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. to keep the truck from rolling. deputy sherman dollison, gravely injured at the
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 fleet of squad 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. while i was shooting, i rammed his pickup truck. i figured he s got to drive so he would stop shooting.
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. 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 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 shoot numerous times, he still rolls up and tries to shoot. out side 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 back at him, he would have killed his son. there s no doubt in my mind. but it s too late to save arroyo s ex-wife.
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. to keep the truck from rolling. deputy sherman dollison, gravely injured at the courthouse, fights for his life