he s going for the broadway parking lot. another officer gives chase and captures it all on his dash cam. officer down. officer bermudez is still conscious and is glad to know the officer in pursuit is her buddy, gabriel officer padilla. i couldn t make the car go any faster than i was going. so many emotions were running through my head, and i didn t know how bad it was. vehicle turned left on willow creek. southbound. i thought she was dead. he s stopping. he s stopping in the street. the suspect jumps out of the stolen car and now he s on the run. hey! stop! police, stop! hey! while the passenger casually walks away from the scene, officer padilla goes after torres.
mcginniss, officer turner races in, opening fire. it was so fast. as soon as i saw him draw the gun the way he did, it was just instant reaction. drop the gun! [ gunshots ] shots fired. he eventually dropped to his knees. does we and we tried to direct him verbally to throw the gun away so we could approach him. drop the gun! he s still got the gun, dean. drop the gun!so we could approa. drop the gun! he s still got the gun, dean. drop the gun! the suspect was still armed. you okay? he was still moving. and he still had the gun pointed down towards officer mcginniss. the gunman is down, but he isn t dead. and as day turns to dusk, backup arrives and disarms him. he dies shortly after on scene. he had a blood alcohol of 18. that s roughly double what would
going to get shot. it all goes down on september 6th, 2009, in kansas city, missouri. dean mcginniss is a 30-year veteran with the kansas city police department. he and his partner, officer eric turner, start their shift at 3:00 p.m. often the officers will ride together, but today, they re taking separate cars. after more than ten years working the same beat together, mcginniss and turner rely heavily on one another. we deal with a little bit of everything, disturbances, robbery, stealing, you name it. after a few hours on traffic duty in ruskin heights, a residential neighborhood, a call comes in over the radio with few details. all they know is a car has crashed into a tree just a few blocks away. it was a noninjury vehicular, one car into a tree, which is a pretty nondangerous call. only officer turner is dispatched to check out the
hear it in dean s voice, he was suspicious of something. with turner just a few seconds behind him, mcginniss cuts across the grass to get a good look at the man, dash cam rolling the whole time. by now, officer turner is on the scene. i really expected him to take off running, we d be in a foot chase. as mcginniss pulls up closer, the man turns around. that s when, without warning, the situation turns ugly. as i went to hit my sirens, i saw him bring a gun up and point it towards dean. i m looking into the barrel of this gunpointed right at my face. drop the gun! so i ducked down and took an evasive action to get away. and bumped into the car door and fell to the ground. he wasn t being elusive any more. he was actually in attack mode. he was going to execute officer mcginniss. he had no intention on running away. as the gunman closes in on
first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle. but with this volume of traffic, it s too dangerous for the officer to cut him off. it could cause a major accident. i was going to hit his car and try to move him or get in front of him to stop him. as seen on the dash cam the driver runs a red light, barrels into the intersection and hits a white suv. as he hit the car, it forced that car into a pole. and his vehicle just kept moving. it s like a missile, it just continues going until something stops it. the officer knows this real life fred flintstone must be stopped before he kills himself or someone else. i then got next to the car and told him to stop the vehicle. he yelled to me that he had no brakes. then the dispatcher put out that he d been driving like that for miles. put it in park! so yeah, i was a little enraged at that thought that somebody would drive for miles without brakes. i said throw it in park. and i believe his words back