shooting the suspect s gun out of his hand. i kind of remembered laughing and saying, there s no way they re going to do that. we ve never we ve never even discussed something like that. the three of us set up there at the time unanimously said, yes, it can be done. s.w.a.t. team member michael plumb, since retired, is one of the most accurate marksman in his unit at the time. he and his fellow officers are trained to hit a bull s-eye the size of a dime from 100 yards away. you had to hit a 95 percentile. this is with a pistol and a rifle. if you missed, you were out. mike is a crack shot. he could shoot the eye out of a canary a couple hundred yards. if he said he could do it, we knew he could do it. the circumstances are almost perfect for plumb to pull off the daring move. between angry rants, a sad calm comes over the gunman. he often sits very still with the gun dangling between his legs. he s holding it loosely in his hand.
on target. it killed the gun right out of his hand. there was nothing he could do to hold on to it and split it into about three different pieces. his gun immediately just exploded. the gunman is completely shocked. he s just sitting there looking and he had the most dumbfounded look on his face. it was like he didn t know where up was or where down was. wood takes advantage of connolly s surprise and tackles him to the ground. i rolled him over and he had a little cut on his chin and he had little cuts on his fingers, i think, from a little bit of the shrapnel. i said, see, man, we didn t want to hurt you. and he said that was a great shot. douglas connolly is taken into custody and spends just 16 days in jail for inducing panic. did you expect them to shoot you? sniper michael plumb s perfect shot is all over the news. and plumb receives a special tribute from his fellow swat
agitated, the head of the unit suggests a bold move. shooting the suspect s gun out of his hand. i kind of remembered laughing and saying, there s no way they re going to do that. we ve never we ve never even discussed something like that. the three of us set up there at the time unanimously said, yes, it can be done. s.w.a.t. team member michael plumb, since retired, is one of the most accurate marksman in his unit at the time. he and his fellow officers are trained to hit a bullseye the size of a dime from 100 yards away. you had to hit a 95 percentile. this is with a pistol and a rifle. if you missed, you were out. mike is a crack shot. he could shoot the eye out of a canary a couple hundred yards. if he said he could do it we knew he could do it. the circumstances are almost perfect for plumb to pull off the daring move. between angry rants, a sad calm comes over the gunman. he often sits very still with the gun dangling between his
legs. he s holding it loosely in his hand. these .38 rekofvolvers weigh a little bit. and he s out there for two, three hours hanging on to this thing. with his knowledge of ballistics, plumb can even predict where the shrapnel from connolly s gun will go. away from the gunman. if i hit it right where the cylinder snaps into the front of the frame, the shrapnel from the bullet would be absorbed by the rounds and inside the cylinder. but the head of the s.w.a.t. team takes his time before making a final decision. i m pretty sure he mulled it over or thought about it for quite some time. finally, plumb s boss gives the go ahead. plumb pauses for a brief moment. the gunman is still moving. just as soon as he lowered that gun, the same way he always had, back of his palm facing out and the gun facing down, that was it. the shot hits the mark dead
team members. they surprised me with pieces of the gun. wired them together as best they could and mounted it on a plaque and put it on the wall here. i always called it ice water in his veins. nothing bothered him. that s how he was that day. nothing bothered him. plumb credits the entire squad for the positive outcome. it was a team effort. i mean, they surrounded him. they contained him. and they made it happen. hot august afternoon and everybody gets to go home. it was a good day. coming up, a bar room fist fight turns into an all-out gun fight caught on surveillance video. when caught on camera: shots fired continues. [ sneezes, coughs ]