that s not the answer for anything. no, do not, do not. but the driver sees no way out. he steps back, takes the gun out of his pocket and puts it to his head. i got a guy with a gun. pointing it at himself. stop, don t. damn it, don t. i said think of your fleel. you don t want to do that to your family. you don t want to do this. drop the gun. don t. come on. don t. shots fired. he s down. send me an ambulance. damn it. the driver dies instantly. within three minutes of rivera s first call, emergency responders arrive on the scene. that s when it all started to hit me, trying to process everything, trying to figure out, why did this happen? so in the days that follow a calhoun county sheriff s investigation reveals the driver was carrying a stolen handgun and had talked about committing suicide the night of the traffic stop. people that knew that this guy was a threat to himself or
i wanted him understand killing yourself is not the answer. that s not the answer for anything. no, do not, do not. but the driver sees no way out. he steps back, takes the gun out of his pocket and puts it to his head. i got a guy with a gun. stop, don t. damn it, don t. i said think of your family, you don t want to do this. drop the gun. don t. come on, don t. shots fired. he s down. send me an ambulance. damn it. the driver dies instantly. within three minutes of rivera s first call, emergency responders arrive on the scene. that s when it all started to hit me, trying to process everything, trying to figure out, why did this happen? so in the days that follow, a calhoun county sheriff s investigation reveals the driver was carrying a stolen handgun and had talked about committing suicide the night of the traffic
gregg: the hunt is on for the man who crashed his car into a daycare center, killing one child, injuring 14 others. news of that crash sent parents into a panic as they tried to make sure their children were okay. it was heartbreaking. i of course thought the worst. because i couldn t get through i didn t know if something was wrong with him. he s my first child. it was hard to kind of process everything. reporter: police are searching for this man. robert porchado, an ex-con considered very dangerous. have there been any lead in finding the suspect? reporter: they don t have a sight on him. he fled the scene in his dodge durango.
have busted him eight times before. he served time in prison for trafficking cocaine and is right now out on bail for a different hit-and-run and a long lest of drug charges. cops say this case started when he rammed his suv into another car from behind this time yesterday. that sent the smaller car flying threw the daycare center s wooden wall. on the other side of the wall, dozens of children, some of them babies in cribs in the chaos that followed, bloody children on the ground. parents ran to the scene. scared to death. actually scared to death. it was really hard. hi first child so it was extremely hard to kind of process everything. you know it was. witnesses say the man whose car crashed through the wall was in a daze.
arrested eight separate times, sentenced to jail for several years for cocaine dealing. he also had several outstanding arrests including leaving the scene of another accident some months ago. right now the florida highway patrol is leading a multiagency manhunt for him. they say he is desperate, jenna. jenna: the day care, steve, the day-care center, i can t imagine how the families are feeling. reporter: this was a day of panic this. all occurred just after 3:00 p.m. this day-care center in winter park, florida, outside of orlando have been existence 25 years. some of the children in there, babies six weeks old. when the crash happened it was a real terror for the parents. it was heartbreaking. i was of course thought the worst, something was wrong with him. because i couldn t get through, i didn t know if something was wrong with him. so it was really hard. he is my first child. so it was extremely hard for me to just kind of process