appears to be a hispanic male. looks like he s in front of the old levine store. the shooting is all caught on a courthouse surveillance camera. arroyo on the right guns down ex-wife marabella strada and one of their sons, 23-year-old david arroyo jr. a massive gun battle erupts between arroyo and officers at the courthouse entrance. we re getting shot at. we re on the way. we re trying to get the guy. our bailiff s been shot. deputy sherman dollison filling in as a bailiff moves outside to confront arroyo as he opens fire. when you watch the video, you see the officers are doing exactly what they re taught to do, that s run into the gunfire to try to stop the perpetrator. where is he now? he s outside the back door. the bailiff is outside the back door? i think he went out. he s been shot. they re going to need an ambulance. dollison is shot multiple times and falls to the ground
arroyo is driving for a man on the run. it was low speed. seemed like to me he was taunting us, like he was wanting a fight. 405 northbound, beckham overpass. as arroyo heads north of town, he still has his weapon at the ready. we re still northbound, speeds 40. the barrel of the gun is still out the driver s window. wary of arroyo s rifle, the flad cars keep a safe distance. but deputy smith decides it s time to make a move. i felt i needed to engage him and put a stop to it. smith s car bolts past the others toward the red pickup truck. maneuvering close behind arroyo. all i could see was him, the shooter. i had like tunnel vision focused on him. arroyo picks up speed as smith approaches, then opens fire. he fired out the window. he tried to shoot the sheriff s deputy. under intense fire, smith decides to ram arroyo s vehicle from behind and try to throw him off.
son. there s no doubt in my mind. but it s too late to save arroyo s ex-wife. she dies on the courthouse steps. the last thing she was saying was i can make her out like she was praying. i was trying to talk to her and she wasn t really responding. she was, i guess, praying in her mind and after that, she just went blank. caught on police dashboard camera, arroyo makes his getaway in his pickup truck. nearby, sergeant rusty jacks thinks arroyo may still be on foot, so he jumps on the hood of the squad car, hoping to catch him by surprise. we ll take any means of transportation. we still hunt them down from four-wheelers to horseback, just depends what s available at the time. that s what jacks did. he s going to beckham, get in! go, go, go! a caravan of police officers joins the chase, including john smith, a deputy sheriff at the time. smith is surprised at how slowly
outside the courthouse, critically injured. other officers are shooting arroyo but he s not going down. unknown to them at the time, he s wearing protective body armor. still, the officers keep coming. one was critically injured with numerous gunshots in front of the courthouse. he kept shooting. even when he was shot numerous times, he still rolls up and tries to shoot. inside the courthouse, arroyo s son is shot in both legs but still alive. as the bullets are flying, he begs his father for his life. i said before i die, we need to talk and i was basically just trying to get him to stop, like hold up, but i didn t even know what i was going to say. he just looked at me, goes talk about what? on the street, local resident mark wilson, a licensed gun owner, fires at arroyo but arroyo turns and shoots him dead. sheriff smith believes wilson may have prevented arroyo from killing his own son. i believe had it not been for mark wilson, and some others and the deputies shooting b
while i was shooting, i rammed his pickup truck. i figured he s got to drive so he would stop shooting. i think he shot me like five times. suddenly, arroyo stops his truck and gets out, aiming his rifle right at smith. he s shooting at the deputy. he gets out and i m out of bullets, so i get out of the way. with no ammunition, smith is a sitting duck. but luckily, another squad car has pulled over to the right. it s sergeant rusty jacks, armed with a rifle he shoots arroyo from 60 feet away and kills him. suspect down. suspect down. in my rear view mirror i see him just drop. so i don t know what had happened. i didn t know if i had hit him and it was just a delayed response, i just didn t know. but his truck was still rolling so i just did a u-turn and put my bumper on his front bumper.