grass. and then the young man who is connected to that hand. his right calf shredded by a bullet. he tourniquet it s leg, the sheriffs in the warden s right away saw that he had it on too tight. and he had it on too low, it was very painful, they took it off, and he was bleeding a lot. this badly wounded man plus the others, made five. but there was one more. and there is another guy in the back, see who is i guess the driver. he was a lot worse off. he was talking, he was moving his mouth. i could hear sounds, i couldn t make any words out. it didn t look good. the driver had been shot in the head. it was worse than anything you see in a movie. this was so violent. and so gory. what s happened here? sorting it out fell to detective steve bay and chris hendrickson. it is very confusing for all the officers responding. they were all under the impression that the suspects were in the meadow. in the car. and maybe armed, and officers treated them as such.
defendant sitting over there in the courtroom? i only looked at him once or twice, my heart kind of jumped, and i knew it was him. lewis s been a nervous wreck since all of this happened. in court he was no less nervous as he told the jury about seeing a green laser gun sights, about the flurries of shots fired by the defendant, about the young men s efforts to end the car chase. first of all they fled, they fled as fast as they, could they throughout the solar lights, they threw a white t-shirt out the window. if you want to look at a definition for doing everything you can to say no more were done, they did it. and yet said the prosecutor, chad kept radon shooting. he told the detectives, i think that might of been a white flag. i don t think there s any question those kids did everything they could to give up. but here s the thing, if the young men fired at first, as the defense went to a lot of trouble to prove, then maybe chad s reaction was reasonable.
a, no, not that i recall. no. why the initial reluctance? well, perhaps because the ar-15, which chad bought legally in nevada, was illegal in california. though, chad said he did not know that. and any rate, now chant detailed how we use the rainfall again, when he saw worries car make a sudden u-turn. and i thought that they were going to get out and engage me. so perhaps still in self-defense mode, i grabbed the ar, and i swung it out the door and that s when i popped off the rounds of them. when they drove past you, going back this way, you are shooting with they are? then yes that s right. and so there was, chad story, but, as detective listened, something seemed off. just some odd the story, as it unfolded each times we talked, it kind of somewhat changed, and that morning detective pay heard from his
adding to the confusion, the remote location, multiple occasions. two gentlemen at the campground. we have four gentlemen down at the potential crime scene. and then we have this man with another detective in another. stop officers, ambulances. helicopters coming, it s very chaotic. very chaotic that night deputies led by sergeant met a few miles from the meadow. and they listen to his account of the chase. they started sign in the spotlight back at me. in the next thing i know, there s all these muzzle flashes. do you think they were firing on? yeah yes they were firing back at. me but well sergeant i was talking to chad, some of the other detectives were out here in the middle looking for the weapon or weapons. those young must have fired a chad. they searched the car, they surged around the car, they looked all around the metro, they found nothing. but then, it s a big meadow, and those are very deep in very dark woods. some of those young
thinking then he any moments i ve seen his hands, and vehicle. this is the card chad shot at. as he checked out the inside, clearing it as they see in the military, he saw the driver had been hit. he was hunched over the steering wheel. and then when i got into the driver side of the vehicle, he was laid back. and his head was down. i didn t check for a pulse, or anything like that. but there was a bullet wound in his neck. was anyone else wounded? also at that point in time ended nor the chad know any of the men in the car. who they were, why they d approached home. but once he saw they no longer posed a threat, he said, he told the man he do what he could to find help for. them i said i m going to go call the sheriff. then he drove the seven and a half mile, back to his. cabin