adding to the confusion, the remote location, multiple occasions. two gentlemen at the campground. we have four gentlemen down at the potential crime scene. and then we have this man with another detective in another. stop officers, ambulances. helicopters coming, it s very chaotic. very chaotic that night deputies led by sergeant met a few miles from the meadow. and they listen to his account of the chase. they started sign in the spotlight back at me. in the next thing i know, there s all these muzzle flashes. do you think they were firing on? yeah yes they were firing back at. me but well sergeant i was talking to chad, some of the other detectives were out here in the middle looking for the 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
thinking then he any moments i ve seen his hands, and vehicle. this is the card chad shot at. as he checked out the inside, clearing it as they see in the military, he saw the driver had been hit. he was hunched over the steering wheel. and then when i got into the driver side of the vehicle, he was laid back. and his head was down. i didn t check for a pulse, or anything like that. but there was a bullet wound in his neck. was anyone else wounded? also at that point in time ended nor the chad know any of the men in the car. who they were, why they d approached home. but once he saw they no longer posed a threat, he said, he told the man he do what he could to find help for. them i said i m going to go call the sheriff. then he drove the seven and a half mile, back to his. cabin
excavation tactic. until somebody either backs down or threats neutralize. the other car kept coming. chad grab the ar-15. and i just kept it out the window, and fired out. what were they compared to? you they were coming this way? they were right beside me. right. right. how many shots? i don t recall, i just. let it go? right. chad watched his enemy side window blowup, glass rained down on the metal. the strangers carved beard across the grass. and came to rest on the dirt road. i drove over to, and i was yelling at them, and i just remember this young voice, saying that i give a, i give a, like about. sorry. please don t kill me. it doesn t make you feel good to have somebody pleading and begging for their life. chad
back towards, him he thinks they re firing on him again. chad declined is take the stand in his own defense. so the jury did not get to hear him say he did the right thing, did what he had to do, when he squeezed the trigger. is it possible you are? wrong now. so, the case for self-defense in a jury would have to take seriously, and thus, prosecutor david hollister s big challenge, time to bring out a little ammunition. literal, trail of evidence to the grass. a sticky brownish black mass, that told a fascinating story. coming up, worries best friend, comes face to face with the man who shot him. when i looked at in my heart kind of jumped. when dateline jumped (cheery music) continue- they get it.
chad placed a telephone call to his father. the call, of course, was recorded. i just got freaked out about my kids. and people squaring around. and i just got, i just lost, it. just one in, went into a little bit of a zone. yeah. so a, it got out of control. but as the hour stretched into the night into july, for chad begin to see more more clearly, that he was not to blame. those men shot at him. that he never set out to hurt anyone. i can honestly sit there and say, i don t get my vehicle, even say that i had the ar-15 say, i m going to pick this weapon, and i m gonna go down and kill these guys. heck no. no way. there ain t no way. in fact, thought chad, it was really he and his family who were the victims here. if they had never shot at me. there d be no