YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. GET THE SHOT FIRST. >> MORNING light over Camden County. The hum of traffic on I95. Another day beginning along the Georgia coast. A deputy's radar pings a little too high. A car slows to the shoulder. And what should have been a routine stop starts to bend towards something far heavier. One driver, one officer, and a moment that would change both lives before the sun was fully up. Pass. We're stopping. Change that to a two tank. >> Step out. Step out. >> For now, everything seems under control. The drivers pulled over. Following the deputy's signal without resistance, the scene looks calm, routine, even. But as every officer knows, on a quiet stretch of highway, calm can change IN A HEARTBEAT. >> GET OUT. GET OUT. PUT YOUR HANDS BACK HERE. I ain't doing [ __ ] Stand back here. Who are you? Staff Sergeant Sheriff's Office. My name is Yahwe. I don't care. Step to the rear of this vehicle. In the name of In the name of the STATE OF GEORGIA. STEP BACK here now or you're getting tased. Watch me now. Put your hands on the back of that truck. Do you see that? Put your hands on the back of that truck. Back of the truck. Both hands. Turn around. 34. Can you assume another unit compliant? 34. Your name is Staff Sergeant Holders with the Camden County Sheriff's Office. >> Camden County, put your hand behind your back. >> Do I have a Do I have a warrant? No, no, no, no, no, no. You put your hands BEHIND YOUR BACK CUZ YOU'RE GETTING TASED. I'M TELLING you that right now. >> Why am I getting tased? BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR SPEEDING AND RECKLESS DRIVING. >> IT seemed this wasn't going to be a smooth day. The driver had no intention of cooperating, convinced he'd done nothing wrong. But the deputy saw it differently. Moments earlier, the same car had sped past a patrol vehicle, pushing well over the limit. Now, standing on the shoulder of I95, two versions of the truth collided, and the question hung in the air. What price would he pay for it? >> Put your hands on the back of that truck. Do you see that? >> Put your hands on the back of that truck. >> The back of the truck. >> Both hands. Turn around. 34. Can send me another unit. One non-compliant. >> Your name is officer who? >> Staff Sergeant Aldridge with the Camden County Sheriff's Office. >> Who? Camden County, put your hand behind your back. >> Do I have a Do I have a warrant? Wait, wait. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Excuse me. Excuse me. >> EITHER PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK CUZ YOU'RE GETTING TASED. I'M TELLING YOU that right now. >> Why am I getting tased? >> CUZ YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR SPEEDING AND RECKLESS DRIVING. >> I'M not driving. Nobody was hurt. How was I speeding? >> YOU PASS ME DOING 100 MILES AN HOUR. >> OKAY. SO, that's a speeding ticket, right? >> Sir, tickets in the state of Georgia are criminal offenses. >> I don't have a ticket in Georgia. >> You do now. >> WHY? >> YOU PASS ME doing 100 miles an And what? I'M NOT GOING. >> HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. YES, YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL. HANDS BEHIND [screaming] YOUR BACK. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. YEAH, [ __ ] YEAH, [ __ ] [snorts and panting] Sit down. Stay [screaming] down. Stay down. CAPTAIN. SHOTS [screaming] FIRED. >> SHOTS FIRED. STAY DOWN. DO NOT [screaming] GET UP. STAY DOWN. Stay down. Stay down. CHRON. SUSPECT DOWN. CAN YOU SEND ME HELP? STAY DOWN. STAY DOWN. >> Stay down. >> Are you clear? >> STAND DOWN. DO NOT GET UP. You >> all right? Got back up coming. >> Yeah. Cover him. covering first aid. Drop the ad out of my trunk. Hey, you look at me. You ain't going no damn weather. You don't need nothing from me, right? I go or you >> get a statement from him. >> You want a statement real quick before I go? >> Yeah. >> God damn it. Stay home. Following Gunshots shattered the morning calm. No one could have imagined that a simple traffic stop for speeding would end this way. And perhaps the most stunned of all was Leonard himself. Medical aid rushed in, officers working frantically. But as the second slipped away, the question hung heavy in the air. Would Leonard get a second chance? Or was this where his story finally ended? 42 people coming on ship right now. Thank you. Watch him. Firearm. Where's his pistol? CVR start off. Press press press press 1134 Got a lot of blood. >> We're good. We just switched. >> We just swapped. Okay. >> We don't have breath. We got to keep going. >> We're good. We're good. We're good. >> Just keep We'll keep switching till we get here. >> We have We have to keep going. We got it. We got it. We got it. We're working on it. >> We're working on it. All right. We're good. Yeah, we're good. We're good. >> Uh, do we have a seal? >> Is it a >> Do we have gloves in there? >> Gloves. What you got? >> Uh, left side right here. >> Watch out, Cook. I got you. >> Get that shirt cleared. >> We're having to roll over here. >> Watch his head. Watch his head. Good boy. >> Got >> no gloves. >> I got him. I got him. >> No. Think so. I think so. >> Hey. Hey. >> All right. Watch out. >> Watch out. >> You got a post? >> I don't think so. >> No post. All right. We might have to get him on that. Get him on that back. Okay. >> All right. Since he ain't got a post, can we get them cuffs off? I'm about to be on his chest. >> All right. Watch out. Go over and get cuffs. Cups, cups, cups that this time. Got it. How long? About 3 minutes. 35 minutes. 45 minutes. >> Probably three. >> Not breathing or just with the gunshot itself. >> Not breathing. >> He was gasing when we I first got here. Uh it was gas and stopped. >> Oh. Leonard was a man who knew injustice firsthand wrongfully convicted of armed robbery. In 2003, he spent more than 16 years behind bars before being exonerated in 2020 thanks to the Florida Innocence Project. After his release, he spoke out often about second chances, about rebuilding, about faith in a system that once failed him. But fate had one last cruel turn waiting. From being a man freed from a wrongful sentence to dying at the hands of law enforcement, Leonard Cur's story became a tragedy that words can hardly hold. Ready? >> Oh [ __ ] >> All right. Ready? Yeah. Let me know when you're ready. >> All right. >> There. Thank you. All right, let it go. Thank you, Monique. >> That's up to you. Uh, >> by the time the highway cleared, one man was gone and another was facing questions that wouldn't end with paperwork. What started with a speeding ticket became a headline, a debate, and a wound that cut through more than just one county line. In Camden County, the morning calm hasn't felt the same since.