will protect us. that he won t let anything bad happen to you. so when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. you hear crack, crack, crack. the terror, the bullets. this is like glass is exploding. the crime scene, caught on camera. anybody in the vehicle in bc are. hands it was bad, worse than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, wha
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
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
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 men did run. they could ve dumped a gun out there somewhere. but they did all run. remember the one shot in the leg. the one congressman documented with his hand stick
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. 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 pay 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