vehicle to get the suspect off the road. and i forced him into the ditch area with my vehicle. off camera, deputy comit rams the suspect and his car is immobilized. but the driver won t wave the white flag. he pulls out his gun and starts blasting. i see deputy comit engage frenzer in gunfire. we were all screaming for him to put the gun down. we could see the gun. the gun was pointed in our direction. [ gunshots ] i know deputy wallace, warden peery, and myself had fired rounds. it was undetermined whose round killed frenzer at that time. after a heated exchange of fire, driver rudolf frenzer is killed at the scene. but the officers are all fine. authorities find guns, money, and masks in the suspect s car
and 19-year-old steven willard jr. hold the teller at gunpoint and demand all of the money from the bank s vault. i knew that they meant business. i wasn t going to question or even argue or even try to say, no, i don t have a vault. i just did what they asked. gerber hands over $17,000, but the teller has a feeling the robbers won t have it for long. i knew that they were going to jail. i knew that they were going to get caught. i knew their lives that day were over. the teller notifies the authorities and jeremy peery gets word of the pursuit. he s then a field conservation warden at wisconsin s department of natural resources. they advised me that the bank had been robbed and that the suspects were last seen heading west out of town. peery learns the two robbers have jumped out of the getaway car and are fleeing on foot. the driver of the car, 50-year-old rudolf frenzer continues on with several
confirming his link to the bank robbery. the two other suspects who left the getaway car are both arrested in the days that follow. steven willard jr. is sentenced to 70 months in prison for the robbery while robert mccallie gets 12 years for the dairyland bank robbery and for robbing another bank in the area. it s not until afterwards the shakes start coming and you really realize the gravity of the situation you re in. since the incident, warden peery s dash cam video has been used as a training tool for other patrolmen. now when i sit back and i m reviewing it in a training situation and with other folks, i have mixed feelings. i understand that those decisions had to be made and it had to end up the way it did because of frenzer s actions. but it still doesn t take away the fact that there is sorrow there. you had to take another person s life. [ gunshots ]
once and for all. the car stops and the driver doesn t fully exit. he just turns around in the driver s seat. i can see him now pointing the gun at me. as the warden throws his vehicle into reverse, the suspect opens fire. shots fired! shots fired! shots fired! he s hitting my truck! the warden s truck is hit, but he is unharmed. shots fired! shots fired! the suspect takes off in his car once again. but now deputies wallace and comit are also on his tail. he reported shots fired and that one of the rounds had struck his truck. the thought was we have to catch him and stop him before he gets to the village because it s time for the kids to get out of school. but the driver changes his route and turns off the main road. the other officers take the lead in the pursuit from warden peery. careful, guys. he s got a gun. deputy wallace maneuvers his
officers on his tail. before long, warden peery has a gray four-door sedan in his sights. i assumed that that was probably the suspect vehicle. and my assumption was correct. copy, plate number 252, paul, john, john. rusk county deputies jeff wallace and riley comit are both in communication with peery and zeroing in on the suspect s location. i heard the warden peery say he was in pursuit of the suspect vehicle heading southbound in my direction. so i then took some back roads and tried to get over to the area where he was. peery chases the suspect at more than 100 miles an hour. when he makes a wide turn around a corner, the suspect s car goes into a ditch on the side of the road. the officer takes advantage. pull over! i was able to pull my squad truck up alongside and prevent