How many guns does he have? >> They have one. >> Is it a pistol? A rifle? >> I'm not sure. >> It's a >> handgun. Finger gun. >> Handun. OKAY. >> SAY POLICE DEPARTMENT. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN. >> Who's supposed to be in the house? >> Okay. So, only people in there right now should be your mom and your father. >> On August 24th, 2024, officers in St. Cloud responded to a home on Naut Drive following a 911 call from one of the youngest family members about a domestic disturbance. What seemed like a tense family argument would quickly reveal itself to be something far more serious. And within minutes, it became clear this call would not end at the front door. >> Okay, let's move. This house should be the same. >> This way. Get in. >> Come on. This way. >> ST. CLOUD POLICE DEPARTMENT. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN. >> I THINK it's the next one. fight. Pull back. >> At first, officers only knew they had been called to a domestic argument. But the moment they reached the front door, everything changed as someone inside was prepared to open fire on police. With fired, officers had no choice but to fall back, establish a perimeter, and shift their focus to a far more urgent question. Who was still inside? What condition were they in? And how could they get everyone out alive? We have >> Hey, GIVE ME SOMEONE IN THE BACK. >> Somebody go in the back. Hey, I'm getting ready to put the drone up >> so everyone's on the same page. We have an unknown status of the victim inside and upstairs. You should still have a female victim inside and upstairs with an unknown status. You've heard noises and I heard nothing when I crossed the door. Just make sure you have all the info. >> You want to launch 104? We need to give instructions. Make sure you have your take down team in place. >> Joseero, this is a safe fire police department. Come out the front door with your hands up. >> New information was emerging. A female victim had been injured inside the home. Her condition unknown. But amid the chaos, the children had made it out alive. Those who escaped became the first real window into what was happening behind those walls, giving officers crucial details about the man they had left behind. It was through the boy who had been on the call that a clearer, more chilling picture began to take shape. >> Go in the party. >> We're sending people from the house just north down the street toward them. Don't let anybody leave. Mike, this side >> over here. Over here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come to me. Come to me. Come to me. Over here. Over here. Come on. Four being evacuated. >> Stay right here, buddy. Stay right here. >> Come over here. Come to me. Come to me. Over this side. Over this side. Right here. Stay here. Stay here. Stay here. >> One of the neighbors has a phone number for the guy. >> Go ahead and stand behind this car, man. >> Yeah. >> Get behind the car. Get behind the car. >> Stand by for >> We got to keep everybody here. I don't know if they're worth anything. If you want to start interviewing and see if they have any intel. Are we trying to get that number for him? >> I keep trying. They keep asking for it, but I don't know if they ever came through. >> Thank you. Do >> you want to put a page out to patrol and then have everybody that is outside my house? >> I'm the next door neighbor. >> He was telling me that we have his phone number. >> So, who knows Jose Ortega? >> They are his kids. >> Okay. Does anyone have a number for Jose? >> Okay. Can I get the number should have it? What does your dad do? What is his job? >> Uh, he builds a boat. >> Okay. How many guns does he have? >> Is it a pistol? A rifle? >> I'm not sure. >> It's a >> handgun, finger gun. Handgun. Okay. >> Harrison. >> Does he have any military experience? >> No. >> Thank you. And where are you at? >> All right. Thank you. Give me one sec. Stay right here. Okay. >> Do we know who should be in the house? >> Uh, they said I think mom, but I'll double check. find out who >> I got to call. >> You want me to start trying to make contact or >> who's supposed to be in the house? Me and him, the daughter. >> Okay. So, only people in there right now should be your mom and your father. >> Okay. >> So, mom and dad. >> Just mom and dad. >> Kids were in the house. Kids evacuated. >> Yep. Son and daughter out with the dog. Just post mom. She says mom is she is understanding that mom is pleased. Yeah. >> If you want to try and make contact, that's fine. I don't know if he'll answer. >> I doubt he said mom or daughter said she wasn't answering to him. We'll try. >> The children came running out first, shaken but alive. Their father, 48-year-old Joseé Otto Fontane had orchestrated what investigators would come to understand as aly rampage. With them came the first real accounts of what had unfolded inside. What they were hearing was confirming what they feared. their dad was still inside, armed and willing to shoot. With that information now in hand, officers could stop guessing and start planning. At this point, they knew who they were dealing with. They knew he had already fired on police, and they knew this was not going to end on its own. So, before making their next move, they gave Jose one last chance to walk out through the front door with his hands up. >> Jose Oro, this is a St. Cloud Police Department. Come out through the front door with your hands up. STAY AWAY FROM ME. STOP. >> STOP. STAND UP. GET IT OFF. >> HEY, HEY, HEY. Keep yourself covered. >> Do not move. DO NOT MOVE. >> PUT YOUR HANDS OUT. PUT YOUR HANDS OUT. >> DON'T MOVE. [ __ ] [ __ ] This way. Get on the ground. Get on the ground. >> It's open. >> Yeah. search this >> spread. >> Yep. Yo, you have gloves? >> Yeah. >> Grab that round right there. That just came out of his pocket. Take it off. Take it off. Go in there. >> Put that in that evidence bag. By this point, Jose had been taken into custody, but the case was not over yet. With the immediate threat contained, officers started piecing together what had led up to the call. One of the children explained that the tension between Jose and his wife had not come out of nowhere. According to what officers were told, the two had been arguing before the shooting, with Jose accusing her of cheating, although the man she was allegedly involved with has denied any romantic relationship, telling investigators the two shared only a professional connection. What sounded at first like one argument was beginning to look more like part of a much deeper pattern inside the home. >> We attempted to make contact at the front door. He popped. Me and Pat fell back, sprinted across, and then I put the drone up. As the drone went in the front door, he started taking pops. I heard >> I heard the pops fired in my house. >> We don't have you were just inside, right? >> Trying to go over kind of what happened, what led up to this as much detail as possible. So, I got home from Georgia. I got home from Georgia yesterday night. Um, I walked in. My mom was on the ground. The reason why she was on the ground was because my mom was fighting with her. So, it's okay. You know, they're always fighting. They're okay. Whatever. You know, on the stairs, whatever. Um, not today. She was downstairs. Um, she has she had a trip tomorrow to go to California for work. So, I have to do my nails. I fix one of my nails. We were talking and she was telling me about the fighting and why he was fighting that he was accusing her cheating like always with some boss that she had a long time ago which they were just good friends. there was, you know, my mom didn't was never doing anything without me, nothing. But he he's like narcissist um narcissistic, so he would pick off bites before any major event like her leaving tomorrow. Of course, he's just fighting with her. So, I already called it. >> Once officers entered the home, they found Levette Figureroa Guzman's body in a bathroom. [music] For the officers outside, it confirmed the worst version of the call they had been trying to control from the street. The person they had been trying to save was gone, and every detail from that point forward had to be treated as evidence. have somebody saw taking names for uh >> contamination log. >> We did just confirm we did not return fire. >> No, we didn't. We we took about four or five shots on approach. >> Understood. >> But we never we never breached the uh you know the entrance way. >> Do you know which way he was firing Pat or >> straight out these houses? We did not check. >> Okay, we got to do that. >> Haven't had a chance to just so I know what we got to do. That's all. >> He had two 9mm pistols. >> Okay. One one of the went through the uh went through the drywall to the right of the door. >> Um but we took that one shot. We pulled back. But if he's firing that way. >> Yeah, understood. >> We'll get somebody to check that. >> We'll get some officers to just knock on doors and make sure everything >> see you on the way to help with the We have the door down there. >> I'm trying to find out who's assign somebody out for a contamination log. Make sure we get all the FD names before we uh before they take a 1080. Okay. >> Find out what we're doing. Okay. >> You want to pull back and we're going to get assess everybody? >> Yes. >> Well, I don't know where our guys are. I want to be >> In the end, Jose was indicted by a grand jury on firstdegree with a firearm and two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer. Prosecutors said the charges followed the shooting death of his wife and the gunfire officer's face [music] during the standoff.