radio and told dispatch to have the people inside the store move away from the windows, that told me that he was trying to prepare to use deadly force against this guy. as the dash-cam rolls, sergeant makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill, but the gunman refuses to comply. put the gun down, man! put it down! no! what s going on? in talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and it s pointed at him. he opened the breach of the rifle, the shotgun. i thought he was going to disarm it and put it down. and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. come on, man! i saw that he had taken a defensive posture, and he was laying across the trunk of the vehicle pointing his firearm toward sergeant kellermann, and
i m with you, okay? sergeant kellermann is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. i can talk about this whole, vent and it s talk about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and i remember she answered. i remember her saying, baby, i ve been shot, and i don t know if i ll make it. i love you, okay? sergeant kellermann is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. it wasn t as bad as i thought. of course, i lost my vision, and it wasn t as bad as it could have been. months later, sergeant kellermann and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot, and they explained what we didn t see on dash cam. but i took down a stance basically right here behind my car.
and what he did, because my being on the ground and seeing the blood, i knew i was going to die. i m with you, okay? sergeant kellermann is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. i can talk about this whole event. it s talking about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number, and thinking, god, i hope she answers. she answered. i remember saying, baby, i ve been shot, and i don t know if i ll make it. i love you, okay? sergeant kellermann is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. it wasn t as bad as i thought. of course, i lost my vision, and it wasn t as bad as it could have been. months later, sergeant kellermann and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot, and they explained what we didn t see on dash cam. but i took down a stance
all right. stay right here. you re with me, you re going to be okay. you re going to be okay. i think you re going to be okay. all right? i keeping can him how bad it looked and how bad s my eye? you don t look pretty. you weren t pretty before, jim. he was even looking at me saying you didn t look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, i m still getting humor out of this. i can hear everything he s saying and sergeant kellermann, and i joke arne a lot with one another and when he said that i just wanted to give some level of normalcy to him. everybody had a role out there on that scene. the officers that responded by shooting back had a role that they played. officer riley, when he arrived he took on the role of being by my side. he knew i ve been hit, and i can t say enough about him because him being on the ground and seeing the blood i knew i was going to die.
me that he was trying to prepare to use deadly force against this guy. as the dash, rolls, sergeant kellermann makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill, but the gunman refuses to comply. put the gun down, man! put it down! no! what s going on? in talking to him the whole time, i basically got my pistol out and i pointed it at him and he opened with the shotgun, and i thought he would disarm it, and he was looking to make sure it was loaded. police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. come on, man! i saw that he had taken a defensive posture and he was laying across the trunk of the vehicle pointing his firearm toward sergeant kellermann, and i knew as soon as i pulled in and i looked over i had a good shot.