you need what do you need help with well i was
40:08like well i just need to get her other arm the civilian helps officer hernandez to cuff the suspect's
40:14other hand thank you now i'm going to check it for weapons
40:28that's what's going to happen yeah she is she is
40:47i took the liberty of going to the vehicle i see a backpack on the right front passenger floorboard
40:53and that's when i saw that there was a pistol in a ziploc baggie
41:00i was like damn more than likely she was going for that gun but she wanted to really fight me to get
41:06back to that door
41:13hyan dang is transported back to new york she pleads guilty to manslaughter and burglary
41:19and is sentenced to 27 years in prison i've been in a lot of situations um throughout my years
41:28this is the one i remember the most it was one that i probably won't ever forget
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