they spot the suspect seth mcclawsky driving the pickup truck and the officers follow. takes a left into a residential street and cuts off another vehicle. at that point we were pretty sure that he was going to flee us. so, i activated my lights and pursued the vehicle. mcclawsky pulls over, but he doesn t surrender. prior to the door open he starts to come out. you can hear me in the video camera saying get back in the car, but i didn t finish the sentence. i just remember his arm coming out and pointing the gun towards us. i step out of the car. i remember tryingรง to get enou distance from the door, and i had my rifle swung up as well, and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. officer kenworthy exited the passenger side and engaged him, and i came out of the other side and engaged him and returned fire on him.
intense it would be several minutes before officer kenworthy realizes he himself has been shot. sometime during the shooting, i don t remember exactly when, i just remember feeling something hit my foot. i saw an exit hole in my foot and the tip of my third toe. the bullet went under my second toe and went through my big toe. an investigation by the monroe county district attorney said the shooting is justified. according to police, mcclawsky is linked to as many as ten drive-by shootings across wisconsin and illinois. coming up, a high-speed chase ends in a high-impact crash. oh! and later, a gunman shoots to kill. put the gun down! when caught on camera dash cam diaries continues. [ male announcer ] for two years in a row,
point we were pretty sure that he was going to flee us so i turned on my lights and pursued the vehicle. mcclawsky pulls over, but he doesn t surrender. prior to the door open he starts to come out. you can hear me in the video camera saying get back in the car, but i didn t finish the sentence. i just remember his arm coming out and pointing the gun towards us. i stepped out of the car trying to get enough distance from the door, and i had my rifle slung up as well, and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. officer kenworthy exited the passenger side and engaged him, and i came out of the other side and engaged him and returned fire on him. to be honest with you, it seemed very much like a training video.
to be honest with you, it seemed very much like a training video. i was waiting for somebody to pause it and basically start asking questions of the class, but it was just it kind of kept going. it didn t stop. through the shower of police gun fire, mcclawsky somehow was able to get back into his truck, but he isn t going very far. when he was trying to get into the vehicle i made the decision that he was not going to leave. i was going do everything i could, and what i didn t want is a rolling gunfight and he just continued to return the fire into the truck and into the driver s compartment. mcclawsky is fatally wounded. as you can see in the video, i believe he took a head shot, and you can see the hat fly off his head and at some point you ll hear in the video the loud whine of his trunk engine. the adrenaline rush is so intense it would be several minutes before officer kenworthy realizes he himself has been shot.
residential street and at that point we were pretty sure that he was going to flee us so i turned on my lights and pursued the vehicle. mcclawsky pulls over, but he doesn t surrender. prior to the door open he starts to come out. you can hear me in the video camera saying get back in the car, but i didn t finish the sentence. i just remember his arm coming out and pointing the gun towards us. i stepped out of the car trying to get enough distance from the door, and i had my rifle slung up as well, and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. officer kenworthy exited the passenger side and engaged him, and i came out of the other side and engaged him and returned fire on him.