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[Music] Who shot? Who shot? There's a gun. There's a gun. >> Police are surrounding a house in the
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middle of Kenosha City. Inside, an unknown gunman is holding wounded hostages and exchanging heavy gunfire
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with officers. >> Who is it? Ma'am, you got to move. Get out of here. Get moving.
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>> Get the [ __ ] out of here. Leave. >> In the middle of this chaos, officers have no idea who they're dealing with or
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why he's even firing at them. But by the time police finally confront the gunman,
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it will already be too late. >> I have a hostage right here. Police officers trying to move
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already. >> Watch that window. I window contact. >> Around 8:15 p.m. on a Monday night,
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multiple gunshots ring out in a quiet neighborhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Minutes later, at 8:19 p.m., 911
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dispatch receives an alarming call from a man claiming someone just tried to kill him. Kenosha 911. What's the
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address of the emergency? >> I need medics and I need ambulance. [ __ ] hurts. >> 132456
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Street. I've just been shot. >> Is that a house or an apartment? >> It's it's a house. It's it's uh it's a a
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duplex. I've been shot in the leg and possibly the arm. The shooter is in the apartment next door and I know he's got
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felony warrants out of Ohio or New York. Okay. Following this call, officers are
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quickly dispatched to the scene. The caller also warns them that the gunman may have felony warrants out of state.
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At the time, it sounded just like another detail in a frantic call for help, but it was really a glimpse into
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someone far more dangerous than police expected. Just minutes later, police officers
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arrive at the scene. Almost immediately, they hear a woman screaming outside the
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duplex. Hey, we have a shooting right here. Let me see hands. [Music] He's in the house.
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>> Is he Who's shot? >> Who's shot? >> Show me where he is. >> Where is he, Luke?
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>> Show me. Come out here. Come out here. >> Okay. Who got shot? >> Uh, I think they got in the back of him.
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>> Okay. >> Where, Johnny? >> Is this all one house? >> No, it's two. >> Okay. Where do we get to his his unit?
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>> Hold on. >> Wait. No. Where do we get to his unit? I need to know that. >> Where do we go?
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>> You got to tell us so we can help people. Spit it out. >> The guy was shot. >> Yes.
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>> The second one the light is. >> The second one the lights out. As soon as officers make contact with the shaken
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woman outside, someone from inside quickly slams the door shut before they can get any answers. With the duplex
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having two separate apartments and multiple firing angles, police can't afford to wait. They need to move the
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woman out of danger and secure the perimeter. But just as officers begin pressing the shooter to surrender,
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things take a dangerous turn. >> Get into your head. Oh [ __ ] >> There's a gun. There's a gun.
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>> Shots fired. >> He's in the house. >> The gunman suddenly opens fire from the
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window, forcing police to scramble for cover. With Officer Luke and his partner retreating to the west side, and Officer
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Bray diving behind a car directly in the shooter's sights. It offers some cover,
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but leaves her dangerously pinned. But in the scramble, police left the woman they just spoken to completely exposed
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in the line of fire. Officer Lou quickly realizes she's still in danger and they'll need to get her out before the
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situation escalates further. >> Get that lady out of there. >> Get out of here. >> There's a lady in the house. We have
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shots fired. He's firing out the window at us. >> Get covered. Get cover there. Get
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>> He's at the front of the house on the south side of the road. >> With danger escalating by the second,
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more backup units race to the scene. And within minutes, multiple officers swarm
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the neighborhood, unaware that this is just the beginning of a deadly shootout. One that will put both officers and
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civilians at fatal risk. In these types of highstakes situations, officers must make split-second
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decisions, and every choice could mean the difference between life and death. Over the next few minutes, we'll follow
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how they manage chaos and respond under immense pressure. Starting with Sergeant
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Brian Miller and Adam Jurgens, who are just arriving from the west and east side while the gunman continues firing.
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>> He's at the front of the house on the south side of the road. >> Where's he at? Where's he at?
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>> House. >> Where's he at? >> What house? What house? [Music] >> Where's the stucker? What do you have?
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>> What do you have? >> There's a house. I have shots fired. He's firing out the window at us.
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>> Okay, come back here. Can you come? Can you come back? Which one? >> The front of the house. You got to come
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>> Christ. >> Ma'am, you got to move. Get out of there. Get moving. >> Where is he?
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>> Second house. >> Second house upstairs or what? Where? All right. >> He was in the front window. Yeah.
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>> Clearly, the situation facing officers is extremely unpredictable. The gunman
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has already fired from three exposed windows at the front of the house and another on the east side where Sergeant
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Jurgens returned fire. On the west side, two more exposed windows are accessible
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to the shooter, as well as a garage and a back exit. officers don't even know about, giving the gunman even more ways
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to slip outside or stage an ambush. But in the midst of all of this, there are two urgent problems at play. First,
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police think they're only dealing with an active shooter, but there are hostages inside the house, and officers
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have no idea yet. Second, officer Bray and the civilian woman remain trapped and exposed to the shooter's sights. The
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longer they wait, the more likely they'll be caught in the crossfire. Hey, Bri, can you move? Can you come
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back to me? >> I can't. >> I can't. >> 495, do you have the shield? We have somebody that's stuck right in front.
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Shields in the squad. I'm up on the front corner. >> Someone gave me a shield. >> Stay right there. Just stay behind the
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engine block. >> I am. >> Anything else? You see anything or no? >> Where's this susp?
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65 coming from the east. >> Hey, >> he's got my husband hostage. >> Are there people inside?
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>> This revelation finally puts everything into perspective for officers. With hostages involved, it's clear that the
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situation is becoming much more complicated and a rescue plan is needed urgently. So, with the stakes now
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higher, officers have two critical priorities. First, they need to extract the pinned officer before the situation
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becomes even more dangerous. Second, they must clear the perimeter and breach the house to rescue the hostages trapped
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inside. To move forward, Sergeant Adam Jurgens requests a shield as they prepare to move with the extraction
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where officers are about to move ahead with the rescue plan. >> Hey, we need a shield up here.
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>> I got somebody stuck right in front of the house. I need a shield. We got to get them out of there.
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>> Okay, we're coming up to you. Stay stay here. Stay in here. You see her? No. You see her right here where
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she stopped by the car? >> She's right over here. We have to get her out of that way. No, she's
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>> the house is this one right here. He was shooting right from the front window
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towards me. So there's somebody in there. Okay. >> Okay. >> So I think our priority is we have to go
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get Bray out of there >> cuz she's really stuck. So you tell me what you want to do from here. That
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woman is saying that there's two people in here and that this dude just has a guy hostage. So
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>> all right. Hey, can you come with me? >> Y >> take your rifle. You just go that way.
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>> Yeah, we'll go. >> Coming towards you. Okay. [Music] Hey, we got to get out. Let's go.
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>> Hey, you faced out. >> I got it. I got it. >> Holy [ __ ] [Music] >> Fortunately, the extraction goes
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smoothly and Officer Britney is pulled to safety. Though the real danger is still far from over. By now, multiple
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officers have surrounded the house from both the east and the west sides with additional backup units arriving from
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the east end. But things are still dangerously unpredictable. Because in the middle of all of this chaos, CCTV
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captures a car pulling slowly into the parking lot near the house, seemingly oblivious to the active gunfire
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unfolding just a few feet away. Watch this movie. >> Who is this? >> Stay. >> Get the [ __ ] out of here. Leave.
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>> I'll move right there. >> I don't give a [ __ ] Move. >> Get out. [ __ ] shooting across the
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street at us. You're not paying any [ __ ] attention. >> With the civilian swiftly cleared from
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the scene, officers refocus on the real danger ahead. They need to extract the civilian woman still stuck at the corner
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of the house and then quickly devise a plan to confront the gunman without risking casualties. But as officers
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begin coordinating their next move, the gunman is already preparing to do something far worse. something that will
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force police to act whether they're ready or not. >> Go ahead. Come on. [Music] >> Roing ambulance.
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[Applause] >> Ma'am, are you hurt at all? >> No. >> Sarge. Serge, I got four. Okay. So, there's a woman that's in this
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corner of this house that's going to be at the uh northeast side and she's kind of stuck right in here.
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Um I think she's right there. Did you see that? >> Did you see that? >> I see the lady.
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>> We can work a team to get her out. That's what we want to do next. >> You guys see anything or no?
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>> We have a female on this side just saying that they're shooting from the apartment out, I think, on the east
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side. Is she okay to be injured? >> No. >> Do you have any idea where the shots are
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coming from? >> So, so when I was shooting, I shot towards the house and he was looks like
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he was shooting at this front window this way towards Bray. >> Okay. >> Now, I've seen him break windows and I
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can see gunshots that are actually on uh like all sides of the house. So, I don't
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know where he's at. >> Okay. We can see the freight trans going to move up a little bit to a couple
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garages. We can take cover up. More shots fired. >> There people inside. >> Those painful screams that followed the
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gunshot confirm the worst. The gunman has just shot one of the hostages inside the house. Now more than ever, officers
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know they need to act. If they wait any longer, more lives could be put at risk.
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With that terrifying realization, officers immediately scrambled to collect as much critical information as
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possible before moving inside to confront the shooter. They still don't know exactly how many people are inside,
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where the shooter is positioned, or who exactly they're dealing with. But that is about to change. Okay, we need to
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figure out if we have a hostage in there and we got to move. >> So, she says there is. She told me that
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there's there's a her husband is with the shooter and those the only two that are in there.
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>> Yeah, let me let me let me work on that. >> Ma'am, who's inside the house again?
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What's their name? [Music] >> Matthew Lopez. Got it. >> Okay. I see what you got associated for
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Matthew Lopez in the house. This woman out here is saying that that's the gunman. And I believe a Gary Tubs is the
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husband and she's saying he's stuck inside with him. With a suspect name identified, officers can finally begin
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to piece together who they're dealing with. And what dispatch relays back raises serious concerns.
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According to their checks, Matthew Lopez is a registered offender. Even worse, the initial 911 caller also told
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dispatch that Lopez has felony warrants in Ohio or New York and is possibly using a fake name, though his true
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motives would prove to be far more complicated. With all this in mind, police realize they're dealing with an
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armed offender with a violent, disturbing past. But just as that information is sinking in, something
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completely unexpected happens. The supposed perpetrator inside the home picks up the phone and calls 911
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himself. >> Hello, this is Kosha 911. What's the address to the emergency? >> I have a hostage right here and your
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[ __ ] police officers are trying to sue me. I've already got two people already. I'm not afraid of dying about
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the kill. God, I got it right through the [ __ ] back of his head right now. I see one.
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This is the problem with the [ __ ] police. I'm telling you, you guys want to play,
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>> okay? >> I don't give a [ __ ] And I don't have much battery left either. So, if you got
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to get this mother battery, I got a [ __ ] really trigger figure, lady. And I still got three balls left. Please
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don't. >> And who how many people are in there with you? >> Two. >> The people that are with you, are they
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injured? >> Yes. >> Okay. Where where do they have injuries to? >> In his femur.
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>> In the femur. Cuz your officer kept coming in here. I asked them for simple commands.
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>> Both of them shot in the femur. >> I The other man with the intruder scared the [ __ ] out of me. You understand me?
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He's my neighbor. a [ __ ] break down me one more time right now. >> I'm going to hang up so that somebody
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can call and talk with you. Okay. >> Okay, ma'am. Just make sure to answer your phone.
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>> Okay, dear. Okay. What do you need me to do? >> Okay, hang up and then they're going to
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call you. >> It's your fault. I didn't mean to tell you that you was looking down. Okay.
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Above the above. Although Lopez never explains his motives or makes demands, he does
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confirm he's already shot two people inside the home. And in the background of the call, a wounded hostage can be
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heard groaning, "He's going to do it. He's going to kill me." So, with hostages already bleeding and the gunman
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threatening to kill, the margin for error is razor thin, and the choices police make within the next 10 minutes
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will determine who makes it out alive and who doesn't. >> Watch that window. Watch that window.
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pants. Pants. >> For now, the situation is becoming more hectic than before. And the longer
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police wait to make a move, the worse things will get. They have to get inside. >> We have a male on the phone saying he
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has two hostages shot two already and that he has three bullets. And with the phone numbers in the narrative, we still
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have them on the line. He's really going to [ __ ] try to call this while 553. Move up to that truck. Okay,
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>> I am stand by >> headquarters talking with the male in the house. Would you say that he's talking with an
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officer and that he shot people in the house? What do we have for the contact team?
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>> You got Peps and O'Neal and I >> Well, if we have injury, I don't think we have we have to go here.
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>> Okay. You want me to try to call them first and see if we can work this? >> We could try to get better. We'll kind
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of [ __ ] >> if you can make the team I think you're right. I think we're probably going to
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have to. >> You got a team. Reach over there. >> Yeah. All right. On cover. >> Cover.
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At this stage of the standoff, multiple developments are happening behind the scenes. Negotiators are patched in,
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calling Lopez's phone and trying to draw him back into conversation as the perimeter tightens around him. Medics
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are staged just blocks away, waiting at a nearby elementary school. And around the neighborhood, roadblocks are set up
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to keep any more civilians from wandering straight into the middle of a gunfight. With all these precautions in
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place, officers on the ground prepare to make one final attempt to reach Lopez and push for a surrender.
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>> Keep doing your thing, but I'm going to try to call them two. >> You guys two or three, I think, over
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here on the northeast corner of the house. If we can move these guys up around here around the trees and try to
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get them out, I think that'd be beneficial. >> This is a multi [ __ ] So, we There's
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three doors. [ __ ] >> I think the one on the east is a different unit. Big one on the south
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here. >> So that that window in the southwest has rounds through it. Shattered. Uh we can
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get a rifle there and just go in the front. >> Probably the best option. >> 5532 is not working. So I need the phone
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number for this guy. >> 515 stating his name is Matthew. >> Please leave your message.
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>> Will he come out? >> Well, he just went the voicemail. With Lopez's phone now going straight to
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voicemail, any chance of negotiating a peaceful surrender is gone. Officers realize they can't wait any longer. It's
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time to go in. Sergeant Brian Miller coordinates a contact team. Their plan is simple but
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high risk. Enter through the front door with a ballistic shield, neutralize the threat, and extracts the hostages. At
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the same time, other officers are instructed to reposition and cover additional angles around the perimeter.
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Officers know this is extremely risky. And once they breach the door, they could be walking straight into a
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gunfight. >> All right. Well, get moving. >> There's a shield team. O'Neal, want you
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I'll walk up with this split off and take that that window on the southwest side.
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>> I got it on contact. So, >> keep trying me. Yeah. You know what I mean? I don't. So,
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>> yep. >> Who's got the shield? >> I got the shield. >> All right. What's the plan? Where are we
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headed? >> Front door. >> Run. Run. >> Right there where the mailbox is. O'Neal's going to take it to the window
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that's cracked in the southwest side. >> I see it. >> Right next to the door. >> Yeah.
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>> So, peel off Shan or move up your right side and left side of the shield. >> All right. Nice and slow.
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>> One left. Tell me we're moving up. >> All right. Ready? >> Ready. >> All right. Moving.
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>> Nice and slow. I got the window just to the left of that front door. >> Copy.
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>> That window. >> Got it. >> Window all the way around the corner. >> Pull up that wrong side.
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>> What do you want? What do you want? Why don't you peel up the other side of the
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house? Go >> ahead. Watch right. Yep. Contact. Contact. I see one left. We got We got Hey, watch that window. Watch
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that [ __ ] window. Watch the window. >> Hey, pants. Pants. I got him. >> What you got? What do you got?
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>> Where's the shooter? What do you got? I don't get here. the head. >> As police barge inside the house, they
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find two severely wounded men, both lying on the floor, bleeding and barely responsive. It's not yet clear who they
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are, but both appear to be hostages suffering from gunshot wounds. However, the situation is still far from under
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control. Beyond this room, there is still a kitchen area, multiple bedrooms, as well as a basement. And with the
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shooter still unaccounted for, Lopez could be anywhere. This dude's right hand right here. You find that?
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Stop. >> I need light. Someone give me light. I got the hand. >> Give me light. I got
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>> Yeah. Hey, we need to drag him out. >> Come on. Come on. I got it. Okay. Come
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on. Push up or push up. Bring that up. What do you want? 657. We got med. >> Hey, drag him out. Drag him out.
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>> He's probably got a gunshot to the leg, man. Nope. He's got a head shot to the
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wound. Hey, we need to find They said there was two injured in here. >> One, two,
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the house. >> 5 seconds. We got two apparently flood shots to the head. >> All right.
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Keep the stage for a minute. We got to clear the house. >> We got a stroll. Trust me. All right.
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>> Okay. All right. Let's go. You're going to take this right. I'm going to take a
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left. >> I got you. I'm holding on kitchen. >> Give me one. >> I got you right. >> Check there.
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>> Give me one. One. Hold on. Hold on. Hold right there. >> Okay. Room clear. Room clear.
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>> Okay. I got closer to my left. Kitchen opens up to the right. >> Okay. Switch out. She'll go first.
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I got light on in that room under there. >> All right. All right. I got open door right. lead
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to it looks like a back exit door here. >> All right, >> we can go. You want to >> go up a little bit?
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>> Hey, give me one guy. >> Yeah. >> Where does this lead to? >> It might go to a basement. I don't know.
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So, just move this. >> Scope a little bit. See if that goes out to us. >> Closed door. Closed door. Hold on that.
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>> I got it. I got it. >> Hey, how many How many missing people are we still missing right now?
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>> Uh, so all right. What they told? They had two hostages. >> So far, we got two.
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>> So, we both done shopping. We don't know about anybody else. >> Okay. So, all three people accounted
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for. >> No, just two. >> There's two. >> Hold that. >> Just come. >> All right. Just uh hit that door now.
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Ready? >> Yep. >> Locked. >> With the basement door being locked, a major complication faces officers.
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Basement entries are some of the most dangerous spaces for law enforcement. The narrow layout, blind corners, and
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poor lighting make it almost impossible to clear safely, especially when a suspect is barricaded inside. If Lopez
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is down there, officers could be walking straight into an ambush. So instead of forcing the door, a sergeant makes the
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call to hold the basement for now, and shifts the priority to secure the outside perimeter, confirm whether the
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gunman slipped out or is still hiding elsewhere on the property. Officer Eric Glam heads out to check the exterior,
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and that's when they hear someone in the garage. >> You guys over here? >> Yeah, just come with me.
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Just hold. Someone hold there. >> Are you guys in the garage? >> How many How many people are in there?
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>> Just you and the two dogs. >> Yeah. >> Can you leave the dogs in there and come
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out? >> Okay. We're going to open the door. Okay. >> Just make sure I can see your hands. All
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right. >> All right. Okay, bring who? Who was all inside the apartment? >> My husband, Gary Puff,
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>> and who else? >> Uh, Matthew. >> Is there anybody else we don't know? Was there anybody else that was in there?
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>> No. >> Okay, ma'am. Why don't you? >> Dewey lives in the side apartment. >> The one that got shot.
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>> Turns out the civilian woman from earlier managed to run and hide inside the garage. According to her, there's
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someone else still inside the house in a different section of the duplex that officers haven't cleared yet. Until now,
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all attention has been focused on the front unit and the basement. But the layout of the home is a twounit
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structure with the second unit still unaccounted for. But before officer Eric Glom can relay that information,
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Sergeant Brian Miller is already patrolling near that side of the house unaware. It hasn't been cleared.
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>> What door is that? Zero. >> This is You don't know where >> you don't know where where anything's
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at. >> Okay. >> Who's going where? >> This is the That >> should be the living room. Just the
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kitchen. >> Living room. >> Living room. >> Living room. >> Kitchen. >> Kitchen. All right.
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What >> we got? Here we go. Yeah. What? >> Police. Come on. One person up. >> Police department.
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>> What's your name? >> Sergeant Miller. >> Hi. >> Come on out here, guys. >> I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm shot.
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>> You're shot where? >> In my leg. >> Okay. Anybody else in here? No, just me and my dog. All right, let's come off.
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>> Okay, I've got officers right here by me. >> Okay, I'm going to let them help you.
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Okay. >> Okay, thank you. >> Use the door. Come on out. Come on out. >> You're welcome.
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>> All right. Bye-bye. >> Hold that right there on the step. >> Yep. Go ahead and shut my door, please.
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Don't let my dog out. >> Your dog's going to be fine. >> He's friendly. >> Who else is here with you?
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>> Nobody. It was just me and my dog. >> Did this wrap around the same apartment?
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>> No. No. >> 295. >> Yes. >> Hey, so you got two victims. Where we got him at? >> We can't clear the base yet. This is a
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different guy at a different apartment. >> Okay. >> Watch that window, guys. >> Yep. Is that where he's headed? That's
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where I do believe he's at. >> Inside the second unit, Sergeant Miller finds the same man who first called 911.
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He's also suffering from a gunshot wound, making him the third confirmed victim extracted from the scene so far.
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But Sergeant Miller quickly realizes something is not adding up. Earlier, Lopez claims there were only two
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hostages, but now police have found a third victim. If this man is a hostage, just like the other two they extracted
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earlier, that means Lopez might have been lying, and there could be even more people inside the house unaccounted for.
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Police proceed to check the unit, but find no sign of the gunman. That leaves only one place they haven't cleared. The
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basement officers quickly regroup and head back towards the locked basement door, prepared to face whoever might be
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hiding there. >> Ready? >> Open. [Music] >> Okay, get the shield up. >> All right, Miller.
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>> Yep. You warm >> ready. >> Okay, cool. >> Okay, I'm going to move open to the door
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if you want to check to the left here. >> Got more here. Okay, slow down, Eric. Let me clear this.
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I'm one. Yep. Ready. [Music] Blue. Blue. Go to >> this side. >> Okay. There's a a dead corner here I
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can't clear yet. >> All right, I got you. >> [ __ ] See that top corner I'm talking
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about? >> Yep. >> All right, let me peel off. >> Okay, >> I'll peel off this left side here.
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>> Clear back here. >> All clear. >> So, we got a big room to clear. We could probably use one more.
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>> All right, you got four. >> You got four. You got four total, >> Eric. I'm gonna go one. I'm gonna go
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right. Okay. >> Hold on. >> All right. >> I got this door here. Someone check that
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corner. >> Got the corner. I'm on you. >> Corner's good. >> That's good. >> Yeah.
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>> Okay. I'm going to open this door. Mike, >> I think this is the cellar door. >> Dead space.
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Officers go on to clear the rest of the basement with no sign of Lopez or any additional hostages. For a brief moment,
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they believe Lopez escaped during the chaos and could still be at large. That changes when one of the surviving
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hostages gives a description of the suspect. A Hispanic male, early 30s, heavily tattooed, wearing a green shirt.
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With that description, officers quickly realized Matthew Lopez isn't missing. He
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was one of the wounded men they already carried out earlier. He shot himself and
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was critically injured the moment officers forced their way inside. With the scene fully secured, Lopez and
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the injured hostages were transported to hospital for treatment. In the meantime,
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detectives got to work piecing together the night's events, why Lopez opened fire, and what his true motives may have
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been. What they discovered was a spiral of paranoia and violence. In the days before the shooting, Matthew
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Lopez had been living in the duplex with housemates after moving from New York to
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start fresh. But over the weekend, he disappeared with a friend to use drugs, came back agitated and paranoid,
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claiming he was targeted and drugged, that his phone was wiped, and ranting about a stolen kilo of cocaine. On the
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evening of December 19th, while others cooked and watched a movie, Lopez finally snapped. He suddenly grabbed a
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woman, pulled out a pistol, shouted about people outside trying to kill him, and fired two rounds into the ceiling.
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Investigators later confirmed the bullet holes above the living room area. As panic spread, Lopez turned the gun and
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shot one resident in the femur. When a neighbor stepped outside to investigate the commotion, Lopez shot him as well.
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Detectives later concluded that it was the peak of a drugfueled paranoia spiral that made Lopez lash out at those around
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him before confronting police and turning the gun on himself. The injured victims were treated and discharged from
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hospital, but Matthew Lopez was later pronounced dead, and with him, the true motive for the Kenosha standoff died as
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well.