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ST. CLOUD POLICE DEPARTMENT. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN. HOLD ON. Let me fix the next one.
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>> Florida SWAT are in the middle of a multi-hour rescue operation after a deranged father just shot his wife in
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front of their own children. >> Go. My son. That's her daughter. >> We're going to make sure we GET
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EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW. >> GO. You're got a rifle. Okay. >> As far back as you can go. In the middle
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of this chaos, police are racing against the clock to save the wounded mother trapped inside, leaving them with no
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choice but to get creative. Even if it means using the shooter's own children to bring the standoff to an end.
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>> He already said he's not coming out until you guys kill him. >> Oh yeah, he's in the He saw the drone.
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Fall back. I don't want to die. It's approximately 6:00 p.m. on a Saturday evening in an upper class
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lakefront neighborhood in St. Cloud, Florida. Inside one of the homes, a heated argument erupts between
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48-year-old Jose and his wife Lzvette. One that's about to completely spiral out of control.
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>> 911. What's the address of the emergency? >> I think I died to someone. >> My dad is upstairs with the gun. I don't
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know. He went back to the room. >> Where is your mom? >> He just shot her. >> No, he shot her. He just shot her in the
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my bathroom. >> How many shots are fired? >> After the call disconnects, the St.
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Cloud Police Department rushes to respond, immediately dispatching 20 patrol cars to the scene. From what
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officers can gather, two siblings just watched their father shoot their mother, and they could be his next victims. The
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first to arrive is rookie officer Garnesh with only 6 months of experience. And as he steps out of his
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car, he's walking straight into the line of fire. >> Go inside. Get inside your house.
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Get out of the way. Gash, hold there. Have the 1027 and the neighbor step out and come immediately north.
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>> All the way at the corner on the left is going to be the target residence. 1027
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is one house to the north, one house towards us. Officer Garnesh and his partner are positioned roughly 70 ft
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away from the active shooter's house, waiting for backup. Moments later, additional units arrive along with K9
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quickly surrounding the home from both the east and west. Leading the operation is Sergeant Patrick Manx. With nearly a
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decade in law enforcement and awards, including hero of the year, he's earned a reputation for doing whatever it takes
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to protect innocent lives. So knowing a civilian hostage may be critically wounded inside, Manx understands the
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clock is working against him. So he quickly devises an extremely bold strategy, completely unaware of the
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danger he's about to send his men directly into. The sergeant's plan is straightforward,
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but far from simple. rush in, take the active shooter by surprise, and get the two children and their wounded mother
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out, all while ensuring no civilians or officers are injured. But as Manx and his team approach the house, the shooter
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inside has a plan of his own. One that doesn't involve surrender, but instead drawing officers into a deadly ambush.
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>> Okay, let's move. This house should be the same. >> Nice house. >> ST. CLOUD POLICE DEPARTMENT. TAKE
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YOURSELF DOWN. >> HOLD ON. I think it's the next one. >> Pull back. >> Can you make sure I don't have any blood
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on me anywhere? Cuz he's shot at me. I didn't feel anything, but All right. The shooter fires, but the round strikes
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the door instead, miraculously missing Sergeant Manx by less than an inch. But as Manx and his men retreat to cover, a
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critical problem remains. Officers have yet to secure the south side of the property, which leads directly into a
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nearby park. However, rushing over there now would expose them to gunfire from the numerous windows surrounding the
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home. So faced with this reality check, Manx is forced to rethink the strategy from the ground up.
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With tension rising by the second, SWAT finally arrives on scene along with a sniper and a drone operator, giving Manx
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his best [music] chance yet to contain the shooter. And as fate would have it, the most dangerous assignment, securing
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the back of the house, falls to Officer Garnes. So, with a wounded mother and two children still trapped inside, this
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rookie officer is about to face the most dangerous moment of his career. >> SOMEONE GO TO THE BACK. GO TO THE BACK.
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Take two. Come on. Roll. >> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. >> Go. >> [snorts]
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>> Backyard's fence off. >> There's a fence back here. Just make sure I got him up there.
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>> It's f back here. >> That's me. >> 51 resident 2760. This is the St. Cloud Police Department.
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Come out with your hands up. >> I'm going to duck down here and cover the top. I don't I don't like standing
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right here. >> This is a safe cloud police department. >> Yeah. >> Come out with your hands up.
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>> You just hold low like that. >> As officer Garnesh continues issuing commands, SWAT has now surrounded the
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house from all directions. While a sniper maintains visual on the front entrance and for the first time since
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the standoff began, police finally have gained the upper hand. With the standoff
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closing in on the 1 hour mark, one officer decides it's time to deploy a drone, hoping to locate both the shooter
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and the wounded victim inside. But what seems like a smart tactical move is about to escalate the standoff even
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further. I'm getting ready to put the drone up. >> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come
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on. >> Do you see him? >> Oh, yeah. He's in the hole. He shot the drone. He shot the drone.
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He's all the way down the hallway with a light going [music] on his on a rifle. It looks like a
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rifle. Don't worry about it. >> But you can see through the front door. >> Yeah.
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>> See him? >> Yeah. >> Despite successfully locating the shooter, the drone is shot down, making
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the suspect even more agitated. But even more concerning, there has still been no
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update on the two children inside or their injured mother until now. Suddenly, officers notice movement and
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within seconds, the entire scene descends into chaos. >> We're sending people from the house just
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north down the street towards you, LT. >> LT, they're sending people our way. >> Don't let anybody leave.
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>> Get him. Get him. Get him. Go, go, go, go, go, go. >> Right here. Over here. Come on.
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>> Stay right here, buddy. Stay right there. >> Go. >> We're going to make sure we get
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everybody. >> Go, go. >> Get behind the cars. Get behind the engine. >> Come on.
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>> I don't want to die. >> You're not going to. Same with me. Stay behind this. >> You're He's got a rifle. Okay.
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>> Hang on a rifle. >> As far back as you can go, please. to stay behind vehicles.
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>> Stop it. >> Amid the chaos, officers successfully evacuate the captive children and nearby
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families, rushing them behind cover several houses away. A 10-year-old boy and his 24year-old sister tell officers
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that the shooter inside is their father, Joseé Fontanz, and the woman who was shot is their mother, Lvette Figureroa.
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And despite being terrified and shaken, both children are still willing to help.
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unaware they're about to become the key to the entire operation. With time quickly running out for the
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children's mother, Sergeant Manx shifts his focus towards making direct contact with Jose, hoping negotiators can
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convince him to surrender before anyone else gets hurt. But interestingly, officers are about to realize the only
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people capable of reaching the father and finally bringing the standoff to an end are his own children. Are we trying
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to get that number for him? >> I keep doing they keep asking for it, but I don't know if they ever came
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through or not. >> Thank you. LT, >> do you want to put a page out to patrol and then have everybody
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>> The officer was telling me the one that is outside my house. >> I'm the next door neighbor.
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>> He was telling me that if we got his phone number that was sent down to >> So, who knows Jose?
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>> They are his kids. >> Okay. Does anyone have a number for Jose? >> Okay. Can I get the number?
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>> Should have it. What does your dad do? What is his job? >> Uh, he builds like boats.
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>> Okay. How many guns does he have? >> They have one that's on the side of the house.
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>> He had a license. >> Is it a pistol? A rifle? >> I'm not sure. >> It's a >> handgun, bigger gun, handgun. Okay.
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>> Harrison rifle. >> Does he have any military experience? >> No. >> Thank you. And where are you at?
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>> All right. Thank you. Give me one sec. Stay right here. Okay. >> Dad's in construction. He has one single
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handgun. Um, no military. You know what? >> Find a better position. Who should be in
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the house? >> Uh, they said I think mom, but I'll double check. >> Find out who I've got.
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>> Okay. Who's supposed to be in the house? >> It was me and him. Goodbye. Your mom and
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father. >> Okay. So, only people in there right now should be your mom and your father.
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>> Yes. >> Thanks to the rescued children, police have now learned crucial information
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about Jose, not least his phone number. So, with a direct line to Jose finally established, negotiators would attempt
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to initiate contact only to encounter an obstacle. they never saw coming. >> If you want to try and make contact,
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that's fine. I don't know if he'll answer. >> I got He said mom or daughter said she
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wasn't answering him. >> We'll try. >> Hey, Jose. >> All right. This is Patrick in Soph. How
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you doing? >> Believe we have the photo. >> Jose, can you hear me? No English. >> Okay. Any English at all?
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>> What do you need? >> You need Spanish? Okay. Momento. Okay. He was shooting at the cops in England.
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>> Does the dad speak any English? >> He doesn't speak any English. >> No units on task. I need one Spanish
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officer to my position and not for CMT translation. >> I can get Cologne to you.
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>> I'll send him now. When we get an accident, let's have them come up and fill here. I'll cover for now. All
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right. Just as officers believe they're finally making progress, they discover their
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suspect doesn't speak any English. It was already a stroke of luck that Jose answered the officer's call in the first
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place. But now they're forced to wait even longer for Officer Coen, a Spanish-sp speakaking officer, to arrive
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the scene where officers are about to uncover crucial information that will finally shed some light on Jose's
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motives. >> So, you two were the only ones in the actual house at the time? >> Yes.
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>> Okay. Who called 911 originally? >> Uh, I Well, we are. And then I was like, >> so who was the first person to call
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though? >> I really don't know. I guess I talked to Kaitlin, so I kept talking. Okay. So,
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you two were in the house with mom and dad originally. You guys heard the shots and then you guys left or I I ran
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upstairs. You screaming for my name. >> He shot her in front of me. >> What did you see exactly?
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>> I saw my mom running, >> telling him to stop. >> Him behind her. I don't understand
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what's going on. I thought, honestly, I thought it was a fake gun that he was shooting her with until I saw her the
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blood. She has she had a trip tomorrow to go to California for work. So, I had to do her nails. We were
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talking and she was telling me about him fighting and why he was fighting that he was accusing her of cheating
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like a wife. >> According to Jose's daughter, the attack on their mother was the result of weeks
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of paranoia over Lzvette's alleged affair with her boss. Paranoia that became so intense Jose had begun
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stalking Lisvette and even secretly placing recording devices in the home. And with that, detectives realize that
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if Jose is capable of snapping and shooting someone over unconfirmed accusations of cheating, reasoning with
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him will be incredibly difficult, even with a Spanish translator present. Nevertheless, they have to try.
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Approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes into the standoff, Officer Coen finally arrives on scene. But as he prepares to
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make contact with Jose, he has no idea the shooter is about to make officers question everything they think they know
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about the situation and who they're truly up against. Jose, can you hear me? Jose.
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Okay. Get some outerity in between the uh take some deep breaths. You're not so stressed.
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>> Yeah, I just I just saying he has a child with him. >> Okay. How old is the child?
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Okay. Okay. for Jose. Jose makes the bizarre claim that the gunshots officers heard were actually
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coming from the television inside the house despite police witnessing him fire multiple rounds. He also insists his
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10-year-old son is still inside the home, the same boy officers had just helped escape with his sister moments
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earlier. It quickly becomes clear that Jose is either desperately trying to manipulate police [music] or is deeply
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detached from reality. Either way, negotiators don't challenge his lies and instead continue trying to convince him
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to step outside. But as the call drags on for the next 20 minutes, their worst fears are slowly becoming a reality.
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Jose has no intention of surrendering. By now, the standoff has begun taking a visible toll, not only on the officers,
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but also on Lzette's children and friends who anxiously wait on the street, knowing that every wasted minute
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could cost the innocent mother her chance of survival. And unsurprisingly, tensions are about to boil over as one
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of Liz Vet's close friends begins confronting officers over their strategy. >> I'm not telling you how to do your job,
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but can can can you all go in? >> So, there's a there's a whole set of situ we have to follow. Okay.
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>> But the longer it takes, the longer he's just going to bleed. >> I hear you. We have to be careful cuz
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then if we start having this, >> he already said he's not coming out until you guys kill him.
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>> Okay. >> Okay. Can we get an ambulance now? Please. There's nobody else in there. I promise
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you. I just need somebody to get there. She's bleeding. >> Take a breather. [laughter] Just take a
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breather. Okay. >> She's bleeding on the upstairs. And the longer it takes it, the less suggest she
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has. >> However, think of it like this, right? Let's say he brought one of his buddies
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and had him away in there. And if we But if he did, if he did, right, we don't know that before. If he could have and
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if he came, he was coming in. We don't we don't know that we everything we based off sending officers to save her
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now they die. It's going to be a whole other battle just to get around them. >> As officers desperately try to calm the
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furious crowd, negotiations with Jose appear to be going nowhere. So Manx begins coordinating tactical
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preparations for the worst case scenario. Believing Jose is becoming increasingly restless inside the house.
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And with no update on Lzvet's condition, a dangerous confrontation may soon become unavoidable. Their next moves
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must ensure the victim is saved, no officer is injured, and ideally that the suspect is taken into custody alive.
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>> Okay, with the three of us here, let's go over uh assignments in case he in case he does come out
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>> cuz we are contact here. >> Yep. >> All right. I need one and go hands. >> I need one lethal. I need one hands and
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one verbal. >> I'll do verbal. >> Waiter's got verbals. I'll take >> lethal. I'll hold hands.
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>> So, here's how this is going to work. If he does come out and he does start walking this way, Porterfield, you're
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gonna stay deadly. Cologne, you're going to switch to less lethal. Jess, you're gonna go hands with him. Got it. Yes.
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And you're going to go voice. >> Jose, this is the same. The front door with your hands up.
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>> What kind of rifle is it? >> A loud one. All right. So, whatever we do, we are not leaving this position.
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Got it. Even if he comes out, runs back in, we are not leaving. >> What was that, Wager?
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>> I said if he starts fighting with him on the ground and he we see there's nothing
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visible in his hands, I'm I'm going to sling this taser. >> With Sergeant Manx's plan now set in
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motion, officers hold their positions, waiting for the green light on whether Jose will surrender or whether they'll
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be forced to escalate the situation and make entry. But unbeknownst to Sergeant Manx, he's no longer at the center of
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what happens next. as the final phase of the standoff is about to be initiated not by him but by Jose's own son.
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At this point, with Jose continuing to resist police commands, his daughter attempts to call him herself,
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desperately trying to convince him to surrender, but the call goes unanswered. Then Jose's 10-year-old son tries
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[music] calling him, and this time the call connects. The father and son speak for several minutes before Jose suddenly
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hangs up. Although it's unclear exactly what was said, moments later, Jose calls
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officers back with an update they never saw coming. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Jose. Okay.
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[music] Okay. Against all odds, Jose suddenly says he's ready to surrender. With adrenaline
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racing for everyone on the scene, officers hold their position from all directions while the sniper watches over
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the front entrance, anxiously waiting for Jose to emerge. But after everything that's happened, police have no way of
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knowing whether he's telling the truth or setting up one final ambush. >> Only wager on verbals.
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>> Let them know that. Let them >> only wager on verbals. Only wager on verbals. Stay off PA once he makes uh
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his exit. The safe police department at the front door with your hands. >> STAY AWAY FROM ME.
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>> STOP. >> STOP. GET IT OFF. >> Do not move. >> PUT YOUR HANDS OUT. PUT YOUR HANDS OUT.
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>> DON'T MOVE. After nearly 2 hours of gunfire, failed negotiations, and uncertainty, Jose
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finally surrenders and is placed in the back of Officer Garnesh's patrol car to be transported to the St. Cloud Police
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Department. [music] But even with the shooter out of the picture, the scene is far from over.
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With the children's mother still somewhere inside the house, officers finally prepare to make entry, only to
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realize they're too late. As officers move through the home, up the stairs, and into the bathroom, they make a
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devastating discovery. The children's mother, Lizette, lies deceased beside five spent 9mm casings in a pool of her
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own blood. [music] Standing beside her body, officers are left wondering whether they could have done things
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differently and whether entering sooner might have ultimately changed the outcome.
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As the scene is [music] being secured, Jose has already arrived back at the station and is placed inside an
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interrogation room. Interestingly, as he waits for a Spanish translator to arrive, he lies across the table as
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though he is the victim, the one who has been wronged. When the translator finally arrives, Jose largely confirms
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the story detectives had already heard from his daughter. According to Jose, two weeks earlier, he placed a recording
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device after becoming convinced Liz Vet was cheating with her boss. Jose claims he heard another man's voice on the
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recording, fueling his paranoia and rage up until the day of the shooting. The same day Lzette was preparing to leave
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for a work trip. And though Jose admits to shooting his wife, perhaps most revealing of all, he tells detectives he
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never retrieved the weapon from the bathroom because he didn't want to look at her. Following this harrowing
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interrogation, Jose is charged with first-degree premeditated murder along with two counts of attempted
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first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer. As [music] of June 2026, he remains in custody awaiting a trial
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date. And while this case left Florida shaken with how jealousy and insecurity transformed a father of two into a
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cold-blooded killer, our next case takes us to Maryland, where a soon-to-be father unleashes a level of evil that
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investigators still struggle to comprehend. Inside this gas station, Tori is in the middle of a heated
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argument with a clerk after refusing to pay for an iced tea. [music] And this is where all hell breaks loose.
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But police would soon learn this isn't even Tori's first kill. Because when officers forced their way through his
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front door, they'll uncover even more victims. >> Police department search. >> Jesus Christ. Could this be mom?
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>> You don't want to go back there if you don't have to. It's pretty bad. This one
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