What's up, man? Welcome back to the channel, man. It's your boy Hood News Cash. We got one that happened in my state. Um This happened about 25 minutes from me. If you can see from the title and the thumbnail what's going on, you know, um this one is is crazy. I covered this story, but my video just wasn't as good as Doctor Insanity video because I just couldn't get all the footage that he got. But shout out to Doctor Insanity, man, for bringing us this exclusive from Arkansas, man. And this is this is a crazy one, man. 50 SWAT officers face off against Arkansas hospital shooter, man. Uh be sure to hit that like button, sub button. Hey, and another thing, too. I know a lot of people probably are upset about the face showing. Man, with YouTube and the new updates, man, YouTube want channels to show their face more, man. You know, and this is what we got to do sometimes, you know. Hey, but it is but but let's get right into the video. 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Just minutes earlier, about a dozen gunshots were fired from somewhere inside, and now the entire building is on lockdown. >> Police, >> who's the shooter? >> We don't know. >> Hey, I actually showed up this day and did a personal live video. I was outside the hospital this day. >> The victim is 10-7, yes. >> State police got the bird up in the air, so they're covering the rooftop. >> Hands! Hands! Hands! Hands! >> The shooter has already claimed his first victim, and with no idea what his next move is, police are racing against the clock to find him before he takes more innocent lives. >> Attempt entry into ICU 2 minutes ago on the second floor. >> The entire hospital is on lockdown. The shooter has not been located. >> This way. This way. Just go that way. >> Hands! Hands! Hands! >> It's around 10:00 a.m. on September 28th at St. Vincent North Hospital, one of the hospital's busiest times of day. Surgeons are mid-procedure with patients lying unconscious. Suddenly, about a dozen gunshots ring out from somewhere inside the hospital, throwing the entire building into chaos. Moments later, 911 calls begin flooding in. >> Sure, 911, what's the address of emergency? >> Uh we're at St. Vincent's Hospital. I don't know what happened. We heard gunshots and we went up the unit's elevator. >> Sure, 911, what's the location of the emergency? >> Uh St. Vincent's. Active shooter in the lobby. Shots fired in my way. >> It's right outside your room? What room are you in? >> 105. >> How many shots did you hear? >> About 10. >> Approximately 10 minutes after the 911 calls, an army of law enforcement is surrounding the hospital. State police, SWAT teams, the FBI, a bomb squad, and even a helicopter watching from above. >> Cam, can you do me a huge favor? Can you identify where your people are? We can kind of figure out what we got out here. >> 10-4. >> Okay. >> The plan is to lock down every exit, evacuate civilians, secure the building, and locate the shooter. But that's easier said than done because St. Vincent North is only one of two hospital buildings on the same campus. Inside, there are more than 70 rooms, a maze of hallways, and about 20 exits to cover. They prepare to rush into the hospital, but the odds are in the shooter's favor. >> Where are they? >> I don't know. I think that's >> Where is the Is that where they're at? >> That's where the stroke victim is. >> Where is the stroke victim at? >> Blue blue. >> Sheriff, property door. Blue blue blue. Blue blue blue. >> This is the ER. >> All right, I got that. >> Where are the ER patients? >> With no confirmation on the shooter, officers are left with no choice but to treat everyone inside as a potential suspect. If they're not careful or patient enough, things could go terribly wrong. >> Like, they got to search. They got to search the entire hospital. Like, do you know how many rooms it is in a hospital and having to search and treat everyone like a suspect while holding an assault rifle. Man. >> Just moments later, that danger becomes very real. >> Cross over. Take him out. >> All right. I would love to go home. >> Clear. >> No doors over here. >> Yeah. >> I'm going to use my idea, FBI. >> Clear. Clear. >> Show me your hands. >> Hands. Hands. >> Show me your hands. >> Walk out slowly. >> Okay. That's fine. >> Walk out. >> Miraculously, the man inside turns out to be a patient. Had officers acted too >> See what I'm saying? See? See how dangerous that is? Didn't I just say that? They finna They finna shoot a patient. Like, come man. >> Quickly, an innocent civilian could have been killed. This shows just how delicate the situation is and the immense pressure officers are working under. But, the lack of the suspect's identity and his goal is only their first problem as a much larger issue begins to emerge. >> Call me. I got cross. Go around through. Call A. Say hey, George. >> We are leaving too many locked doors, guys. >> We got a freaking problem with locked doors. >> All right, here. Watch out. >> No, we We just came from the GI. He's back there. >> Go away to the left. >> All right. All right. >> Hey, who's got the keys for these doors? >> He's coming. He's coming. He's coming. >> You got three stack ready to go. You're going in with us? >> Yeah, I'm going >> All right. Four stack ready to go. >> Most of the rooms are either locked or barricaded by patients and staff. Officers have no way of knowing who's behind each door, and checking them all in a hospital this big would take too much time. Quickly, they begin to realize they are at a severe disadvantage. So, they shift their focus to the fourth floor where the 911 calls first place the shooter. It's a decision they won't realize is a mistake until much later. They waste no time and rush for the stairs to confront the suspect unaware he has already claimed his first victim. >> Ready? >> Yep. >> Take it. >> Hey, green light. >> Which way is straight? >> That's enough. >> Which way? [snorts] >> No, squeeze out. >> Put up. >> What do you got there? Did you call? Where is it at? >> He He left. >> He left? >> He left it at >> Okay. >> the stairs. >> Sit down. >> Man, she can barely talk, y'all. I can only imagine the trauma she's going through, bro. >> You're okay. >> He went to the south side. >> He did? What is >> We moved him. >> There was another victim in there. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. I need to go with this officer here. Go with him. And then he's going to get some information from you. It's over here. Get the door. It's clear. >> The victim appears to be a male visitor in his early 20s shot multiple times in the body and head. Tragically, he's already gone, leaving officers with no clear lead on the shooter who's already fled the scene. Despite this, the shooter isn't far from the officers. In fact, he's just one floor beneath them, making his way through the hospital. Meanwhile, officers are still operating at a complete disadvantage. They don't know who he is, what he looks like, or what his end goal is. But, that's about to change. >> Okay, I need to go with this officer here. Go with him. And then, he's going to get some information for me. >> Yeah, we can do that. He is about 5'8". He's a very skinny, um, white dude. He had blue jeans and I think a black shirt on. Kind of sunken in. >> Blue jeans and what What kind of shirt? >> Black shirt. Just T-shirt. I believe his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend is in another room, and his mom is calling her, and I told her not to answer the phone, but she probably has a picture of him. >> And And what room? 409? >> No, she I moved her to 410. >> What the nurse tells officers makes one thing clear. They need to speak with the ex-girlfriend, as she may be the only person who can identify both the shooter and the victim. They don't waste time, and an officer approaches her room to speak with her. What she reveals becomes the breakthrough the officers have been waiting for. But, before we get to that, I want to talk about something else that's important, too. For almost a year, I've had this discomfort with my ear, and the officer who's about to learn a crucial piece of information about the man they're hunting. >> And what's your name? >> Jade Pi. >> Jade Pi? And who was here with you? >> My fiance. >> The one that >> This is the one. His name is Layton Whitfield. >> What is it? >> Layton Woodard. >> Do you know who the shooter was? >> Yeah, it was AJ. >> AJ Lovett? AJ Lovett? >> In this room. She was She was the She was the patient who was the >> After what feels like hours of uncertainty, officers finally know exactly who they're looking for, Raymond Allen Lovett Jr., also known as AJ, Jade's ex-boyfriend. He was in the hospital visiting her after she was hospitalized with a high fever. However, Jade has a secret and is withholding crucial information from the officers. One officer picks up on that hesitation and decides to press further. A decision that will reveal just how dangerous AJ really is. >> Let's just start off with what happened today. >> I got on the phone with Cindy and she was like, "AJ wants to come up there to make sure you're okay." >> It's okay, just take your time. >> He comes up here. Here, asking me about my health, you know. Asking me about my fiance. Asking if we're going to get married or anything. I don't really care. I'm planning a wedding. That's [music] my future right there. He was like, "How long have y'all been together?" And we were like, "It's going to be 3 years in November." And then right after that, shots were being fired. >> How many shots do you think? >> Four. >> Four? >> Two in his cheek and two in his neck, I believe. After that, he slid the gun out, pulled it, pulled it to me, and I tried to press the button. I was pressing this thing, but I wasn't looking cuz I was just trying to get someone in here. And I was screaming. And then after he heard someone calling, he just walked out so calmly, like he had doing things. >> Are they friends? >> They don't know each other. That was the first time they ever met. >> How long have you known AJ? >> I guess you can say 8 years. >> 8 years? Why do you think AJ would have done this? >> He literally said to the nurses after he killed my fiance that he got what he deserved. My fiance, our relationship wasn't ideal, but he completely changed himself to be a better person. >> All right, thank you. We'll be arriving >> And I'm I'm [clears throat] so proud of him. >> Does AJ think Layton was a bad person? >> Yeah, he didn't want to hear it. He was like, if he was already a bad person, so he didn't think he's probably he's still going to be one now. Layton was a good person. He didn't deserve it. >> I believe that. Uh, I really believe that. >> Well, it sounds like Jade's relationship with Layton, her fiance, was volatile at times. Something she told AJ, her ex-boyfriend, about. What she shared with him pushed him towards a dangerous conclusion, that he had no other choice but to do something about Layton. And having already crossed that line, and based on the way AJ left the room, officers can't rule out the possibility that he may lash out again, especially towards anyone he believes wronged Jade. But AJ continues to be one step ahead. Right now, he's taking the most obvious route out of the hospital, and the one they least expect, the main elevator. At the same time, officers rush down floor by floor, securing each and every room, hoping they will intercept him before he takes another victim. >> Police department, anybody in here? Hello? Is it by yourself? Here, I'm going to let this door open. >> Okay. Okay. >> Police department. You're the only one in here? >> I'm not. >> All right. Walk away down the whole fourth floor is being cleared, so >> The fourth floor? >> Yeah. So, that's the ICU. >> They're locked in. >> Yeah, they're locked in. You guys okay? Okay. Team already been through here? They already made contact with you, okay? They keep the doors locked, okay? >> The fourth floor is clear. >> Just made contact with team on ICU, third floor is clear. Moving our way down to two. >> Officers have now fully secured the fourth and third floors. At the same time, a second team has been working its way up the building clearing the first and second floors. Now, they're moving up the stairwell to meet the other team and coordinate their next move. But, they're about to face another issue. >> We have a male inside the hospital. >> Hold up. Hold up. >> Sorry, second floor. Code in the emergency, second floor. >> That's the floor? We just went down, so >> Even though the team had just cleared the second floor before moving up, AJ somehow managed to be there at the same time, slipping through their fingers once again. With no other choice, officers immediately turned back, racing down to the second floor, desperate to find him. >> Code blue, code blue. >> All right, coming through. Coming through. All right. Yep. I'm on top. I was right there with you all right. >> All right. Just check behind the door. >> For yet? Can you show your hands first? You find the equipment there? >> This is Sheriff Police. You're safe. You can step out. Is he back there with you? >> Did you make by yourself? >> Come on back. Come on back. So, you're back there by yourself? >> No lie, she hid good. Look at her, y'all. She Hey. Hey, when your life on the line, you going to do some crazy stuff. And look what she did. She She survived. >> Okay, come on. Nobody else is with you. Okay, come on. Come on, honey. You're safe. We got you. All right, come on. You come with me, okay? >> All right, two doors. >> Yeah, you think you're like me? I'm searching nothing. I don't want nobody. Go ahead. Sir, are you by yourself? >> As they clear the remaining rooms, officers encounter patients trapped in hospital beds and surgeons still operating mid-procedure. Dozens of defenseless people are still inside the hospital, and if AJ crosses paths with them, they stand no chance. Police need to move faster before the inevitable happens. >> Police department. Hey, where are they at up front? >> Like right in the main of the building. >> All right, so can you exit out of this door? >> Yeah. >> So, what we going to do Hey. >> Come on. I'm going to be with you. >> Hey, everybody's going to exit out of this door. I'm going to be in front. He's going to be behind you. But, everybody in this office need to exit out the door. >> Officers have now secured the entire building, and there's no trace of AJ anywhere. Somehow, he's managed to escape completely unnoticed. Exactly how he pulled that off would remain a mystery until much later. And while officers in the first building are left with no answers, a team in the second building is on the verge of a breakthrough. They've come across a woman who claims to know exactly where AJ is. Speaking with officers is Melissa Lovett, AJ's sister. She arrived at the hospital just minutes earlier after AJ told her he had murdered someone. According to Melissa, AJ plans to end his life on a trail at Pinnacle Mountain State Park. That possibility, however, is quickly ruled out because AJ has one more surprise in store for police. One final 911 call. A gas station employee located 15 miles from the St. Vincent North Hospital reports that a man has disarmed himself inside the store. Officers rush there immediately. After evading police for over 2 hours, slipping through their fingers and outsmarting them at every turn, they're finally going to meet their killer. >> Watch out. Watch out. Who's this? What's your name? What's your name? What's your last name? What's your last name? 80 communications. Notify everybody at the Baptist and Sherwood that we do have Raymond Lovett here. >> He's got bullets in magazine. Let's get him out. Stand up. >> Hey, I ain't got a I got a gun. >> I got We're fine. Where's your car at? >> It's not here. >> Where's your car at? >> It's not here, sir. It's not my car. >> How'd you We'll go to this car here, okay? >> Okay. >> Do you have anything else in your pockets? >> Yeah, bullets in here. >> All right. We'll put them right here. >> I don't have any weapons. >> Okay. All right. We'll sit back here, buddy. >> After AJ is put in the back of [music] a patrol car, he's transported to the station and placed in an interrogation room. Even though he surrendered voluntarily, this interview is critical. [music] Despite the overwhelming evidence, AJ still has ways to lessen the consequences. His voluntary surrender gives him leverage, and with Jade reluctant to speak openly about her relationship with AJ, he's now the person controlling what detectives learn about. >> [music] >> Interrogating him is Drew Edwards, a veteran of the Sherwood Police Department with more than a decade of experience, currently serving as a police captain. AJ's interrogation begins, but almost immediately, the detective is facing his first issue. >> How you doing, Raymond? Hey, so I'm Detective Edwards with the Sherwood Police Department. So, we pretty much have a lot of evidence for this case. So, we're just trying to get talk to you, get your side of the story, and clear some things up. So, do you want to talk to me? >> I want to talk to you, but I just I don't know if I really should. I feel like I should talk to my lawyer first, or a lawyer first. I just feel like people are trying to nail me to the cross. >> Needless to say, AJ's first words are the last thing Detective Edwards wants to hear. Edwards' next move will decide whether AJ keeps talking or asks for a lawyer, ending any chance of hearing his unfiltered account. >> So, I just want to let you know that I talked to a lot of your family members, and every single one of them have pointed to the fact that you're not a bad kid. You're not a bad guy. What you did was for a reason. >> Sir, I lost my mind. I mean, that's point blank. >> Yeah. So, after the incident, how did you leave the hospital? >> I got to the elevator, and that's about when it it really started to to sink in, and I was freaking out. I heard them call over the intercom saying that there was an active shooter, and I was in the elevator going like for the button when I had heard the intercom. >> Okay. >> Uh my my brain was all over the place in that moment. I got off on whatever floor I can't I don't know what floor it was. I don't think it was the first floor. It was one of the other floors. >> Did you talk to some like nurses or anything? >> Yeah. I started asking people like, "Where's the exit?" and stuff. At that moment, all I could think of was like, "Oh god, they're going to come up here and kill me. They're thinking there's somebody here shooting everybody." At some point, I had found a stairwell, and that's how I got out of the hospital. >> Okay. So, did you leave out the front entrance the way you came in? >> I don't know, sir, to be honest. I don't know which entrance I The side, maybe. >> Okay. >> Clearly, [snorts] AJ didn't have an intricate escape plan after committing the murder. Yet, he still somehow managed to slip past a law enforcement army. In that moment, AJ had a brief but crucial advantage that the detectives are yet to learn about. For now though, the focus is another question. How did AJ escape the hospital area after leaving the building? For a second time, AJ had made the most obvious choice and somehow it worked flawlessly. >> I guess my next question, where did you park your car at? >> Well, like when I pulled [music] in to the hospital, I I pulled over to the left of that entrance. So, I guess if you were coming out of the hospital, I was like towards the towards the back. I I had already decided like I need to turn myself in. I knew like that was my only logical move. I knew like if I turn myself in that the car would probably get impounded and like it's not my car. That was uh my girlfriend's car. Uh Haley Martin and you know, she's pregnant and stuff, but I was trying to look out for her too and cuz I knew she needed the car. >> Right. >> And so, I I left the car there and that's when I left. And somewhere along the way I said, "You know, I'll just go to the gas station and ask to borrow their phone." >> Okay. >> And so, that's what I did. >> How an army of officers and even a helicopter overhead failed to spot AJ from right outside the hospital remains a complete mystery. What stands out however, is that AJ has a pregnant girlfriend, yet he was visiting Jade, an ex-girlfriend of his in the hospital. Clearly, [snorts] there's something detectives are missing about his relationship with Jade. So, they ask him and once AJ starts talking, a lot of things start to make sense to them. >> My big question is um that we've been like trying to figure out and we've been getting kind of like mixed answers on is your relationship with Jade. If you could just touch on that, like when when you first met her, how y'all's relationship progressed? >> For years, I mean, I guess you could say we were more like brother and sister, but we weren't related or anything. Over the years, I started to become I fell in love with her. And then, I think she loved me. I She said she loved me, but after a while, we had a small relationship. It was It was brief. Her dad didn't approve, and he stepped in, and that was that, pretty much. >> Okay. Was there a reason why he didn't want y'all talking to each other? >> He just didn't approve, honestly. Didn't want her with me. For whatever reason, I I couldn't tell you. >> Couldn't tell me? >> Maybe it's cuz to him, we were more brother and sister. I don't know. >> How did y'all meet? I I don't think I asked that question. >> Through Bobby, her father. When him and my stepmom started dating way back when, that's like initially like when I met them and stuff. And we were all kids at the time. >> All right. Y'all lived together and everything, or no? >> I wouldn't say lived together, but yeah, there were times where like I spent the night over there and stuff like that. Yeah, but we didn't like live together. >> Although they never lived together, AJ's mother and Jade's father were at one point in a relationship. That alone was enough for Jade's father to disapprove when he found out about AJ and Jade's inappropriate relationship. Having that relationship severed, however, didn't make AJ's feelings for Jade disappear. If anything, the way he speaks about her suggests the opposite. According to AJ, years had passed since and both had apparently moved on from each other. Until before the hospital shooting, Jade's father passed away. Naturally, family and friends gathered around her to support her through the loss, including AJ. That night, Jade and AJ spent the night talking to each other. Their conversation inevitably became the catalyst for Layton's death, and this detective is about to learn exactly why. >> I I I thought they were broken up or whatever. Right. I didn't realize that they were actually still together until you know, I heard that he was up there visiting with her and stuff like that, and I just kind of put two and two together. Like, and she told me herself that he like choked her out and hit her and stuff like that in the past. [music] Just the other night she was telling me about how like he bit like he left a bite mark on her and >> Was this at the hospital? Was this at the house? >> This was at the house before she went to the hospital and stuff. [music] I guess you could say I was just trying to make sense of it, you know, like why are you still even talking to him? Like you admit that he put his hands on you. >> What AJ tells detectives suggests that when he left Jade's house, he genuinely believed she and Layton were no longer together. That misunderstanding became a recipe for disaster the very next day when AJ goes to visit her in the hospital unsure of her condition, only to find the man she claimed had been abusing her was already there. But there's a serious issue with all of this. >> I ain't going to lie, that's a long cigarette that boy got in his mouth. Y'all see how long that cigarette is? That cigarette long. That's a long one, man. >> Intentionally or not, AJ has been laying the groundwork for a powerful legal defense, framing himself as not the aggressor, but as the protector. And so far, the detective has unknowingly been playing into AJ's favor by not challenging his claims at all. So in a desperate attempt, he asks one final question. Moments later, AJ reveals a single detail that completely destroys everything he's been hoping for. >> Uh I have one other question, and it's probably going to be the most direct question that somebody's going to ask you about this case. If you don't mind me asking, why did you shoot? >> When he came into the room, I just had this this wave of anger that came over me. And like, I knew I couldn't just bash the out of him, not while Jay was right there. I was shaking and I like sat down on the bed. I looked over at him and he was looking at me and he just had like this stink eye, like a mean mug, you know? Felt like he knew like I was like we had a thing at one point or something. I don't know, but he was mean mugging me. I was about to leave and I swear to God I was about to leave and I was telling myself in my head, you need to go. I said like, I don't know what's true and what's not true, but if I if I hear something about you putting your hands on her again, it's not going to be good for you. And he like started fidgeting, about to get up. I said, if you get up, I'll kill you. And I showed him that I had a gun. For whatever reason, he got up out of that chair anyway. The moment he got to his feet, I just I let him have it. >> How many times did you shoot? Do you remember? >> [sighs] >> When I think about it and there was only one round left in my gun. I knew I fired at least 12 shots. I don't know how many times I hit him. I just kept going. And I and I don't know why. Like, I don't know why I kept going, but I kept going. >> Okay. What did you What did you tell Jay before you left? >> I don't think I told her anything. I don't remember that. I shot the [ __ ] out of him and I remember her like crying and freaking out and that's like when I left. >> Okay. >> How screwed am I? Am I getting nailed to the cross here? Because I swear I'm not a bad guy. I just I snapped. >> Did he really just say, I swear I'm not a bad guy, I just snapped and you shot someone 12 times in a hospital? Did he really? Chat, did he really just say that he's not a bad guy and he shot someone in a hospital. >> I'm not to nail you to the cross. >> How long have you been in a relationship with Haley? >> Um over 3 years. >> Did Haley ever know that you were going to go see Jade or talk to Jade or anything about that? >> No, I didn't tell her that I was going to go visit her. >> All he had to do was stay in his [ __ ] chair. That's all he had to do. Just stay in that [ __ ] chair and I would have [ __ ] walked out and that would have been that. But he just [ __ ] he just had to [ __ ] get up. >> Well, we're going to get out of here and I'll ask about the visitation thing for you. They can >> Uh [snorts] >> And another thing, we're going to go talk to to Haley after this. Do you want us to tell her anything for you? >> Just just tell her I love her and I'm sorry. >> Okay. We can do that for you. >> And tell her I said be strong. >> [laughter] >> Detectives wrap up AJ's interview and keep him in custody. By now, one thing is unmistakably clear. AJ fired more than 12 times at an unarmed man who posed no danger to him, continuing to shoot even after killing him. He then proceeded to point the gun at Jade and brags that Layton got exactly what he deserved, something AJ claims he doesn't remember. After his interrogation, AJ was placed in jail awaiting trial. Not long after, another discovery was made. A forensic analysis of AJ's phone reveals a message [music] he sent to his mother just minutes before the shooting. I should kill this boy right now. By this point, the evidence against AJ was overwhelming and prosecution was no longer a question of if, but when. In the period leading up to trial, investigators made one final discovery explaining his perfect escape. Shortly after Layton was killed, an active shooter alert was broadcast over the hospital's PA system. On some floors, staff and patients heard the warning. On others, there was no announcement at all. This technical malfunction allowed AJ to simply walk out and escape without ever raising suspicion. During his trial on November 21st, 2022, Raymond AJ Lovett was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with an additional 50 >> Where the hell his tattoos go? They removed his tattoos from his face? What am I tripping? >> 10 years for firearm enhancement. >> [music] >> If you're looking for more investigations like this one, >> Hey man, be sure be sure to check out Doctor Insanity's page, man. Great content, man. Nothing but the bangers, man. I'mma see you guys on the next one. Be sure to hit that like button.