The LAPD is on heightened alert following a series of shootings...
Witnesses say that a gunman shot a man inside a car
at the corner of 81st and Hoover.
This was at about four o'clock this afternoon.
It's unclear if the shootings have anything to do with
social media posts about a gang promising 100 days of violence
as revenge for the murder of one of its members.
An explosion of violence in south Los Angeles
has residents there on edge tonight.
The latest happened at 48th and Budlong Avenue
in Vermont Square Park.
We heard the pops, we were in our house.
We waited, I heard more, and I realised they weren't fireworks.
I went out...
just to right here, and our neighbours to the right of us
were outside and yelling at us to get back in the house.
I went back and got my partner and told him to grab some shirts,
I grabbed some gauze.
Then we headed toward the park.
We could see a couple people that were...
that were still over there that were hurt,
and then somebody laying on the floor.
He had been shot several times, he was laying in a pool of blood.
We ran out of gauze really quickly.
He was bleeding so much, there was so much blood.
Um...
Yeah. There was so much blood.
I was actually at another shooting, um...
..not too far from here.
And heard the dispatch for this one, so we came over.
Set up a camera right about here.
Pretty much right about here.
I started filming the scene.
Right over where all the benches are,
right underneath the awning over here.
Noticed we had three victims suffering gunshot wounds.
No idea who the shooters were or what the actual motive was.
They were calling it 100 dead in 100 days.
There was a free-for-all.
I think they called for... Yeah, we did.
The US gun homicide rate
is 20 times higher
than that of our 22 peer nations.
86 people die every day from guns.
That's four Sandy Hooks,
ten Charlestons...
every day.
OFFICER: What's your last name?
That's why, you know...
Yeah, about two steps.
911, location of your emergency?
Rockford Beach. Someone just got shot.
They were screaming, they were all fighting.
There's a whole bunch of kids.
OK, listen to me. The person who shot the subject, where is he?
He's in a white suburban.
They were threatening him, and he turned around and shot them.
He's got six kids in his car with him.
OK. We've got help on the way, OK?
The guy that's laying on the ground, it looks like he's dead.
He was my best friend.
This is one of me and him.
He's kissing me.
This is one of him just being his usual goofy self.
INTERVIEWER: Did you call him Patrick or Pat?
Trouble. Trouble.
OK.
Pat went by Trouble, I don't know, it was just kind of a nickname.
And it stuck.
Trouble in a good way, though. Right, yeah.
Never trouble in a bad way.
I mean, he's got a history, everybody's got a history, but...
Definitely wasn't a troublemaker.
These are...
Actually, here are some from the day it happened.
Here we go.
Ryan constantly snapping pictures.
"My brother and his boyfriend."
HE CHUCKLES
This is one of my favourites, that just shows...
us having a good time. Pat's enjoying himself.
Everybody's smiling.
And then it turned into a nightmare...that quick.
I think I worked till two that day.
Patrick had texted me.
We had talked about it earlier in the week, about going to the river.
St Louis, that's what we do when it's hot.
Go to the closest water.
He said, "All right, I'm down here. Waiting for you."
Asked him if I needed to bring anything,
he was like, "No, bring yourself."
This is my first time back since it happened.
This is basically the hang-out spot where we was hanging out.
Us three were right here.
Drinking, dipping, pushing each other in,
roughhousing, doing what guys do.
A tall guy approached us.
Didn't he say something about our beer cans or something?
Yeah, I believe so, yeah.
He said something... Asked if we was going to pick them up.
Yeah, he said... We were still here,
so we was going to pick them up when we left, of course.
But that was the first time he approached us.
And we told him to mind his own business.
We just basically let him know,
"Hey, when we leave, we'll pick up our trash.
"You don't gotta worry about that."
And that's when he just, like...
kept coming, like...
Just looking for reasons to start something.
Like, who would approach three males who have been drinking
by his self?
I just... I could tell he was looking for trouble.
Basically, after the second time he approached us, that's
when we came to the conclusion that it was time for us to leave.
He asked if we had a problem.
Yeah... He was real insistent on, if we had a problem.
Like I said, I was the more sober, and I was like,
"Look, dude. No, we don't got a problem."
And honestly, I was just...
My brother and Pat, they was drunk
so I was just trying to get them out of here,
cos I knew, if he kept stirring shit,
there was going to be a problem.
Words was exchanged. People started getting...mad.
And...
I guess his wife approached and kind of calmed him down
and got him back in his vehicle.
He drove past, somebody said something,
and when I looked up, the truck was up...
up further, and Pat was back here.
Basically, he just leaned...
leaned out of the window and...
I mean, he was in a full-sized SUV.
There was a clear path, road, ahead of him.
All he had to do was hit the gas.
If he feared for his life, like he says, I mean,
he could have just drove off.
OFFICER: Trouble? Yeah.
Who would you say is trouble?
Patrick, his nickname was Trouble?
Well, how did he get that?
Causing trouble? No.
Trouble seemed to follow him?
OK.
The three guys were obviously...
drunk.
And if you look, like, where the dirt's at?
They had thrown beer cans and stuff there.
Lots of beer cans.
It was getting loud and...
and I didn't want to be around any more.
There was a dad and a mom,
and the kids were running around and playing and stuff.
The dad had come over and introduced himself.
He had served in the military.
Whether it was the beer cans or the cussing,
because he did make a comment,
you know, "My kids are here.
"Come on," you know, "I got my kids here."
Over and over again. Over and over again.
They kept...
screaming and pushing him around, it seemed.
Belligerent.
It seemed like he was just trying to get out of here
and make sure his wife went with him.
The three guys that were harassing him followed him the whole time
and he kept saying, "I got a gun, leave me alone, I got a gun."
And they were beating on his truck.
And I could hear this, I couldn't see it.
They were beating on his truck, he said he had a gun
at least three times.
And then all of a sudden, you heard the shots.
As I told the officers that night,
I don't know what my response would have been, you know,
if my children...if I felt like my children were being threatened,
and...I don't know.
I don't know what the mother lion would...do.
It's Detective Johnson, I'm out with Summer Kovach
in reference to the shooting at Rockford Beach.
You're married to Michael Kovach, correct? Yes.
What I'm going to ask you about is the gun in question,
that Michael had.
When did he pick up the gun?
He bought it Friday, mad at you?
And why was he mad at you?
OK. So he bought the gun to intimidate you, or...?
Till death do us part.
He knew I was leaving.
But you didn't drive away?
There was nothing I could do at that point...
I had...
OK.
I'd already pulled the pistol.
Get back, man!
That's what we need to understand here.
Because the man was at my window and...
How's that contorting?
And this is why me and him aren't together right now.
And none of them were thinking properly.
I really didn't.
He's not alive?
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God.
He actually bought the gun the night before, he bought it on a Friday.
And Saturday, he killed my best friend.
Detectives investigating 13 shootings this week,
and three of them deadly.
Detectives arrested a 20-year-old man, charging him
with firing at officers who were responding to a large disturbance
and gunfire inside the Tyler apartments.
I mean, I don't like to talk about my past because, you know,
I still...
You know, I just don't want to talk about that type of stuff.
I was one of these reckless guys, shooting people
and all that stuff, you know, saying, "Well, we 'bout to go."
Like, I got attempted murder up here, you know what I'm saying?
And that was my first attempted murder charge.
But it's time for me to mature, you know what I'm saying?
I mean, there's only so long you can do dirt,
know what I'm saying, before it catches back up with you.
ENGINE REVS
We was hoping to have a good night, because we was bored.
ENGINE REVS
It was king of the hill weekend.
Like a bikers' party.
I was planning to go where everybody else was at.
Reka, she's my sister.
And Diamond, she's my sister's best friend.
We would go out, like, every weekend.
My mom was watching my kids that night.
I have four boys.
Reka got on my Facebook page and she wrote Marcus.
That night was the first night she met him.
THEY LAUGH
Google me, I ain't got no Google, no Facebook.
Look me up...
Marcus is goofy.
INDISTINCT
LAUGHTER
HE RAPS ALONG WITH RADIO
It was Marcus, Fred and Cornelius in the car.
I'm sitting next to Cornelius, and he was cute. Real fine.
Cornelius Rayshard Morris was my little cousin.
He was a good guy, you know, probably the best guy that I know.
I know he's the best out of the family.
The sharpest dresser that I know. He's the guy that...
He brought New Balances back into style,
and you know how New Balances look.
He had it, know what I'm saying?
It was crazy.
We was on T all night.
We hear about a party,
and then go to the club afterwards.
MUSIC PLAYS
Just pure insanity out here.
This is the spot right here, where we at.
My brother was like, "Hey, man, that car following us."
And I'm like, "Bruh, ain't nobody following us,
"you know what I'm saying? You trippin'.
"There ain't nobody following us. You paranoid," I said.
"You paranoid." I just brushed it off.
It's loud. We can't hear...
They were saying that they think somebody was following us,
but we ain't hear it the whole time.
We start hitting, like, 100,
cos he says a car was following us,
so I just hit it down this road
and I left that car way behind.
But we were stuck at that light so long that they caught up to us.
I mean, I seen them when they started shooting.
I was looking in the rear-view, so I was like, "Duck!"
He hung out the window. I seen him, he hung his whole body out.
That's when I was like, "Duck!"
And then pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
It felt like I was being Tased.
It's like somebody set me on fire.
We pulled up to the gas station.
When I got out the car, I didn't feel it in my leg.
I got shot twice. I got shot in my leg and my lung.
I can't even explain it. I was so scared. I cannot explain it.
I tried to talk but I really couldn't. I don't know.
I thought I was going to lose my life.
PHONE CALL: 911.
Sir, I can't hear what you're saying for all the noise in the background.
Somebody's shooting at us! They shot the car!
Then I walked around to my cousin's side and I shook him.
I'm like, "Wake up. Wake up."
Trying to shake him, know what I'm saying? "Wake up. Wake up."
And I could see, like, white foam on his head,
and that's from where the bullet went through the seat.
The cushion from the seat was stuck in the back of his head.
PHONE CALL: My cousin's been shot. Help me. Listen, listen.
Are you with him right now?
I can't talk calm with you. Yes, he's right here.
Are you all in a car?
Yes. Come on.
Sir. Sir.
He's not dead. He's not dead. Pull up.
Within the past 40 minutes, we've learned the male victim
in an early-morning shooting in Huntsville is dead.
A female victim remains in the hospital
with life-threatening injuries.
It was terrifying.
By the time I got in there, she was in ICU. She had been shot twice.
It was hard. It was really hard.
I've never had to go through that with any of my kids.
I didn't know if I was going to have to bury her or what.
When I came out of surgery,
they had brought my mom and my dad in the room.
That was the first person that I seen and they came back there
and I just burst out in tears
because I didn't ever think I'd see my mom again.
I was just so blessed to see her alive.
We saw the parents of the young man that got killed.
Cornelius' parents.
And they got the word that he had passed.
It just broke my heart.
Can we do the rest of this tomorrow?
I just don't expect my kids or nobody's kids to die like that.
This is where Cornelius got killed there, for real.
You know, they can say he died at the hospital but...
I don't think so.
I think when he got shot, he was dead.
The young generation, when they get mad,
the first thing they grab - a gun -
instead of doing like we did back in the old days, just knuckle it up.
You'd be friends right when you get through.
He was one of them sons.
Real special.
"Can I come over there and spend the night?"
He always got to have his feet on me or his hands on me.
I'd be trying to push him out the bed.
I catch myself even just dialling his number...
..thinking he gon' pick up.
But...
..I'd just be dialling just to be dialling.
NEWS REPORT: Two suspects in custody
following this weekend's deadly shooting.
Police are tweeting that multiple people have been shot.
No official word on fatalities right now.
BARACK OBAMA: You don't see murder on this kind of scale
with this kind of frequency
in any other advanced nation on Earth.
Every country has violent, hateful or mentally unstable people.
What's different is, not every country is awash
with easily accessible guns.
RADIO: Temperatures in the 70s and 80s, so a warm start to the day
but even warmer as we get into the afternoon
across the deserts here in Arizona.
PHONE CHIMES
PHONE BEEPS
PHONE VIBRATES, BEEPS
Tucson police. Curtis.
Hi, I'm just trying to report a suicide bid.
PHONE BEEPS
I live in the Phoenix area
but I have a friend who's in the Tucson area and has basically
sent me a text sounding like a suicide note.
PHONE BEEPS
What's the name and telephone?
Joshua.
Yeah, do you have their address by any chance?
I don't, unfortunately.
PHONE BEEPS
Tucson police.
Yes, I wanted to see
if it's possible to get a well-check done on my son.
He's threatened suicide in the middle of the night.
I'm his mom.
Where is he?
He's in Tucson. Do you know where? What his address is?
It's 3052 North Alvernon Way
and it's apartment 201.
He has been suicidal before.
OK.
I woke up about an hour after he sent the text.
I was really nervous
because I wasn't sure, really, what I was going to do when I got there.
I just knew I had to go. I was shaking a lot.
The way he's told me is that I've been one of his best friends.
From early on, I knew that he had a lot of stuff going on.
He had issues with his father.
His mother at the time was the only vaguely stable influence
in his life, and he didn't have a lot of good relationships.
But I helped him out the best I could.
I pull in, the police are already there.
I can't go up or anything. They told me to stay back.
There was a police officer on the staircase
and there was one on top and they were trying to talk to Joshua
and get him out and talk to him.
I felt so helpless,
also relieved because, in my mind, they're well-trained
to de-escalate situations.
I came to the shop early,
6.30, Sunday morning.
I noticed police across the street. I didn't think a whole lot of it.
I parked my truck and I was walking up to unlock the shop
and I heard the police yell, "Put down the knife!"
And at that time I turned around.
I thought, you know, something was getting ready to happen.
He eventually comes out and he has knives in his hands.
He was walking to them like this, like a knife-attacking position.
I was like, "Oh, he's doing this."
I saw one police officer down at the bottom of the stairs
and I saw one officer at the top of the stairs and then,
I mean, in less than a second it seemed like they had shot.
I saw both of them shoot.
He fell down and I had heard him saying, "Thank you for killing me."
I realised that he did it on purpose.
I know you feel it.
The threats are all around us.
Politicians aren't there to protect you.
Laws can't protect you.
You're on your own.
But you know what can protect you when no-one else can?
The iron-clad absolute safeguard
of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
This is my everyday carry weapon.
This is a Glock 19.
It's small, it's concealable, holds 15 rounds plus one in the chamber.
If I'm going down to the corner store to get gas,
probably not a big deal, I'm going to take that guy.
If we're going where we know there's riots out or there's the potential
for something like that happening,
I'm probably taking more than a pistol. I'll probably take a rifle
or something else with me and spare magazines in case.
This guy here is one of my favourites.
One of the good things about this one is, it folds down really small
with that short barrel, when you take the suppressor off it.
If you're wearing a long coat or something, you could potentially...
put that underneath to hide it.
That little area there is where you want to hit.
That's where all the vital organs are.
I'm not going to feel like a victim in my own city.
If I needed to defend myself or my family,
at least I have some practice or skill set that I can do that with.
Maybe it'll never happen.
Maybe I'll never need a spare tyre on my car
but I keep one in the trunk anyway.
NEWS REPORT: It's a popular park this time of year.
Rockford Beach sits along the Big River in Jefferson County.
Investigators say it was near dusk, Saturday,
when a verbal argument escalated into gunfire.
I was down at the lake at the Ozarks.
I got a message on my phone.
We get bad reception there,
so I have to go up on the hill to get my messages.
And I went up on the hill and turned my phone on
and Patrick's girlfriend said, "Mike, please call me."
I could tell in her voice something was very wrong.
And I called her and she told me that Pat had been killed.
I had crazy emotions.
My mind was kind of scrambled, you know, with grief.
It was...
I didn't know what to think, because I really didn't know what happened.
I guess I still don't.
If he would have had a weapon in his hand, or something,
I could almost live with it.
But knowing that he had no weapon whatsoever in his hand
is what bothers me so bad.
NEWS REPORT: Investigators say the victim was shot more than once
in the chest. The weapon was a semi-automatic handgun.
The shooter's telling us that he felt that he was in fear
of his safety at the time.
Well, being raised Catholic, I was supposed to try to forgive him,
and I've tried.
But, er...
..I had a really bad temper as a child
and it really flared up there for a while
and I almost did something really stupid,
but I have the rest of my family to think about, so I'm not...
I don't plan on taking matters into my own hands.
Although it could be really easy for me to do.
That man intervened where he shouldn't have intervened.
At least, that's the picture I'm seeing.
He was taken from me.
He wanted to run the company that I have.
We have a small maintenance business, he was doing well.
He was my foreman.
He'd always make comments about, "Dad, as soon as you retire,
"I'm going to, you know, run the show."
You know, I'm supposed to be the head of the household,
the man, the backbone or strength,
and I am, but they see that, er...
..you know, that hurt me, scarred me, made me a little bit bitter.
So I catch myself snapping a little bit quicker than I normally would.
I miss my Patrick.
Yep, miss him bad.
NEWS REPORT: ..Jefferson County investigator
took the suspect into custody on a voluntary manslaughter charge,
but prosecutors declined to file charges.
INDISTINCT SPEECH
The suspect's been released.
I'd love to see the case be reopened
and justice be done for my son.
You make a bad decision and you take somebody's life,
you need to suffer the consequences.
And while I got a gun to protect my family,
if I did that wrongfully, I would expect to get the same treatment.
So that's what we're really going for, we're going for justice.
NEWS REPORT: A string of shootings that left 11 people injured
and one dead over the weekend.
An 18-year-old girl and two young boys were also shot.
NEWS REPORT: Highs of 73 at the coast today.
We do have high surf and strong rip currents,
so please be careful at the beaches.
We're going to see that cloud cover linger a little longer...
Julius is hard to explain in one word.
Julius is, God, an intense, really smart, really smart kid.
Julius is bipolar and manic disorder,
so sometimes he's on a low, sometimes he's on a high.
Sometimes, he'll be totally normal, but then, when he's on that low,
he just loses it.
When he turned 18 I was like,
"Oh, no, now if he gets into trouble, now it's...
"You're going to go to jail."
Once, he was high on weed, cos he was, you know, misbehaving,
and he was passed out on the couch and I saw a bag
laying on the ground. I'm like, I don't know where this came from.
So, I looked in it and there's a gun in there.
I'm like, "Where in the world did you get that thing?"
He goes, "From my friend."
And then, once again, down here in Oceanside, he went to another
friend's house. He goes, "Mom, can you give them their gun back?"
Absolutely not. I'm not touching this. I don't want this in my car.
I go, "Where did you get this?"
Once again, from a friend, on the streets.
It's heart-wrenching and worrisome.
Whenever the phone rings, you don't want it to be THAT call.
Always, "Please don't let it be about Julius."
My husband and I live about four apartments over
from where Jordan lived.
I know another young man, Calvin, who lived with him.
Calvin and Jordan, who had been in foster care,
and then, at 18, their foster care programme ends and they were in
an after-foster-care programme to try to help them become adults.
Our neighbour upstairs had told us that Jordan
and Calvin were not getting along at all.
The first time I encountered Calvin, I was coming home from work
and I saw this young man knocking on doors.
I thought, "Oh, he must be selling something."
But then he came to our door and he asked if I knew how to sew
and if I could sew these patches on his shirts for work.
And it broke my heart.
It didn't feel that they had enough support.
Calvin didn't even know how to operate a washing machine
or a dryer.
He may have been a grown man,
but he's a baby.
My husband and I were just getting ready to go to the pool.
We heard loud, loud voices and then we heard a few pops.
Somebody screamed, "Oh, my God, he shot him!"
DOG BARKS
As I came running up,
Jordan was lying right here.
Very shocking thing to see, in person.
The sights, the sound, the smell.
Jordan had a bullet wound right through...
at least it appeared to me, right through to his neck.
His eyes were open, erm, his pupils were not moving.
There was no pulse.
It was quite evident that there wasn't anything
that I could do for this man.
NEWS REPORT: Police say Calvin Glass shot two people in Oceanside,
killing one of them.
He's just sitting on the floor with blood all over his chest and
I'm seeing a trail of blood from the apartment to outside to his body.
CRYING: I told them my baby's life was in danger.
That's what I told.
I had no idea it was Calvin who had fired.
Once I found out, it was just even more heartbreaking.
Julius was standing right about here.
He had been shot and I did see blood,
but he was very animated. He was very worried.
I heard something about guns.
I don't know how many guns were in the apartment,
but, apparently, there was more than one
and Julius was trying to make sure that they weren't there,
because, obviously, the police were coming.
The hospital called me.
"Julius has been shot."
I think guilt went through my mind,
cos I knew... Obviously, I didn't hear from him.
I should've known or had some type of motherly instinct
that something happened to him.
So, that was the initial... initial, erm, reaction.
Why did I not know that something happened to my own kid?
When we got there, he was, you know, full of tubes...
coming from everywhere.
He was black and blue all throughout his neck.
But it was bad, cos you have a hole...
He has the trach, the big hole in his neck,
and the poor kid couldn't talk. He's just crying and, erm,
just writing things down, and that was hardest for me.
It's not good. You're like, "Why do you...
"Why do they have to go through this?"
You know, I never... I feel like I had a normal growing up.
I didn't have to go through that. Why are they...
Why does he have to go through this?
Then you're like, "Well, I'm grateful he's alive,
"cos look at Jordan." The child didn't make it.
How does an argument that kids would have got into a fist-fight over
years ago now escalate into,
"I'm going to kill you because I'm not getting along you"?
That's beyond me.
It gives them a false sense of security.
Julius feels empowered when he has the gun.
He feels, "OK, I'm strong, I'm empowered, I have this.
"So those people that are going to come to hurt me, they can't hurt me.
"I'm going to hurt them first, cos I have this gun."
NEWS REPORT: Police say Glass tried to flee,
but was caught at the Escondido Transit Center.
Glass is in Vista jail, facing murder and attempted murder charges.
We've lost a beautiful boy, Jordan,
and we've lost a beautiful boy, Calvin.
Calvin is now going to spend the rest of his life in prison,
where they're going to teach him how to be a thug.
I'm sorry, I keep calling them boys but, in my mind, they were.
They...
They were just boys.
So, anything I say in this video is not to offend anybody with, erm,
coloured skin or, erm, Jewish or even people with disabilities,
cos it's just me being retarded.
OK?
Oh, no, wait. Not that word, me being ding-y.
OK, so...
DEEP VOICE: Hey, how you doin'? You doin' good?
I heard you and your boy broke up last night.
Does that mean I can...? Yeah.
HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: I'm Chantelle, let me tell you, girlfriend,
you look at my boy like that one more time and I'm going to knock
that weave right off your head!
IMITATES COCKEREL
IMITATES SHEEP
Me and Selena was back at my mom's.
We'd been to a party.
It was crazy,
everybody was getting into fights and stuff at the party and, erm...
you know, a lot of drugs and drinking.
Here, people like to drink and do drugs.
I think everybody I know does.
I guess that's the only thing they've got to do.
I know Selena because I met her on Facebook back in 2013.
We started chatting and became friends.
She was a wild one.
You want to get the back of my ice-cream truck?
I got all the flavours.
Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla.
I even got that chocolate syrup,
yes, I do.
Chris had been gone for a couple of days.
You know, him and Selena were together
and they had went to a party.
There was a pretty good age difference there
that I wasn't happy about.
Selena was 16, Chris was 20.
But they were cute together.
She didn't want to be like anybody else, and he's like that, too.
She wanted to be who she was, her own little style,
and she was a leader, not a follower.
And I think Chris and her connected on many levels.
She came in the house and I let her take a shower
and I gave her some new clothes to wear.
And I fed her, then I told Selena to call her momma,
cos I knew the story behind where Selena was supposed to be and where
she wasn't... You know, she obviously wasn't where
she was supposed to be.
They were in good shape when they left. I mean, I made sure they were.
I fed them and, you know, made sure they were good to go.
MUSIC: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift
She was actually really funny to hang out with.
Even though she dead-legged me a lot.
That really hurts.
"Hayley, change those shoes. They're horrible!"
"Brush your hair more!" I'm like, "I just brushed it two seconds ago."
"Brush it again."
"Wear make-up." I'm like, "No, I'm good. I don't like make-up."
"Too bad."
I know she called my mom and said, "Can I stay the night at..."
I don't know whose house any more. I can't remember.
And she said, "Yeah, but you have to be home in the morning."
I know she was with her friend Chris.
CJ came and picked us up.
CJ is my best friend.
We went to Walmart...
..and we hung out there for a little bit.
Then we went to his mom's work.
CJ went in, me and Selena stayed outside.
When he came back out, he said his friend had a gun for sale.
CJ wanted to sell it to make some money so we could get some drugs.
I told him it wasn't a good idea.
I felt like if we got caught with it, then I was going
to jail for a long time.
I wasn't driving, he was, and he said it would be all right.
CJ is my best friend, you know, I've known him since sixth grade.
He's a really good person. CJ's a really good person.
INTERVIEWER: And how much did Selena know about that?
She knew everything.
She actually said she had somebody that wanted to buy the rifle.
None of us had money.
So, we had an opportunity to make money to go get high.
So, that's the excitement that we had, we were going to go get high.
When they get to the house,
CJ backs in beside the truck that the rifle was in, and we get out.
He goes up to the truck and takes the rifle out and looks at it.
He takes a clip out of the back and he puts it in the rifle,
racks it back, turns around and shoots it through the woods.
He takes the clip out, sets it down and he poses for the picture that
Selena was going to take before she could send it to somebody herself.
After she took the picture, he was pointing it around, you know,
looking through the sight.
Selena didn't have any time to react.
I didn't neither, cos it happened in seconds.
It happened two seconds after she took the picture.
You know, he posed for it, took the picture,
and he was pointing it around and it went off.
TRUCK HORN BLARES
It just took me a minute to register what happened,
and I walked around to her front and looked and seen the bullet hole
and blood coming out. I said, "Oh, my God! You shot her, dude!"
And about that time, she started screaming
and she dropped to her knees and started puking up blood.
And I picked her up and she walked about five steps
and fell down and hit her head on the pavement.
And I bent down and started holding her,
and as soon as it happened, he called 911
and was on the phone with them the whole time until they got there.
I got the phone call.
I got in my car and I was about 100mph all the way to the scene.
I could see them putting Selena in the ambulance
and I heard her call Chris's name,
and she told Chris to come in with her, and they wouldn't let him.
They shut the door.
Erm, and then you could see the helicopter come.
I seen it come...
..but then I seen it turn around and leave.
And that was my first clue that something was wrong.
Well, that shooting happened right over there,
next to that black pick-up truck.
Two men and the 16-year-old had come to the home
to look at a rifle for sale when she was accidentally shot.
Take a look at this video.
This morning, deputies showed us
the Ruger 1022 that they seized after the shooting,
along Rocky Ford Road.
It was stored in the back of the pick-up truck.
If you look closely,
you can see the clip was not in the rifle at the time
but investigators say there was still a single round
in the weapon. Deputies say 16-year-old Selena...
Every day it's on my conscience...
..of a girl that I had never met, first time meeting her,
and I accidentally shoot and kill her.
Selena had the phone and I was holding the gun like this,
and she was taking pictures of it and it was after the fact...
That's where the papers got it wrong,
they said the gun went off while we were taking pictures.
That's not true.
She already took the pictures
and I guess she was sending the pictures to somebody.
Her and Chris was talking to off to the side
and that's when I, you know,
I was still looking at the gun, just inspecting it,
making sure everything was right about it, you know,
and that's when it went off.
I didn't even hear it pop.
INTERVIEWER: What are you like with guns?
..and stuff.
You know, if you could turn back time,
what do you wish you could've done?
I wish I would've checked the chamber
and seen if there was a live round in it.
I wish I could've changed that.
So, we sat down and ate dinner, me, Hayley and her daddy,
and that's when the cops knocked on the door.
They showed me a picture of Selena they had gotten off the internet
and asked me, was this my daughter?
My response was, "Yeah, what did she do?"
Thinking she'd gotten in trouble.
And, erm, of course, they said, "There's been an accident,"
and after that I don't remember a whole lot, you know?
From what I've been told,
I covered my ears and tried to run away.
They took me in to see her.
TEARFULLY: That's not how you want to see your child.
I seen her for a minute but I got... I left.
That's not how I wanted to see my daughter.
I told myself I wasn't going to break down.
I used to be that hard person, I used to be able to do that.
You know, Selena would brag that to everybody because...
you know, "My mom is the toughest person I know, you know,
"I've never seen her cry, you know, she don't put up with no crap."
I'm not a person any more, you know, half of me's gone.
I have Hayley so I have to be OK.
DONALD TRUMP: Sadly, the American dream...
is dead.
And we have to take care of the Second Amendment.
We have to take care of it, it's being whittled away.
They want to whittle, whittle, whittle.
We've got to protect our Second Amendment
and we've got to, very important,
let's get rid of these gun-free zones.
Deputies say it all started with a road-rage incident.
You shot my husband!
Two males suffering from gunshot wounds.
It looks to be a robbery gone wrong.
I am totally for guns.
I have ten guns or more. I have lots of weapons.
That's not the problem.
The people holding the weapons are the problem.
I love shooting.
I like deer-hunting, I like turkey-hunting.
Definitely euphoric, you feel power when you shoot a gun,
that's the thing, that's what makes people crazy with weapons -
you feel power, you have that power in your hands.
What you feel like - you can stop anything.
He did?
Put your hands up in the air! SCREAMING
Put your hands in the air!
CRYING
Yeah, we know, we know.
Taken him out.
Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground...
Officer-involved shootings in Oconee County,
they're very rare.
This is my third or fourth in my 24-year career.
Took me probably, you know, 15 to 20 minutes to arrive on scene.
I was unsure who was involved.
I was aware that no police officer was injured,
which was a relief.
The victim died at the scene.
In this case, the victim died at the hands of another individual
and the manner of death is going to be classified as a homicide.
It's not up to the coroner to determine if it's justified or not.
I was told that the young man was attempting to drive off
when the officer fired at the vehicle.
The female that was accompanying the victim just knew his name was Zach.
I've known Zach almost all of my life,
since kindergarten.
I just used to watch him ride his dirt-bike, like,
"Whoa, that's pretty cool."
Now, obviously, I have a huge dirt-bike but...
HE LAUGHS
..he kind of planted a seed.
He's always a good person to hang out with.
Always something to do, always some fun to be had.
Mischief to be made.
His last few months or years
were just kind of him figuring out who he was,
which is for everybody, when you're a young person, you...
you live and learn, you do stupid stuff.
INTERVIEWER: What about drugs?
As every teenager probably nowadays,
a little bit of weed smoking.
Cigarettes. I hate cigarettes, that's a drug to me.
I don't know what else he got into.
He wouldn't tell you everything.
We were on our way to bed when the doorbell rang.
I was already in my pyjamas, you know?
The coroner told us that Zach had run over
or tried to run over a police officer.
I just fell, you know, to my knees...
in disbelief.
He was my rambunctious little boy.
My dad used to call him Dennis the Menace,
if that tells you anything.
Didn't make sense to me.
But I was brought up to believe what the authorities tell you,
so I believed it.
My name is James Burgess but I go by Buddy Burgess.
Everybody calls me Buddy.
Things just weren't adding up.
Number one, there was no drug buy that was made,
there never was a buy.
There was very little marijuana in the vehicle.
There was no weapon in the vehicle.
When I worked Narcotics, we never arrested on the first buy,
we tried to make more buys and we would just step up the line,
till we got as far as we could go
and then you go back and arrest everybody.
Why call in an officer when, erm,
you haven't even made a buy?
And if there's no threat,
then why come in the way Officer Tiller came in?
There's a lot of questions that need to be answered.
A lot of them.
NEWS REPORT: Two Tucson police officers shot an armed man
this morning in midtown.
It all happened at an apartment complex
near Alvernon and Fort Lowell just before seven this morning.
So, Tucson police say both officers opened fire
and the man was struck multiple times.
I knew Josh had had that kind of a history with being depressed
but I didn't think it would come to the point where
the cops would come and shoot him.
So the first thing I saw when I came home were bullet holes
in this window here,
as well as a bullet hole in this door.
And then I came in the house...
See, the plaster here had been shot up as well.
I'm assuming it was the bullet that came through that window.
So that was all shattered and the place was really a mess.
There were dirty dishes over there
and all his books and everything were on the floor.
I don't know, it felt kind of like a horror movie, I guess you could say.
Erm...
Yeah, not to mention the smell was just in your face.
The worst part was when I came to the bathroom,
the sink had blood all over it
and the bathtub as well.
Erm, there was quite a bit of it
and looking at that made me a little nauseous.
You know, I felt a little bit responsible,
I felt like I should've been there for him, but I wasn't.
So...I feel like, if I was here, I could've prevented something.
VOICEOVER: Right after I was shot,
I dropped to my knees and I said, "Thank you for killing me."
I'm laying there going, "I'm going to die,
"I'm going to die, this is it."
And this voice, I assume it was in my head
but it sounded like someone was whispering in my ear, said,
"You're not going to die today."
Looking back on my life, I've always been different.
I've always felt like I stood apart.
I had been in a relationship with my fiancee,
we had been together for about two-and-a-half months.
It was a good relationship.
She really built me up and made me feel like I mattered
and that I had purpose.
That weekend, she was at her sister's wedding.
I decided to go to get a couple of sodas
and I get my sodas and I'm standing there in line
and this girl, probably 26, 27, starts talking to me,
there's a little bit of flirting going on
and then she invites me back to her apartment to have sex.
And...
I just say yes.
We have sex and then I go back to my apartment.
My mood just starts to crash
and I plunge into an abyss of sorrow and despair for what I've just done
and decide I'm going to end my life.
The first thing I did was, I cut my wrists.
I apparently am a very considerate person
cos I took a Tupperware into the bathtub to catch the blood
so that they wouldn't have to clean up as much.
I sat in the tub for probably...
three, maybe four hours, just bleeding.
It would keep clotting so I knew that wasn't going to work.
So the police show up
and I see the first squad car pull in and then I go, "Well, crap.
"I can't be here any more. I have to be gone."
I start rummaging around the apartment,
trying to think of what I can do.
I grabbed the two kitchen knives that I ultimately held in my hands
and then they were pounding on my door.
I told them to leave and I wouldn't talk to them
and they're like, "Well, you're coming out or we're coming in."
One of them walks up to the door
and I saw him take his pistol out of his holster.
And immediately that registered in my mind as, "There we go.
"That's how I'll end my life.
"They have guns, I have knives, this is America, they'll shoot me."
I unlocked the door and stepped out.
He exited the apartment,
he basically came out quickly,
he had two knives in his clenched fists,
his shirt was soaked in blood.
And he said, "Now you can see that I'm serious."
He starts coming at me quickly
and I started giving him verbal commands to put the knives down,
I gave it several times.
You describe him as quickly starting to come towards you?
Correct. And what action did you take?
Er, I fired. I believe it was three shots.
Tell me why, if you can explain to me,
why you chose to discharge your firearm
as opposed to possibly engaging him with a Taser
or trying to retreat some.
Erm, I didn't really have anywhere to retreat.
My back is to a waist-high railing.
So you had concerns about him possibly pushing you over?
Correct. And what else?
Stabbing me.
While he was on the ground and we were rendering aid,
he started saying, "Thank you."
And I go, "You guys are lousy excuses for marksmen.
"It's two to the head, one to the chest.
"Where did you learn how to shoot?"
NEWS REPORT: A South Carolina police lieutenant won't face charges
after he shot and killed unarmed 19-year-old Zachary Hammond
in the parking lot of Hardee's.
Lieutenant Mark Tiller claims that he acted in self-defence.
ANGIE: I had to see Zach, it just didn't seem real to me
until I saw him, you know?
And that was the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do.
But we found out that day that, erm,
Zach had not been shot in the front, in the chest,
he had actually been shot from behind.
Then our minds just started swirling, like,
"What's going on here?"
The police said that Zach had tried to run the officer over
and that he was shot in the chest.
But then, if that happened, how did he get shot in the back?
And that's when we really started thinking,
"Something is not right here."
We started demanding information from the police.
The narrative that was being advanced was that
Lieutenant Tiller was a hero,
that he himself was a victim of attempted murder
and that he had no other option but to use excessive and deadly force
to get himself out of trouble.
That was not the case.
They claimed that Zachary was a dangerous teenager,
although they had no evidence of that.
They didn't know that Zachary was going to be there
in the Hardee's parking lot.
All they knew that it was going to be was Tori Morton.
Zachary was with Tori Morton.
They had been on a couple of dates before, in a friendly fashion,
and this was really their first romantic date.
Tori wants to stop at McDonald's
and she buys a vanilla ice-cream cone.
Maybe it was chocolate dipped, we don't know, but...
a vanilla ice-cream cone.
A text was sent from Tori Morton's phone.
She is going to sell marijuana.
The text, though, according to the authorities,
is that the number was off
and went to a highway patrolman.
The highway patrolman then notified the local Seneca police authorities
and said, "There's a drug transaction
"that is going to go down."
As a result, a sting operation is set up...
..without a lot of preplanning,
without positioning the proper officers,
without getting authority from the proper chain.
And it's determined that BJ McCoy
is going to dress as an undercover officer,
park in the rear of the Hardee's in a truck
and that's where this supposed drug transaction
is going to take place.
We don't know why, but the drug transaction never takes place.
The undercover officer exits his truck
and starts to walk towards Tori Morton's side of the car
and at that point, Officer Mark Tiller
is coming at a high rate of speed through down the entrance.
TYRES SCREECH
He did?
SCREAMING
Put your hands in the air.
CRYING
Stop that. Get out, get out, get out.
Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground.
Lieutenant Tiller's life was never in danger.
Zachary Hammond never had the intent
to conduct a criminal act against Lieutenant Tiller.
He was just a kid that wanted to get away,
to drive away, and Lieutenant Tiller put himself in danger
and then used excessive force to get himself out of danger.
Lieutenant Tiller approaches the vehicle in a very reckless fashion.
Towards the front of the vehicle,
but never got in front of the vehicle
so that he was in danger of being hit.
More importantly, at the time, he makes the conscious decision,
"I'm going to discharge my weapon."
Three-quarters of Zachary's car has already passed him,
so unless a hurricane comes, or a tornado,
that's going to flip Zachary's car sideways,
Lieutenant Tiller is no longer in any danger, if he ever was,
of being hit with the car, and the law says
if you have that split second to make that decision
that I'm no longer in danger, then you must not use your weapon.
When you have the right to come in with a gun as an officer,
it escalates quickly.
It's already at the point where the next action is
to discharge your weapon.
It's very difficult to de-escalate force once force and guns are drawn.
Stop! Stop! Stop!
You need to know and the public needs to know
that this officer, two years before, has said to another witness
in a police training session that,
"Before I leave, I will shoot somebody."
Unfortunately, what ended up happening
was that a 19-year-old unarmed teenager lost his life
to the actions of an overzealous police officer
who wrongfully approached the car in a paramilitary outfit
saying, "I will shoot your fucking ass,"
and a 19-year-old scared kid hit the gas to try to leave.
CRYING
I don't know what's going on.
Oh, my God.
Take that ball out your mouth.
HE LAUGHS
Can you say "nubby duddy"?
Ebby gubba!
Take your ball out and say it.
Ebba gubba!
Take the ball out of your mouth.
Now say it.
Nubby dubby!
Say it real good.
Nubby dubby!
THEY LAUGH
# I love you I love you
VOICEOVER: You know, I know that, you know,
Zach shouldn't have been there that night.
But I also know that he shouldn't have been killed.
I don't believe that somehow justice is going to come.
One more time.
I chose this place because just right before Zach died,
he came up here really early in the morning to watch the sunrise.
Just can't imagine what he saw that morning.
He said it was beautiful. And, erm...
just really meant a lot to know that he came here.
SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY: This is a nation of dreams.
We have something called the American dream
which I say is known across the globe.
It is a bold dream, it is a humble dream
that this is a nation
where our children can grow up,
have the best of opportunity,
our children can do better than us, it is the American dream.
But the challenge I see with American reality,
where we have such liberal access to weapons,
what that has resulted in, I have seen it myself,
is so many children taken, killed, murdered.
How many of our children's dreams must be destroyed by gun violence
before we do the common-sense things to begin to shrink those numbers?
He appeared to be holding a weapon underneath a piece of paper,
like a small handgun that was pointed upwards
and then, within a few seconds,
I heard two shots fired and I saw the gentleman go back in.
911. Location of your emergency?
1402 and 1414's on the scene.
Talk to me.
On scene, 2009.