will protect us. that he won t let anything bad happen to you. so when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. you hear crack, crack, crack. the terror, the bullets. this is like glass is exploding. the crime scene, caught on camera. anybody in the vehicle in bc are. hands it was bad, worse than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, wha
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
set him free. a sort of stand-your-ground idea? yeah. yeah. california doesn t have a stand-your-ground laws per se as some states do. but there is a state jury instruction that s as a person under threat, has a right to stand his or her ground and even pursue an assailant. chad walden reid said, two attorney also, the justice is sort of person for whom that defense was attended. he s not a gang banger doesn t have a criminal record. he has a good clean military record. chad began looking forward to a trial. turned down the deal from the da. there s a story to be told there s things that need to. kamau i think that a trial will be a rather awakening. the first, they had to choose a jury. which would be a fight in quincy. a place imposed of gun owning country folk, and liberal big city transplants. there were
know, react. they train you to do that. react on foot. react on cars. those kids didn t stand a chance. i was arranger. he told detectives steve , said how the kids in the card fired at him. and how it was self-defense. how he fired back. he talked about that was his training he received from the military, to continue to follow the, threat to neutralize the threat. he got into his own. and he needed to neutralize the threat he felt. got into his zone. a zone. like a military term. yes. i served five years in the military. i killed people in the other side of this world. and i don t need to kill kids in my state. then the detective decided to take chat of a tour, to recreate the almost eight mile chase, and the shooting. on location. and on videotape. we drove, from
just like, in my mind thinking, where are you? come home. you know is everything okay i hope everything is okay. chad was still in hot pursuit. 7.6 miles they went careening up the widening country road until the car took a quick turn on to a remote road. chad right behind. we did some fish tails, they slid the car, and at one point we crash the door to start an open up, these guys are going to get out, they re going to come at me. the dirt road, empty, into a meadow. the car suddenly made a 180. and it looked like they were coming straight at you? they were looking like it was going to be an assault. right. where they going to shoot him? ram him? what? in the military, and in police, that s what we call an