me and sergeant kellermann, and at that point i chose to holster my weapon and go to him. hill goes down. he is fatally wounded. stay down! stay down! stay down! officer raleigh tends to his fallen colleague out of the camera s view, but the dramatic moments are captured on the dash cam s microphone. tell my wife i love her. i will. you re fine. when i saw the blood coming out, and the amount of blood the first thing i thought was i m losing way too much blood to make it. there s no way you can lose this much blood to live, and at that point officer tyson was basically at my side. you re okay, buddy. 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,
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. most of me was shield except this part of me that was looking over my pistol and that s when he took the shot. ambulance stopped. we went from your car to the ambulance and then the helicopter was stopped right out here. the relationship with the officers that were on that scene has definitely grown. any time you re in some type of situation like we were in, there s definitely a camaraderie there and something some other officers can t understand.
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. when you get on the scene like that and you make a decision that deadly force will have to be used pretty quickly especially after he looks at the breach of the weapon and he cocked it back, and i knew there was going to be a shooting. the gunman fires a sickle shot striking sergeant kellermann in the face.
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. 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
his focus on me, and then and there i knew that i was in the wrong place. he s got the gun aimed at me. the man with the shotgun is james richard hill. he s in the thick of a heated dispute with his girlfriend who works at the bakery. [ siren ] we have people in the store. get away from the windows. even before officer ashley arrives on the scene, he knows the situation is dire. the fact that he got on the 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 de 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?