And right after that, I hear pow, pow, pow. Rory's mom began sobbing two years of pent up heartbreak. But defense attorneys stuck to the heart of their case. I said, I'm going to go call the sheriff. From Transcript of 'Miles From Nowhere' - Dateline NBC Verdict: Guilty of First Degree Murder 3D Laser Scanning and GPS Analysis 115 S. Church Street Grass Valley, CA 95945 (877) 339-7378 info@precisionsim.com precisionsim.com Document, Analyze, Visualize; Turn Jurors into Witnesses The defendant, after all, was not just a family man, the father of three adorable children. There's just some things I'd rather not talk about and and things that I've tried to get over. I shot back. It's awesome. I don't think there's any other way to put. And that's when Lewis Wheatley stuck his left hand up out of the meadow grass. It was Sunday morning, July 3rd. We the jury in the above entitled cause, find the defendant, Richard Reid, guilty of a Tuit murder, first degree required guilty of first degree murder in the gallery. It's not often that a gift drops in a person's lap manna from heaven. That's what he saw on the ground as they all did two to three caliber casings, the kind that would come from an AR 15 assault rifle, which had finally admitted he knew. Horrible. In such a manner I never envisioned being. Lewis has been a nervous wreck since all this happened. He was very smart and thoughtful. Distraught over shame. He was placed in reasonable fear of imminent danger or death by the actions of the occupiers. Easy, any of it? Summary: A shoot-out in the California mountains between a young father and strangers in a car is investigated. I didn't know what critical condition meant, so I really didn't know how critical meant. None of that drive was occupied, was it? That is one shot that they are the first time. 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. 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. It may have been tramping around in their property. With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. First of all, they thought they drove as fast as they could. And then there's the long holiday weekend wound down. But this this at the end of a two hour drive into the woods. A laser from a gun, we assume. And then everyone saw you heard nothing on the trunk of my car. Sometimes they've been frightened and cried for my dad. Strangers had come very close, middle of the night, strangers who stole a solar light. The evidence is going to show that the defendant was not in imminent danger when he fired those shots. He had not killed people on the other side of the world and not done any of those things. There's always a place for me at home and we can't stop talking about him. Yeah. And the car suddenly made a 180 and it looked like they were coming straight out. There was Lewis, of course, and his very best friend, a 20 year old junior college student named Rory McGuire. When morning came, Chad inspected his friend's campsite near the bottom of the property where those footprints of strangers around their trailer put us on edge. I picked up the pistol. According to his forensic expert, there was gun residue inside the young man's car and even on some of their hands. Gunfire, the terror, the bullets. But now here were the records and what they revealed was nothing short of shocking in here was confirmation that Chad was in the army. Hollister's mailbox. What are you going to do if they come back of a threat from strangers? They didn't know, in other words, that they were responding to the 911 call to Chad Wollen lead after his armed confrontation with six men on a dark road running through a meadow while racing to the scene, Staley and the warden met up with a sheriff's deputy. Here in the meadow, and prior to that, had you shot the two to three of them at any other time? But we would still be in fear that these people would come back to our to terrorize us more. There was also a closet inside the cabin that contained large amounts of ammunition for various guns, shotguns out on the edge of Chad's property out near the road. So, Carol, heart in her mouth raced along the highway to Reno and her son Rory. 2-21Eureka - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. They all squeezed into Rory Seabury, drove to the lake but couldn't find the party. US CD single (RDJ-62820-2) "Miles From Nowhere" - 4:18 He was protecting us. I picked up the car that was sitting. Chad and his family said they'd been terrorized, but that was not the story Lewis Smith had to tell. It's horrible. It robs you of security. 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. 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. He was creative. He likes people to laugh. I drove over to him and he's yelling at them. The following evening was Saturday, July 2nd. I think it finally sunk in that he was going to get caught in the story. I mean, they're coming straight back at me, we're nose to nose. He's my best buddy. And Plumas County by Antelope Lake. The young man in that car, not exactly a Boy Scout, said Olson. Daddy will protect us. It was the 4th of July weekend. Chad planted signs at the edge of his property by the road, stern warnings to Would-Be vandals and thieves. What's more, he said Chad didn't seem worried. Did you ask them did you push them on there? These are the 100 children. Your login session has expired. He was a lot worse off, but he was talking he was moving his mouth, I could hear sounds I couldn't make, I couldn't make any words out, you know, but it didn't look good. There's a story to be told. But on a summer night deep in the California Sierra, the terror came out of the dark, came after them to take everything. No. 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. But to watch, they were alone in the dark and their friend, the driver, Rory, was clearly in bad shape. Right. But most of the shot placement was all high and height. He didn't bleed out. . Candidly, I give credit to the detectives. It asked them to track down Chad Walland reads military records just to confirm his background. And. 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. Oh, he said he remembered quite clearly what their assailants said just before he got into his truck to leave. He survived. And he's been fired on already, coming back up back towards him. And then his story changed again. It was just my my frame of mind was is that these people are coming back to shoot at me. 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. And was there something else that might, through Chad, fired in self-defense? That was when. Chad began looking forward to a trial, turned down a deal from the DEA. I couldn't tell what the look was about. No, I think it was assumed it was just some sort of random act of vandalism that I guess young kids would do. They had seen him race off into the night. 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. And there was another truly stunning clue collected on the night of the shooting, said Olson. He would call out my name a lot. Remember how the young man's car hit a rock, cracked open the oil pan. They searched around the car. He was not a ranger. Monte, looking for evidence they are 15, was inside on the on the gun rack. Don't worry. And then when I got in to the driver's side of the vehicle, he was laid back and his head was down. Staley recorded everything. The cabin is approximately two hours from Quincy, where the trial took place. So we get out and I'd mark that area so we could go back and search that area for casings. They are OK. And I just remember this as young boys saying, I give up, give up, give up. Their family cabin, where this all took place, is about one hour from Susanville near the Antelope Lake area. It was a sound of gunfire. It was in my cup holder chambered around and pointed out the window and, you know, let off a few rounds. It used to seem like that happening to you. Yes. And I served five years in the military to kill people on the other side of this world, kids in my state. It was elements that could make up gunshot residue. 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. The twist, no, so coming. So a case for self-defense, any jury would have to take seriously, and thus prosecutor David Hollister's big challenge. This is where Chad taught his children how to exist in the natural world. And I found the name Rory, which means Red King and Irish. I mean, it was just blinding. Chad sat outside with his visiting friends who had set up camp on his property. It was scary to me. Keith Morrison reports. And that was that was the end. I mean, they're out in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, this northern stretch of the Sierra Nevada. 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. I mean, you've got Lewis Smith with his leg propped up and the ticket there and you've got Roy McGuire in the back seat with with a horrible head injury. I know that the Lord has told me that Chad will be home, but then any other thought? Part of me feels that Rory is fine. I love Carol and I think she she loves him back. Evidence found at the crime scene may prove Chad fired in self-defense.March 15, 2015. You go on hikes and there is like a lake that was very close to it. Where will Kimberly and Katie fall in a case of possible B.O.Ws vs. Militant Mountain Chad? 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. This was so violent. Officers, ambulances, helicopters coming in. He told us and in court he was no less nervous as he told the jury about seeing the green laser gun site, about the flurries of shots fired by the defendant, about the young man's efforts to end the car chase.