Yeah. Fire's upstairs. Third floor. >> Hello. >> Back here. >> Ma'am, get back. >> Get back. Get back now. >> Back up. >> Back up. >> Back away from my house. >> Back up. >> It was all started with the knock on the door. On July 6th, 2021, when officers visited a guy named Eric Banks, it seemed like a simple family matter, a child custody situation. But what [snorts] followed would spiral into something far more disturbing. >> Gunshot victim. I got a door over here. Right. >> Moving. [music] >> Hey, how you doing? >> I'm doing good. Bossing yourself? I'm doing good. Uh affordable one. I'm out with him. >> What's going on today, man? >> He's supposed to be serving a piece of protective order. >> Supposed to be serving it on you or on >> both of us. >> Okay. >> The judge just ordered us to stay away from each other. >> Okay. >> Sit down, buddy. Sit down. >> Do you all have some sort of like court order agreement on custody or something? >> My oldest, I know he ran out the back door somewhere. All his stuff by the back door. >> He ran out? >> Yeah, cuz he got on the phone with her. >> Wouldn't answer what was going on. I said, "What's up? What's up?" She went, he wouldn't tell me. He said nothing. So, I already knew they was working together secretly. >> She uh he went out the door freaking >> What's going on, boss? I know you >> I know you're getting tired of seeing us. >> Where's DJ? >> She called him and he went out the back door. >> He's not here. >> No, you can you want to come in? >> Just let you know you're being >> Oh, hey, I know. I see you got the body cam. >> Um >> you ballroom. >> So, you don't have any idea where he went? >> He called her. She called him. I can't call her and talk to him for the call. >> The judge said she can call them. tell him good morning, good night, blah blah blah. >> Okay. >> She called him. He got I helped him carry all his stuff. I said she come to pick you up. >> She He was like, >> "Does he have a phone?" >> Huh? I took my I took my phones back. >> Okay. Yeah. So, >> all the phones are on my plane. Um separating everything. >> And you have no idea where you just let a 15-year-old walk out of your house with all his bags packed. >> No, his bags at the back door. I would I literally told him, "Wait for your mom to get here. She's supposed the police supposed to come here to serve her a piece of protective order." The judge told her to call you guys before she come to I'm not trying to get in trouble. >> I understand. >> So she's supposed to call you to come meet you. >> You have no idea where DJ is. >> Honestly, bro. No. I like >> with no phone or anything. >> You can check the ADT. It shows where he ran out the door. >> I believe you. But I mean, >> I'm not like I'm not going to fight. I'm not going to do that. >> I know. Listen, man. It's a 15year-old boy. Having a phone probably would have been if he's walking out of the house, probably would have been a good idea to leave him with. And you can work out those kinks later. >> But see, this is the thing. >> This is getting messy, man. >> Yeah. I tried to tell him. I I I said, "Sit here. Wait for your mom to get here." I went upstairs. I got to get ready to go. My lieutenant I can show you my phone. We just got off the phone. I informed him of everything before I can come downstairs. He's already going out the back door. So, she I guess she coordinated cuz she's somewhere in the area, I'm presuming. >> Yes. >> So, she pretty much coordinated with him to come out there. >> Okay. All right. Hang tight. >> All right. >> All right. So, he does not have a phone with her. >> No, I believe his his phone's probably still in his room. >> Okay. All right. >> What's going on, bro? >> All right. So, He was supposed to meet her at the subway. She's going up to see if he's there and call me back. >> Okay, no problem. >> And to grab his bag and what he's going to need. Okay. He's going to go with her. >> Okay. >> Um, you say his bag's packed. >> Yeah. You want to come grab with me? >> No. Why don't you go grab them and just leave them out here and then when she calls them, we'll get you guys inside. That way there's no there's no >> Okay. >> You too. >> I'm saying one of you want to come with me while I grab the bag. I don't want >> It doesn't matter. I mean, if you want you need help. Is that what you're asking? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. How you doing, little man? to lower it. You make him clear the back first and we'll be >> when I told him, "Hey, stay, you know, stay by the um door." >> That's it. >> All right. >> Treat you by literally supposedly dropping them off at my mouth. Let's see. >> Yeah, buddy. >> I'm just going to go around the back just in case. >> Okay. >> Yeah, he's uh he's tall, skinny with dreadlocks. >> Okay. radio. >> Hey sir, how you doing? >> Um, have you seen I don't know his name. He lives like at one of these houses here. He's about 15 with the dreadlocks >> called DJ, >> I guess. So, yeah, I don't know his name. >> No, the guy lives right next to him. >> Yeah, >> have not seen him recently. >> Okay. All right. He's not in any trouble. We're just trying to >> missing or something or >> almost missing. >> Almost missing. >> Yeah. Has been Hasn't been reported missing yet, but yeah, just seeing if you cuz he he went out this way. I was just trying to see if you saw him or anything, but Okay. >> All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> 222 from the court. He sound like when I called him from the court, he didn't. Hold on. Hold on. >> Hey, so uh what was uh DJ wearing? >> Um he had on dark color jeans. Um I think they black. He had on his Jordans. What color is that? >> Black with the white bottom. And I think he had like a orange I want to say. Go sit down, buddy. No, no, no. You don't need comfortable daddy right here. Go sit down. And I think he had like a orange shirt on. I want to say, >> you know, does he wear any >> He has dreads. No, he has like they're like >> they're like a dirt brown. It's not like it's brown. >> Okay, no problem. And just so I know like I know like his complexion. Is he about like your compion? >> He's about my complexion, about your height. Um, light brown eyes. Um, maybe 125 to 130 lb. >> Okay. >> Um, sk real skinny linky. Um, >> that's about it. >> Okay. All right. I just wanted to know so that way when we're looking for him now that we have like more of a description of what he's wearing everything he's looking okay if we have any other questions. >> All right. No problem. >> All right. Sounds good. handle. >> Hey bud, how you doing? >> Good. >> What's your name? >> Artz. >> Artz. Okay. Sorry. We're looking for somebody, but you're good. Don't mean to bother you. [laughter] Have a good one. >> I Okay, I'll go with you then to do that. I saw you point. I didn't know if you needed me or I just want to make sure he's not. >> That's fine. I'll do it with you then since we're here with >> Hey, can I make sure he's not? >> All right. All right. >> Where's his room? >> Straight up to the right. Sorry. [music] >> Excuse me. Go ahead, >> TJ. >> The one with the bunk bed right here. This is the kids' room. >> DJ, >> this is my room, right? [snorts] He's told us he's not hiding. Told him for helping me. There's not >> high enough. Okay. So, this all the way down. >> No, this is where my this is where my safe. >> Yeah. [clears throat] So, this is where my go. >> Okay. A little light on your side. >> Yes, sir. You got my light back. Okay. >> It might dim on you. >> What's up? 9:00. All right. What's up, bro? What's up? All right. >> Come on. Come on, guys. >> All right. Let's just go to the car, right? >> Yeah. Let's go to the car. You're good. You're good. >> Here. Let me move one thing out of your way. All right. Just see for me. All right. Okay, I'm just >> stay seated. >> All right. Yeah, >> I need you to stay seated. Okay. >> All right. >> I need you to do me a favor and jump in. Okay. >> All right. Go ahead. >> Can I Can I just kiss my boys real quick? No, I need you to stay in the car. Listen. >> Yeah, I got you, bro. Just let me kiss my boy. >> Stay in the car, >> bro. Just let me kiss my car. >> Stay in the car. >> Just I'm just saying like just let me just let me kiss my boy, bro. All right, I'm coming in the car. I'm going in the car. I'm not doing anything. I'm not doing that. I'm not faster. >> I'm not going back for me. >> All right. Do not get out. >> I'm not, bro. I'm not. >> Are you tight, bro? Can you Can you stay tight? What? >> The cops? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You declare. >> I'm not going to I'm not going to do anything. I pro swear to not just go ahead. >> I promise you. I promise. I can't I can't scoot there. Your seat belt like locked. >> I can't scoot. Like here. I promise you I'm not going to do that. >> All right. Just don't move. >> Yeah. >> All right. There's one. >> All right. You got to be I can't move my arm. Just [music] >> here. Listen. Just stand up. Turn around. Don't Don't do anything. I'm not stay in the car. Stay in the car. Stay up against. >> All right. Now, get back in. >> Hey, bro. I'm not. What are you doing? >> I just want to kiss my boys, bro. Just let me kiss my boy. >> Get back in the car. >> All right. Come on. Come on. Come on. Park off. >> Stay in there. You're not coming out no matter what. >> All right, bro. >> Stop moving. >> All right, I'll just put my right hand in my car. Keep my phone. >> No, don't touch anything. >> All right. >> Don't touch my mom. Come pick my boys up. >> Keep your hands over here where I can see them. >> All right. Keep Don't over here. Over here. >> I'm not taking it off. >> It doesn't matter. I need to You've already done this once. >> I'm telling you not. You didn't double lock them. >> I double locked both of them just now. >> They not. They not. Listen, I swear you they tighten. >> I'm telling you I did. >> All right. All right. >> All right. >> Just threw my life away. >> Just threw my life away. >> Just stop. What are you doing? >> I just threw my life away, bro. >> Will you stop? >> Okay. >> Stop unbuckling. What do you give my life away though? >> I don't care. Hey, listen. Stop. Just choke me. Stop. What are you doing? Just choke me. Just choke me. Choke. Get back. >> Just choke me. >> Just choke me. Just choke me. Adam, Adam, can you come back out here, PLEASE? HEY, GET OFF MY GUN. LOOK, just choke me. Just choke me. >> He's trying to grab a gun. Stop. Get in the car. Get in the car. Oh yeah. >> Burn them out. Burn them out. Burn them out. Burn them out. >> Can't go anywhere. It's over with, bro. >> I WANT Where's she going? Hello. Somebody I got to start. Who's going to go next? Can we get a OPA? Can we get BBM ventilation started, please? All cars signal 13. Signal 132 14 flight 14. >> Coming in. >> Hey man, house is clear. It's got to go down. >> Okay. >> Fire's upstairs working one. >> I don't know if he's a gunshot victim. I got a door over here. Right. Moving. >> We're still clearing the house. Fire's upstairs. Working one. >> Stand by. Right. >> Yeah. 148. >> Oh, rest of the house is clear. >> I mean, body clear. Hey, do >> a secondary. >> Yeah. Fire's upstairs. Third floor. HELLO >> back here. >> So what's the injury? >> No injury that we find straight off. >> Okay. >> What's going on? So come here from child custody son. He doesn't have custo. He says he's backward backward. He ran backward. He must have been car. >> Ma'am, get back. Get back. Get back now. >> Get back. >> YES. >> Back up. >> Back up. >> Away from my house. >> Back up. >> My son's in there. >> I understand that the fire department is working right now. >> I have no idea, man. >> But I need to know he's my son. I have no idea. It's not It's not a I can't tell you. I literally don't know right now. >> Oh, Jesus. No. He is my son. He hurt my son. >> No. >> We're trying to figure that out, ma'am. >> Stop. Stop. Stop. >> I can't stop. Yes, you >> on my wrist. I can't stop. Turn me on my side cuz my hands going up. >> Yeah. My hands going up. >> Hold on. >> I told you you broke it. It's numb. >> All right. Stay where you're at. Stay here. >> I left here, but I told you. I'm moving your lanes. >> All right, you're on your side. Stop moving. >> I'm done. >> Is he coming? >> Yeah. >> That's enough. >> Okay, go. >> Go. >> I'm going. >> Be gone. I'm going. >> See who I got. >> Hey. Hey. >> It would also be helpful if we got medications and any kind of medical history and whether or not he doesn't need street drugs. Thank you. >> I don't remember hitting a car. >> What was the situation? >> I have no idea. I just got here. He just called for more units for backup. >> Okay. >> Can you do me a favor? Find out what happened so we know that has >> So gets here for the the child custody dispute. This dude, >> this is the same incident, right? >> This is the same incident. All the same incident. So he goes in, starts checking the house cuz the son's texting mom saying, "Hey, I'm I'm out. Deuces. I'm I'm rolling out this guy, >> right? Son son who's upstairs. There's a 15-year-old kid upstairs right now. Unresponsive fire. >> The son's phone when he said his story was he tapped the phone because he's leaving about 8. >> The son said he was leaving. That's upstairs >> possibly. >> Is this the bed? >> This is the bed. >> Okay. So, what else is inside other than that? >> There's two two males that are okay. >> They they were outside. Is there trauma in the 15year-old? But but how so? >> Well, I I couldn't get any calls. I couldn't get anything. >> Okay. Cuz he have extra holes that he's not supposed to. >> I need y'all to move back there. Okay. Past the crime scene line. Okay. Your shoe. >> I need to go back to my big. Not my >> Listen, everybody. I know that this is your house, but for right now, can you all move behind that line over there? >> Sure. >> Just until we can figure out what we got going on here. Okay. >> Yes, ma'am. >> That's my son house. Okay. Well, right now we need you to stay back behind the line here. You see the trees with the crime scene line? We need you to stay back there. Okay. >> Beside her. >> Uh, right now we can't talk about that. Okay. >> We just need you to stay back there. Okay. >> Where's my son? >> Right now, we'll talk with you in a second. Just do me a favor. Go back. Okay. I'm going to talk to you here very soon. Okay. >> Do we have any sort of information out there? >> He he right now he is uncooperative. >> So, I just want to get a preliminary diagnosis from you guys. Right now it appears medical but we cannot 100%. >> Stay with them. >> Yes, sir. >> Holy. >> Are you guys good? He didn't >> The one guy didn't attack any of you guys. >> Okay. >> Did anyone clear that behind you? >> That attic space. >> No. >> Okay. My >> I just don't want anyone to be here. >> Second pre-charging. >> Someone trip on the wire right there. >> My bad. >> 5 4 3 2 1. Do you see anything in there? >> Oh, just a safe. Okay. >> Hey, >> stop. Come here, buddy. Hey, what's your first name? >> Eric, bro. >> Darren, sit up with me, buddy. Just sit up. Sit up right here. All right. All right. Ready? I'm going to get up with you. Okay. 1 2 3. >> It looks like he was city police. the the dead, >> which I think I So, it's a veteran. I don't know if he had PTSD or but it looks like someone nailed the kid under the >> into the attic, right? >> Nailed it in there. >> Yeah. Like screwed him in. >> So, I think this is going to be >> When's the last time he was seen well by someone? >> I have mom knows that information. If you ask mom, she knows. Yeah, I'm good. >> They're um they're on their way out. On the way up. Yeah, I'm going to ride in the hospital in the ambulance. Okay. >> He wants to die. Claim he has a broken wrist. I told him that he want a medic. I said, "We'll take you directly to the hospital." He said, "Okay." So that's how I convince him to stay home. Okay. So he's going down as an EP now 100%. He wants to kill himself. Are you able to get out of this situation? Like to drive away? Yeah, you and boss you're going. Actually, stand by. Let me see if I've got a uh tank. >> Who do you have today? >> Uh I can't I can't sis. >> You sis and boss. You're going to the hospital. >> Okay. >> How does how does it preliminary >> harbor? >> Okay. >> He's he's flatline. Nothing good's happened. >> But because of his age and the fact that he he was wet, it might have been a drowning. was just we got a few straws, but we're not going to stop working and leave him here. We're going to BWMC. I didn't see any obvious drama, but given all the drama, Lord knows what he was doing. >> Okay, fair enough. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Your folks that got here first, I think, did a hell of a job. I got here last, but >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> This isn't easy. We got him. >> Yep. And then have you already taken him or he's still upstairs? >> Oh, no. They're transitioning down. I was just making a reservation at the hospital. I have everything controlled outside. >> Okay. >> Yeah, we had the the lock knocked off. Well, I called for another medic unit to possibly help you with sedation with that fool. I didn't know how bad it was. >> No, we got him out of here. >> Excellent. >> Okay. All right. So, he was he was fighting fast and he called for me to come out. He was saying, "I want you to shoot me. Why don't you shoot me?" So, I don't know. Alcohol weapon >> that should be documented. >> Well, you're going to be writing supplement. >> I got you. I didn't know why at the hospital to eat out as well. >> No, we'll deal with that. >> Okay. >> Um, you can just chill. I just needed you to chill and calm down for a little bit. >> If you if you want to go sit in your car in the AC and just sit down for a minute, >> you should probably do that. >> All right. I just want to make sure he was making >> I got you. I got you. >> So, his pants are soaking wet. >> Okay. >> And they said they found him in there. There's a little little bit of water in there. >> They got insulation all over them. You can see where the plywood broken off, right? >> I didn't get a chance to look up there. It's safe there. Let me first >> that I don't know. >> Yeah. I'll let my uh >> You can see I can't go through the hole up here or anything. >> That's all right. Here. >> I'll let my C work with it. >> Yep. >> Thanks, sir. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Uh-huh. >> Show's over. Thanks for coming down. >> It's It's all over now. Um he's in custody. >> It was a child custody. I don't have all the pieces. So, um, trying to f the dispute, ends up something gets, uh, the wild hair, you know, feels something's wrong, goes upstairs, finds this kid in like a crawl space back in his bedroom with, uh, drywall in front of it. >> But, we're all clear in the house and everything. >> House is clear. Kids in there. >> House has been cleared like two or three times over. So, >> um, I told Sarge when I got out of my car when I got here, >> I must have hit someone or something cuz my side view here mirrors. We'll take care of it. Okay. I just didn't I didn't want to let you I didn't want to not lie to you. >> That's a whole other That's a whole other thing, dude. Don't even worry about that. >> I didn't want to lie to you, sir. I just wanted to tell you. >> I I think that call is sitting on the sitting on the stack right now. >> Okay. That I just didn't want to find out for someone else. >> I'm not worried about that. >> Yes, sir. Um I'm going in the front. I got >> I'm riding in the front. >> Eric Banks was suspended from the Baltimore [music] Police Department. He entered an Alforded plea of seconddegree murder and attempting to [music] disarm a police officer and was sentenced to 42 years in prison.