I can describe when you look at the word murder and it describes. It was a. That's what they believe. Daddy won't let anything bad happen to you. I just got freaked out on the kids. Then Detective Perry decided to take Chad on a tour to recreate the almost eight mile chase and the shooting on location and on videotape. I knew. Sorry, but, you know, please don't kill me. My dad is here to protect us. It was horrible. 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. Somehow they managed to move Rory to the back seat of the car, but when one of them turned the key, the car wouldn't start. That was how you felt? Maybe he'll stop. Exactly. Distraught over shame. What happened the next night would change all their lives. Just remember looking at my. For one thing, shards of broken glass, which clearly mark precisely where the car was when Chad blew out the windows. Sometimes I've cried for my dad. And the glass told the story, do they say about the true intentions of Chad won't read his shot? It was their father's cabin, really, Chad Ball read. 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. The meadow that is the dirt road where the shooting took place, a place so remote that without those directions, they might never have found it. Over the 4th of July weekend of 2011, Chad Wallin-Reed, armed with a handgun and an assault rifle, chased a car driven by six young men after they stole solar light fittings from his remote Plumas County property twice. Can I imagine him being away from us? And he said, we need to go and call nine one one. meanwhile, two women are frantic with worry, one for her husband, the other for her son. He was passing out flyers. Chatwal and Reid said attorney Olsen is just the sort of person for whom that defense was intended is. 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. Strangers had come very close, middle of the night, strangers who stole a solar light. 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. 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. Alarm going off, two people were dead. Trouble was, this was a difficult case from the start. It's just the worst being without my husband and the children being without their father. That is one shot that they are the first time. Rory McGuire died. 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. I think I killed one of them. Scared like that. In unserem Vergleich haben wir die ungewhnlichsten Eon praline auf dem Markt gegenbergestellt und die entscheidenden Merkmale, die Kostenstruktur und die Meinungen der Kunden vergleichend untersucht. Security was why I carry a revolver daughter how to use it and stalked the cabin with guns, including a favorite is they are 15. And they took all four guns. But defense attorneys stuck to the heart of their case. And I said, no, I think I killed one of them. But as the prosecutor told the jury, evidence found in the meadow told a very different story. 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. So he's he's fine. The makeshift team convoyed to the meadow, geared up for a possible shoot out. Remember, their cabin didn't have a telephone. Couldn't just take somebody's word for it, but neither could they. Where were they compared to you? I hear crack, crack, crack. Now, here they were a second time. And there was another truly stunning clue collected on the night of the shooting, said Olson. Were they kidding? I only looked at him once or twice. 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. You don't really know. Chad jumped in his truck and gave chase barreling up, twisting mountain, road it up to 50 miles an hour. With one man dead and two others. Luis Smythe crouched, wounded and immobile in the back seat. In fact, they assured him they didn't have a gun. And Plumas County by Antelope Lake. 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. It was elements that could make up gunshot residue. A promise he attempted to keep. They're training to do the crackdown for cars, jets, I was a ranger. They are OK. So they got up to a little mischief up there by the lake with a spotlight. And that's the reason Chad chased those men, said Carrie. 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. Absolutely. As they drove through the night, they listen to the chatter the way it was very chaotic. Keith Morrison reports. 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. And that's a fear. And I found the name Rory, which means Red King and Irish. And so they were sticking their hand in my wound. The next thing I know, glass is exploding. For them to take my husband away didn't expect it. I picked up the pistol, was in my car folder and pointed out to know. Was wasted. 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. But as the hours stretched through the night into July 4th, Chad began to see more and more clearly, but he was not to blame. Like, did he say? Description 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. It is an up and down world of river gorges and mountain peaks, difficult to forge and far from any towns or resorts. It was scary. He was funny. Originally aired on NBC on October 18, 2013. But it was weird, said Carol, when she saw Rory lying there unconscious and he actually looked perfect. In other words, Chad wasn't shooting to disable the cars and the prosecutor, the evidence suggested he was shooting to kill the occupants even as they were trying to get away. They were right. 1 1.Transcript of Miles From Nowhere from - Happy Scribe; 2 2.Plumas jury finds man guilty of murder in 20-year-old's shooting death; 3 3.Man Sentenced To 80-Years In Prison For Vigilante Killing; 4 4.Miles From Nowhere, Part 8 - NBC News; 5 5.KRNV News 4 - In 30-minutes on Dateline: Miles from - Facebook; 6 6.Dateline NBC - A web exclusive addition to Friday's And from what the detectives told him, what happened seemed pretty clear today. They were wrong. Absolutely. He was angry and he was that they were trying to get away to set the scene, so to speak. Where they're going to shooting RAM one in military and police. A green laser. It sounded like somebody poured a ton of water on the ground. I went up to the right here right now and everyone was like, whoa, we got to hand. As you know, I was talking to a lady. And so they got out of control. Oh, I have high rent. My children were definitely the daddy. I still feel like I need to go help him. I just about then Lewis saw headlights appear in the distance and eventually somebody makes their way over towards the car and says it was the sheriff's deputies. He sat there for a while and like he was looking around for something. He was not a ranger. As you're driving back, as you're now trying to figure out what the hell you've done and what was going on in your heart, your mind, your soul, an assessment, somebody is either dead or dying. 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. They cut them off and take them right there. They looked all around the meadow. . Young men of the car thought it was some kind of joke that way, now at the very same time, still July 3rd, the driver of a shot up car, Rory McGuire, was in a Reno hospital. I mean, they're out in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, this northern stretch of the Sierra Nevada. 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. I said, I'm going to go call the sheriff. Chad worried a lot about safety, about security, which may have come in part, at least from his time in the military. What steps do we go through? No credit card needed. Somebody said, so here's what they did. But once it's over, it's my responsibility to. But did they fire a gun? The following evening was Saturday, July 2nd. 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. And I just remember this as young boys saying, I give up, give up, give up. He was hunched over the steering wheel. They had spent many hours with him that night questioning him, asking him if any other firearms had been used and continually said no. And keeping it that way was Chad's particular preoccupation. Did you own a gun? No, no, it hurts that that thought those words hurt my heart. He was gone. Chad is an utter scumbag - Republic of Chad - for the love of all that's holy! I feel sorry for Rory's poor mother and Chad's children - innocent victims in this tragedy. Urgent call, went out over the radio. You're in the dark. According to his defense, he was first fired at by the men inside the car and thus chose to retaliate by defending himself and his property. I like his military weapon, security and pleasure. Was the defendant in imminent fear of death or great bodily injury so that he immediately had to use deadly force? There were a lot of letters to the editor of the local paper, and I think they were pretty evenly divided between people saying the state ought to reimburse Chad the cost of his ammunition. Some of the young men decided the car was more targeted and refuge and hid in the tall grass of the meadow. Lewis Smyth, the young man you met earlier, was a key witness for the state. Didn't seem to help. Right at that point in time, I didn't know that, you know, any of the men in the car, who they were, why they'd approached this home. I mean, I didn't check for a pulse or anything like that, but there was a bullet wound in his neck. He was arrested for attempted murder and also assault with a deadly weapon. They searched around the car. I still feel like he's in the meadow. And I was I was crying when I woke up because I didn't know who they were. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. I was like, what the heck is going on? They didn't feel comfortable staying at the car and I don't blame them. Chad is currently serving time at the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento and will only be eligible for parole in 2092. Exactly when it's most needed, which in this case, just as the trial was wrapping up, was a carefully sealed official looking package addressed to Plumas County D.A. 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. Then the cops took Chad down that dirt road which led into the meadow. His mother, Carol stars are by his bedside in the ICU as he lay with a bullet in his brain was horrible. Evidence found at the crime scene may prove Chad fired in self-defense.March 15, 2015. Horrible. In this classic Dateline MILES FROM NOWHERE (Season 22 Episode 5) forget about being scared of the dark, the real nightmare begins with a series of lights culminating in the tragic end of a young red-haired man with his whole future ahead of him. Oh, my. Please just call an ambulance and took off. Suddenly, Rory, stop the car. It may have been tramping around in their property. He's my best buddy. Here in the meadow, and prior to that, had you shot the two to three of them at any other time? There was no cell phone service, no phone at all, which was just fine with Chad's wife, Kerry. Chad planted signs at the edge of his property by the road, stern warnings to Would-Be vandals and thieves. 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. No, I think it was assumed it was just some sort of random act of vandalism that I guess young kids would do. We had to drive her almost three quarters the way down to where I normally get reception. You believe that? And then I walk out and as I'm looking down, this car goes speeding away. Mostly they lived in Reno, Nevada. He was so upset, he he looked as if he continued to talk that he would just not be able to maintain any composure whatsoever. So the gunman pointed the gun right at me. I think it finally sunk in that he was going to get caught in the story. And then the noisy car full of young men rolled back home and they all went to bed. How are they going to get there to help them? I don't recall. Chad then opened fire on the car with his assault rifle as they were driving past, hitting the driver and two other passengers. He was the life of the party, entrepreneurial to trying to start a mobile car washing business with a friend. And no amount of jail time will will fix it. Order a wine delivery through our Digital Cellar Door or shop at Independent Liquor Stores near you in Perth, Western Ausr The detectives found that unusual no trespassing sign you were entering the RNC, the site said, which meant the Republic of Chad. I said, listen, if there was a gun, you need to tell us. Not that I could tell. Anyway, that Friday night, July 1st, Rory and Lewis were joined by four other young men in search of a party they'd heard about. Rory hit the guys was somebody shooting at us? So he came up to the car and said, were you the one shooting at my house? There's something very invasive about that, too. Oh, yes, that evening. No, because he wouldn't have this problem now. IE 11 is not supported. But as Detective Pay listened, something seemed off. 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