appears to be a hispanic male. looks like he s in front of the old levine store. the shooting is all caught on a courthouse surveillance camera. arroyo on the right guns down ex-wife marabella strada and one of their sons, 23-year-old david arroyo jr. a massive gun battle erupts between arroyo and officers at the courthouse entrance. we re getting shot at. we re on the way. we re trying to get the guy. our bailiff s been shot. deputy sherman dollison filling in as a bailiff moves outside to confront arroyo as he opens fire. when you watch the video, you see the officers are doing exactly what they re taught to do, that s run into the gunfire to try to stop the perpetrator. where is he now? he s outside the back door. the bailiff is outside the back door? i think he went out. he s been shot. they re going to need an ambulance. dollison is shot multiple times and falls to the ground
fleet of squad cars on a chase in tyler, texas. he s shooting at the deputy. that ends with one man dead. the drama begins in tyler s town square at the smith county courthouse, where every day, passions run high. in a courthouse, whether it s new york city or tyler, texas, that courthouse is full of emotion. especially in the courts of divorce and child custody. that day, february 24th, 2005, 43-year-old david arroyo is waiting outside for his ex-wife to arrive for a child support hearing. he had somehow blamed all the problems in life on his wife and his son. armed with a powerful semiautomatic rifle, he opens fire. we have shots fired on the square. we have someone down.
to keep the truck from rolling. deputy sherman dollison, gravely injured at the courthouse, fights for his life in the days that follow. i did not know if dollison was going to live or die. it was touch and go for many days afterwards. but dollison pulls through and the other officers escape with minor injuries. a few weeks later, a memorial is held to remember the victims and to honor the officers. it was a very solemn time here in this county. it lasted longer than a lot of the tragedies that i ve seen happen. there is still a solemn attitude around the courthouse. the courthouse still shows its scars from that day in 2005. there are bullet holes in its walls today. david arroyo jr is haunted by the death of his mother. i wish i could have done more. i wish she made it to heaven because that s where she should be. i m pretty sure my dad s in hell so he ain t going to bother her no more.
old levine store. the shooting is all caught on a courthouse surveillance camera. arroyo, on the right, guns down ex-wife, marabella strada, and one of their sons, 23-year-old david arroyo jr. a massive gun battle erupts between arroyo and officers at the courthouse entrance. we re getting shot at. we re on the way. trying to get the guy. dollison s been shot. deputy sherman dollison filling in as a bailiff moves outside to confront arroyo as he opens fire. when you watch the video, you see the officers are doing exactly what they re taught to do, that s run into the gunfire to try to stop the perpetrator. where is he now? he s outside the back door. the bailiff is outside the back door? i think he went out. he s been shot. they re going to need an ambulance. dollison is shot multiple times and falls to the ground outside the courthouse, critically injured. other officers are shooting arroyo, but he s not going down.
unknown to them at the time, he s wearing protective body armor. still, the officers keep coming. one was critically injured with numerous gunshots in front of the courthouse. he kept shooting. even when he was shoot numerous times, he still rolls up and tried to shoot. outside the courthouse, arroyo s son is shot in both legs but still alive. as the bullets are flying, he begs his father for his life. i said like before i die, we, like, need to talk and i was basically just trying to get him to stop, like hold up, but i didn t even know what i was going to say. he just looked at me, goes, talk about what ? on the street, local resident mark wilson, a licensed gun owner, fires at arroyo but arroyo turns and shoots him dead. sheriff smith believes wilson may have prevented arroyo from killing his own son. i believe had it not been for mark wilson and some others and the deputies shooting back at him, that he would have killed his son. there s no doubt in my mind. but it s t