Surveillance footage catches a woman simply walk out of a Metro Market in Shorewood, Wisconsin with a shopping cart filled with unpaid items. As an employee chases after her, she begins to flee into the parking garage while pinning the employee against a wall. The employee then gives up and immediately calls the police while the suspect runs away with the cart filled with stolen items. At the exit of the parking garage, the suspect is then met by a male in the getaway vehicle. They load the stolen items in the car and take off. An officer responding to the scene then passes right by the suspect's vehicle and does an immediate U-turn to begin pursuing them. What he doesn't know is a 4-year-old child is in the car. >> Still going westbound on Capital. One Capital, just struck a truck. Struck a truck. Still going westbound on Capital. Vehicle's disabled. Set up for a high-risk stop. >> TURN OFF THE [ __ ] CAR! TURN OFF THE CAR! TURN OFF THE [screaming] CAR! >> 920 TO THE WEST SQUAD. Someone get westbound on this vehicle. It's probably going to take off again. >> I'll move up. I'll move up. >> Okay, all right. >> TURN OFF THE CAR! >> I GOT THE SEX RIGHT. >> WE GOT AN UNCOOPERATIVE DRIVER. Not listening to us. Get back. Back up. Back up your score Back up your car. Back it up. >> Turn off the car! Turn off the vehicle! >> 920. >> PUT YOUR HANDS UP! >> HANDS UP OUT OF THE CAR! >> ALL RIGHT. TURN OFF YOUR VEHICLE WITH YOUR HANDS OUT OF THE WINDOW. NOW! >> 708, you can go on traffic. >> Listen to us. You ready? We can move up there if you want. Yeah, I need you to grab the police shield. You want rifle? Dude, I want to give them some more. How many people are in the car? I don't know. We got a female and it looked like we got a male driver. When you open the door for that Yes, it's a male driver. Yeah. I don't want to walk up there. Not yet. Only if we have to. Keep giving commands, Sydney. When we start giving commands, have him come out of the car. Try passenger. Moss, do we have someone that can check on the welfare of that truck that was hit, that Avalanche? Where did Where did they go? I told them to back up. They were in Sydney's position. I told them to go back um eastbound on Capital. I don't They might be right around the corner. I just need them to check on the driver of the vehicle that was struck. They should be just around the corner and one block from us. You want three more units? I want uh I'll hold the shield. I'm going to need probably two more officers to go up there with ME THOUGH. SLOWLY PUT YOUR HANDS UP. SLOWLY. PUT PUT YOUR DAUGHTER down in the car. I You will not get shot. Listen to us. Listen to us. Sir, listen to me. Listen to me. You'll be fine. JUST LISTEN TO ME. Put Just listen to Okay, I get you're scared. I get you're scared. Please Lay Lay down on the ground. That's right. Lay down on the ground. Who else is in the car? Who else is in the car? Who else is in the car, sir? Okay. Have them listen to us and step out of the vehicle. Is there only one person left in the car? Okay. Have them step out slowly, please. Have them step out slowly. Tell the passenger to exit the vehicle slowly. Sir, what's your name? >> John. >> John, my name's Hal, all right? Tell John, John, listen to me, all right? Have the passenger just exit slowly. She's coming out. She's coming out. Okay, that's okay. It's okay. Passenger, step out. Listen to my partner, okay? Ma'am, just listen to the female officer, okay? Just turn around slowly. Can you have the daughter go back IN THE CAR? YOUR DAUGHTER CAN COME JOHN, LISTEN. JOHN, JOHN. >> NO ONE NO ONE NEEDS TO GET SHOT, JOHN. >> CAN YOU HAVE YOUR DAUGHTER come to us and then you can come, all right? >> Can I come with my daughter? >> Your daughter comes first and then you can come. >> Can I come with my daughter? >> Do you want them to both come towards? That's fine. If they Give Give them to the front of your squad, we'll take them into custody in front of your squad. >> Let's get another officer over here. You need to stay back, right now. Get back to the sidewalk. No. Does it look like I can talk right now? >> Walk towards me with the daughter. >> Hey, can I get my niece, OFFICER, PLEASE? >> NO. NO. >> NO, THE NIECE IS GOING TO GO WITH YOU. >> CAN YOU STOP TALKING AND LET US DO OUR JOB, PLEASE? >> Come towards me. It's just It's just the female passenger in the car, that's it, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yes, I don't know what happened. >> Okay. >> All I did was >> Okay. All right. Stop right there. Turn face Face the car. Put your daughter down. Slowly let her down. Slowly let her down. >> Okay. >> No, no, no, just let her down, John. John. We got I got her. I got her. I got her. >> We'll hand her back. >> Okay. >> Daddy, right here. >> Daddy, don't go. >> Who Who are those people? >> I don't know. >> You don't know them? >> DON'T GO WITH THEM. >> YOU CAN STAY WITH ME UNTIL HER MOM COMES. SOMETHING. >> [screaming] >> WHERE IS DADDY? >> OH MY GOSH. CAN YOU AT LEAST BRING her here? >> We'll have her talk to you here in a minute, okay? We still got to talk to her, too. She's not listening to us, all right? It's okay. You're going to stay at our station WITH US, OKAY? >> I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE POLICE STATION. >> I KNOW. WE'LL GOING to figure it out, though. >> Just tell her to listen to me. She's not listening to me. She's so scared. >> I'm cuffed up. What can I do? I got a gunshot wound right here. Look at this. What can I do? I can't do nothing. I can't run nothing. >> Just sit in the car with us. We got to get her back here. >> y'all going to take me from her, but it's like, can I at least say my goodbyes? I'm going to be >> Yes. We'll bring her back over here, John. We still got one person here that we got to get her. >> All right. >> We still got to talk to her. It's okay. >> I'll go home soon. >> Yeah, you'll go home soon, sweetheart, okay? >> Man, that's my niece, MAN. CAN Y'ALL JUST LET HER GO, MAN? >> REALLY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND what it is to be a parent. >> Y'all on some [ __ ] man. >> Do you know who those people are? >> They have no identity, no identity whatsoever. >> Never seen them? All right, well, you'll stay with me then until we figure this out, okay? My name's Ian. All right, I'm going to close this door up. Just so I can watch my daughter here, okay? Just I'll be right back, okay? >> Come. Come. All right. All right. Okay? Keep coming. Keep coming. >> Keep coming. There's no one else in the car? What's your name? >> Nadia. >> Nadia? Okay. All right, hands up. Turn and face the other way. Put your hands behind your back. YOU'RE involved in a retail theft at Metro Market and you crashed into an innocent person. Are you under the influence of anything? >> No, I never was never driving. I asked him to stop. He said, "No, I could get in trouble with the police." >> Okay. Okay. Okay. You don't have anything on you? >> No. >> You're going to get searched again. >> I only asked him to >> Okay. Who is Who is John to you? >> He's a friend. I just asked him to stop being >> Whose child is that? >> stop. >> Is that John's kid? Okay. Are you Do you have any relationship to the child? >> No. >> Okay, can you step up there for me? >> I'm only 18. >> Okay. Okay. You're going to be okay though, all right? You're going to be fine. I know no one wants a gun pointed at I don't even know who you are. Do you have any warrants? Do you have anything outstanding? Okay. Okay. >> I'm only 18. >> And that's John's car? >> I was driving >> Okay. Okay. Sydney, you want to move up with me? >> I'm only 18. >> All right. >> Ready? >> Yep. >> This guy's sharp for You got me? >> Yep. Yep. Yep. >> Good. >> Can you take a step forward a little bit? >> That's for you. >> Okay. >> Pop the trunk. >> Okay. Ready? One, two, three. Clear. We're good, Moss. >> All right. I have the daughter in my car. >> No. Cuz he doesn't know who you are. She doesn't know who you are. >> I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'RE JUST GOING TO BACK UP A LITTLE BIT, OKAY? And then I'm going to park right over here. All right, well, we're going to figure it out, sweetheart. >> Y'all leave with my daughter. >> Just let me say goodbye to >> He's lucky to say bye to her. >> You don't take my daughter. I CAN'T EVEN SAY BYE. >> I didn't We didn't say nothing like that. >> She's leaving. She's moving his flat, okay? >> THIS IS A HOSTILE SITUATION. I understand >> It's not hostile. Let's go on the sidewalk. Let me ask you this. Do you think the best time to shout at me and then ask me questions, ask me favors is when we have guns pointed at a car and we're trying to order people out? >> Baby, I'm saying, bro. >> I know. We saw the We saw the baby. >> We scared for our life just like y'all, bro. Like come on, y'all got guns pointed on a baby, bro. >> I get it. When we have other people yelling at us and screaming at us and trying to get our attention and dividing our attention for what we have to do, that's when mistakes get made. We need to have all of our attention on what we're trying to do in the moment. I had every intention of coming over and talking to you once I had things calmed down, okay? >> Where's the baby? >> Baby in the car. >> Hey. >> Um what did they what did they take? What did you see? What did they take? What happened? >> Okay, so I noticed her. She had stuff in the bags already. >> Okay. What kind of what kind of bags? >> Uh Metro Market bags. >> Okay. >> Then she hit the door. Door was already locked. Unlocked the door. That's when I walked after I grabbed the cart. I didn't touch her. I didn't grab her. Grabbed the cart. She kicked me up against the beam. Got my hurt. Took off running down down a parking structure. Some guy in a red car picked her up. >> So, did did she get away with the cart? >> Yes. >> Okay. What did she look like? >> Big chick. Tan booty shorts on. She had on a >> Okay. Why did the man get shot, though? >> What man? >> The guy. The man who was driving. Did he get He got shot clearly, right? >> No, he got shot. >> No, nobody got shot. >> That was a long time ago. >> So, if you don't have any other questions, we're just going to hang out and wait for Mom. Once Mom gets here, I'll talk to Mom. >> Okay, so what do you need for her to verify her own job? >> It's a driver's license. >> He just need her driver's license. >> And the best day of my vacation was I opened the door and the little little girl goes, "Mommy." That's always a good sign. >> But I'm saying she didn't notice me because I had my mask and my hat on. And she she You didn't even get a chance to look at me. She knows exactly who I am. >> I get it. We were we were in the middle of a lot of things happening all at once. >> I understand. >> All right, we cool? So, let's hang out and wait for Mom. Once Mom gets here, I'll get the kid to Mom. >> Here, move your foot. I'm going to open the door, but I'm going to roll the window down, okay? >> All right, get Mom's info here. >> WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER? WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER? >> YOU NEED TO RELAX. >> DAUGHTER? >> Right here. Do you have a right in the back there. I'll let you out. Come here. >> Come here. It's a fight. Okay. It's a fight. >> Damn, she took all that? Tried to. Is that 309-79? Hey John, can you have a seat for me? I'm just going to read you the uh your rights. >> I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. >> All right, you have the right to remain silent. Do you understand the rights? >> Yes. >> Do you want to talk to me about what happened? >> Um I wanted to do this when you all picked her and picked her up and come back and left. >> You went to pick her up where? >> I don't know who where. I just picked her up and we went to the store, okay, came back and it was just that. >> What store? >> Metro Market. >> Did you go in the store? >> No. >> No. >> So when you were leaving Metro Market, did you see the lights, the police lights? >> Uh when they was coming towards towards me, they wasn't behind me. They was like coming the opposite direction, so it was like they wasn't pulling me over from behind. Then I tried to pull over to the right lane, but then the car that was in the middle lane drifted over to the right lane, which maybe caused me to they were in. >> Okay. After you had that car, it sounded like you were hitting the gas. >> No, I was it was I'm like it was stalled. I'm like, "What the hell?" I thought I hit it in neutral and then I reached in the back with my I still I still step step my foot on the pedal as I was reaching back to interact with my daughter. >> So I'm going to jail because of these or because of the warrants? >> Both. >> I'm talking to this guy. >> I'm talking to you. >> [snorts] >> I know. I know, but I was just talking to him. Sorry. Not to be rude. >> Both. >> The female suspect, Alisha was charged with retail theft intentionally taking less than or equal to $500 worth of items and obstructing an officer. She took a plea deal [music] pleading guilty to both charges in exchange for the sentence of 15 months on probation. The male suspect, John, was charged with felony fleeing and eluding, hit-and-run, two counts of felony second degree recklessly endangering safety, and retail theft with a modifier as being a party to the crime. He also took a plea deal, pleading guilty to all charges in exchange for the sentence of serving 2 years in the state prison and 2 years of extended supervision. He was also ordered to pay $3,680 to the victims in the truck he crashed into. His daughter received no injuries from the crash and is now in her mother's custody. >> That child is lucky to be alive. Between 2009 and 2023, there were a total of 5,425 fatal motor vehicle crashes involving police pursuits resulting in 6,352 people killed, according to a study from JAMA Network. >> And that's not even mentioning the fact that her own father used her as a human shield to protect himself from potentially getting shot. A study from Tactical Science actually found that one in six pursuit calls ended in some form of use of force. So, based on the statistics, this incident actually had a fairly high chance to end way worse than it did. My only hope is that the little girl's mother is infinitely more responsible than her father, so she can grow up to live a better life. I'm a father, and our job is to stand between danger and our child. This man did the exact opposite, and that's a decision that his daughter may never forget, even if the courts eventually do.