You're going to get shot. >> Stop. >> You're going to get shot. >> Stop it. >> Keep rolling. >> Don't move. Don't move. Near midnight in Albuquerque, 9:32 p.m. The kind of hour when the streets around Lis and Louisiana turn quiet, leaving only neon signs and the hum of passing traffic. Officers responding to an earlier call spot a lone figure moving through the dark, matching a [music] description they've been watching for hours. Flashing lights cut through the night as patrol units converge on the intersection. [music] Something is about to unfold on that sidewalk. Something no one on that corner expected to be part of. Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> The McDonald's CCTV had no audio, just silent frames under harsh fluorescent light. But even without sound, it's clear something went terribly wrong for the driver of the dark sedan behind him. Yes, the man in that black car had just been stabbed. And the person who did it wasn't a stranger on the street. It was the passenger sitting right beside him. >> Where's he at? >> Who's inside? >> Who are you? What was he wearing? >> Can you add William Adam? >> Hey, can you have 43? This is what happened. Can you take it off? >> I need to start walking out the McDonald's parking lot. Wherever you stay with breathe. >> Hey, you okay? What's your name? >> Hey, >> what's your name? >> Let's get him on the ground. Right. Come on. >> Get him on the ground. Get him on the ground. >> Come on. >> My pocket right here. Breathe. Breathe. Slow. Yep. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Step with me. Come on. Come on. Come on, dude. I need you to move. >> Is that seat belt off? >> Yeah. Come on. Come on. Step with me. Come on. Police. I'm going to help you, bro. Come on. There we go. There we go. Thank you, sir. Get that. Get that towel. >> You're going to die. >> What's your name, man? What's your name? >> Reuben Lero. >> Ruben Lero. >> Reuben. Okay, Reuben. Stay with us. Okay. >> Reuben. >> We got you, man. We got you. Okay. >> Reuben, what's your birthday? We'll get we'll get that. Okay. We'll get that information from you. Okay. Do you know what happened? >> I got you, Ruben. I got you. I got you. Well, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. Let me just give >> Okay. Do you know what happened? >> I got it. I got it here. Go ahead. >> Go ahead. >> If you can get any 49 Yeah. Um I think he's on foot. >> Is he on foot? >> I don't know. >> Okay. >> Did you see the guy on foot? >> Did we below that already? >> Yeah. >> Do you know him by anything? >> Did you see the altercation? I I see it this way and all I see is all I seen is running up that way and then she go help help and say stop me help me follow up that way. I turn around. >> So did you see him run this way or >> what was he wearing? Was that him right there? >> Blue spandex. >> So blue spandex. >> Yeah like jumpers >> blue shorts. >> Yeah. >> Blue shorts. >> Yeah. And we had a maroon shirt and an Adidas backpack and a blue. >> A gray hat. >> Black hat. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And 37. And was there already a bowl of the fender? But they uh mentioned a Adidas backpack and possibly a great IMA or SMA. >> Can we have 40 minutes, please? Officers reached the victim within minutes, working quickly to stop the bleeding, two deep wounds to the neck and chin. Yet somehow he held on with his condition stabilized. They turned to the next urgent task, finding the attacker. A direction, a description, and a city lit by patrol lights. The manhunt had officially begun. Now, it looks like suspect is causing us to get over to the gas station. Where'd he go? Where'd he go? He's in the middle. He's in the middle. Is that him? Is that him? In the middle. In the middle. Yeah. Heat. Police. You're going to get shot. You're going to get shot. You're going to get shot. You're going to get shot. Stop. Stop. You're going to get shot. You're going to get shot. Stop it. Stop it. >> Tired. Tired. >> Drop the knife. Drop it. Drop it. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. You're going to get You're going to get shot. Drop it. Drop it. Drop the knife. Drop [cheering] the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the Drop the knife. >> Drop it. >> Drop the knife. >> Drop it. >> Behind the Drop. >> Drop it. >> Drop the [ __ ] knife. >> Hey, behind the vehicle. >> Drop it. >> Hey, behind the vehicle. Cover. >> All right. >> Black shirt. >> Drop the knife. >> The person with the black shirt. Drop the knife. >> It's not secure yet. Careful. >> Let's walk up. We need We need to render a guy. >> Walk up. >> Hey, we're walking up. We're walking up. >> Keep rolling. Keep rolling. >> Keep rolling. Keep rolling. Keep rolling. >> Keep rolling. >> Don't [ __ ] move. Don't [ __ ] move. >> Okay. Cop him. Cop him. Someone cop him. Hey, he's not the stop. He's not the offender. He's a victim. He's a victim. >> Relax, man. Relax. >> We're going to be just >> south of you could start more units. We're going to have a large crowd at the gas station at Louisiana City. >> You okay? >> Yeah, I'm good. Chess, please. >> Come sit the money. >> All right, for now, bro. >> The price was steep, far steeper than anyone on that street deserved. Even an innocent bystander was pulled into the chaos. Paying for a moment they never saw coming. A cost the suspect himself could never have imagined. >> Did you get shot too, sir? >> Yeah. shut down. >> Stay right there. >> Yeah, secure. >> Hey, does he have any more? >> Stay right there. >> What do we need? >> Uh, we're trying to make sure he doesn't have any more. >> We need one over there. I know what hurt you, but >> that's a pretty >> Hey, we got an ambulance on the way, sir. Oh my god. >> He's not injured. >> Right now. I have washing tape in the uh top drawer of the back truck. >> Grab that >> and then uh see where we're going to block all this off. >> All right. >> Sir, stay with us. >> Stay with us, sir. >> Come on. >> Come on. Stay with me. You need another one. >> I think the dress on the one side. >> Oh, >> I don't know anything. I just got >> Oh, the [ __ ] is 43, >> George? 321 time. He needs Where's 43? We need to step it up now. >> Do we need a tank here for him, sir? >> No, he's gone. We need one more for him. >> Hurts. >> I'm just going to rip your shirt, sir. Hey Abby, start off from that pole around the ATM to the fence. Okay. >> From the ATM to the >> Yeah. So from that pole along the ATM to the fence where I am. >> Anything else there? I don't see anything. We just got to make sure you don't have any other uh wounds, sir. >> One, I can switch off. I haven't been doing it. >> Sir, stay with me. Nice shot, Max. Nice shot, Max. You guys good? Let me know when you're ready. By morning, the scene was cleared, but the questions were only beginning. Policies, procedures, and every second of the encounter would soon be analyzed frame by frame. For Albuquerque, it became one of those late night incidents that doesn't fade with sunrise. It's the kind that lingers, sparking debates about danger, response, and the choices made under flashing lights.