High Speed Chase (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

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I have multiple shots fired
on the vehicle.
Man, is this really happening?
He's got nowhere to go.
What's gonna happen next?
We're in the golf course now.
Where's he headed to with those weapons?
Who's he gonna hurt?
To say he was driving erratically
would be an understatement.
I would compare it to Grand Theft
Auto. Kind of pissed me off.
You have 15 units surrounding you.
There's two people walking.
Suspect and a hostage.
Second female passenger
may have three gunshot wounds.
I was in fear that she may pass away
right there in front of us.
Gun to head. Gun to head.
911, where's your emergency?
There's been a girl shot three times
here in Yeehaw Junction.
Curtis Kimbrough is the one who shot her.
Tell me exactly what happened now.
She was trying to get her car
or something and the guy shot her.
- Where's the suspect now, ma'am?
- He's at the house.
Units on scene, 34. I'm trying to
make contact at the house right now.
No one's answering the door.
Looks empty.
Just a few dogs inside.
If we can find out about the suspect,
if they could determine what they're
driving, what they're wearing.
Possibly a silver or blue Toyota Camry
is what we've been told
that the suspect left in.
It's gonna be a silver Toyota.
I was out patrolling the roads,
listening to my radio.
I heard that they were looking
for a subject out of Osceola County
by the name of Curtis Kimbrough.
I see the suspect in that vehicle.
Both females are the victims,
the male is the suspect.
Should be dark hair, tattoos,
a black and gray plaid shirt, button
down shirt with blue jeans.
Indian River County,
they got a hit on the vehicle.
It's northbound on the I-95.
Once we learned that the female
had possibly been shot,
I knew that I had to get to I-95
to assist.
I was scared for her safety.
- Channel 41.
- Channel two, we're on the county.
Agency assist, I-95,
in reference to a shooting.
Once I got on I-95, I know they were
traveling at a high rate of speed.
They were like 112 miles per hour.
Due to the speeds we were traveling,
we couldn't get officers in place
to deploy spike strips.
I'm a sergeant
at the Sebastian Police Department.
Because we are small,
the sergeant is the one
that's in charge of the entire shift.
Corporal Rivas is probably the most
capable police officer
I think I've ever met.
My thought process at that point was,
what can I do to support him?
Over here at the house
is getting text from ----.
Just advising that all three of them
are still in the vehicle
and it sounds like ---- may possibly
still be bleeding inside the vehicle.
I was approximately half a mile
behind the deputy,
and then he called a team cross-rated.
Hey, bud.
Just to let you know off your
scanner, we got shots fired at us.
We're off of Palm Bay Road. Had a
couple of shots fired out the window.
This guy is now shooting at cops.
I can't let this guy get away.
Traffic's picking up,
now he's on the shoulder passing
traffic on the right.
I knew at that point that I was going
to have to do something
that we normally don't do.
I made the decision to cross
over into incoming traffic.
In my 26 years in law enforcement,
I've only traveled
into oncoming traffic lanes twice,
and this was number two.
The likelihood of us getting into a
crash was very high.
He's cutting in and out of traffic,
and he showed no regards for anyone
that was on the road.
Fear for the hostages
as well as everyone else was great.
He got in the far right lane
and seemed to slow down.
I observed his hand come out
the driver side window
and he was holding a pistol.
County 41, I have multiple shots
fired at my vehicle.
My number one fear was that
one of the vehicles or someone
innocent was going to get shot.
I just tried to stay far enough to
the right and behind his vehicle
where I wouldn't take a round
through the windshield.
I think it's the first time I've ever
been shot at during a pursuit.
I'm sure he was trying to scare me
away to get me to back off,
but it had the opposite effect.
It kind of pissed me off.
My main focus
was just to keep my firearm trained
on the vehicle, just in case.
The longer this pursuit continued,
the worse it got for us.
To say he was driving erratically
would be an understatement.
I would compare it to Grand Theft Auto.
He was weaving in and out of traffic,
cutting cars off,
coming close to striking vehicles.
He didn't even care about the people
that were around him.
The likelihood of us canceling
the pursuit was zero.
We could not let him get away.
Eastbound on Grant Road.
We came up to a dead end road.
He's going to a field night now.
I don't have a direction.
I pursued him
all the way around the property.
We drove around airplanes
and cars, you name it.
At that point,
Curtis crashed through a gate.
I confirm they are stuck in a sand
pit at Foley Land and Old Dixie.
The driver is brandishing a Signal Zero
and has fired at the deputies
on the roadway.
That's a game changer,
because now it's no longer
a mobile hostage rescue.
It is now stationary.
And there's techniques
that law enforcement can use
to help control that event.
Maybe three, two hostages and Curtis.
Curtis, you are completely surrounded.
You have multiple firearms pointed at
you. There is no way out.
Sergeant Lester was trying
to create a dialogue with Curtis.
Open the door with your hands up.
We got no response. None at all.
Curtis Kimbrough.
My name is Chris Weston.
We need you to exit the vehicle
calmly and with your hands up.
We do not need anybody else to get hurt.
Everything that you've done
to this point we can talk about.
We cannot let this situation escalate.
They went several minutes
without any kind of movement whatsoever.
Nothing's being said.
So it becomes a very eerie,
very eerie feeling.
- You got your 40?
- Start prepping the 40.
My main focus was just on the vehicle
and Curtis
and just keeping that vehicle
covered with my firearm.
- We need to get better coverage.
- Yeah.
- We do have a shield.
- I have one in the back of my truck.
Do you guys get EMS on standby?
I was very concerned and scared
at that moment
because I was anticipating him
jumping out of his vehicle
and continuing to shoot at Corporal Rivas.
He's trying to get out.
Put your hands out the window, now!
This is Sergeant Lester of the Indian
River County Sheriff's Office,
you need to open the door, right now.
All occupants are still inside
of the vehicle.
We know he's armed.
We know he has two hostages.
We couldn't see in the car.
It had tinted windows.
We don't know whether they're dead,
bleeding out.
Star, how far are you?
Yeah, we're coming up on them.
We're about 4 miles away from the scene.
We're now on the way.
We're flying down there.
You listen to this craziness unfold,
and you're like, where is this
headed? How is this going to end?
In this particular case, equipment
became a huge factor for us.
We can call in a SWAT team.
We can use our resources.
They had multiple air assets at the
time. That's a game changer.
Now we can start putting things into
play to enact a hostage rescue.
You know, try to talk Curtis
out of the car,
try to get him to release the two
females that he had with him.
So things slowed down. Now he's--
We bought ourselves some time.
We can start using different options.
We can have SWAT teams come in.
We can get armor up, you know,
armored vehicles.
The helicopters are already up.
There are eyes in the sky.
We have to paint a picture for our
deputies on the ground, the officers,
as well as the supervisors
that are actually running this call.
They're in the blind, relying on what
we're able to tell them
and what we're able to see.
And we got to be on the ball
and make sure that, you know,
we have everything straight
and be able to do our job successfully.
We got movement
and contact inside the vehicle.
He's showing a gun
out of the passenger door.
Put the gun down
and come out with your hands up!
We didn't know
the condition of the hostages.
We want to render aid if they are injured.
We don't know if they're alive.
Curtis, you need to open the door.
You have 15 units with firearms
surrounding you.
Put your hands out the window!
- Behind you to the left.
- Okay.
We have multiple units
deploying sniper teams.
I could hear them making plans.
They were asking for shields.
We were bringing up less lethal munitions.
One, so we could break out the back window
and see inside the vehicle.
Or if we need to use it to prevent Curtis
from getting away or stepping out
and shooting at us or whatnot,
we could deploy gas in the vehicle.
We didn't want to walk into an ambush.
There's several things that come
into play.
If we were to move up,
would that trigger Mr. Kimbrough
to shoot the other hostage?
You know, so we didn't want
to escalate the situation.
We wanted to try and control it
as much as we could.
There's two snipers that were there
with the sheriff's department.
So they were making a plan
on cutting through the woods
to get a better angle at Curtis's vehicle.
We had rescue teams being set up
in case the hostages were released
or we need to go immediately up to
the vehicle to rescue the hostages.
So there was multiple things going on
behind me.
Sergeant Lester was trying to keep
that dialog or create a dialog.
Richie, you grab by bag,
my sniper bag and throw it up here.
As we were making plans,
the back passenger rear door opened.
Whoever is opening that door,
put your hands out the window.
Caucasian subject sticking one hand
out the passenger front window.
We could see a female, looked like
she was trying to get out.
Both hands out the door.
- Should we get a spotlight on that?
- Yes.
Whoever is opening that door, hands out.
To Brevard, they're saying
that there's a female crawling out.
Yeah, I'm 10-12, I got eyes on her,
I'm trying to make contact.
Crawl out!
Crawl out of the vehicle.
Gunshot wound to her.
You can see that she was shot. You
see the blood soaked clothing.
She was definitely in pain.
Is there anybody else in the car
with you besides Curtis?
Yes.
You need to do the best you can
to crawl this way
so we can get you help.
Please start crawling.
She didn't have enough strength
to pull herself back to our cars.
She was in fear that she may die.
We can't approach the car.
He could just open the door
and shoot her again,
or even shoot the second hostage.
Ma'am, you need to do your best
to crawl this way.
I know you're in pain,
we're trying to help you.
You need to crawl this way.
If your arms are hurt,
get to your feet and run.
If your arms are hurt,
please get to your feet and run.
Is anybody on this side ready
to receive her?
Ma'am, my name is Chris.
I need you to get to your feet and run.
Curtis, we cannot come up there
with you sitting there.
You need to exit the vehicle,
let us take you into custody
and we can help her.
She is not looking good
from my vantage point.
We need to get her to an ambulance
as soon as possible.
I was in fear that she may pass away
right there in front of us.
You want to go up there.
Everything in your mind is telling
you to go forward.
She is no longer moving on the ground
and we need to get her assistance.
She had three gunshot wounds.
I'm only going to give you a couple
of minutes, we got to get her.
We need you to open the door
and put your hands up.
Curtis, we have to help her.
We need you to exit the vehicle
with your hands up.
We seen the door open.
We see hands come out.
Hey, hold, that door's open!
Hands up, hands up!
He's got a gun! Gun to head, gun to
head! Gun to head.
They've got a hostage, male out of the car
with the female in front of him
as a shield.
So this is my first situation
where someone used somebody
as a human shield.
Man, is this really happening?
Right. Shield, shield.
Come on, we got to move.
No, hold it! Hold, hold, hold, hold!
Back up!
Shane, where you at with deployment?
He's deploying now.
Watch the crossfire.
475, snipers deploying to the east.
Lights off. Lights off.
Hold back, hold back.
Shane, you've got to shot now.
Shane, he's turned towards us.
- Who shot? Who shot?
- Shane. Shane.
When the sergeant fired a round,
I thought it was the end.
He's back up.
He's back up, up, up, up, up!
- Everybody hold. Everybody hold.
- Everybody hold.
Curtis, do not keep going back.
You're gonna lose him.
- Hawk, do you have eyes on?
- They fell into the bushline.
They, they fell into the bushline,
right where the light is.
We had a hostage rescue team
already in place.
Once we lost visual of Curtis,
officers and deputies did go up
to save the first hostage.
- What's the easiest way to get there?
- We gotta jump this fence.
I'm going to go under, hold the
shield, and we'll go get her.
Can we get one person
on either side please?
Somebody grab her.
10-4 we've got her
and we're bringing her back.
We'll get a couple of guys
to carry her out.
Hang on, we'll get you out of here, okay?
She has a wound here.
She's holding her abdomen.
I'm not sure.
Her bra is full of blood on the left side.
We need to confirm
that he has somebody still with him.
- Another hostage with him.
- Yes, he has somebody with him.
There's two people walking.
Suspect and a hostage.
Is the other one shot?
The other female?
- Huh?
- Shaking her head. Yes.
At this point it was dark.
We lost the majority of our light.
Hey, Shane, I got some night vision too.
I carry night vision goggles
as well as my rifle is equipped
with infrared laser
which you can only see
through night vision.
We had three helicopters flying.
We could communicate with the helicopter
and he could direct us in the
direction where Curtis went.
Hank, where is he?
I get the suspect and the hostage in
my thermal imaging camera,
pretty much said to myself, okay,
it's go time.
All right, they're still westbound.
There's this ditch line with water
so we're gonna see which way they go.
He's kinda swinging his gun
around wildly though,
kinda checking all around.
The biggest thing
that goes through my mind,
I'm gonna watch this woman get shot,
I'm gonna watch a deputy get shot.
He's at the ditchline now walking
northbound along this ditchline.
This is pitch black out there.
These deputies, they're relying on me
to be able to tell them
where these people are going.
All right, they've stopped
along the west end of the path.
- You got them in the light?
- Yeah, I got him.
They should be in the light.
Subject's kneeling down,
he's pointing the gun to the east.
Okay, they're back walking again.
We've got a laser illuminator.
If there is night vision capabilities
on the ground,
well, they can see exactly
where the camera is looking as well.
Have him mark with the laser.
I see him.
He's about 100 yards out, guys.
I got him on night vision.
He's about a hundred yards out
by that tree line.
OK, just double check it.
Have him mark it with the laser.
It's like a pinpointer
where they're saying,
hey, he's right here.
And I started leading our team
towards that laser.
10-4, they moving towards the clearing?
They're moving northbound
to the far west of that field,
and then northbound behind these
houses along this ditchline here.
Okay, they're now headed south
across that field.
He's still got her as a hostage.
They're basically behind ----.
- ---, now walking slowly northbound.
You can have someone working on
getting a hold of those residents.
19, you want a mass notification out?
Just for that neighborhood.
Tell them to stay inside uptown.
There's some homes behind him.
We just didn't want him
to take more people hostage.
Or break into this house,
and now we have
another barricade situation.
They're more to the left of you,
guys, a little bit more to your--
You're kinda in generally lined up
in the area,
basically to the left of those woods.
Do you see where that wood fence is?
Follow that board fence to where it
intersects the woods. They're there.
I see him now.
He's out there by the wood line.
Hey, Shane. He's right at the wood
line.
- Hold on, you got him?
- I can see him.
They're hiding in the tree cover.
It's like an ambush.
We stopped at about 75 yards out.
We stood for less than a minute.
They are stopped.
He's got the gun pointed your direction.
So I think he heard us talking.
If I can get an eye on him to where
I can see him, we'll take him out.
Let me and you go up there.
I got the shield, I can give you--
Shots fired. Hold the radio.
Is he now got this kind
of trapped rat syndrome going on
to where he's going to really go out
in a blaze of glory,
or he's going to kill the hostage,
shoot deputies, kill himself?
When he fired the round,
we immediately just laid down
on the ground.
You could hear it as it whizzed past.
There was a little bit of fear there.
Yeah, but that's one of the things
you have to push down is,
we're going to catch this guy.
We're going to save this hostage.
We're laying on the ground.
I can still see, through my night
vision, the set of woods he's in.
The sniper explained to me
that he didn't have a shot.
We couldn't find him in the scope.
The same spot.
Just for an update,
they're still in that same spot,
kind of bedded down in the woods.
Looking in that direction.
Looks like he's moving. I can't tell
if he's coming out a little bit.
Do you see?
Are they in the light?
Walking out.
He's walking out towards us. Hold.
We got to spread out.
Hold the line, spread out.
I see Curtis walking up
over the embankment in our direction.
The gun is in his right hand
and he's dragging the female.
I figured this was going to be
where it all ends.
We got four or five long guns.
Walking towards you, guys.
Can you see them?
- Rich, you got eyes?
- Yep.
Me still looking through my night vision,
I had a shot where I could hit Curtis.
- You want me to take a shot?
- If you got it, take it.
- --- I can't get them. I had it.
Do you have eyeball?
We do, if you could get that light
directly on him
as soon as you can and hover it.
Star, we need that light on him.
Guys, I'm coming back around.
He's now turned
at a little bit of an angle.
Coming to the right,
to the right, to the right!
He's right there.
Watch your gun, watch your gun.
- Hold fire.
- Give her up to us.
Stand by guys, stand by.
Stand by, stand by! Stop, stop!
Shield, shield!
Hey, hold on, stand by,
he's moving, he's moving!
Move, move, move!
- He's down, hands on cuffs.
Kicked the gun. -Get her out.
No, just leave it. Leave it!
Suspect down.
The hostage, she was screaming,
crying, scared out of her wits.
When you see somebody
who's in true terror,
that sticks with you.
Brian, give me an update on the
hostage and is the suspect secured?
The suspect is down
and in the process of being secured
and hostage appears to be at least
not significantly injured.
- Is he secured?
- Let's secure him anyway. -He's dead.
And I hear Corporal Revis' voice
come across the radio.
It was very calm.
Information.
Shots fired. I'm involved.
I need the sergeant to respond to me.
I wanted to check on him.
He's, you know, he's my brother.
I called him on the radio
and he actually tells me to call his wife
and just, you know,
"Hey, let her know that I'm okay."
- Everybody good?
- Everybody check yourselves.
- Anybody hurt?
- Nobody hurt, right?
You guys did a great job.
Absolutely a great job. Thank you.
You know, you guys are--
- Good job.
- Thank you.
A Cocoa Beach gunman
who took two women hostage
and led law enforcement officers
on a multi-county chase
was shot dead by police early Sunday
in South Brevard County.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey
said in a Facebook video.
The suspect is dead, the victims are safe
and all of these men and women
that were involved are heroes.
They saved two lives tonight
and saved each other.
This pursuit with Curtis Kimbrough
was one of the most scariest pursuits
I've been involved in.
Once it was over, you know,
it was like the world
had been lifted off your shoulders.
It all kind of set in. I was like,
wow. And kind of deep breath.
That gets that heart rate down.
And on to the next one.
2630 North Main Tractor Supply
reporting a shoplifter.
Gonna be a male
with a shopping cart full of items.
She stated he's in
or near a gold four door car.
Okay, be en-route.
Dispatch notified the officer
in that district,
which happened to be Officer Sarah Berry.
Nothing about that call
showed any red flags
of anything other than a shoplifting.
413 Miami. Vehicle just almost hit
me.
I'll be behind it. Standby for tags.
The suspect tried to hit her.
Instantly, it changes your whole
feeling of the call.
That's one of your co-workers.
That's part of your family.
You ain't gonna hurt them.
We need to catch this guy.
I'm at a high rate of speed.
We're heading back north.
I was able to get behind Officer Berry.
Northbound A northeast.
Northbound, northbound.
We were within feet, for sure,
of that truck.
What's your speed?
About 50 right now.
It was obvious that this guy
was not going to stop.
Okay, what's your location now?
We're coming up on 22nd northbound.
Then you start to ask,
what's he running for and why?
It's not like they robbed a bank
or a jewelry store.
Miami PD's in pursuit, requesting
assistance in Commerce on Main.
Vehicle will be
a gold 2005 Toyota four-door.
Another officer called the store
and discovered that the items
he had stolen
consisted of a large machete,
several other smaller in length machetes,
several fixed blade knives,
and multiple pocket knives.
Where's he headed to with those weapons?
What's his plans if he gets away?
Who's he going to hurt?
All the officers that are hearing
that, it gets your adrenaline going.
309, I'm showing six minutes out.
This is serious,
and we need to get this guy caught.
Northbound, Main Street.
Northbound, Main Street.
All units, they're eastbound on 50
road from Main and Commerce.
Repeat, eastbound 50 road
from Main and Commerce.
We quickly made our way out of town.
Still eastbound.
Gonna be on the eastbound 59.
37K, I'm going to try to set up
stop-sticks at 90 road.
10-04 be advised going to try
to stop sticks at 90 road and 59A.
As we approached,
troopers were able to get set up.
All units southbound passing Buffalo
Run. Southbound from Buffalo Run.
He's missed stop sticks.
Now we're westbound,
90 road westbound, 90 road.
Well, it didn't work. Things you got
to think about at that point,
what tools do we have at our disposal
to handle the situation successfully
and safely?
Still westbound from Elm. We're going
northbound one block west of Elm.
I thought he was going to crash into them.
East on Lincoln. East on Lincoln!
We ended up right back
into some residential areas
and that's where people get hurt.
Going past the country club.
We're going back northbound.
Eastbound on Washington.
Ronnie, just drive. I'll call it.
Northbound McKinley from the Country Club.
Repeat, Northbound McKinley
from the Country Club.
Southbound, southbound.
Eastbound now on Yale. Eastbound
on Yale, it's going to be a dead-end.
He's got nowhere to go.
What's going to happen next?
I think he's gonna go through yards.
He's going through yards.
He's going through yards. 10-07.
Is this getting too dangerous?
How much harder can he run?
Eastbound, Harvard.
Eastbound, Harvard.
Eastbound, Harvard 10-07.
We're gonna go through a pasture or field.
I was just as shocked as everybody else.
It's a very uncommon place
to be in a pursuit.
We're gonna get stuck in this
pasture, through this farm field.
It was unbelievable the terrain
we were pursuing in.
Man, I drove that car hard.
But I just felt like if we could get
him to slow down,
the mud would stop the car.
You want to box him in or no?
4-13 to 5.-97. I'm going to be out of
it. I'm stuck in the field.
When Officer Berry got stuck
I lost the ----.
It was just one less car in the pursuit.
Go around him, Hoffer.
I was able to get up almost next to
him. I drew my duty gun.
People are going to listen a little closer
when they've got a 9 mm pointed at them.
He just tried to side swipe
a Miami Nation unit.
Pointing my gun at him. I was giving
him orders to stop the car.
Unfortunately,
the suspect was able to gain speed
and traction at that point.
Westbound. We're going to head
toward the golf course, guys.
Westbound the golf course.
Seeing a Toyota Camry
outrun a line of police cars
through a muddy field,
it's not something you expect to see
when you go into work that day.
We're in the golf course now.
I can't believe
that Camry made it through all that.
Nothing could stop this car.
Once he got out of the field,
it's just like a kick in the gut.
That was our chance to stop it
and it didn't happen.
We're gonna come back out on Yale.
Southbond, Princeton.
East. East on Harvard again.
Eastbound Harvard. 10-10.
We ended up right back
into some residential areas.
Still continuing westbound on Rockdale.
Westbound Rockdale, 10-11.
He drove with absolutely
no regard to human life.
It just crosses your mind
as you pass playgrounds
and you're looking for kids.
West on 4th Avenue.
West on 4th Avenue.
The longer a pursuit goes, you wonder
what's going to happen at the end.
North on Main, north on Main.
He crossed the center line.
There's just so many aggressive maneuvers.
There's a flat tire. A flat tire.
It's coming apart now. Northbound.
How much longer are we going to allow
this pursuit to continue?
- 12 let the Trooper go by?
- Yeah, let him finish it.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol
is the only agency allowed
to perform a PIT maneuver.
The last tool in our toolbox.
It's very dangerous.
- 1-12 location?
- Southbound, East Street.
Keep going, keep going.
PIT maneuver! PIT maneuver!
It's a PIT stop!
10-21.
Put your hands behind your back!
- You got him?
- Yes.
If you know somebody's armed,
your senses are a little higher.
A man is in the Ottawa County jail tonight
after leading Miami police
on a more than 20-minute chase.
Officers say they were called
to reports of a
During the search
of the suspect's vehicle,
there were multiple tools
and large knives found.
What were his plans with those?
Was his intentions to harm somebody
with them?
Afterwards you have time to sit back
and just ponder on
how crazy that pursuit got.
It was one of the more intense
pursuits I've been in.
You're driving through a field.
Something that I will more than
likely never do again in my career.
It's just always a good outcome
when nobody gets hurt
and a bad guy goes to jail.
It was a good, long fight, and we won.