On May 29th, 2023, an officer in Centria responded to a disturbance at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital. The suspect, later identified as 29-year-old Britain McCrae, had fled the hospital, causing a wild series of events, including jumping on the hood of a car, demanding the driver to take him to a Dollar General store and later breaking its windshield. When the police officer caught up with him at the Dollar General, the situation escalated dramatically. You just run it that way. He's got a knife in his hand. Bloody as hell. Across the parking lot here. Yeah. Rolling up. All right. Cool. Thank you. Yes, sir. Hey, uh he was in there. He dumped on the counter. [ __ ] He's got a knife in his hand. He's blood all over him. Just I'll check it out. Thank you guys. Just adise that female is in the lobby. 104. I'm be relocating to rolling up your second complaint state if you went over that way. Yes, sir. Yeah. So, my experience with him was every act like he's 23 and rolling up. Got one 372 just advised. They say to blackmail, knife in hand, bloody for walking. Looks like uh looks like he might be going in or standing by the propane tanks. Stand by the propane tanks. Close 10 4. After talking to witnesses on the scene, the officer went to Dollar General and spotted the suspect. But as soon as the officer got close, the man tried to escape. Hey, come here. Sec. No. Come here now. Come here now. Drop the can now. Drop your now. Drop the now. Turn over. Put your [ __ ] hands behind your back now. You want to die. Put your hands behind your back now. Tase me. Stop. Stop. You're getting chas. Shut the up and roll over Britain. Right the now. I rose over. I came home and I got You're about to get pepper spray, mother. I'm sorry. Don't be sorry. Knock off. I can't breathe. We'll get you up. Yes, sir. Britain. Check my pockets. I got more drugs. More drugs. I'm sorry. Going to stick us relax. Okay. All right. All right. I'm sorry. Is my hair back? No, not at all. Yes, sir. Hey, I see. I don't know. Okay. All right, bud. No, don't worry about it. I'm gonna keep my hand, please. Where Where you bleeding from, man? I don't know. My hand at least. My face and hand. Where'd the knife you had go? I don't know. I promise you. Okay. Please turn your body cameras on for I don't want y'all to hurt me, man. Well, don't fight with us then, man. Please make sure they body cameras on so they don't shoot me. I got to record. Thank you. Can I keep you straight, bro? I'm not going to get up and run the king. I'm going to keep straight. Help me breathe. Somebody please got to talk at least. Yeah. No. Help me. Where's the source of this blood? Man, we need to figure that out. Did you stab yourself on his hand at least? Did you cut yourself with that knife? Did you get the knife? No, I can't find it anywhere. They told me he had a knife where at Dollar General. Yeah. And he was jumping on the counter with it and stuff. Oh [ __ ] Okay. Okay. Let me know if I can help. Whilst the suspect initially managed to use the spray to try and escape, the officer decided to tase him, finally gaining control and handcuffing him. At this point, blood can be seen on his clothes. The officer, who had heard from witnesses the suspect had a knife, is seen searching for it on his person. Can we get his mouth? He said anything. Where's this Where's these drugs you saying you got, man? There's a hospital. Someone get a hospital behind. I'm scared. All right. I don't want y'all to shoot me, man. Nobody's going to shoot you. I don't want you to shoot me, man. All right. Hard part's over with, man. You're good now. Just relax. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm out here. Please let me go to the hospital. They know me up there and they put me in. Please, somebody sent me to the hospital cuz I'm broke. I'm all right. Calm down, man. Where you bleeding, bro? I don't know. I don't know. Hey, calm down. Let me look at you. Somebody else, please get an ambulance. Can you please make sure ambulance? You seen it, right? I mean, I feel like I want an ambulance, man. Please don't shoot me. I see this [ __ ] on the news all the time. I just don't want to be shot. Please don't shoot me. afraid to open it. Seeing the condition of the store, the officer then went to talk to the store's employees to get more information about what really happened. What's wrong? Okay. Did he do all this? Are those your lighters he had? The only description she has, she is currently in the lobby waiting to speak to somebody. Is this all he did right here? I saw the description. We didn't want to clean up. Our manager and her sister Vander's coming. But I got blood everywhere. You got cameras in here. Okay. Yeah, that they're both coming so they'll be able to do that. Can they get on the parking lot? Can she come? Absolutely. I don't want anyone to stand up. He's got this all screwed up in here. Stole a couple victim. Who the hell is that? Right. Yep. Okay. If you want to break him here and go grab yours cuz he's going to the hospital. Somebody's going have to go with him cuz he's got to have that two piece off. Yeah. And that's that's the other work end of it. I mean, he's sprayed the can at me. So, I feel like that's definitely You got it on you. I don't know. What was it? Raid was spray. You linking. He sprayed it at me. So you got that? Yeah. I need to go out there and my name is Brent McCrae and it is on my wrist. I promise you. I promise. Last time I happened to You want one of us to ride with you? I need to ride in an ambulance. Why? Cuz I don't feel I'm hurting. My face is batter. You seem to be okay. You act like that. You're still in my car. I'll take him to the hospital. No gas man Nancy. Can Nancy ride with us in the front, please? Who the [ __ ] Nancy? Please. I didn't rolling up. I didn't hurt anybody. I just stole some stuff. Thanks for the confession, keeper. I just stole some stuff, man. I just stole some stuff, man. Please. I'm having to freak out. Nervous freak out. They put something in my cigarette. You're good. What's something? You're safe. I got something on. You want us to run those hospitals? I know how you want us to run him out there. Oh, yeah. He's going to be Yeah, that's Yeah, I'm going to leave that on you guys. Cool. I'll just show him to back. I'll give you a hand. Come on. You're not wire. Oh, honey. Can we pull this taser probe out of him first? Yeah, we can. Damn it. I forgot we got a single cage. I got my Let's get this taser probe out of him first. Let the nurse do it. Let the nurse do it, please. I'll let the paramedic do it. Oh, paramed. Where's the paramedic? He's right there on your roof. Show me. Pull my pants up. Please. Please. My mom is the police. Pull my pants up. Nah, ain't no pulling. I got to see where this goes. Oh, still. Stop. I'm not doing it. Relax. I'm not doing it, man. My haler. I don't feel safe without it. You got your hands. In your hands. My breath. Okay. Trust me. You're working on this. My under your foot. Under your foot. Please give me my please. There it is. Please. Please. I can't breathe. My h my haler. Please. I'm doing anything you got. No, you're not. I am. Stop. Stand down straight. Relax and let him get the taser probe out of me. Breathe. I want to be able to breathe. Please. You're talking, you're breathing. You're talking, you're breathing. Now stay whenever I get to where I'm going. Please. That's all I ask. Tell where it's going in. Look, it's under my feet. While you down there, please grab my egg canister. Where is it going up to? It should be in his front. I freaking know. Cast a here. Cast a here in a hot minute. Who is these people? I just want this. Relax. I just want this. I just want my stuff. I just want my stuff. It's got to be somewhere. You had one, didn't you? I had one. There's some I think Harvard got it. Well, you got the one for us. I got that back. Oh, still. Yeah. This ain't the other one. He tried swallowing it earlier, so I went all the way from him. Even with four five officers working together, controlling the suspect wasn't easy. Most likely because of the drugs he was under. Hey, open your hand and relax. Open your hand and relax. My wrist. Oh, no. I'm not. Hey, let go. I'm trying. Take. There's no more in his hand. Can I get my canister, please? You can get it in a second. It's in between. I'm good with it. We can just I want to be able to grab it, please. Can I grab it myself? No. He had me that popped out of that. No, I didn't. Look in there. Look in there. Stop. Look at him. Where the [ __ ] I don't see. I swear to God. I hope you have. I swear to God. I don't want to be myself. I don't want to be under myself, man. I really can't breathe. I don't You can breathe just fine. All right. I don't Okay, I'm going to stand up. We're going to get the paramedic. Please. No. Hold on. Out with this behavior. Okay. If I calm down. There's nothing on me, man. Reach. There's nothing on me. Okay. Can you search me in the light, please? I'm scared of y'all, man. Y'all may shoot me. Look how many of it is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not reaching. Shut the up. I don't want to be shot at. There's an open knife in this pocket. That's what it is. I thought I dropped steel. Good call. God damn it. Check me. Did y'all keep them lights on? Every one of them. Where am I going? M. You stole my money. You stealing my money. They'll take it to the county. They don't take it to the counties, man. They don't. No, they don't. Searching. I'm going in, man. I'm getting in. Please put me in, man. Search me, man. I'm trying to. Please. You keep squirming around. Knock it off. It's enough. I'm sorry. I don't have a hand. Well, stop. Get in there. Please. We go to the hospital. Oh, we go to the hospital. Medical clear. I think it's all last. After being taken to the police vehicle, he was driven to the hospital. Despite the officer's warnings, McCrae decided to cause a scene here, too. 4685 was mad to the hospital. being to the hospital with him. We go to the hospital. Yeah, bud. Which hospital? Centria. We're not going the right way. Yeah. I'm going to turn right here and go straight out to the hospital. Stop. You do that again. You're getting sprayed. All right. 468. I'm going to head to PD. Get you another cartridge. Should try. I'll handle that stolen dog. Listen to me. You fight with us at all, you're getting pepper sprayed. You understand? We're not putting up with this [ __ ] and hospital staff's not either. You got it. Let's go. Walk like a normal person. Put your hands behind your back like they're supposed to be. The lighter. Stop. What' I tell you? I'm suicidal. I think Knock it off. I am. I slit my throat. I slit my throat before. Uh, a lot of stuff. Britain. Yes, sir. Brandon G. McCrae. B R I T O McCrae. MC C R A Y. All right. Sorry. I'm so excited. Yep. We'll take care of that when we get in here. If you may stop, sit down here. Weren't you just here yesterday? Yes, ma'am. He's hard. You can let her know. I think I got stabbed. I think I need to try. Okay, listen to me. Hey, my name's Where do you think you got stabbed at, buddy? somewhere. Grab a gown. Let's just take his clothes off and find out where he's bleeding from. Hold on. Where's Cass? What? Where's Cass? They don't work for our police department anymore. What's your name? [Applause] I think you just have to take those cuffs off so we can get my address. Find out where Sorry. Give me the cuffs. Give me the cuffs. over here. Give me the cuffs. Listen, we have to take these off so we can find out where you're bleeding from. Nope. I got it. I don't need help. Here. Come on. Hey, sit up. Give it to me. Give it to me now. Come on. Listen to me. I'm not going to take one more time. Come on. One more time. Stop. They're here to help you. Not going to let them help you. Why are you You don't look You can't take it. You can't take it. So give me Okay. Now you're going to get hurt. Do not do that. Open your goddamn hand now. Let go of it. I can't hear you. Now open your hand now. Let's go. Please help me. All right, let's go. Okay. Okay, I'm good. I'm not going to do nothing. I'm not going to do anything. I missed my inhaler. I just missed my inhaler. I had three of them. Together, both doctors and officers work together to control him for his checkup. But here, he took things to another level. Listen to me. I want you to start taking your clothes off one at a time. Take your shirt off first. Got to take my socks off first. No. Do what they told their shirt. Do what you told. Does anybody have a name? Shirt off. Britain McCrae. Take your shirt off. Don't tag me while I take my shirt off. Take your shirt off. I'm not careful. He takes off. As long as it takes his voice off. I'm scared. You're fine. Take Take your shirts off. I'm not making this up. This is this meth. Understood. I'm sorry. Take your clothes off. We got to find out where you're bleeding from. See off. Okay. Here. You're fine. Let's just pull it off. Honey, you're leaning forward too much. Bren, stop. You're worried about your socks. What's in your socks? Everything. Nothing. Nothing in my socks. My feet hurt. It's fine. Are you bleeding for me? He had an open knife in his back pocket. They said it was in his hand. That's what I need. Quit it. Mine. It's mine. Mommy and my dad. Mommy and my find out. I'm going to give you the new one. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's go. Britain, listen to me. I'm going to give you a new band. Okay. Take him off. Okay. Take him off. What's he hyped up on, guys? Do you know? He keeps saying he took him up. I think I'm scared. He's got He dead house. I'm dead. Why you just stab me? He just stabbed me, man. Nobody stabbed me. Hey, no one stabbed you. Promise. Okay, I'm fine. You're You're okay. Take them off. I'm just taking I'm taking your shorts off. We're going to leave your boxers on, but I'm taking your shorts off. I'll be helping. I'll be helping. I feel Let's put the gown over you. Can we slide up in this bed? Ready? His knuckles are all busted up from something. Okay. But no, I don't see any on his back, on his legs. I didn't see any either. Hey sir, I'm Dr. Burke. I'm here to help you and make sure you're okay. Can you tell me what's what's causing you pain right now? Any part of your body that's hurting? You don't know? I'm going to kill myself. Oh, hey, I'm just taking your temperature. Okay, just take her. It's just a Oh, well that touch your arm. Can you lean back so I can put these on you, please? Due to his disorderly conduct, the doctors were forced to give him medicines to calm down enough to be checked out. There's blood. Stick. Come on, man. I'm scared. You're okay. You're okay. Just looking at your back. Okay. All right. So, uh, let's get him some iron vers. Okay. Let's go with five to start. If that didn't work, then we'll go with another 10. It's just down, huh? After he like chills out, we'll actually get like the the labs on him. I'll put in I'm not going anywhere, man. And then after he chills out, we'll take a better look at his legs and stuff. Make sure we don't need to get that. He did say order said I'm putting in the lab. He wouldn't tell me suicide. Cool. Stop. No, this is just the hospital. The emergency room. How about we lay back and let these people do their job? All right. I'm sorry, guys. My money. My money. Lay back. My face hurt. You're good. Oh my god. Oh my god. Can I put those stickers back on you to check your heart? Check them. Check them. Michelle, I want to check them. Don't rip up our equipment. That stuff's expensive. Sit back. Sit back. Relax. Nobody ever gave me any. Relax. And the other guy. Just lay back. Get off your arm. Just chill. You're okay. You're safe. You're at the hospital. Don't be pulling on my equipment. Mm- doing it. Stop it. Stop. You're not going to put it in my mouth. No. Okay, then chill. We just want to get your vitals. That's all we want to do. You guys want to restrain? Well, we can't make that call. The nurse can or my person. So, the charge is clear. We're going to give you a little medicine to help you calm down. Okay. Will you give me another pack of Will you go ahead and start the blood pressure? Thank you. This is going to get tight on your arm. Okay. It's just taking your blood pressure. Just hold your arm still. I have by ambulance along with you guys. No, I mean they were there. They evaluated, but we took them. Okay. [Music] [Music] where you are right now. Hey Britain. Hey. My name is Kim. Can you tell me where we are right now? That's just me. Where you at, buddy? I've got three of those. I'm giving two and a half, you know. Okay. Per two. Tell me your name, honey. Yeah. [Music] Can you talk to Ken? I think I'm going to die. You think you're going to die? We're not going to let you die. It's okay. It's okay. We're not going to let you die. We're going to take good care of you. Okay, sir. You just got to talk to me and tell me what I can do to help you. Where are you right now? Hold really still, sir. We're checking your heart. Okay. [Music] A little shot just in your hip. Okay. It's going to help you feel better and help feel like you're dying. There you go, babe. That'll Hey, that's very helpful. Can you turn that way just a little bit towards my friend Robert? Hey, great job. I know. We're going to make you feel better. Okay. The man was later taken back to the Marian County Jail where he is now awaiting a decision on his formal charges.