off camera jerry cane pushes officer evans down an incline and then on the dashcam cane s son joe appears with a gun. bill is stumbling down this incline. he shoots at him. he didn t have time to get his weapon out. he hit him many times in the body, in the back. at that point the second officer tries to help evans, but the 16-year-old turns his weapon on him. officer down, officer down. a deliver driver witnesses the whole scene. these guys just shot a police officer. through the statements of the driver, this kid was very methodical, very slow, knew exactly what he was doing, and he handled that ak-47 like a military person would. the father/son team calmly gets back in the van and takes off leaving the officers bleeding on the ground. shortly after, more police arrive and find that officer
senseless. it was senseless. what happened on may 20th, 2010, was something the town of west memphis, arkansas, will never forget. particularly its police chief. we re leaving en route to your location. there s no such thing as a routine police car. nothing is routine. on that day in may, officer bill evans is patrolling the interstate and pulls owe every a white van with an out of state plate. inside the van are jerry cane and his 16-year-old son joe. the license didn t appear right when he stopped the van. and then when he checked it, the paperwork said it was not in order. it was not issued by the state. instead, the paperwork is issued by the department of heaven. a bit suspicious, evans calls for backup and a second officer arrives on the scene. i think they realized it was up. there was two officers there then, and they were in trouble.
loose, an all-out manhunt begins. 911? there s a white van sitting here in the parking lot here at walmart. less than a mile from the shooting, the white van is spotted in a walmart parking lot. gunfire erupts between the suspects in the van and other police officers. then out of nowhere comes mike neal, an arkansas whild life officer who has his police scanner on. i pulled my m-4 up and i was driving towards the suspects. i was holding the steering wheel with my left hand and the m-4 with my right and i drove straight towards him. i made the decision at that point to ram the van to shut it down. the suspects begin firing spraying neal s truck with bullets. within a matter of minutes it s all over. jerry cane and his son joe are dead. weather it s mike neal s gun that silences the duo is not certain. other officers were also firing at them.
killed in the line of duty around the noon hour today. what happened was so senseless. it was senseless. what happened on may 20th, 2010, was something the town of west memphis, arkansas, will never forget. particularly its police chief bob paudert. we re leaving en route to your location. there s no such thing as a routine police call. nothing is routine. on that day in may, officer bill evans is patrolling the interstate and pulls over a white van with an out-of-state plate. inside are jerry cane and his 16-year-old son, joe. the license didn t appear right when he stopped van. then when he checked it, the paperwork was certainly out of order. it wasn t issued by the state. instead, the paperwork is issued by the department of heaven, a bit suspicious, evans
jerry cane and his son, joe, are dead. whether it s mike neill s gun that silences the duo is not certain. other officers were also firing at them. there were bullet holes that went through the top, right above my head. i took multiple rounds into the grill, the hood, through the dash, the windshield. everywhere i was sitting in the truck was shot. there s no reason i shouldn t have been shot. it s obvious that mike neill was a hero in this case. had those two got out of that van and got in walmart, there is untold how many lives would have been lost. still, the question remains why all this happened in the first place. the west memphis police discover that jerry and joe cane were radical right members of the sovereign citizens movement. the canes traveled america giving seminars on how to avoid following some of the laws of this country. this video was posted on youtube by one of the seminar s participants who wanted to spread their message. you re being lied to just so we can