his opening to the jury. he shot him because he was and he was in fear of. his life olson told the jury that he was a protective family man. doing what he felt he had to do as a father. after those menacing visitors to his house. after this friday i said they were afraid, and i think that sets the tone for his state of. mine two sweet little girls. he wanted to show the jury the sweet little girls you wanted to protect. fair enough. some of the jury wept. as 12 year old dara repeated the story she told, us about the night the man came to their property. i remember asking my dad and mom when are you going to do if they come back. and what would happen. if someone got hurt. what did they say? they said that everything is going to be okay. and that my dad is here to protect us. he can protect us. then, carrie, chad s devoted
through the middle, as it for a final showdown. and it looked like they were coming straight out? you yes. looking like an assault? . right ? looking like they were attacking . right it was just my frame of mind, was that these people were coming back to shoot at me. that s where my vehicle was out of the way, of their vehicle. and they were coming straight back at me, nose to nose. but, as the prosecutor told the jury, evidence found in the meadow that a very different story. the detectives took us there to show. us remember how the young man cracked open the oil then left a distinctive true. we can see the oil, that had to lay down by the car. using that trail of oil, the prosecutor had an animation created. which showed the car was not headed towards chats truck, but instead was headed around it, away from shed.
weapon or weapons. those young must have fired a chad. they searched the car, they surged around the car, they looked all around the metro, they found nothing. but then, it s a big meadow, and those are very deep in very dark woods. some of those young men did run. they could ve dumped a gun out there somewhere. but they did all run. remember the one shot in the leg. the one congressman documented with his hand stick you knopp, was found bleeding on the menu. he didn t bleed out. he survived. his name is justin lewis smith. and he s about to give his accounts of the july 4th weekend, on a dark and lonely road in the high sierra. coming up. confusion. terror, a very different story, both shots in the dark. the next thing i know, glass is exploding. it s just complete chaos.
the other officers had already marked several showcasing s in the meadow. and abruptly, chad story changed. i had spent many hours with him that night, questioning him, asking him if any other firearms and venues. demi continually said no. then at the very end of the interview, and the, drive that he finally did tell us that there is another gun used. that s when he saw on the ground as they all, did 2 to 3 caliber casings, the kind they would come from an ar-15 assault rifle. which chad finally admitted that he used, here in the metro. and prior to that, had you shot that and any other time? some, not that i recall. no. okay. but then, his story changed again, he admitted he fired the ar-15, just before he got to the metal. . how about behind? us when you shouted them coming off the dirt road.
self-defense mode, i grabbed the ar, and i swung it out the door and that s when i popped off the rounds of them. when they drove past you, going back this way, you are shooting with they are? then yes that s right. and so there was, chad story, but, as detective listened, something seemed off. just some odd the story, as it unfolded each times we talked, it kind of somewhat changed, and that morning detective pay heard from his colleague, who had spent his night, talking to those young men. rory mcguire now in surgery was not able to talk. but the other, five said detective henderson, he talked to them separately. told exactly the same story. how they stole the solar lights, were chased, tried to surrender. and then made a wrong turn. rory mcguire did not know this area that will, in the kids realized after they passed it, that they had missed this