then he threw it in park. at that point in time you can hear the transmission making a really bad grinding noise. however, it didn t stop. even though the driver has switched gears to park, the car doesn t stop immediately. there s a red light up ahead. if this driver doesn t come up with something quick, more people can get hurt. he then went left into oncoming traffic and he drove back to the right stopping another vehicle and completely stopped his vehicle. with the car at a standstill, the officer can finally get to the bottom of who this man is and why he s driving with no brakes. i got him out of the vehicle. i asked what he was doing. i couldn t think of a normal guy that would do something like that. somebody had to be drunk or high or something like that. i had no brakes. i asked him how long his brakes had been out. he said he knew they were out, he had to get to work. i asked what he did, he said he was a commercial roofer.
people that knew that this guy was a threat to himself or others, they knew that if he got a traffic stop, he got pulled over, he was either going to kill them or kill himself. these details helped deputy rivera see that even though the stop did not go as he hoped, he did everything in his power that night to save a man s life. i wish i could have gotten him to stop, get him to put the gun down. you try to do your best to help people. sometimes you can t help everybody. coming up drop the gun! it s open season on police as a gunman shoots to kill. i made up my mind i m most likely going to get shot.
were, that will ruin my car. put it in park! park! then he threw it in park. at that point in time you can hear the transmission making a really bad grinding noise. however, it didn t stop. even though the driver has switched gears to park, the car doesn t stop immediately. there s a red light up ahead. if this driver doesn t come up with something quick, more people can get hurt. he then went left into oncoming traffic and he drove back to the right stopping another vehicle and completely stopped his vehicle. with the car at a standstill, the officer can finally get to the bottom of who this man is and why he s driving with no brakes. i got him out of the vehicle. i asked what he was doing. i couldn t think of a normal guy that would do something like that. somebody had to be drunk or high or something like that. i had no brakes.
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put the gun down. you and i can talk about this. i m going to jail about this. i don t want you to kill yourself. i wanted him to understand, killing yourself is not the answer. that s not the answer for anything. no, do not, do not. but the driver sees no way out. he steps back, takes the gun out of his pocket and puts it to his head. i got a guy with a gun. stop, don t. damn it, don t. i said think of your family, you don t want to do this. drop the gun. don t. come on, don t. shots fired. he s down. send me an ambulance. damn it. the driver dies instantly. within three minutes of rivera s first call, emergency responders arrive on the scene. that s when it all started to hit me, trying to process everything, trying to figure out, why did this happen? so in the days that follow, a calhoun county sheriff s