If you're struggling with depression and not feeling the comfort and peace that you need, I invite you to meet with missionaries like me from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We can help you lift your burdens through the gospel of Jesus Christ. >> He hit me so hard and then blood just started coming out from somewhere. I don't know. He tied me up and he was smothering me so hard. There was so many times I thought I was going to die. >> A frantic 911 call sends officers racing to a hotel where a woman says she's just escaped a man with a gun. But before officers can uncover the truth about what happened, the gun is turned on them. It's approximately midnight on March 22nd, 2024 when a call comes into dispatch in Chandler, Arizona. >> Hello. >> Hi, this is the police. I need you to answer some questions before officers get there. >> to I need you to I just need you to call. I'm hiding right now. He's in the room and I can't >> Tell me what's going on. Okay, how did he try to kill you? Okay, did he use a gun? >> He slashed me in the head. Everything you can imagine. >> The caller is a woman named Cammy who was just rushed out of a room at a DoubleTree Hotel. She's clearly frightened to light. With police on their way to the hotel, Cammy hands her phone to a hotel employee who relays more concerning news. >> She She's on the run outside. He's going out the west door. >> Oh, the male's leaving? >> Yes, he's trying to leave out the exit door. She's trying to stop him. She's going down the stairs. >> Okay, running down the stairs. Okay. Where >> Yeah, she's chasing out She went out the west door. >> Unbeknownst to the employee, police have just arrived at the hotel parking lot and have spotted Cody. But any chance for a peaceful confrontation is shattered almost immediately. >> I just heard the gunshots. >> You just heard gunshots? >> Stop right there. Stop. Right here in front of this car. >> Hector, he's still shooting. >> Okay, just stay safe inside, okay? Tell your employees to stay inside, okay? >> Amidst the chaos, one officer encounters the woman who chased Cody out of the hotel. >> Hey. Where are you? What's going on? Okay. Stay Stay right here. Stay right here. Stay right here. >> Drop the gun. Do you see his gun? >> Yeah, it's It's by the tire. >> Roll away from Roll to your left. Roll to your left. DO NOT MOVE. >> DROP THE GUN NOW. ROLL AWAY FROM IT. Do not move. >> With Cody on the ground and his handgun beside a nearby tire, officers move in, still unsure whether any of their own have been injured. >> He shot me right in my hip and my lower gut, okay? He's got me. He's got me. I shot him. I shot him. He's got me. He's got me, please. He's got me. Please, I'm going to die in my mom's arms. I want to tell my mom I love her. Please help me. Please. Please, I just want to tell my mom I'm dying, please. I'm in so much pain, please. >> EMS is called to the scene and while no officers were struck by gunfire in the shootout, Cody's injury needs immediate attention. He's rushed to the hospital and admitted into surgery. Once the scene is secure, police turn their attention to Cammie. She's back inside the hotel, shaken, badly bruised, and ready to reveal what happened behind closed doors. >> Hey, 2 3 hours. >> Are you okay? >> No. >> Are you Are you Were you shot in any way? >> No, he had he had he did the whole the gun to me. He smashed me in the head, choking me, smothering me. I was bleeding from my ear. Uh, he threatened to kill my grandchildren. >> What What room were you guys in? >> 2 3 3 >> We need to get that secured. >> I wouldn't get shot. >> I don't know, ma'am. >> How do you know this gentleman? How do you know him? >> Um Uh, it's a long [clears throat] story, but >> Okay. >> he abducted me. >> Cammie isn't referring to a recent abduction, but rather another terrifying encounter she had with Cody last year. She'll explain that incident and the complicated nature of their relationship in far greater detail later in the evening. For now, police need more information about what happened leading up to her 911 call. >> How long have you been staying in this room? >> Uh, 2 nights. >> 2 nights. When did you guys get there? >> 2 nights. >> 2 nights ago? >> He hit me the first day. >> He didn't hit you the first day? >> No. He's a recovering addict. >> Okay. So, 2 >> me up with this. >> Is there going to be other things uh in the room showing that you were tied up? >> There's blood on things. >> Okay. >> He hit me so hard and then blood just started coming out from somewhere. I don't know. >> Okay. Um so, I You that you just told me that that around your your wrist is something that he used. >> He tied me up and he was smothering me so hard. And so many times I thought I was going to die. >> Did you lose any Did you lose consciousness whenever he was choking you? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I thought I died. >> Okay. Do you >> kept doing it over and over again and saying I was a effing being punching me in the head. He hit me and then he got a torch out and he did burn me a little bit. >> Where did he burn you? >> I think it is right here. I don't know if it's kind of a scratch. He said he was going to burn my face. But he didn't. >> Officers can see that Cammie's injuries are extensive. Her interview is paused as EMS enters to assess her and she's eventually taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, others prepare to enter room 233. >> CHINO POLICE DEPARTMENT, ANYONE INSIDE MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN NOW. >> I DON'T >> ANYONE INSIDE 233. >> Inside officials find evidence of a violent struggle. The mattresses are displaced from their frames and blood is found on the bedding. At the hospital Cammie continues her story describing how the violence spiraled out of control. >> Security, he punched me really hard and then he kept hitting me. Like I was So I was driving him around. Um I slept in his clinic because he He used to be a drug addict. >> Mhm. >> Um he's supposedly recovering alcoholic and then when we were driving and today we he hit me in the head. And so when we got back to the hotel I told him he had to leave. And that's when things got uh uh really bad. >> Cammie estimates that the violence inside room 233 continued for 5 to 6 hours beginning early that evening. >> How fast can you make a 100 grand without having to do all the work? Well, I'm 23 years old and I decided I didn't want to sit at a desk and stare at numbers for the next 40 years. >> And ending only when she escaped. >> He took the bed sheet. He tied it around my neck so tight. And then he smothered me with a pillow and a blanket until I passed out. >> In their search of the room, police found the knotted bed sheet Cammy described discarded in a pile of other bedding. >> And he did that a lot, a lot of times because I wasn't I wouldn't stop um being loud. And he talked He was saying how all of us girls are the same. And then he also took a lanyard and he did it with a lanyard and he did I'm pretty sure he did it with a cell phone cord. He took my phone and he took my keys and he wouldn't give them back cuz he thought I was going to call 911. I tried to call 911 on the hotel phone and he ripped it out of the wall. >> Cammy says Cody even turned up the television trying to drown out her screams. >> So, when I went to go grab my phone he took it and that's when he just started beating me so bad. He threw me everywhere around the room. He took the gun out and he put it against my chest. >> According to Cammy, Cody had previously served time in prison. Police records also show a substantial arrest history including aggravated assault, burglary, and unlawful flight. As a convicted felon, he's prohibited from possessing a firearm, a fact that didn't seem to deter him. >> And how many times did you go unconscious? >> Let's say if he choked me 10 times I only lost consciousness maybe three. Like he put his mouth on me like to breathe into my lungs. >> He put his mouth on you like like in a CPR fashion or >> Yeah, he was in the bathroom. He was like washing his arms. I said, "What are you doing?" He was like, "I'm washing any evidence of you off of me." Right at the end he threatened me. >> Okay, at the end when you guys were inside the room? >> Right before I got away. >> Okay. >> on top of me. Um and he said that he was going to kill me. And I just fought really hard. He didn't get my clothes off or anything. And then he he kind of he laughed and then he went back in the bathroom. He just kept washing his arms. It was the weirdest thing. >> Cammie tells the investigator that she hadn't initially planned on inviting Cody to her hotel room. She'd rented it for a few quiet days away from her family, but she also wanted answers about another horrific encounter approximately 7 months prior. >> In August, um for reasons I don't know, he like basically abducted me from the um and I was at his house missing for 3 hours. >> Mhm.