On June 23rd, 2025, a police officer conducted a routine traffic stop. But what started as a normal encounter quickly escalated into a tense situation with serious and dangerous charges emerging by the minute. 667 man, signal 55 18. The vehicle just pulled in front of a residence and started honking to get residents to come out. What are you doing? I was honking for the house right here. Why are you honking? Oh, yeah. I was trying to get my daddy to come out. Like my pops to come out. Okay. Hold on. Now, why didn't you pull over right away? Oh, because I'm at the house and so I just wanted to like, you know, just because we're already here. >> Okay. Do you have a driver's license on you? Uh yes, sir. I'm just trying to grab it. Sorry. Why would your driver's license be in there? Oh, no. Sorry. I was just getting all all the paperwork. You're good. I actually need the driver's license. Okay. Got a picture of that on it. Is it valid or is it Yes, sir. suspended, expired? No, no, sir. It's valid. It's valid. Yeah, I got it on. Not very good seeing. What's your first name? Breonna. Breonna. Whose car is this? Uh this is uh my co-signer. Who's it registered to? Uh Bailey. Okay. I have all the I can call them too as well. >> No, you're good. You're good. It's not reported stolen or anything. No, no, sir. No, sir. Everything's paid off. Everything's paid off in full. Everything is Can you do me a favor and just get out of the car and come right here? Just to the back. Is there a Well, I was actually Yeah, cuz I'm telling you to. Okay. Yeah, sure. What's the What's What was the reason of the stop again? Can my pops come out maybe? I'll have you step back. I'm going to explain to you the reason. Okay. 54. And I had just You're good. Just come on over here. My bad. Just right back here. I'm going to have you give me your information. You don't really look like the person on the driver's license. Spell your first name for me. >> I mean, it has been a while. I got Spell your first name for me. B R E O N N A. What's your social security number? I don't know that by heart. You don't know it by heart? I don't know it by heart. Okay. Can I see your driver's license please? My phone >> Yeah. Can I look at the picture? Well, I mean, I could I could maybe like send it I don't like give consent to the phone. I would just rather not. I'm just trying to look at the picture. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, you can you can look at the picture. You see? This is You don't even have the same color eyes as the girl in that picture. That's makeup. That's all I know around the makeup. Okay. I'm good. Go and put this down. Put this down. You're being detained right now. Okay. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. Yeah, cuz you're not being truthful about who you are. Sorry? But But what was the reason of the original stop? The reason for the original stop? Because you made a faulty stop on the at that stop sign. And because as you were proceeding through that first stop sign that I seen you coming head-on with me, you were not in your lane. You were halfway over the lane. Okay? Do you have any weapons on you? Guns, knives? No, sir. All right. I'm going to pat you down. Go ahead and turn your elbows up. Well, sir. Sir. Okay. I'm I'm confused. I'm a female. Yep. That's fine. Come over here. Yes, sir. This side. And turn me one to ten. I'm I'm I'm so confused right now. Have a seat. Okay. I'm going to explain everything to you. Please. I don't Have a seat. Can my pops come out here? Have a seat. Hold on. You got keys? Let me take this. Let go of them. I mean, it's on my ring. It It's actually like probably could be I was just trying to get it I'm going to read you something before I talk to you cuz you're in handcuffs and you're sitting in the back of my car right now. So, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Yes, sir. Okay. I'm going to tell you how I know you're not Breonna Mason. Because I pulled over Breonna Mason like 4 days ago. Yes, sir. Okay. So, are you going to give me your real name or are we going to have to take you to the jail and figure out who you are? Yes, sir. My real name is uh Why'd you give me her name instead of your name? Do you have a warrant? No, I don't have any warrants. Are you suspended? I'm I'm Listen, I'm on the very edge of I really almost have everything like paid off. Everything's paid off. >> And it's really it's like right there on the edge. I have court July 8th. You know what I'm saying? So, you gave me a fake name because you were suspended? Really? Does that seem like a logical thing to do? So, why'd you give me a fake name then? She She Okay. That's my best friend. I I picked her up from like I was just on Like I just I'm trying to not Why would you give your best friend's ID in place of just identifying yourself? Okay. So, it's because you're suspended. I don't I don't want it completely canceled and How many times Have you ever been Have you ever been arrested for driving with a suspended license? I just got out of prison. And I've been doing so much better. I've been working three different jobs. And you know, I paid off all of this vehicle. I've just been doing really really good. Okay. >> to stay on the right path. And I just came into town. You said don't be practicing. My aunt just passed away. And I'm not trying to use that as an excuse. But it's really She's suspended. She gave me a fake name. She gave me a name of someone I pulled over 3 days ago. Do you have any drugs on your person, whether they belong to you or not? And I'm about cuz I'm What I'm going to do, stand up. Stand up. I'm about to have to go through your pockets, okay? Okay. Do you have any drugs on your person? Um no. No? Okay. Good. Just up there. What are the keys? Yeah. Okay. What kind of drugs are we talking? Fentanyl? Meth? No, no, no. I don't I don't do like meth. Meth? No, yeah. Give me one sec. Wait. Is that more of the same? Just meth? In the pocket right here? You said yeah? Okay. Is it going to be in this thing right here? Is that why you were death gripping it? I was just trying to get you to let it go. I I did see it was stuck. But you didn't want You didn't want to let it go before that. Yeah, cuz I guess I was trying to get it out. It was like whenever I'm trying to grab it at one hand, you know? Are there any needles on you? No, I don't I don't do that. It'll piss me off if you start. Okay. Damn. You don't have to. Think I got glass. I got him holding him back. Yeah, I know. I know. I've been working on my car, so there might be a few like Mhm. Might be a few meth straws I got you. That's what happens when you work on your car. No, I'm bleeding brakes. You can look wherever you want. I'm I'm actually putting calipers and brakes on my car. You can even see my hands. I really do have a wiring issue. When you open you'll see. Hey, don't What's with the dental pick? Cuz I saw that in somebody else's It It happens a lot. I don't know what they're for. What are they for? No, that's really for like dental like I have No. No. You can sit down. You can sit down. No, I'm I'm dental It's all like that. That alone is for because I have a tongue piercing and so like I'll periodically clean it off like Mhm. You put your dental pick in the same pocket. Your clean dental pick in the same pocket. During the incident, the female suspect managed to remove her handcuffs, began tampering with the police vehicle, and at one point gained access to a deadly weapon. We were literally just sitting on a meth pipe like, "Hey, show out real quick while we try to get you in the back." How long have you been in the car? I've been sitting here, bro. I've been in the car, bro. Did they show? No way. You were not here the whole time. I swear to god, bro. We didn't do nothing. That's wild. That [ __ ] is crazy. That's wild. That's terrifying. That is terrifying. Do me a favor. Hop out of the car, my man. You got any guns, knives on you? No, sir. All right, man. Stand up. You got anything on you? I'm going to check your pockets, all right? Put your hands up there. Can you roll the windows up, please? Hello? Could you possibly roll the windows up, please? No, I'm I'm talking about to my car. And I need to call The last thing I need is these people from the city to take me. Why would Bailey let you use his car? What do you mean? Because I I mean Huh? All I do is work. I don't really do much. What's your homeboy's name? Um I don't know. I just know they they call him You're still lying to each other. Same guy. I'm not I'm really not. Sir, I understand the frustration. I do apologize. I mean it's it's a confusion on both of our ends. I really don't know his name. And and he's even said for certain reasons I don't know. And it just That's just how it is. I mean I I I really don't know his name. I don't try to like bug anybody about that. You know um What does he tell you his name is? You got to call him something. >> Blue. Blue? You don't know anything other than Blue? No. I I promise you I I I don't know anything other than Blue. Like it's just Blue. Okay. Why are you sitting way over there? Because I was trying to get the air. Gotcha. It was very hot. Um sir sir sir Please please Please cuz I'm I'm I'm serious. I really don't Where does this Bailey person live? Uh in in Tampa. In Tampa? That's not Bailey? No, that's not Bailey. Okay. He drives CD uh he has a CD on drives to charge Um the whole license plate insurance everything is out to him. You know, I really do I work legit jobs. I work three different jobs, you know. I I really do make an honest living. I came out here to get [ __ ] straight. Hey, I got a couple things I got to sort out. I'll talk to you. How come you don't come up on any database? Bro, cuz I didn't do anything wrong, bro. No, it's not cuz you didn't do anything wrong. No, bro. No. You just Bro, can you check out my car? No, I'm going to check out this Do you want to check Bro, we're not doing this, bro. It just came back. What did you say? I I I ran on 66715. Were you able to find something? I'm good, bro. I'm good, bro. Yeah, 10-54 any record either? Yeah. Bro. No, bro. You just turned around and told me I was straight, bro. And then this [ __ ] sit up here and come over here and Hell no, I'm not Cuz you're giving a fake name. I didn't give nobody no >> Because last time last time I stopped out with you like 6 months ago, 5 months ago >> It was the same It was It was, bro. Yes, I was, bro. Yes, it was, bro. What are you messing with? Take your hands out of your waist. >> Bro, I don't have nothing in my pants. You just searched me, bro. Chill out, bro. talking about, bro. You're sitting up here trying to pull one of these kids. I'm not going for it, bro. You just told me I was straight, bro. There's no way in hell you can sit up here and do this You just ran my [ __ ] name and it was clear. Now all of a sudden you're trying to sit up here and do this. It said it's clear. It said it comes back to nothing. Bro, so you How Where were you born at? Why do you sit up here and tell me that? Where were you born at? Bro, for my information cuz I gave you my name. That's it. You asked That's what you asked for, bro. I'm not doing wrong. The fact that he sat up there Bro, they ran my name, bro. He just sat up there and said I was clear, bro. So I'm just going to stay on standby. And now he coming over here on some other >> No, stand back over there. There's no reason That's real [ __ ] bro. You are interfering with our stop. Patty. All right, you keep you keep talking to him you're going to in a car. >> No, bro. Yeah. No. Yeah, bro. I didn't do nothing wrong, bro. I didn't do nothing wrong. I'm a passenger in the car. That's it. Okay. That's it. Literally that's it, bro. You You are detained. You are detained. Like he said, I was here on standby, bro. I'm a passenger in a car. That's it. >> Uh-huh. You're a passenger in a car involved in a traffic stop. That's it. >> For felony drugs with that. I didn't commit a crime. You're detained. You are detained. You are detained. I was dealing with him, bro. You deal with her, bro. Like you put the cuffs on her, bro. That's your case to deal with her and that's crazy bro. So I'm not even going to get into that cuz I didn't do nothing wrong once again. Like I said, I'm a passenger, bro. I'm not even trying to do the most argue with you guys and then argue about What city were you born in? Bro. She's in the She's Bro, she's in the back seat. Talk to him about that, bro. Talk to him about that. He dealing with that, bro. And the fact that he trying to sit up here and come over here and impress me, bro. I didn't I'm not doing nothing, bro. He literally just told me I was on standby, bro. Bro, I don't know. Ask him. Driver's under arrest. Probably you can figure it out afterward. I I'm not telling you nothing. Can I literally go, bro? You just said I was clear, dog. Don't do that, bro. You're not clear. You are detained for the stop until we can identify you. Until we can identify you. Bro. He just ran my name through the [ __ ] What do you He just told you It came back with nothing. Oh my god, bro. No, nothing means there's no record. He just told me I was clear, bro. He literally just sat there and told me I was clear, bro. I don't Bro, you got to talk to him, bro. Bro, I don't know, bro. I don't know. I'm not going to answer y'all's question. You have nothing to do with this. You have You have nothing to do with this. No, you have nothing to do with this. Okay. What's the issue, bro? No record, right? Yeah, no record. I'm [ __ ] clear, bro. You said I was clear. No W's. That means no warrants. That means no warrants. I'm chilling then, bro. But Bro, this [ __ ] is annoying me, bro. No, bro, cuz your friend is over here being all like What did he do, bro? For what? So the issue is that we're not finding anything coming back. All right, that's what we're running into right now. Bro. All right, so nothing at all is coming back. Any other time my name and nothing has come back, y'all let me go, bro. Why is it this time y'all trying to harass me, bro? You are though, bro. You just told me I was clear. I had no W's, bro. What I told you. No, bro. You said I was clear. I had no W's, bro. You said I was clear. I had no W's, bro. Meaning I'm clear I'm bro. What the bro. But I'm going to tell you this. If you keep freaking out, you're going to go in handcuffs in the back of the car until we can ID you. No, bro. I'm chilling right here, bro. Then chill right there. Until you move, I'm not going over there. I'm telling you now to get back over here. That's not a question. Because you're bringing your family over here and antagonizing us. I'm not antagonizing nothing, bro. My family is with me. They can leave this area, bro. I have no issue with that. But what I'm not going to deal with is people coming up and impeding our investigation. >> impeding our investigation. They're not, dog. Because whenever we start having instead of dealing with you, that's whenever Huh? How long? How long? Okay. Officers were unable to find any evidence linking the man to any active warrants, so they released him while proceeding to tow the vehicle and transport the suspect. Yep. Yes, you got your wallet? Yep. What's the deal? Yep. I didn't care. Ooh. I didn't care all of it. Go for it. I didn't care. Y'all don't have to box me in like that, bro. Like Right now? Go for it. Yep. You are still don't know who you are. Still think you're lying to me about who you are. I'm not lying to you, man. Come on, bro. No hard feelings, bro. Hey, do you want that guy Blue to take the stuff out of your car? No. All right. Come here. Right now. Bring your hand around to the front. Scoot out. Turn around. What did you just put in my seat? What did you just put in my seat? I know it's probably my hat falling. Probably your hat falling. Huh? How do you open the trunk? Um it's in the middle. It's near the buttons. In the middle where? It's in the middle near the buttons. On the key fob or in the car? Both. Sometimes you have to you have to work them both because Can you get Can you get stuff out of the car? Yeah. All right. Hey, Bates. Come over here real quick. Watch her. She slipped out of the cuffs. I have the door right as she's putting something in the back seat. I'm going to go with that. You don't got to tell them why. I don't care if you do. You obviously know why you're You obviously know why you're going to jail. It's a low rider height. It's an inch off from the ground. It's a low rider. Um the the front bumpers are on it. Um I'm just letting you know. However they get However you got to get it, you got to get it. Where's your registration? I have something. You can say it. It doesn't even matter. I'm going to search her again at the jail. What are you doing? Stay I'm I'm sorry. I'm very I'm very nervous. So I can have the Get in. The phone She's got something in the back. 100% because she keeps begging me to open the window. She said, "Open the window. I'm hot." I got the cold air blasting. I'm like, "No." Cuz whatever you have, I'm going to find. During transport, she managed to grab the gun again and fired multiple shots at the officer driving the vehicle. Still in one, Marion, primary. 6671, shots fired. Shots fired. 6671 Marion, I'm on 441, just north of a racetrack. I'm not sure exactly where. I'm outside of my car. She started firing at me from in the backseat. Racetrack, 30 second street? I'm not sure. Man, she's trying to get out of my car. 641, 641, get her out of the car. Go 97. Where's this car parked, 64? My car is on the east side of the road. It's facing northbound. You should see my headlights. OPD's about to be 10-12 with me. East side of road, facing northbound. Somebody shut down southbound traffic on the bridge. Am I injured? You got like a mark on your I thought I got shot in the face. No. You got like a graze wound. She's still moving around. She was kicking right before you came out. >> to try to get up. Yep. Come on. Why don't you get your head on back to my car and I'll take over for you right there. >> Okay. That's your gun. Is that your Is that your mag right there? >> Yep. Let me see you, bud. Am I hit in the back? I don't see No, man. I searched her. So she can't go anywhere. She's fully surrounded inside the car. There's people on all sides. Billiard shot his gun. He's got a graze wound on his face. That's from being shot at. Okay. Um but he I searched him. He doesn't have any other injuries on him. It's There's this that injury on his face. So um I got him over here separate from it. Um we're on the car now. It's the decision of whether or not we want to go up on it. She's armed. She has a gun. Um you know, she's They said that they they saw me After the gunfire stopped, she was kicking at the door from the inside. And that was There were no more gunshots after that. Can we access the camera in the car? I can look at it right now, actually. It's on. His His The lights are not on, but the interior camera is on. Let's see if we can access it. That's my shield right there. Real quick. Yeah. She's got like trafficking meth in the She had trafficking meth on her. She slipped the cuffs once when I had her in the backseat in the uh waiting on the tow truck. I opened the door and she was being sketchy. So I searched her again, recuffed her super tight. Like there's no way she slipped out of them. But right before Yeah, I heard it. I heard it. I was driving to the jail. I had the great totally open or the uh the Plexiglas. And I heard the sound of the cuffs coming around the And as soon as that happened, I just It sounded like something exploded right next to me. I thought I got shot in the face. So And she shot I don't know if it was three or three or four times at me. You want to go up with a shield? No, we we have her come to us. Have her at least try. So I don't think we know I don't think she was IDing herself. >> Yeah, she didn't She refused to give it. All right. I got shields. Yeah. Yeah, send my side. I'm left-handed though, so let me get on that for a second. Yeah, let's swap left. Breonna's the name. She is the All right. Breonna Keep your hands out. Hold up the door. Keep your hands up. Come out. Get out of the car. Get on the ground. Out of the car. ON THE GROUND. ON THE GROUND. ON the ground. Get on the ground now. On your stomach. It's It's over there. It's over there. I threw it out the window whenever we first On this side. Right here. Literally, right there. Which side? Your right arm, right? My right. I believe I'm not sure. I might have just got grazed. I'm not sure. That's crime scene. We got her. You guys can go steal your weapons. Did you try to shoot yourself up here? Okay. No, no, no. It looks like it's just a scratch. Just a scratch. Let's get her like up on the actual You want to roll over and sit up on the curb? Sit up. Yeah, medics are should be 51. Am I making I don't know where my leg is. I don't I don't I don't know. Come on. Lean your face up. Yes, sir. What's that on her face? I'm in ants. I'm Do you want to call No, sorry. Can I borrow you? Yep. I think she's been patted down by a a guy. If If you could pat her down, I'd appreciate it. Thank you. I have been patted four times. Stand up. She's going to pat you down now. >> you're going to come over here right to this where this wall is. Spread your feet and lean forward. Lean your chest against that. I'm 10-12 with him. She has I don't think it's a gunshot wound to her back. She has maybe a graze wound on her back shoulder. We lifted her shirt up. She's hurt. Yeah, it was in It was in here when we lifted her shirt up. That's why I think it's a graze wound cuz it's not But there is a Yeah. Press. But we think there's blood inside the back of the car. So that's why we're confused what we're looking at. Go ahead, deputy. Yeah, he has a graze wound on his I think on his face. Um He was in that vicinity over there. So here here here's the deal. I'm trying to figure in my mind what is her what is her thought process because she's locked in. I think she's on meth. She's She's on She's meth'd out. She drugged out. You can't get out. >> No. Mhm. Should he go to the hospital just as a precaution? Her? Him. Him? He's got one burn mark on his cheek. He thinks it's from a round. He hasn't been checked underneath his vest or anything yet. Yeah. Yeah, I I did I did pat him down and and I didn't see or feel anything. >> it would hurt for him to go. No, but yeah. He can go at least go somewhere to go to Yeah, he needs to go. >> off. He can go. He needs to go. He can go with Jensen. Oh, okay. Maybe he can ride with Jensen or something. Let me call uh major crimes real quick. Hey, Sarge. Here you go, T. I will be 10-12 with her going RMC. You want her transported in ambulance or toss her in my car? No, she don't need to go in the ambulance. She can go in the Yeah, we got that. Okay, I'll toss her in my car. I'll make Hey there. >> Who's the officer being transported? He's coming up right now. We're going to see um if he goes, we we can take him. Okay. So I can take him up there for you. >> can take him. Yeah, we'll we'll take him. Okay. Yeah. Can I I wanted to ask permission cuz I don't know how all this works. Um can I grab my work phone and personal phone from my car? At the end of the incident, she was taken to the hospital as was the injured officer before being transported to the county jail where she faced multiple serious charges. >> All right. I can't walk all the way. You can do this, fine. I'll get it. Just leave that right over there by that green door on the left.