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Woody Overton
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney prior to and during any question. If you can't afford one, the court of want one for you. Do you understand your rights? Then the wolf is at your door oh you running so that's for sure Already knows all about you Cut you down no matter by you now you better watch the warning this episode of Real Life, Real Crime. The podcast may contain descriptions of acts of violence or that of a sexual nature, and should be for people that are 18 years or older. He my warning people. I do not get the facts of these cases off of the Internet or for some television show. The facts I'm retelling, you were presented to me by the victims of the crimes or the perpetrators who committed the crimes against the victims. My descriptions of the crime scenes, what I saw with my own two eyes. If you're gonna get offended, please turn this podcast off now. Thank you. Hello everybody, and welcome this episode of Real Life Real Crime, the podcast. And as always, I'm your host, Woody Overton. Y' all know what time it is? It's Fourth of July time, America's birthday, right? We don't work on that day a couple days a year that we just don't do it. And that is Thanksgiving because of family and Christmas Eve Christmas and because of Jesus. And over the holiday season, whatever you believe in doesn't matter to me. But the. And then New Year's Day and then Easter because again, the significance. Or Passover, whatever you celebrate and then on the 4th of July, don't do it because. Or Memorial Day. And that's. You know, we have pretty strong beliefs about these things and I'm a patriot through and through veteran and everything else. And so we're not going to be releasing a regular episode, but every year I release the same episode. I mean, because it was one of my most famous early episodes that ever did and it's called Duty on The fourth. And it tells about a night that I remember experiencing or specifically on the 4th of July and 4th of July weekend, which are the worst, the absolute worst time to be in uniform patrol period in law enforcement. Anyway, so during the story, and I know we have so, so many new lifers who may not have heard it, but for those of you who have, I'm. I'll go ahead and give you the update. And the rest of you, you can listen to it. And you already know what happened to these people, but you won't know all the details. So let's start with the first one. The guy that I got in the fight with that I almost had to shoot. And at the last second, I did what I did to get out of the situation. You can go listen to it. But I told you that he had dug his nasty ass claws into my face. And so I want you, maybe I'll post it on social media if you ever come, if you ever meet me in person, I can show you the scar on my nose. I'm touching it right now to this day where his, I think it was his biggest finger, his middle finger, the head is. He had all five of his fingers dug into my face. So I still carry that scar. And that's been like 23 years ago, but you wouldn't notice if I didn't point it out to you. And I have no idea what happened to that dude. I can't imagine that he's not in prison or didn't die in prison. He was probably in his 30s. He was probably my age. So he's got to be my age now if he's alive. Don't know that kid involved in that story is got to be how we were back then. Take to the next one. The I tell you what, I'm just going to give you a couple. I told y' all about meeting Leon Winstead or Albany Police 4, who ended up being one of my best friends. And Leon didn't have to. He was a reserve officer and he didn't have to do it. He did it because he loved it because he worked on the tugboats on the river and he had a lot of time off every month, but he loved doing cop work. And anyway, we ended up being living next door to each other and just the best guy in the world. And I stood as the best man in his wedding to Miss Beautiful, Miss Floating. And he's involved in the store. It's one of the many stories I talk about him in over the years on real life for crime. But that was when we were chasing the twins, right? All night, all fucking night long. And go listen to. You can get the details, but it's Johnny and Johnny. And I got a message from. I won't say who because I want to get her in trouble, that I got a message from someone who said, hey, Woody, you're not gonna. I'm. Now, Johnny and Johnny were dumb as box of rocks. And I'm not being ugly. They were just dumb, okay? And then, I mean, like, on a whole new level dumb. But somebody messaged me and told me they had direct knowledge that one of them and got killed in Hammond, Louisiana. Supposedly he was doing something when a train was coming by. I don't know if he's putting someone on track, like flatten a coin or something. And he bent down to pick it up and train was running. They don't slow down when they go through town, y'. All. That's why they have to honk the horns. And. And he bent down and didn't see that one of the cars that was coming had one of those ladders off the side. And the ladder decapitated him. Yeah, there you go. Right? I mean, I don't know how you don't see a ladder coming at your head, whatever. But it wasn't a suicide because there were some other people that were with him. He was doing something stupid. I don't know, crushing a beer can. Just something totally irrelevant. And the latter called him and ripped his head off. Who else in the story? The other ones? I don't know. The. The. The boys who died in the truck that night. Man, that was bad. That's. That was still. And I passed that. I passed that spot in that tree that they wrapped that truck around is still there. And it still has the damage on the tree from where the truck hit it sideways. And I think they estimate the truck Left, right, like 140some miles an hour. And the. The to this day, that trees massive. I'm talking about like 10ft massive around. And you can see the damage. I can see it because I know what was there. The damage to where that truck was and where I held that boy up. But anyway, happy 4th of July to y'. All. Next week, back with Hardcore Original episode. I hope you all get all your hamburgers and hot dogs. And I think I'm gonna cook a brisket or something, maybe go fishing. Hope you at the beach drinking an umbrella drink and that. I love and appreciate each and every one of you patron members, convicts, Apple subscribers. I love you all. I hope you're enjoying your commercial free early releases of the episodes and your bonus episodes, which I just locked up another one called I Don't Remember last week. So if you binged all original Real Life Real Crime and you want some more, you can go to the Real Life Real Crime Community app and subscribe to Be a convict. It's all the same thing, y'. All. Or you can go to Patreon and look at the different tier levels there and choose your benefits. Or when you you can sign up through Apple Podcasts now. But anyway, I'm Woody Overton. You host the Real Life Real Crown, the podcast Happy 4th of July, Happy birthday, America. And until next time or ever, don't let me catch you down on Murder by Peace. So we're going to start today's episode, which is titled Duty on the Fourth. Now, Fourth of July is America's birthday, right? Everybody loves the Fourth of July. You have barbecue and swimming and fireworks and parades and it's America's birthday, right? Great time, summertime, kids are out of school, everybody gets off work and it's just a big hoorah for everybody, that is, except for law enforcement. Now, I'm going to tell you a couple of stories of what happened to me when I worked uniform patrol, or you can call it criminal patrol on the 4th of July. The 4th of July, Y', all, is by far the worst day of the year or night of the year to work as a law enforcement professional. All right? Now, you would think it would be New Year's Eve or something like that, but no, it's, it's not. Believe me, the fourth is the worst. And it's really bad when the fourth falls on a weekend, especially like on a Sunday or Monday. Either way, that's because people start partying on Friday when they get off, and then they party Saturday. And then by the time Sunday comes, you know, you just have more fights and disturbances and it's just crazy. So I'll tell you way back when, and I don't remember what year it was, this is my vivid memory of 1 4th of July, and I was working uniform patrol for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and I was working the night shift from 6pm to 6am in the morning. Now, generally I would go 10, 8 or on duty about 20 minutes early every day at about 5:40pm so the day shift could get home and they didn't have to catch any last minute 911 calls or anything like that, and they could get home at a decent time. So we went 10 eight from our houses or our residences, and 10, eight is on duty or in service. And that's because we were so spread out at such a big parish and we didn't have roll calls or anything like that. We'd probably do that like once a month. We'd meet up at the sheriff's office before shift and go over things that needed to be discussed, etc. But other than that, we went, literally walked out your door and got in your unit and you went, 10, 8 on the radio, and that's it. So that day, and it was hot, and y' all look July. I think that's part of the problem with the Fourth of July is the heat. It's hot. I walk outside, obviously would go out and turn on my unit, let it start to cool off, and then go back in and put my gun belt on. So I go out there and it must be 150 degrees inside the car. Turn it on, kick the AC full blast, roll the windows down, let some of the heat out, and I go back inside. By the time I get back inside, I'm already covered in sweat. Remember, you have on a uniform, boots, vest, and then you put on the heavy gun belt with your pistol, your baton, or it was called an asp. Asp. It's an expandable baton, your freeze plus P, your radio, two pairs of handcuffs, two extra magazines for your duty weapon. I mean, and then it's this big belt, right? I mean, it's so big that you have to use belt retainers to lock it on over your belt that goes through the belt loops on your pants. Anyway, I put the gun belt on and go outside, climb in the unit, call on the radio. I say, 3, 6, 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 8, what you got? Holding. And the radio came back 259, 361. We have a 103D 911 call in French settlement. I said, all right, 10 4, 10, 8 in route. And so what that means is there was a domestic violence disturbance call that came in nine, one one. Now, I lived in Albany and I was about 25, 30 minutes away from French Settlement, which is in the very extreme southern part of the parish. And it takes that long to get there because the road through the southern end of the parish, Louisiana Highway 22 follows the river and the waterway, and there's like probably 1590 degree turns that you can only go like 15 miles an hour around. So I called back. I knew it was going to take me a while and I called back, I said, 3, 6, 1, 2, 5, 9. What's the status on the 911? And it came back said 259361. It's code four at this time. Wife advises that the husband is passed out. So it's code four at this time, meaning everything's okay. So I'm like, okay, I don't have to really rush, right?
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So I took my time getting down there, and it was on a street I'd never been on before. And I turned on the street and there's like six trailers to the left side of this little gravel road. And I'm pulling down looking for the address on the trailer. And it didn't take long for me to figure it out, because as I'm pulling up, I see this woman come running up, and she's screaming and jumping up and down, waving her hands. So I pull up and I jump out on her. And I look at her and she's beat to shit, her mouth is bloody, her lips are busted, her eyes swollen shut. But she's screaming. I mean, we're close to the trailer, right? It's my unit, me then her. And it's not 15ft to the door and it's a little small trailer, single, wide to the door on the other side of her. And she's screaming frantically. She's like, he's got my baby. He's got my baby. He's going to kill it. He's got my baby. You got to get my baby. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I said, hold on. I said, they told me that your husband was passed out. And at the same time I said that the front door kicks open and there stands this guy. And I'm going to describe him to you. And I'm a pretty big guy, right? 6 foot 2, and he must have been 6 foot 5, 6 foot 6, maybe a little bit more, I don't know. But he was tall and he didn't have a shirt on and he was skinny, but muscular, but long, nasty ass hair, beard. I think he had like camouflage shorts and no shoes and, you know, covered in tats. And he stand there, but I'll never forget it. He's holding this kid. And I say, a kid, I mean, I really mean like a toddler probably a year and a half old is holding it underneath its arm like it's a rag doll. And, and the kid's screaming and he's holding in his right hand, he's hollering him, starts hollering me, you get the fuck out of here, you motherfucker. And he's waving the kid like a rag doll. And I'm like. And then he, he goes back in and he shuts the door. I'm like, fuck that. So immediately, without thinking, I mean, I didn't call it in or anything, I, I ran in after him, right?
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Woody Overton
And I threw the door open and he's standing right there and it's a little bitty living room with a love seat right to her right and a wall over the hallway to the left and went back to the bedroom. And then there's a small wall which would have been to his right hand side and the same arm the kid's in, in the kitchen on the other side of that. So he's, you know, I come in after, I'm like, dude, just you know, give me the kid, give me the kid. And he swung at me with his left hand because the kid was in his right hand. And to this day I don't know what happened to the baby. I mean, because it all happened so fast. But I think the mama must have caught the baby or that he dropped the baby. I don't, I don't remember. But I know the baby wasn't involved in what happened next. And when he swung with the left hand, it was a tight area. I ducked to my right and I was able to miss his swing. But his fist hit my shoulder mic. Now shoulder mics back then our microphones ran from the radio on her gun belt, on your duty belt up to your shoulder. Mine was always on my left shoulder and I would have to reach over and press the button and turn my head to the left to talk into it. It was clipped to your shoulder on a, like a lapel on the uniform, on the top of the shoulder. Say he swings with his left. I duck and he hits my should shoulder Mike knocks it off and then it was on. The fight was on. I don't know what happened to the baby, but the fight was on. All this defensive tactics and all the stuff they teach you in the police academy on how to take people down and do palm heel strikes and all the straight arm bar takedowns and all break wheel stuns and all that bullshit goes out the window when somebody's swinging on you in your face. And I closed the distance on him and try to grab him and he was, oh, it was hot in that trailer too. It was hot and it stunk and I tried to grab him and he's all sweaty and so I couldn't really get a hold on him. And evidently he had his other hand free because he started punching me. And as I tucked my head into his chest, I flipped into our right and we flipped over that love seat and went down on the floor and landed on top of the coffee table. And then shit, it was just on. It was fifth city at this time. And I heard my dispatcher call, 3621 or you code 4. I had the best dispatchers in the world. They knew me and they knew if I didn't respond that sugar had turned to shit and they better send the calvary, right? So Tammy Forbes was the dispatcher that day and she's deceased now. What a sweetheart and a hell of a dispatcher. But she said, 361, are you code four? And I didn't respond because I'm on The floor now in a fist fight. So we're rolling, like up against this table and rolling back and forth and we're swinging on each other, literally punching each other. And he was stronger than me, and plus he was higher than hell. I think he was on meth. I hit him as hard as I could and didn't even phase him right. I'm trying not to let him get on top of me. And then I hear the radio again. 361, are you code four? And of course, I can't answer it. I'm fighting and he gets the best of me. He gets on top of me. And when he gets on top of me, he's sitting on my waist, straddling me, and he's sitting on my freeze plus P. And y', all Freeze plus P is like mace on steroids, right? Very effective after about 45 seconds and helping to control somebody because it involuntarily makes their eyes shut and it makes them feel like they can't breathe, etc. And you've heard me talk about it in other stories, but. So these are my options, dudes. On top of me, he's raining down punches. I'm. I've got my hands up, trying to block the punches, etc. And still trying to grab a hold of his arms. And he comes down with his right hand, and I'll never forget it. And I have a scar on my nose to this day, the tip of my nose. If you ever meet me, you can look at it and see it. He had these long ass, dirty fingernails. And he came down with his right hand and he dug it into my face and his middle finger, I'm sorry, messing up the mic. I'm recreating it right now with. With my own hand. His middle finger dug into the bridge of my nose, and then the other two fingers were on into my cheeks and cheekbones on the either side of my nose. And his hands on my face, and he's pinning my head back. And at this point, I'm trying to get that hand off of me. And he's still raining down punches with his other hand. And I'm like, holy shit. And I'm thinking, I can't get to my freeze and I can't get him off of me. I mean, he's higher than fuck on whatever, and he's got me and I can't let him beat me until I pass out. And I'm going to have to kill him because I was still able to get my hand on my weapon and all this has happened in like milliseconds, right? In instant process. And I'm like, I know this dude is getting knocked me out. He's got me pinned now, and he's got his claws literally sunk into my face. And he's beating the shit out of me. And I'm thinking, this is it. I was reaching for my pistol, and I was gonna have to pull my pistol and kill him. And it just clicked in my head. I'm looking into his claw, that his thumb was on the right side of my face. The other three fingers are dug in, his thumbs on the right hand side. As I'm reaching for my pistol, at the last second, I hear the radio. Tammy says, all units, 1033, tact two for 361. All units respond to 361's location. And she gave the address. Well, that means nobody could talk in case I need to do an emergency broadcast and for everybody to come, because it was bad, right? Sugar had turned shit. And it really had. I thought I was going to have to kill him. But at last second, as I'm reaching for my pistol, that thumb is right there. And I reached up and I bit that son of a bitch. I tried to bite it off. I bit down as hard as I could. And they say down in the swamp we have snapping turtles or loggerhead turtles. And they say if a loggerhead turtle ever bites you, it'll never let go until the next time it hears thunder. And I bit down on this son of a bitch. And I knew I was still reaching for my pistol. And I knew if this didn't work, if I couldn't get his hand out of my face, him to stop hitting me, I was going to have to kill him. So I bit down on that thumb and I bit it down to the bone and I tried to bite that fucker off. And that pain, evidently was enough for him to check himself for even just for a few seconds. I mean, when the pain hit him, I'm talking about, I'm literally down on the bone, trying to bite through the bone and bite his whole thumb off. And he screams and he takes his hand out of my face and. And I won't let go, right? And then he's trying to hit me with his other hand, but I'm just down on the thumb. And then I was able to get the upper hand. And the fight was on again, except for this time, I transferred from my duty weapon to my freeze +P and I was able to get it out. And I never let go of his thumb, and he was hitting me on the back of my head. But I was able to get the Freeze plus P out and start spraying. Well, fortunately, I had been trained in freeze +P many, many times, sprayed with it in the training, and then I had fought in it so many times. And if you heard the episode in the closet, you know, anytime you use a freeze +P, especially when you're in close contact like that, you're going to get some of it also. But I didn't get it as bad as this cat did. I was just emptying the whole can on him, and he let go. Because it takes about 30 or 45 seconds, it starts burning immediately. But then after about 30 seconds or so, your eyes just involuntarily shut. You can't open physically. Can't do it. Then the Freeze plus P, which is basically tear gas plus pepper spray, the Freeze plus P starts to take away your breath. It makes you feel like you're drowning and that you can't breathe. But this time I'm fucking exhausted, right? I'm sweaty, I've been beat on. And I'm really glad they didn't have mixed martial arts when I was a kid, these MMA fighters, the UFC stuff, because I probably would have done it. I used to do a lot of boxing, but if you've ever been in a fight like that, three minutes seems like 300 years, especially when you're on the bottom end getting your ass whipped by meth head that's all tweaked out. And so a spray. And at some point, another unit arrives. John T. Wilkerson, my road buddy and academy buddy, got there and he dives in also. And then another unit arrived. And by unit, I mean another officer arrived and they came running in and he dive in. Now, look, it's hard to handcuff someone that doesn't want to be handcuffed in. You add in the fact that it was like 110 degrees inside this trailer. This dude's got no clothes on. Every time you touch his skins, your hands are sliding with the sweat. The whole room is full of Freeze plus pee and everybody's breathing it. But although this dude got the worst of it and it was still a fight until the Freeze plus P kicked in enough where he felt like he couldn't breathe. And then he started freaking out a little bit, and somehow we were able to get him in cuffs. Well, we get him out of the trailer, they called for an ambulance because I'm covered in blood and I'm bleeding from my face from my nose and from my cheeks, but he's bleeding like a stuck pig. But I had blood in my mouth and had gone all down my chin onto my shirt from biting his damn thumb off or trying to. And the ambulance comes, and I told him, I said, y', all. Y' all gotta get this fucker to sign a waiver and that he doesn't want to go to the hospital, or one of us is gonna have to sit at the hospital all night, or it may be a day until they release him and then we're gonna have to book him. So medics came, and one of them came to me and they were cleaning me up. And I told him, I'm more worried about catching AIDS from this or some other disease that even have a name known to man yet, right? Nasty ass. But I definitely had his blood in my mouth and I definitely had his claw marks on my face and all that. And so they were cleaning me up, and meanwhile they were working on him, and they managed to stumble him up the best they could and wrapped it up good. And they were like, just tell it. John T. Was like, sir, sir, do you need to go to the hospital? Do you need to go to hospital? And the guy was like, fuck you, motherfucker. I don't know. Fuck you. It's like, that's good. But he refuses, and I'll sign for him since he can't write because his hand's injured. To wrap the scene up, the wife had to seek medical attention, and we had to wait for somebody to come and get the kid. And then John T. Took the dude and booked him for me for the domestic violence. And then a good felony charge where he had a 108, which is resisting an officer. And then we charged him with a felony charge of second degree battery. Now, second degree battery is pretty much like attempted murder in the state of Louisiana because a battery is an unwanted touching. Now, Louisiana is under the Napoleonic code of law. So our battery and assault is exact opposite of how it is in the rest of the United States, where you have outside of Louisiana, if you punch somebody, that's an assault, right? And then if you threaten someone, it's a battery. Well, inside the state of Louisiana, it's reverse. The battery is the hitting or the striking, and the assault is the actual threats. So I charge with second degree battery, which is a serious felony. And what escalates from simple battery, which is unwanted touching and is a misdemeanor, it's just a regular hit. What escalates that to a second degree battery is if you lose consciousness from the hit, if you suffer extreme pain or you get scarred or you have to seek medical attention.
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Woody Overton
As a result of the hit or hits or blow or blows and I had to seek medical attention from my face, even though it wasn't much. Right. But still, it's a good felony charge that piled on top of everything else he got the resistings and the domestic violence, et cetera. I just wanted to make sure that asshole wasn't getting out of jail. And so John Laudermilt showed up. He was supervisor at the time, and he was like, fuck that, you know, get his ass to the jail and we'll deal with him later. And I still had to write the initial report on it, but I was going to do that later and he was more concerned about me. John was, but I told him it's not that big of a deal. I mean, he just dug his claws into my face and they cleaned it up and put some bandages on it. But I had to go back the 30 minutes home to change uniforms. John wanted me to take off and I was like, dude, there's no way. It was fourth of July weekend. And then he's like, you're right. He said, I really didn't need you, but if you don't feel like it, he said, don't come back out. And I said, well, I'm going to go home and change and I'll get back. 10, 8, so leave that scene. And the calls are popping y'. All. I mean, it's, you know, disturbance after disturbance and medical emergencies, people getting burned with fireworks. I'm listening to all this on the way back to my apartment. Get back to the apartment, I shower and change uniforms and I go back. 10, 8. Now, on the east side of the parish, a lot of times you were working by yourself, just like I responded to that 911 call by myself. Because there were only a couple of us. If you were lucky, you had three on duty on the east side of the parish. But most of the time it was just two of us. So what was so important for us were the town units, Livingston Police Department, the Albany Police Department, and the Springfield Police Department and Killiam Police Department when they had somebody out. So a lot of times the town units were closest back up to go in on high calls. So anyway, I get dressed, put my shit back on, get back on radio. 3612, 5, 9, 10, 8. And immediately 361, we have 911103D at Johnny and Johnny's. And I was like, oh, that's the last thing I need. Now. Let me tell you about Johnny and Johnny. They were identical twins. I think they were like 18, 19 years old. But we dealt with them almost every week. And they lived at the end of a really narrow dead end street in the. I guess you would call it a rural hood, right? There were houses packed tight together, but then it's woods all the way around it. I knew. I mean, I'd arrested them both so many times and these shit, you could not tell them apart. And every time I see one of them walking down the road, I'd call in and check warrants on them. And I said, check 17, asshole on the Johnny. And they'd be like, which one? I'm like, both of them. Because, hell, I didn't know which one it was. And one time I called in, they called back and said, yeah, one of them had a warrant for whatever it was. Johnny and Johnny were physically fit, young, but they were dumb as a box of rocks, I think almost to the mentally handicapped point. You couldn't even hardly understand when they spoke either. Their intelligence was way on the low end of the scale. They had no jobs, but they weren't dope heads. They were just dummies. Anyway, so that day I was driving down, I saw one of them. I called in and one of them had warrants. I didn't know which one it was. So I swung back around on him. I said, hey, Johnny. He said, hey, what's going on? And I said, hey man, come on, it's hot out here. Let me give you a ride. And say he gets in the backseat of the car. Well, I got out and Pat Friston and I said, for officer safety, John, I got to make sure you're not carrying any bazooka bazookas or anything. And I put him in the backseat of car and I turned around from the opposite direction that he was walking in and I took him to the jail. Took him like 10 minutes to realize what we weren't going the way we're going. He's like, hey, where you going? I said, we're going to jail. I got to check on something real quick. He's like, okay. So I pull around the back of jail and I take him in and I said, fingerprint this and see which one he is. And just so happened he was the one that had the warrants. So I booked him in that night. But anyway, so 911 call Johnny and Johnny, and Johnny and Johnny like to beat on their elderly mother. And I say elderly, she probably was in her 50s and she was a character. I'll say God bless her. And she would call the sheriff's house, they'd be doing this and then do this and you got to come get some out of my house. And so, I mean, we were always there and every time you turn on that street, they would run and they would run to the woods. So I, yeah, I was fucked. And so I go over there and I got no units. John T was way up north on a call and the Springfield Town Unit, Terry Sanchez, who just made detective sergeant for the Hammond City Police Department last week, I think. So congratulations, Terry. Well deserved. And then Leon Winstead, who's my brother from another mother, who is AP4, Albany Police 4. And then Leon was a reserve or a part time officer and he didn't do it for the money. He was like a ship captain on the Mississippi river. So he had a lot of time off, but he did it because he loved police work. And this dude was a straight up great cop. The first night I ever went on duty on the east side of the parish, I was driving through Albany. He was out with a bad guy. And I mean, like I said, Leon's a little bit older, and this bad guy was a young, muscular dude. And boom, they are in a fistfight. And that's how I literally got to introduce myself to him, is by diving in their fist fight. And which that guy's brother ended up diving in that fist fight too. And that was another story for another day. But Leon, super, super cop Terry was a great guy, too, from Springfield. And leon was like, 361, I'm gonna come back you up. And Terry called from Springfield and said, 3, 6, 1, I'm gonna come back yell. Because they knew it was gonna be a show, there was gonna be a foot pursuit or whatever. So we turn on the street, and sure enough, Johnny and Johnny are bailing out the back one of their mama's house. And they hit the woods. And so I got pull up and I go to her, and she said, he didn't knock me down. And she had. Her leg was bleeding, evidently, shoved her down into the coffee table or something. And I don't know which one of them did it, but she's like, you gotta take them boys to jail. They were starting to fool. I said, yes, okay, you know, we're gonna get them, blah, blah, blah. So take the report. And we have to go after them, y'. All. And I would like to let them go, but due to past experiences, I know if we didn't catch them, they were going to come back and she was going to be calling all night long. So we're riding around looking for them because like I said, it's kind of a rural hood and that. It's just a. I'm not being racist. I'm the last person in the world that's racist. But I'm just describing to you, it's. It's just an area, kind of a widespread area where the black folk had settled between Albany and Springfield in a rural area. So they on foot and they're running. And so we're cruising around looking for them. And dispatch calls, it says, 361 got a report of the twins are breaking windows out of cars on such and such street. I'm like, fuckers. And so by the time we get to where the cars were, they're gone. Then I got to stop and take reports on these vehicles and get the vehicle identification number and make the reports for the Victims. And it says now it's a time process, right? And before I can get done with the first three cars, 361, the twins are at such and such. They just busted it in somebody's front door. I'm like, here we go. So I'm having to leave them. And it was like leapfrog. I swear, y' all went on for like two hours. So we split up. I'm going to call to call. The twins are going literally house to house and cutting through the woods to the next street. And they're just destroying everything like a tornado, fucking busting every window they can find, kicking indoors. I mean, just crazy. And so we are chasing them. My reports are stacking up by the second, and I hear by this time it's dark. Leon AP4 calling, said, 361. I got him over here at the intersection and pull over and I see Leon's car, but I don't see him. And then I look over on the ground and Terry pulled up behind me and I could see in the darkness and like, movement. I shine my light over there and there are Johnny and Johnny and Leon in a fist fight on the ground. And I'm like, shit, here we go. So I jump out and I run over and I dive in, right? And then Terry dives in and the fight's on again. Now it's three on two and the spray comes out and people getting sprayed and blows are traded. And finally we were able to effect the arrest on one of them and then the second one, and then, you know, buys them their rights and put them in the back of the cars. And I asked Leon said, what happened? And now we're all dirty and hot and sweaty and we've been breathing the freeze plus P and your noses are running and everything. It's just been a shit day. And he said, man, you will never believe what happened. I said, what? He said, pull up to the four way. And I look over and I see Johnny and Johnny and they are fist fighting each other. He said, I shine my light over and these dumbasses are in a fist fight with each other. And one of them put the other one in the headlock and they went to the ground and started fighting. He said, and I went over there and I figured, shit, I got to jump on one of them because if they get up, we'll be chasing their ass all night long. So he went over and dove in the pile on them. Leon was and is a badass and I will always have my respect. So we took them in and booked them. And it's late by this time. And then I went and parked my car in one of my little secret hiding spots, praying that things would calm down. It's like 3 o' clock in the morning and it's a real rural country store and it has a highway in front of it which nobody goes down this time of night. And there's nothing out there, but there's really nothing coming off this road on the side. So I would park there and I would try to catch up on reports and do whatever. And I'm praying that nothing else breaks off tonight. I mean, I'm mentally and physically exhausted. I've got like a hundred reports to do. And so I'm parked in my little hiding spot and some son of a came. I could hear him before he got to me. They came down that road from the side of the store. It was a truck and I'm like, what the fuck? And he passed me in the stop sign. I'm backed into the store, I can see the stop sign and the major highways runs horizontally in front of me. The street's coming from the right hand side. This son bitch came through and never checked up with the stop sign. And he jumped the main highway and disappeared on the other side. And I'm like, holy shit. I heard the crash and I mean it was like Evil Knievel style. I'm like holy shit. And I'm like, 361259. Send medical, send rescue. I hadn't even seen him yet, but I knew it was going to be bad. Send medical and send rescue. They got a Sigma 20 which is an accident at such and such. And so I pull up on the highway and I turn on my lights, I put my spotlight down there and this truck is demolished. It cleared. It must have been doing 50. And it was old, like a 1980s Toyota single cab pickup truck. And so I guess he was going as fast as he could go and it just missed the stop sign and jumped that road and hit that telephone pole and T boned it. And the driver was decapitated. All they had hanging was a little bit piece of skin. And then the passenger was dead. And there was one poor son of a bitch in the middle that the truck was smushed in. Some bitch in the middle was alive, but he was pinned in. And now remember, I'm in the middle of nowhere on purpose because I didn't want any more shit that night. And the dude that was pinned in was awake. And I go up on it. I'm looking at him like, you know, he's screaming. He's like, dude, you got to get me out. He's trying to get out, but he can't because his legs are pinned. Now his dead buddy's head's on him from the driver's side. And the other dude's obviously dead, the passenger, and he's there. He can get up to maybe his chest out of the passenger side window where I was. And I had to sit there and hold that dude and talk to him and try to calm him down. And he was, you know, pretty seriously injured also. We were so far out there, and there's no fire departments or anything like that. And it took like 30 minutes for the first. First responder to get to me. And then when they got to me, I'm holding him. And this guy's just been begging and crying, please get me out of. Please get out of here. And his head's on me, and, I mean, just total shock. And I'm standing there holding him all this time, and it's hotter than hell and, you know, just. Just a horrible scene. But what made it even worse was the rescue teams that responded didn't have the capability to get the guy out of the truck. We had to wait for somebody to come. I think it might have been Dennis Springs. I don't know. It was a long. He was pinned there for the longest time, and he would beg me, please don't leave me. Please don't leave me. So I stood there and held that dude for probably well over an hour until they were able to get there with the jaws of life and cut him out. So anyway, duty on the 4th of July was always fucked up, and I mean, you knew it was going to be a wild ride and especially those long weekends. So much mad respect and love for everybody out that's out there this 4th of July, 10a and on duty. Stay safe and watch you six. I thank y' all and I hope you enjoyed this. I know it's a little bit different episode. Thank you. What we would normally do from the murders and all that, but sometimes I like to tell the real crime part and the real life part of being a cop. And so I hope you enjoyed duty on the fourth, and I hope you all have a safe and happy 4th of July with your families. All you lifers out there, I love and appreciate each and every one of you. And until next time or ever, don't let me catch you down on murder by you. You have the right to remain silent. 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