The Fourth of July weekend, 2011, The Walland Reeds were joined by some friends who set up a little campsite on the property near the road. Search for why is this happening wherever you're listening right now and subscribe. Did this. A young father contacts emergency services claiming that he is caught in the crossfire of a shootout on a remote northern California road that claims one life and injures two other people, b Read allA young father contacts emergency services claiming that he is caught in the crossfire of a shootout on a remote northern California road that claims one life and injures two other people, but the investigation takes unexpected turns.A young father contacts emergency services claiming that he is caught in the crossfire of a shootout on a remote northern California road that claims one life and injures two other people, but the investigation takes unexpected turns. Scared like that. Their only electricity came from a generator. Yeah, I can pretty much tell that that meant business. He'll never be the same. Yes, it could and was about to be for everyone. What is surprising is who was riding with him? We're speeding to get there, to perhaps break it up, perhaps stop it, perhaps save lives. So I decided it's time to check on my leg when I pulled my pant leg down. He's not afraid anymore. What do you think is the appropriate thing that should happen to this man? But remember, the defense forensic expert was clear there was gunshot residue in the young man's car and on some of their hands proving they must have fired a gun, must have to, which David Hollister replied, nonsense. Someone is killed in a vehicle for him, it was bad, worse than anything you would see in a movie. I knew we couldn't fix what had happened, but maybe we'd give her just a little sense of justice. He loves his children so much. And that red hair came with a personality to match. You're telling me these kids are fleeing at 50 miles an hour? That same Sunday morning, Chad and Kerry's children woke up to the sound of strangers rummaging through the cabin and search through our stuff. What was that like when they took him? And some of the jury wept as 12 year old DARlAN repeated the story she told us about the night the men came to their property. Ten seconds pass or so. Yes, sir, I think it finally sunk in that it was all going to come back to him and he was going to get caught in his story. Telling the story was not easy for Lewis and sorry, folks, his anxiety was not hard to understand, but what didn't make sense, how his account differed on some very key points from that of Chad. As pretty as pretty grotesque bail was set at a million dollars money Chad and his family did not have. People don't shoot other people, you know, not for this. It is the first single released in support of their fifth album A Date with The Smithereens . This isn't some hick town in California, around the same time at the jail in Quincy, an hour and a half away, child placed a telephone call to his father. Now, before it happened, before that summer night in July of 2011, it was well, let them tell. One of the sheriff takes them. Oh, I have high rent. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. And we kept on proceeding back in the cabin. Chad Wallin-Reed was ultimately charged with first-degree murder, along with seven other offenses, including shooting at an occupied car, the illegal possession of an assault rifle, and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He thinks they're firing on him again, declined to take the stand in his own defense. They changed his life forever, forever. He could barely talk, but when he did, it was jumbled. Then one of them remembered some crazy warning signs he'd seen by the roadside, wanted to show his buddies they found them, trained the spotlight on them. I can't feel my leg at all because of the pain. But did they fire a gun? Sources state that the six men, all between the ages of 19 and 20, arrived at the location of Chad's property in a car and tried trespassing on two consecutive nights irrespective of the warning signs, which made his family fear the worst. And one of them, we have a Facebook page displaying both a gun and a knife, and it must have had a gun that night, said Olson, because on the route of the chase, investigators found three shell casings, casings that did not match any of Chad's guns. Yes. Yeah, they're firing back at me. He was no monster. I mean, it was just blinding. To people fuming is possibly all Chad might have done, except a prominent defense attorney named John Olson heard about Chad's predicament and saw the way he believed to set him free. hair stylist Music Department Danny Gray . But once he saw they no longer posed a threat, he said he told the man he'd do what he could to find help for them. Miles From Nowhere Dateline NBC 18,373 views 7 Jan 2021 Transcribe your podcast [00:00:11] Deep in the woods, a family lives in fear. I mean, I'm not sure how long had gone by, maybe an hour and a half. And he drove the seven and a half miles back to his cabin. They got to dump the gun out there somewhere, but they didn't all run, went up to the right here, remember the one shot in the leg, the one whose hand they saw sticking up, who was found bleeding out in the meadow? executive producer Makeup Department Jovan Vitagliano . Miles From Nowhere from Dateline NBC on RadioPublic Dateline NBC 448 Episodes Produced by NBC News Website Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. But while Sergeant Pepper was talking to Chad, some of the other detectives were out in the meadow looking for the weapon or weapons those young men must have fired at Chad. With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. How do they know where the car was when it was hit by the shattered glass of its windows? What are you going to do if they come back of a threat from strangers? No credit card needed. But that was not how it was or was ever meant to be. which prompted him to chase them in his car for seven miles . So what did that do to your level of anxiety that weekend? I had the AR 15 saying, I'm going to pick this weapon and I'm going to go down there and I'm going to kill these guys. This was graphic stuff right there in Living Color, the bloodied bodies of injured and apparently terrified young man, the officers trying to attend to their medical needs. composer additional music (uncredited) Additional Crew Al Cerullo . I still feel like he's in the meadow. Yes. Great. He had not killed people on the other side of the world and not done any of those things. To render aid, this is not a battle zone. Absolutely, absolutely. Absolutely, his talk about I only fired three shots, I used the pistol, all these other lives added up the liar, said Hollister, who shot those young men out of anger, pure and simple. He was hunched over the steering wheel. And we said, we didn't shoot your house. There was Lewis, of course, and his very best friend, a 20 year old junior college student named Rory McGuire. Who were these men? And then he came inside and she's like, well, you know what happened? . This is where Chad taught his children how to exist in the natural world. Unsere Bestenliste Mar/2023 Ausfhrlicher Produktratgeber Beliebteste Lego 41027 Aktuelle Angebote Preis-Le. What did that feel like? Was wasted. What do you say Rory is fine. Nobody knew if there was, you know, multiple people shooting at each other. So he's he's fine. But the main thing those young men told Detective Hendrickson was they did not shoot at Chad while agreed. And I thought, you know, these guys are going to get out. Lewis laid down on the ground property's wounded leg against the car, tried to keep talking to Rory, who was lying in the back seat. He likes people to laugh. I mean, they're out in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, this northern stretch of the Sierra Nevada. With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. How to catch a fish swim in a mountain lake, feel safe in the dark is an amazing father. Staley recorded everything. We better do this case right, and we'd better do it once, because that's about our only shot at it. So the jury didn't get to hear him say he did the right thing, did what he had to do when he squeezed the trigger. I think I killed one of them. No, because he wouldn't have this problem now. 1 hr 23 min Miles From Nowhere Dateline NBC True Crime In this Dateline classic, a young father in the California mountains calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. Now they return to the car. He was vivacious. Didn't seem to help. No idea where help might be. I mean, I didn't check for a pulse or anything like that, but there was a bullet wound in his neck. But the sheriffs in the warden's right away saw that he had it on too tight and he'd had it on too long and was very painful. But defense attorneys stuck to the heart of their case. Daniel, Daniel protected Daniel. They were all under the impression that the suspects were in the meadow, in the car and maybe armed and officers treated them as such. Horrible. So, Carol, heart in her mouth raced along the highway to Reno and her son Rory. But first, they had to choose a jury, which would be a fight in pretty little quinsy, a place composed of gun only country folk and liberal big city transplants. Chad explained what was in his mind when those men seemed to be terrorizing his family, how he decided he had to do something to protect his kids and get the sons of bitches get their license plates. The next thing I know, glass is exploding. Dateline NBC 01:23:27 In this Dateline classic, a young father in the California mountains calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. A laser from a gun, we assume. Chad worried a lot about safety, about security, which may have come in part, at least from his time in the military. The victims then proceeded onto a dirt road that led into a meadow at the end of the 7.7-mile pursuit before turning around and heading back towards the main route. You don't really know. In "Miles from Nowhere," Dayton Duncan travels to all the least populated counties in the continental United States--the frontiers--just about all of which happen to be in the West. No addresses where you got on. It would have no reason for me to fire, to shoot, to use the fire in my mind frame, these people are trying to kill me. Did you have a gun? And I called out and I got in through and right. And seven point six miles away, out in the mountains, snow has begun to blanket the meadow, hiding the only remnants of what happened, a few shards of glass and the Little Rock to mark the spot where a young man with so much potential. Yeah, we were trying every technique we could to have them stop. I'll end up spending the rest of my life in prison. I put myself in that same scenario. They believe that they would be just a few minutes from safety. And I also could think about was my kids thinking, you're yelling at me about your daughter and look what you just did, you know, what about my kids? The interesting thing, though, is they said they shot at me three times and they found the three 380 casings that were together that were not from each gun corresponding with the three shots. He survived. You know, I as far as you know, I've never I never expected for us to be apart. I had the kids stay down. I picked up the pistol. [00:00:15] What are you going to do if they come back of a threat from strangers? So when you're looking at the South, you do need to understand the power and seductiveness of mythology and always be aware of the fact that if you aren't looking out for it, it will get you. But then something just grabs me inside and say. And they were afraid. This just kept getting worse and worse. They were wrong. Were they kidding? Some people had been shooting at each other. Sind Sie auf der Suche nach dem ultimativen Eon praline? He makes the whole case will boil down to whether Chad was fired upon and shot back in self-defense, Olsen said the evidence backed Chad up. Daddy won't let anything bad happen to you. You know, of course, bourbon, which is the most nostalgic and mythologized of old drinks. Now, here they were a second time. The police were looking for a gun, of course. And I was just saying, I'm sorry. Sorry, but, you know, please don't kill me. So when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. They found a lone vehicle, its windows blown out. I kill people on the other side as well, kids in my state, maybe even that he'd been having some sort of flashback. He's ready now to go home to his wife, Carrie, and their three kids. Sign up free 0:00 0:00 Oh, I pushed them. Well, who are you? He fired back. The driver, Rory McGurie, 20, was fatally struck in the head-neck region and died two days later. Nine Nights of twisted killers. Next thing you know, as I'm looking up, I see these three flashes and then I hear crack, crack, crack, crack. Lewis Smyth, the young man you met earlier, was a key witness for the state. Nor could we ignore one more big discrepancy between Lewis's story and Chad's. He was creative. Inside, up on the top floor is an overworked DA's office, all too accustomed to the limited funding abilities of a small county, a fact of life David Hollister had to consider very carefully as he prepared to prosecute Chatwal and Reed for first degree murder. He fought for our freedom. It seems so innocent now, closed up, dead quiet, empty in that place at the end of a 100 yard dirt track that snakes off a lonely country road deep in the Sierra Nevada. Chad reportedly shot at the speeding car several times as he pursued it in the darkness. How many shots? Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office. He loves this country. Monte, looking for evidence they are 15, was inside on the on the gun rack. I mean, that's something I can't capture in words. And he is about to give us his account of a July 4th weekend on a dark and lonely road in the high Sierra. I think it finally sunk in that he was going to get caught in the story. Probably not to make it. And I looked down and I saw this spotlight being shined all over the place. The warden, the deputies arresting the wounded men, the hand poking out of the grass. It scared us tremendously. English. My children were definitely the daddy. And the children stayed home and worry mostly. They took me back down to the booking area. What did they want? Chad found himself fuming about the first degree murder charge against him, felt his alleged victims were the ones in the wrong, that they deserve to be stopped. For one thing, shards of broken glass, which clearly mark precisely where the car was when Chad blew out the windows. Nothing like that. I think that trial will. Daddy will protect us. But that's about all that was true. "Miles From Nowhere" Airs Saturday, March 8 at 8pm/7c In the California mountains, a young father called 911 to report that . But my desire is to walk him out of that courtroom. Chad began looking forward to a trial, turned down a deal from the DEA. The Sacramento Bee. They have a gun when he approached their car. Do you think they were firing on you? Language. Simple law of speed vs. gravity. Why Antelope Lake, because the man told Detective Henrikson there were cabins there, people safety. Miles from Nowhere Details In the California mountains, a young father calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. So Chad, when his friends noticed a car and then they said it just shut off his headlights and pulled up out of the driveway, what was going on that car the night before the jeep that came up the drive that very afternoon and now strangers were out there again. Of course, bourbon is made in a place that now pretends it lost a war. Right away, there's two guys coming towards with their hands up. And there were other victims. Remember, in his interview, Chad said he told Lewis and his friends when he left him in the meadow that he was going to get help. There was only one Rory, and everyone knew who it was. Some of the young men decided the car was more targeted and refuge and hid in the tall grass of the meadow. It was a sound of gunfire. In fact, all night chatted, but a deep conversation with detectives from the police county sheriff's office. I was a ranger and they soon find Chad's camp is changing. I couldn't tell what the look was about. He was gone. He came for the crime, the family values. Oh, yes, that evening. Not to after this with military training, who, you know, react. They held a white T-shirt out the window. It took nine months, many of them ensnarled in military red tape. So when they drove past you going back this way, they were shooting with the arrow then? Chad Wallin-Reed, an army vet and father-of-three, was sentenced to more than 80 years to life in prison for murdering a 20-year-old man who, along with five other men, allegedly stole solar light from his family cabin located in the remote and secluded woods in Plumas County, California, during the 4th of July weekend of 2011. Florida man murders a two night special event January 9th at 7:00, kicking off oxygens. With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. There's always a place for me at home and we can't stop talking about him. Keith Morrison reports. The charge, attempted murder. On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Dateline: Secrets Uncovered will revisit the thrilling, hostile, and deadly car chase and shootout between army vet Chad Wallin-Reed and six young men during. It felt like much longer than it actually was for him to get out of the truck and to sit inside the cabin. Yeah. And the car suddenly made a 180 and it looked like they were coming straight out. That's what we call an escalation of tactics until somebody, you know, either backs down or the threats neutralize the other car kept coming. For most of two years, often twice a week, Gary Warren Reed drove back and forth through the high Sierra to visit her husband in the Plumas County lockup. It sound. The air that night say, why were you shooting at me in the car or you shot at me in the car or anything like that? Keith Morrison reports. Hello. My dad is here to protect us. Remember Chad's insistence that the car came straight at him through the meadow as if for a final showdown and it looked like they were coming straight out? Just splat. No. Saturday morning, July 4th weekend, 2011, Chatwal and Reid and his family were on edge. To Seattle Winter, we would do a snow ball fight and then we would come inside and even have some hot cocoa. In fact, right from the start, that amazing shock of red hair at birth surprising even his own mother, Carol, if his name was going to be Colin. If the young man fired a chad first as the defense went to a lot of trouble to prove, then maybe Chad's reaction was reasonable. And a bunch of people came out yelling. In this Dateline classic, a young father in the California mountains calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. Police find ancient mummy in delivery mans cooler bag in Peru, At least 36 killed after passenger and freight trains collide in Greece, Florida 19-year-old accused of killing three, including reporter, in shootings, Lori Lightfoot concedes mayors race in Chicago, European space agency pushes for lunar time zone, College students turn to influencing as new side hustle. They are OK. Somebody said, so here's what they did. We were able to make a call out there. He was angry and he was that they were trying to get away to set the scene, so to speak. He was very smart and thoughtful. Daddy, you know Daddy won't let anything bad happen to you. Fair enough. Kerry visited her husband in jail to tell them that she was in his corner and would always be no matter what. And yet, said the prosecutor, Chad kept right on shooting. But we would still be in fear that these people would come back to our to terrorize us more. And that's a fear. The justice system can't give him what I feel he has coming. Miles From Nowhere. He didn't bleed out. They're training to do the crackdown for cars, jets, I was a ranger. It gave the jury a true understanding of the horror that happened that night. A young father contacts emergency services claiming that he is caught in the crossfire of a shootout on a remote northern California road that claims one life and injures two other people, b A young father contacts emergency services claiming that he is caught in the crossfire of a shootout on a remote northern California road that claims one life and injures two other people, but the investigation takes unexpected turns. I said, I'm going to go call the sheriff. I don't know. Somebody shot out of that car because because of the gunshot residue in the car, the lack of bullet strikes on that side of the car and the gunshot residue on the hand. Miles From Nowhere S.22 Ep.5 A Date with Dateline Download A bright spotlight in the dark woods, solar lights marking a hidden driveway, headlights speeding down a winding mountain road and an ominous green laser light on the dashboard of a car. 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