This story starts in Princeton in Collin County. Police and firefighters were called to a house fire there early Friday morning. Police say the home belonged to Delisha Evans. Once the fire was under control, Evans family realized she was missing. Based on what police learned, they considered her to be in imminent danger. Family reported Evans missing and police identified the primary suspect as Ryan Phillips. And investigators knew Phillip's direction of travel, which led to St. Louis County. 680 Weldon I'll be stopping at eastbound 44 uh east of Big Bend. He just took off from the traffic stop on approach eastbound 44 in the far right lane. push it 455. What'd you say? 688 Weldon we can see him, but he's weaving through traffic right now. Traffic's heavy. And he just passed on the shoulder. No, he's passing traffic on the shoulder. CNI. You take over. He's exiting at Elm. I'm behind him now. He almost lost control on the ramp. We're taking a right on Elm. I'm directly behind him. Uh it's south on Elm Clear. south on Elm Weldon, he just ran a red light at Glendale. Clear. Ran a red light. Still southbound Elm. Traffic's heavy. Clear heavy traffic. We're passing West Drake Avenue. He's still CNI. I'm right behind him and he's passing on the shoulder. Traffic's heavy. And he just ran a stop sign. He just ran a red light at Watson. we're still south. Then what's your speed? I'm at 60 right now. We're passing pardee road. 1050 rolled over start EMS. Put your hands up right now. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Put your hands in the air. Drop it. Get him, Gaedke 688 Weldon, shots fired. Hold fire. Hold fire. He dropped it. 10-4 688 Weldon. I believe he's been shot in the head. He dropped the gun. I don't know if anyone else is in the car. Put your hands up right now. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Put your hands in the air. Drop it. Get him Gaedke 688 Weldon, shots fired. Hold fire. Hold fire. He dropped it. 10-4 688 Weldon. I believe he's been shot in the head. He dropped the gun. I don't know if anyone else is in the car. Get him Gaedke 688 Weldon, shots fired. Hold fire. He dropped it. 10-4 688 Weldon I believe. He's shot in the head. He dropped the gun. I don't know if anyone else in the car. Clear. Dropped the gun. Hey, top off if you haven't. Make sure you got ammo. Is anyone else in the car? 680. Weldon, just update on location. Looks like we're Rock Hill Road and Pardee Road. Gaedke, can I move to you or do you do you want me to stay here? 10 three. We're just not approaching the car. I can't see if anyone else is in it. It's on side. The driver looks like he's deceased. Hanging out of the passenger side window. Guns on the ground. What'd you say? Can I come to you or do you want me to stay here? Uh, stay there with that tree. I like it. 10 4. Can you see if anyone through that windshield? Anyone else? I can't. Is there anybody else in the car? You're not hit, are you? Negative. What do you think, Heddy? Put on plate. Put on your plate. Get your rifle. I got cover on the car. And then we can pie the car and look through the front window at it. See if anybody else in it. Make sure optics's on. Make sure we're all good. 361 Weldon 361 the best cross we have is Watson right now. Clear, Watson and Elm it's just south of there on Rock 455 Welon. It's at Rock Hill and Paradee ...aware of the location, 361 is asking for a good location. What? If you need my my rifle, it's unlocked. My optic should be on 361. Were you clear on my information? Do you mind bringing me my plate carrier out of my car? I got it. Weldon, thanks. All right. And if you don't mind my rifle, too. It should be unlocked already. I already flipped the lock. Hey, we don't know if it's secure yet. We don't know if there more in the car yet. Good. Yep. All right. Hey, you all right? Yeah, I'm good. do a sweep once the car is clear I can't see through that front windshield. I don't believe I heard otherwise clarification on whether they shot or it was self inflicted. I didn't catch that. I believe he shot at us. We both shot at him. We don't know if there more in the car. There was supposed to be a female with him. We can't see through the glass. Can you see anything inside? Can you see through the windshield? No, not with the glare. All right. Man, what I don't like is if there's an innocent female in there, and he just overturned the car and we just I know she could be hurt. She could be hurt. So, I might We got to push up somehow. But how do we do it? Go over there with him. I'll meet you in a second. Yeah, I can't see through there. Whichever county car pulled up, watch your crossfire Can't talk right now. I'm pushing with you, Gaedke. I'm on your left side. I can't see. I don't think it is. I don't think so. Yeah. Watch out. We got one on the other side. If that's hassle, we'll now? Watch your crossfire I don't like it. 361. How far out are you? 10-4. Do any of you guys have a tool we can break the back glass out with? Hey, stand by the shield. 104 Did you hear that? Yep. The only thing I got is a little window punch. He said he's going to move up with a shield. You guys good? Uh yeah, I believe so. Um If they're covering this, let's go. Uh medical each other. Yeah. Hey, we're going to make sure we're not here. We're go back here. Okay. You guys got that covered for now? We got a We got a shield on the way. We can't tell because of the tinted windows and the glare on the windshield. There hasn't been any movement. St. Louis County said they have officer with a shield that's on the way. I don't think I got hit. I think I'm all good. I'm more worried about you. Dude, you did a good **** job, dude. You pushed up. That was cool. You did a good job. Thank you. You might have saved my life. No, you did good, man. You guys ok? I think so. We're just checking to make sure. Negative. Go ahead. Go ahead. 10-4. Did you hear that? Got work up on it. Thank you. Listen, I have an asp, but it's in the car. It's the only thing I have that'll break the window. Do you know how many's in there? There's possibly one. There's supposed to be two. Potentially two. One more in the car or you just talking about the guy out? Just the guy out. Okay. Do you want to move up to us? We'll wait till the supervisor gets up here. We'll bring up a second shield. You got a shield already? Supervisor has a big shield. A real shield. Not that. Okay. How far is the supervisor? Right back here, I think. I think she's just pulling up. Does anyone even have an ASP or anything? Oh, he's got that perfect just something to bust the back window. I don't. I have an asp, but it's buried in the trunk of the car. Uh, so potentially there was one person with him that could have been a missing person, a female. We don't know. I stopped this car. Um, couldn't see through the tint window, don't know if anyone else is in there. We need to get up there and bust the window out. Make sure do you need a window breaker? Yeah, if you had a window breaker, it'd be perfect. You just push that and it push this flat and it shatters it. Okay. Hey, we're going to go for back glass. Okay. Back glass. Got it. Yeah. Watch crossfire. Move behind me. I got the rifle. Good. Please don't shoot me. I don't like that at all. Push. Keep pushing, it'll pop out. Busting out. Use your baton. Bust it out. I don't have baton. Do you have a baton? Watch your face. I'm on it. I'm on it. I got I got two in here. Two additional people? Two actual people. negative. Can you see their hands? One left hand. They're both at the feet. This first person, his foot is down Yep. Stick my rifle in there. Let him take rifle. Shove your baton in between that hole and strip it out if you can. Watch your face. Somebody get EMS here for the other two. I can't I can't cuz of the tint, I can't I can't cuz of the tint I got EMS rolling for the three victims. Just if you can give me a status Break that. Break that piece. There you go. Move down. There three in there? I can't tell. Guy's 86 Don't move this firearm. Is it just two? a self-inflicted gunshot. We got a firearm under the glass. Got you. One, one, two, three patients?. Looks like it. Yeah. There's... Where's the third? Just two There's just two. It might have just been what they were seeing from the back glass It was unknown they broke Is there anybody alive? Is there only two people in there? Yes Who was who's pursuing? You were? Can I borrow you for a second? Can you make sure that you're off? Are you Whatever your policy is, it's off still. That's fine. Um, what was the nature of this? so it's a possible missing person. The driver here, I believe the driver, I didn't ID him I tried tried to stop him. Um, burnt his house down this morning. Okay. They're wanting a stop and investigate. Texas. Okay. And we just knew he was hitting flocks coming on from Oklahoma. and last hit in Oklahoma, I think. Okay. They updated us as I was behind the car. Okay. So, I got PC stopped it. Sure. Oh, yeah. Sure. For sure. And then where where was that initiated? It was 44 in big bend. Okay. So, then which way was here? Yeah. He came around the corner. He was already overturned and opened the door. Okay. And then did you see the self inflicted? Uh, we were firing at him. He put the gun at us. I last I saw he had the gun pointing at us. Oh, okay. Who shot? Me and him. Both of us. both you? Yeah. Pistol or rifle? Pistol. Pistol. You got my keys. I need to make sure my rifle is secured in the car. I already unloaded mine. One pistol mag's in the front. Yeah. So, they both shot. Okay. So, we need to take their pistols. What? What did you shoot? Just your pistol. I got my rifle out. Didn't fire it. Just rifle? Just pistol. I got this out after. That's fine. Just leave them for now. I have an empty mag over there somewhere. Leave everything where it is. Leave. Don't move cars. Don't move anything. All right. All right, so, we're going to hang out for now. DCC's on the way. Yeah. You got any questions for me? Um, you got a wife or girlfriend? Fiance Go ahead and call her. Let her know you're all right. I'd call your dad. Let him know you're all right. Will do. Cuz they're going to hear about us on the news. So, just keep it short and simple. Okay. So, Trey, just come here, I'll just tell you the same thing. I mean, just keep your statements to yourself until DDCC talks to you. Okay. Don't mess with your guns. They may try to take them from you. I'm not real sure. Okay. You guys are good? Did he return fire? He started shooting. When I got out of the car and went to get my rifle out to clear the car, he popped up. I heard him yell to drop it. I turned. He was shooting. All right. So, so you boys hang out right here. Wait for DDC to get here. They'll direct you on what you we'll handle everything else. If you guys want to sit in the car, that's fine. Just don't have a bunch of dialogue. Okay. Okay. So, let's not talk about it, but thanks for having my back, dude. And getting here. Yeah. I had a feeling I don't know why, but like when he got behind him, I was like I don't know. I didn't feel right with you stopping by yourself. So, I was trying to get...That's all I'll say. Yep. You're good. I just know with her being potential missing person, I want to know if she actually was a missing person. Yeah, me too. All right, let me look at your vest, though. I swept you but... I really want to take it off right now. Really bad, to be honest with you. Yeah. Okay, it looks good. Hey, Uzi, you doing anything? Not really, what's up? Will you just like talk to me? Just like whatever. How are your kids doing, man? You know, they three of the four are actually doing good except my youngest one. He's sick. He's been home for the last two days. Oh, shoot. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah. Um with uh sore throat. They just moved up here, didn't they? Uh back in June. Oh, yeah. Starting their first school year here. Well, they start Yeah. And in Missouri, but they went they went to school back down in Texas. Um but yeah, they're in school right now and loving it. I just came from that uh PGA thing and I was outside the whole day the whole Yeah, it's uh... Were you working just traffic? So, we're there. They they have their own private security like dealer that works traffic. We're just there in case uh let's say Lucas and Hunt like backs up and or some like crash happens right in the entrance way so we can just quickly run and clear it out and get going. But it's more of us just being there for the presence. So, I heard that's a good gig. It's fun. I love golf. So, I saw there's um a South African golfer So, saw him play. Your uncle's not up here? No, he's he's with LIV golf. What's that? It's like the competition for PGA Tour. Gotcha. They're trying to replace the PGA tour I don't really know what I'm allowed to do right now. I really want to not even tell them about it. I just want to talk to my family right now. Yeah. I don't want them to be worried about me. Do you think I can just call them and tell them I'm okay cuz they're pretty freaked out. I got taken off the phone pretty quick. I'm just going to ask Bart real quick. Hey, can I ask you a question real quick? Can I My parents I didn't really get to talk to you. Can I just I'm not going to tell them what happened. Can I just call them and tell them that I'm okay and kind of okay cuz I it was real brief. So yeah. Okay. Your your dad will have more knowledge about what you what you should do. So call him just tell him. I would just say you're involved in a shooting. You're okay and you can ask him to come. Okay. Um so I'm okay. I I want to let you know. Um we were involved in a shooting is all I I guess I've been advised to say. Um, so if you guys want to come up here, they said you can. Um, it's up to you. Dang it, there I go again. Um, but don't be worried about me. No, I know. I just don't want you guys to be worried about me. I promise we're okay. Okay. I'm gonna get you some water. Okay. Hey, you have the best resource that you need on that phone right now. Okay. Okay. Scene's secure? Yes. We can uh we can we can terminate the camera. Everybody terminate. He took somebody that I I think I really need in my life. Tonight, a young daughter remembers her mother after she says a violent relationship led to a deadly crash in St. Louis County. The crash came after a multi-state police pursuit days after her death. Family reached out to us saying the woman's 12-year-old daughter wanted to be a voice for her mother. A brave young woman. Our Justina Coronel sat down with her today. Justina is in studio. Justina, it is heartbreaking, but she is um just amazing for for doing this. Absolutely amazing. Probably in all my years of reporting, this is probably one of the most moving interviews I've done, and she told me after we wrapped up that it was so helpful for her to do this. Now, 12-year-old Demiah Miller felt like she needed to use that mic to share a message. I want everybody to know my mom as a really strong woman and a really kind soul. A daughter's devotion and dedication to Delisha Evans. 12-year-old Demaya Miller is her mother's voice and carries a message. I know she's watching me and she thinks that I am strong cuz I live through her and if she's strong, I know I can be strong, too. And that's what she showed days after her mom was killed in what she calls a domestic violence relationship. I believe he he did more than just break her things, but I believed he physically abused her once or twice. The seventh grader and her four-year-old sister were close with their mom. That's why last week's silence was strange. The last time I saw my mom was Wednesday night. They lived in Texas. A mom had just broken up with 33-year-old Ryan Phillips. However, Phillips was at their home on Thursday. Took her and her little sister to school, but the 12-year-old noticed red flags. Demaya would later learn her home was set on fire. Police believe Phillips was the suspect. That same night, the worst possible outcome. They told me that my mom was no longer alive and neither was he. Family reported Evans missing. Police identified the primary suspect as Phillips, who drove the two from Texas to their hometown of St. Louis. A police pursuit soon led to a car crash and an exchange of gunfire. I think that my mom was dead September 5th of 2024 and she was just pronounced dead September 6th. I think he killed her Thursday and I think Thursday afternoon and I think he lied about it to my face. At just 12 years old, she's advocating for domestic violence awareness and it's her strength sharing a message for mom. Don't take your mother's life or your family member's life for granted because you'll never know when is the last time that you'll speak that you'll speak to them or that you'll hear for them ever again. Police say this is still an active investigation in its early stages and the autopsies could determine cause of death. Demaya and her little sister will now live in St. Louis with their father. They lost everything after that fire.