Video: Raw police dashcam video shows a deputy get into a shootout with a man suffering a mental breakdown, after the suspects dad called the police!
Dramatic police dashcam footage shows a shootout between a deputy and a suspect. The shooting happened as the deputy was performing a welfare check at the suspect’s home. Officers said the man’s father had called in a report that his adult son was in the midst of a mental health episode. Deputy Michael Hockett jumps a fence and the suspect begins firing at him. Hockett returns fire, hitting the suspect in the shoulder. Hockett was also hit in his forehead, elbow and waist by pellets from a shotgun blast during the shootout. Both Hockett and the suspect survived.