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Officers with the St. Paul Police Department in Minnesota, respond to a frantic 911 call. A woman says her ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Brandon Keys, a man with prior domestic violence convictions and an active protection order, is following her, ramming her car and smashing her windows. She warns dispatch he's armed and getting more aggressive by the minute. 105 to copy. It's on a VU Marshall and Kraton caller say that the child's father who they have an OFP against has a Glock style gun and that he's following the comp tried to drive away but he's outside and just broke the vehicle windows now has an open line. We're trying to get further. >> Copy. If you can work on a vehicle description and a long number three I'm in route to that. Maybe you can go to channel 3 and see if trooper 5 can head this way for this call instead of the caller squad please in blue and pollen play 94 on green and colors every And that silver band still working on technical >> in there. It's blue and polycrack but I need a squad on the red 1345 Marshall >> 147 rolling back. What's happening there? >> First on the marshall creaton the vehicle's going to be at Marshall in now. It sounds like he's going to be ramming the car. Gretchen Marshall in Cretton. >> All right, I'm there. >> Your incident has been updated. >> Yep, I'm out here. On the ground. ON THE GROUND. ON THE GROUND. Shots fired. Shots fired. Shots fired. I'm hit. >> Shots fired. Go ahead. >> Where is he? GET OUT OF THE [screaming] WAY. GET OUT OF THE WAY. >> Get down. >> 138. I'm hit. Ser. I'm not court yet, though. Is he down? >> Triple 3 hit us. NOT US. LADIES, GET OUT OF THE WAY. >> GET OUT OF THE [screaming] WAY. >> What is that lady doing? >> Out of there, woman. >> Oh, >> what is going on? >> He almost ran into me. I have never seen something like that. >> Yeah. Um, >> I'm not even from her. I just moved here. >> Move. Move. >> Get the out of the WAY SO I CAN GET HELP. GET OUT OF THE WAY. >> I Let me help him. Let me help him. We have our guy in custody. [screaming] We copy 138. I got the gun off. JUST GET UP HERE. >> OFFICER SHOT. Officer shot. Get up here. >> BACK UP. BACK UP. Back up. >> Back up. Back up. >> Turn the [ __ ] over. He's dead. He's dead. >> Yeah, he probably is. >> 138. Next one that pulls up, you're taking me to regions. >> This is his gun. >> What the secure it, Mike? >> Your head. >> Where's your tourniquet? >> Your head. >> My leg. All right, do me a favor. Pull them away from me here. >> Go on the curb. >> Get them on the curb. Get them on the curb. >> Take a breath. Take a seat. [screaming] >> No. >> Take a seat. >> I'm heading to the scene. 105 traffic before we just got on. You >> good, Mike? You got it. >> Come on. Right in the forehead. Take a breath. CPR up. Can we tip it out? Tape. >> I don't have tape. Someone else. >> We got a pulse. >> We got a pulse. >> All right. Where's he at? Where's he shot at? >> Hit a head. I think >> in the head. >> Suspect has a pulse. >> Oh my god. >> Oh my god. >> Who's the one that called? >> I did. I seen it all. Please. >> Let's come back here. Did you witness this? >> Okay. I need you to stay here. Okay. >> Watch him shoot at the cop. I seen it. I think that's her boyfriend. >> Three. Give me the air. No other suspects outstanding. There's some witnesses out there. I fired about four rounds in an easterly direction. I'm going to go to channel two for my medical aid. Suspect's gun was given to someone else to secure. >> Who's hurt? >> Who's hurt? He's hurt. Cheetah's on the way to the hospital. >> Cheetah is Cheetah's on his way to regions. >> Got it. >> Jonah, look at me. Take a deep breath. >> Flip him over. >> Y >> one gunshot wound to the head. >> Yep. All right. >> I don't even understand why people be criminals nowadays. >> Daylight. Like, why? >> Everyone has a phone. Everyone has a camera. There's cameras everywhere. There's no reason to um there's no reason to do crime, right? you're going to get caught >> and if you fight back, you're going to get shot. And >> it's just that I don't I don't get it. I don't understand it. I mean, I wish things were like Batman where they could just tie you up or Spider-Man you could, you know, and not but we don't really live in that world anymore. >> Transport to the hospital. >> 13 on channel two. Go ahead. >> Red. >> I'm the officer that's hit. We're eastbound on 94 from Lexington. Shot in the leg. >> Squad ahead of us. Plow away. >> Squad ahead of us. Just keep going. Keep plowing away. >> Nobody comes in. Block that up. >> You want to grab tape? Tape it up. Take that. Tape that up on me. Block this road. Block this. >> Block it. One block north, one block south. >> Are you feeling me? >> WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, [screaming] WHOA, WHOA, WHOA. >> 135. You may want We got a lot of squads here now. It's getting cluttered. So maybe call offic. >> I just told him to uncuff. I'm searching for weapons. >> Uncuff them. Let's get them uncuffed. Anybody else? Anybody else hurt on here? >> I'm on scene. I'll take command here. We got one suspect that's down in custody. Main medics to come up. It's code four for medics and we'll start securing the scene up here. >> 138 conscious breathing. Turn. >> Copy cons. Are we looking for a suspect that uh took the gun? >> No, it's the guy with the gun shot to the head in the road. >> Hang on those handcuffs. Just set them right there. Go straight. Go straight. Go straight. We don't need any more officers coming here right now. Left right here or where? >> Left 105. I've seen it here. >> Marshall to the east. Start getting that traffic moved around. We don't need a crawler. >> Careful. Careful. Don't get hit though. >> Okay. North. >> North Street. Smoke. >> I believe if I understood correctly that there was somebody else with him that the gun was handed off to. Is that correct? And that person is outstanding. >> Let's go around all these cars. Negative. Get the gun here. >> Hi. >> Where Where's the information that he handed his gun to somebody else? >> Uh, he gave it to >> Who's got the gun? >> It's on the trunk. >> It's on the trunk. It's been unloaded. >> Medic here. >> Medic's in. Medics just showed up. Officer performing CPR 1820 command line 1300. >> You have the scene at the house. Affirmative. >> Came's going off. >> Y all the way to the rear. >> Thank you. to an we need somebody on scene to start a log and they need that person identified that has that info and do a log. His officers arrive at Region's Hospital with the [music] wounded officer. They bring him inside roughly 9 minutes after the shooting. Meanwhile, back at the crime scene, medics continue performing CPR on the suspect before transporting him to the hospital. As the scene stabilizes, officers begin clearing the area and separating witnesses [music] for interviews, including the suspect's ex-girlfriend, the woman who made the original 911 call. Investigators want to hear her full account of what led up to the confrontation. >> My name is Jordan Bank. I'm with the Ministry of Criminal Apprehensions. >> This is my father. [laughter] >> What am I going to tell my son? >> [gasps] >> Oh no. >> We don't know his condition yet. [laughter] >> He was gone. I picked him up. He wouldn't respond to me and then they put him in cuffs. He wasn't posing a threat at all. Record that. Start that. >> We are. >> He wasn't posing a threat. Then you you cuffed him and you were doing CPR when his hands are behind his back. He needed help. >> Can you run me through what happened out there, K? Because I I don't know. I wasn't there. So, I'm trying to figure out trying to piece. >> What am I gonna tell my baby? >> So, we were in the car. We were coming to St. Paul. See, my baby daddy cuts us off. I turn the corner. He starts following. I called the cops. He jumped out, took off, running because he didn't want to get shot. It would happen so fast. I don't know. I've been I really have been like derailed by the police for so long and then when I finally come, they shoot him in his face. My son's going to be forever crushed. >> So, how long were you and Brandon together? >> Seven years. Okay. So, you picked up at which time? >> We got off on the highway and I noticed I said, "There's my baby dad." I tried to go around him >> and he's trying to box me in. And he said, "That's why I can't see my son because you're with somebody else." So, he's yelling and screaming this. And then I was able to go around his vehicle and take a ride on Vanelia. Then he blocked me in again. And that's when got out and started running. And I got to where I couldn't go anymore. And he jumped out. He smashed my window, which is fine. I would I I I don't care about no windows. I don't care about none of that. That shit's replaceable. My kid's dad isn't. He's not coming back. >> The suspect, 24year-old Brandon Keys, was pronounced dead the next morning from a gunshot wound to the head. Officer Michael Cheetah [music] was treated at Region's Hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg and released later that night. He was placed on standard administrative leave while the Minnesota BCA investigated the shooting, ultimately determining that the use of force was legally justified. This wasn't Cheetah's first brush with death. In 2015, a suspect held a gun to his head inside a Walmart. Cheetah slapped the weapon away and survived. [music] Eight years later, he was shot and once again walked
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