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Latest case · NJ · March 16, 2026
Mom Reports Heart Attack, Gets Shot 40 Minutes Later
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CASE-246
Rammed Truck 911 Call Ends in AK-47 Shooting
Police bodycam footage released by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office captures the nine minutes and forty-seven seconds between the first body-camera frame and a single shot fired on a Fox Run Road porch. The 911 calls behind it described a suicidal, intoxicated man carrying what callers called an AK-47 - a rifle he kept insisting was not loaded. Whether that was ever true is the one thing the released record never says.
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CASE-241 · NJ · May 27, 2024
Cops Walk Into Real Life Texas Chainsaw Massacre
On Memorial Day 2024, a Keansburg, New Jersey mother called 911 for a welfare check on her 46-year-old son. She told the operator he was talking about killing - asked whether she meant someone else or himself, she answered, "Probably both" - and he had stopped answering his phone. This police bodycam footage follows Keansburg officers through the yard checks, the knocking, and a packed, cluttered house, room by room, until the search reaches a locked second-floor bedroom -…
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CASE-239 · WI · May 1, 2024
He Makes Molotov Cocktails, Then Walks to the Middle School
A 14-year-old set off a firework outside Mount Horeb Middle School, then battered the locked cafeteria doors with a black rifle while the eighth grade sat at lunch. This documentary reconstructs the police bodycam footage, school cameras, and 911 calls from the four minutes before Mount Horeb police met him in the front lot - and the investigation that explained why he came.
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CASE-127 · OH · August 22, 2023
Held His Family Hostage for 10 Hours, Then SWAT Set the Charge
She is 19, wedged under a bed upstairs with a dying phone, while the man downstairs paces a dark house with a shotgun - his own mother and brother barricaded in a back bedroom. Reconstructed from police bodycam footage, BCI interviews, and public records, this is the full Howland Township standoff, from the first callout to the explosive charge set on the only door the family ever uses.
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CASE-210 · August 17, 2026
Man Bails From a Rolling Car, Hides 5 Hours in the Corn
A Wisconsin police chase ends with the driver bailing out of his still-rolling car in the middle of Highway 151 - then vanishing into a cornfield with deputies seconds behind him. Getting him back out takes the rest of the day.
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CASE-132 · OH · August 1, 2024
He Threw Knives and a Frying Pan at SWAT for Four Hours
A Columbus SWAT Bearcat is parked on the front lawn of a house on Cherryberry Drive, and the man inside won't come out. This police bodycam footage follows the four-hour standoff with Benjamin Wheeler, who answered every escalation - negotiators, tear gas, Tasers, a drone - by throwing whatever was in reach, from knives to a frying pan.
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CASE-133 · OH · December 20, 2022
Armed Man Flees SWAT Raid, Shoots at K9
A SWAT team rolls up before dawn to serve a felony narcotics warrant in LaRue, Ohio - and the man they came for is already outside, walking toward the railroad tracks. This police bodycam footage, helmet cam, and thermal drone video capture a standoff in which the officers' options run out one by one.
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CASE-078 · OH · February 11, 2022
Police Cancel the Standoff Then Come Back and Shoot Him
A wife calls 911 to get her husband to a hospital. Eight hours and thirty-six minutes later, Monroe police open fire at an Ohio intersection - this documentary reconstructs the full police bodycam footage of everything in between.
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CASE-156 · July 19, 2026
Viral Video Shows the Punch. Bodycam Shows What Led to It
Just before 2 a.m. outside the nightclubs on Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, a sidewalk brawl pulls three bike officers into back-to-back arrests - and ends with a 21-year-old college student on the ground and a single disputed punch. This documentary rebuilds the night from the police bodycam footage Tempe released, the surveillance angle, and the bystander video that spread online before most of the record was public.
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CASE-124 · OH · March 15, 2025
Man Takes Neighbor Hostage then Falls Asleep
Ravenna, Ohio police bodycam footage: two officers walk into an apartment building after a 911 caller reports a man asleep on a neighbor's floor with a gun in his pocket. When the door opens, the man is already awake - and the first thing Officer Brock Wise says about the gun in his hand is that he thinks it might be a BB gun.
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CASE-126 · OH · February 24, 2022
Police Call Off the Chase, Find Her Car in a Burning House
A pregnant woman flags down help on Columbus's southeast side, bleeding from the face, telling the call-taker that the father of her child beat her and drove off in her car - and that he has a weapon. This police bodycam footage follows what happened after a supervisor called off the pursuit at her own request: minutes later, a burning house on Penfield Road, her car wedged inside it, and no driver anywhere in sight.
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CASE-050 · OH · March 5, 2021
High-Speed Wrong-Way Chase: From Pursuit to Fatal Bridge Crash
A wanted driver turns his car around on Interstate 270 and heads into oncoming traffic at highway speed - while a police helicopter watches from overhead. This police bodycam footage documentary reconstructs the hour-long police chase across Columbus, Ohio, and what finally stopped it on the Big Walnut Creek Bridge.
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CASE-082 · OH · February 17, 2025
He Demanded His Car: The Fatal Standoff Caught on Camera
A mother's 911 call reports her 21-year-old son holding a pocketknife inside the family's Miami Township, Ohio home - and demanding one thing: his car. Police bodycam footage from five officers, doorbell cameras, and the family's own phone video capture the 15-minute standoff that follows, and the moment officers decide talking isn't working.
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CASE-095 · December 21, 2023
Gunman Opens Fire From Rooftop as Police Close In
Czech police bodycam footage from inside Charles University's Faculty of Arts - the complete 9:47 official release from the Prague university shooting response, played in its original order with the Czech dialogue subtitled in English. The radio puts the gunman on the roof beside the Czech flag; the officers below have five floors of corridors and stairwells between them and that position.
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CASE-094 · 00:00:00
17-Year-Old Flees at 120 MPH In Stolen Audi
A 17-year-old in a reported-stolen Audi won't stop for County Durham Police, and the pursuit dashcam clocks the car still pulling away at 140mph. From the live radio calls to the stinger plan and the arrest, this is the full police chase in real police bodycam footage and dashcam.
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CASE-090 · ID · August 1, 2026
His Pistol Jammed at the In-N-Out - Then He Went Back for a Rifle
A gunman opens fire on the drive-thru of the brand-new In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho - and the first people in his way are ordinary ones, including an off-duty state trooper inside the restaurant. Surveillance and police bodycam footage trace roughly nine minutes, from a jammed pistol at the payment window to a canyon-rim trail at the edge of Canyon Park West.
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CASE-077 · OH · May 14, 2022
20-Year Feud Ends in One Final Shot
A retired nurse is standing at her neighbors' front door on a Saturday morning in rural Ohio - and she will not leave. Police bodycam footage, two 911 calls, and a doorbell camera capture the 21 minutes between the first call and the confrontation at the open garage on Werger Road.
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CASE-079 · OH
Estranged Husband Breaks In, Holds Wife at Knifepoint
At 3:43 in the morning, two days before Christmas, Mary calls 911 from a locked upstairs bedroom on Akron's south side: her estranged husband is in the house, an active protection order says he can't be, and he is trying to kick in her door.
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CASE-041 · OH · January 1, 2022
Man Celebrating New Year Has No Idea a Cop Is Behind the Fence
Minutes into New Year's Day 2022, a Canton, Ohio K9 officer heard celebratory rifle fire, drove one block, and about a minute after arriving fired through a backyard privacy fence at 46-year-old James Williams - in the yard of Williams' own home. Twenty seconds before the shots, the officer's own radio described what he was watching at that fence - and the police bodycam footage, the family's own security cameras, and the state's frame-by-frame review carry the rest of the…
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CASE-057 · OH · September 3, 2023
Bodycam: Man Takes Hostage With Machete, Officers Force the Door
Officers reach a locked bedroom door in Alliance, Ohio, where a man is holding a woman hostage with a knife to her throat, and this police bodycam footage follows the roughly four and a half minutes it takes them to decide what to do about it.
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CASE-056 · OH · November 4, 2023
Bodycam: Man Flees Burning House, Opens Fire on Police
Officers searching backyards in North Olmsted, Ohio, exchange gunfire with a man fleeing a burning house - and police bodycam footage catches the moment one of them realizes he's been hit. This documentary reconstructs the full night from dispatch to aftermath.
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CASE-053 · OH · March 31, 2024
Stolen Cruiser Turns Into a Deadly Shootout
A Tuscarawas County sheriff's deputy finds the man he's looking for standing in the dark on 8th Street in New Philadelphia, Ohio - and within seconds the man is sitting in the deputy's own patrol car and won't get out. This police bodycam documentary follows the search for a driver who crashed his truck into a house and fled, and what happens in the roughly forty seconds after a deputy corners him.
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CASE-051 · OH
SWAT Standoff Ends in Gunfire
Watch footage of a SWAT team standoff from May 31, 2024. See the tactical response unfold during a tense evening incident.
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CASE-031 · OH
Box Truck Kidnapping Ends in Shots Fired
On Veterans Day 2024, a father takes his seven-year-old daughter from her grandparents in Empire, Ohio, and drives her ninety miles across two counties while state police and a sheriff's drone track every stop he makes.
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CASE-016 · WI · February 24, 2025
Bodycam: Millionaire Flees in Land Rover, Opens Fire on Troopers
He called 911 to turn himself in on a warrant. By the time deputies reached him, he had spent almost an hour telling them exactly how he wanted the night to end.
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