On July 28th, 2019, in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, a man named Jonathan Allen Scott was reported to 911 for walking along Central Avenue with a shotgun, threatening bystanders, and impersonating a Secret Service agent. Officers responded and confronted Scott, who fired a slug into the ground near them. When ordered to drop his weapon, Scott turned toward the officers with the shotgun, prompting one officer to shoot him multiple times. Scott fired again and shrapnel from the shot injured another officer and his K9 partner. Both the officer and the K9 would drop down now. Hot Springs 911. What's the address of your emergency? Um 362 central. There's a guy out here on the bench. He's threatening and I don't very intimidating now. He's intimidating people that are walking by. He's big guy. White, he's got a beard, gray shirt, blue jeans. Okay. Do you know if he's got any weapons? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. He just got up. He's pulling something out of his pants. Lady, get somebody down here, please. He just pulled something up out of his pants. Do you know what he pulled out? No. I don't know if it's a gun or what. He is nuts. Okay. Screaming at people on the street down the road, but he has something down his pants. It's long. It's Uhhuh. He's got a shotgun. He's got a shotgun in his pants. Okay, we've got a number of units in the area. Okay, I've got I'm gonna go ahead and let you go. I've got another caller on the line. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Hot Springs 91. Um, we are in downtown Hot Springs and there's a gentleman running down the sidewalk saying that he's like Secret Service with a rifle. Okay, we're going to get somebody out there. All right, we've already got officers in the area. Thank you, ma'am. Uhuh. Byebye. Hot Springs 911. What's the address of your emergency? There's a right here on the C Central Street in Hot Springs. There's a man walking around with a shotgun. Okay. Where exactly where is he located? He's right in front of Gangster Museum. In front of the Gangster Museum. There's a cop right next to him right now. Okay. All right. Thank you. He's walking He's walking down the middle of the road. Okay. Thank you. Hey, put the gun down. Put the gun down now. Put the gun down now. Put the gun down now. Stop. Put the gun down. Put the gun down. Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon. Drop it now. Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon. [Music] Okay. [Music] Let me see your hands. Are you hit? Right before the exchange of gunshots, the suspect turned and raised his shotgun in the direction of the officers. The officer then began shooting as it it was clear to him that the suspect was about to open fire on them. The officer fired approximately 10 gunshots while the suspect shot once. However, the suspect fired prematurely, shooting into the ground in which the shotgun slug he fired broke apart when it hit the concrete. The resulting shrapnel ricocheted off the ground and hit the other officer on scene as well as his K9 unit. Copy. We've notified him. He's going to be by the gangster museum. Keep your hands above your head. Keep them there. Do not move your hands. All other units, switch to pursuit. All units that aren't downtown central, switch to pursuit. Do not move your hands. Keep them there. Do you have any other weapons? Keep your hands where they're at. Hot Springs 911. Yeah. This is Tom at the Mountain's Edge at 46 Central Avenue. We've got fire. We've got officers in the area. Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir. Hot Springs 911. Yes, we are on um I think it's Central Street. I'm not sure. We're up here by the Arlington. Yes, ma'am. Gunshots. We hear gunshots and everybody's running. What do we need to do? Just Just stay back where you are. Okay. Can you tell us which way it is so we know it's not towards the gangster museum? Towards the 500 block. It's what? Towards the 500 block. Stay away from that area. Okay. Okay. Can you tell me a business that way? I'm not museum. I got to go, ma'am. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. 911. Where at? In Hot Springs. Are you Where are you? Oh, yes. We've got officers downtown. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. Okay, we need to cover contact. He's got whatever he's got. What are we going to do? I got I got Okay, if we're going to move up, we're going to move up as group of three. All right, I'm on you. I'll be contact. Okay, I'm going to move forward. Let's move up as group of three. Okay, we're going to want to position to where we got it. Keep your hands where they're at. Keep them where they're at. Okay. All right. If you want to move, I'll go to go to cover, but we need to have you Jason's head. What's up? I'm sorry. I'm just Man, what' you say? Okay, I'm going to go contact. Y'all good? Me facing his head. This side. This side. This side. I got Come over here. Hey, roll on your stomach. Roll on your stomach. Get on your stomach. Roll on your stomach. Hands behind your back. I've got lethal. You get him cover. My knee. I don't know if I got hit or not. Are you good? I think Smith got shot. Hand behind your back for me. We're going to get you some medical. You have the other weapons. He's got shells in his pocket, dude. One, two, three. Okay. He's got shells in his [Applause] Yeah, he should be fine. Get him. Get him put in the car. Here. Where's the car? [Music] There you go. He's a good boy. He's a good boy. Do you want to hold on him? Do you want to hold on him so I can go over there to Smith? You want to hold on so I can go to Smith? I I'm shaking, man. Holster up. Yep. I'm back up. Get everybody back. Ross down. What? I don't know what I need to do. I'm the one that shot him. Okay. Holster up right here. Get everybody back. Somebody shut that [ __ ] siren. Is it us? With the gunman down, there's still one more surprise in store for police as an entitled woman who says she's being targeted by the shooter soon attempts to intervene with the investigation. Get that siren shut off and let's get this traffic moving and get him out of the way so we can contain this. Locked in. JT. Hey JT, you're clear on uh 500 central. 500 central. We're clear to go in. Clear. Do we know anything else? Uh, no I don't. We got him. We're trying to set up a perimeter. Everybody's yelling. Everybody's calling. It's all Okay. All right. We'll get right there. Dude, I'm shaking. I can't believe this. Just Man, he turned around and raised that up towards Smith. He He shot in the ground. Man, I don't know. Somebody shot behind me. That scared the crap out of me after we shot. I heard a round go off by my ear. Guys, can we get y'all to hold on down, please? The other side of the police. Well, ladies and gentlemen, step behind the other police patrol the other side of the crosswalk. My mom and my Hey, do you not see the crime scene tape? What are you doing? Y'all just need to get out of here. Keep going that way. Walk that way. You not hear me? Go. She's got other people and thinks that they're out. I don't think I know. Well, I can prove it, sir, if you take me with you. I don't want to touch him now. I'm sorry, but I'm shaky. Like, I I just explain everything. Look, I'm Corporal Ross. They've been chasing me since Henry Street. I left with no shoes. Who? Look, y'all are calling me out in front of all these people. They're going to kill me. They were out here, too. Like, look, you're already out here in front of Yeah. Uh, obviously cuz of him. The [ __ ] Are you Are you involved with this dude? No, I don't I can't see. Look, I have proof my phone is just dying. You know what I'm saying? But they are staring at me like some of them. Winnie justing left me is dying. I just hit off in the visitor center. If you don't believe me, you can go ask them. They were going to call you guys, but then we heard that they've been following me from Henry Street. I got in the water. You don't understand. The guy with the gun truth, bro. What's his name? They all have guns. Who the [ __ ] I need to know who. Um I know only know their nicknames. Buns. I can show you where they all live. Little Al. Um his real name is Allan. Uh um D. Baby Jesus is one of them. I know that sounds crazy, but I'm not [ __ ] crazy. It's not drugs either. Okay, now have a seat right there. I'll be right back. Hey, Hunter. This chick is tweaking her balls off, but like in black. Yeah, sitting up here. Yeah, but she's saying that she's saying people are after her with guns and she's naming off people. So, I don't know if she's related somehow to this dude or she was saying that the people that were involved were standing across. They were talking like the old guy like like an old man like Okay, so you've already talked to her? Yeah, I I'll get her information. I'll tell her to be No. All right, that that's fine. I just didn't know what was going on with I didn't know she talked to anybody. Okay. Oh, you good? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm the one that shot though. Are you good? Are you good? I'm good. I'm not hitting anywhere. I'm just No. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. I'm just letting it sink in. You know, or just them two? Just these two that I know of. You want to sit in my car? Uh they told me to stay right here for now. I'm good for now, man. I appreciate it though. Sit down. What happened, man? We got a call that he's walking around downtown yelling at people. He said, they say that he's got a shotgun. We get here, people are pointing. We get out. He's got a shotgun. He walks across the street. We say, "Drop the weapon up the road a little bit. He racks one, shoots him into the ground." So, we're walking. We're saying, "Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon." He kind of is turning. He He racked one and shot it into the ground. Yes. And then he's We're sitting here. K9 officer said, "I have taser. I've got my Glock out. Okay. Uh and he goes he he's walking and and I'm familiar with the subject. He's he's been very aggressive in the past, but I mean he's walking. He's got a shotgun. Yes, he's got a shotgun. He's walking. He turns He turns around and lifted it up like this. Didn't point it directly at us that I He was coming around. He's coming around raising it like this. And so I shot him. Hey, hey. Hey, you're good. You're good. I thought that you Hey, look. Stand up. Look at this. Look at all these people here. Yeah. Look at all these people here. Yeah. You just saved the lives of all these people. Okay. What if one of those shotgun pellets would have gone and hit that person over there? Yeah. You did your job. Okay. Yeah. He he turned and he turned and came up like this. You're good. You're good. You gave him commands. He didn't comply. You had to save these people and yourself. Yeah. I'm I appreciate it, man. You're good. I'm just got to let it sit in. Take a breather. If you want to go sit down somewhere else, walk off. Yeah, I'm good for now. I'll talk to them. I appreciate it, man. Okay. Hey, if you need Hey, you're good. You're good. They're checking him out now. And then this guy's down here. He We get out there. People are pointing at him, sir. We get out with him. He starts walking. He walks across central on this to this side. He We say, "Drop the weapon." He shoots the shotgun into the ground. So, me and Smith come up. We're walking down the sidewalk this way. I have my Gog pointed at him. Smith says, "I have taser." We're walking and he's we already shot one. Yeah. in the ground. And we keep saying, "Drop the weapon, drop the weapon, drop the weapon." He turned around like this and lifted that. We're back here. He turns like this. And once it got to like right here, I don't know how many rounds I put in, sir. I don't know how many rounds I shot, but he turns like this and I shot. Okay. All right. Well, uh, you had your body cam on. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I don't know if my unit cam activated or not. It didn't, but my unit cam doesn't have anything. I have my body cam on the whole time. Who Who moved the gun? Anybody? I don't think we did. It dropped right there. I think you dropped it. I picked it up and cleared it. Do you want to hold on him? Do you want to hold on him so I can go over there to Smith? I'm going to go see if Smith's okay real quick. I just want to talk to you, man, cuz we're with it. Based on triage protocol, a set of guidelines that helps medics determine how to allocate medical resources. The suspect had to be treated and transported first before the injured officer could be transported. Hey, are you good, buddy? Yes, sir. Thank you very much, man. I appreciate that. You okay? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm just letting this all sink in, man. He turned around and once he raised it in your general direction. Yeah. I didn't get hit, but my knee hurts like Hey, stand up here. Stand on this. Yeah. Are you hit anywhere? I don't I don't think so, man. I don't know right now. You'd probably be feeling it now. Yeah, I would be. I don't think I'm hit. I just I don't know. I think I I don't know what happened when he shot, man. I ducked behind that tree. I don't know if I hurt my knee or what, man. We Cuz I c we saw him right here and we crossed over. He shot in the in the medium, though. Like, he shot right here on the ground. No, right. I mean, this thing. I'm sorry. He points at the ground and pops one off into the ground right here. The shells there. Yeah. I don't I don't know. Now I'm trying to recollect myself. Uh right here. It's right here. Where? Where was the other? He said he shot twice. He shot at us the second time and that's when you shot. I shot No, I So I shot before he shot at us because he's walking. We start walking for him, drop, drop left and he doesn't. He turns like this with a gun. That the suspect, 31-year-old Jonathan Allen Scott, now 36 years old in present day, was transported to a hospital and eventually recovered from his injuries. He was arrested for his actions later the same day after being treated for his wounds. The officer and his K9 unit named Bear, who were both hit, also made a full recovery from their injuries. In regards to the officers, the chief of the Hot Springs Police Department stated, "Their well-being is very important to us because they have suffered a traumatic event. It's important for us to provide assistance to them for their well-being. All officers involved in the shooting had been placed on administrative leave with pay while awaiting the outcome of the shooting investigation and an administrative investigation." The chief said it's standard department policy for incidents like this. The panicking woman who thought she was being targeted after hearing the gunshots was found to not be connected to the situation. Scott's criminal history involves numerous prior arrests dating all the way back to 2006 when he was 18 years old. The charges for these arrests include misdemeanor like criminal trespass, harassment, theft of prop property, and various traffic violations. One of these arrests was extremely close to the shooting dating only 3 weeks prior for this particular previous arrest. Scott was charged with public intoxication and was sentenced to 30 days of probation. The court recommended he seek mental health treatment in response to that case. This combined with his comments about being a Secret Service agent as well as reports about him quietly murmuring to himself. The day of the shooting indicates Scott has various mental health issues. James Sutherland suspects Scott's mental well-being was suffering. He says Granny's kitchen a few doors down tried helping the suspect in an attempt to stop him from yelling at those passing by. Larry Ryan, a man who runs a shop right across the street from the shooting location, voiced his main concern. He said, "I'm not against weapons at all. My concern is where somebody like that would get a weapon." The case was investigated by the Arkansas State Police, the FBI, and special agents with the ATF. Scott was later indicted by a federal grand jury in April 2019 on charges including assault resulting in serious bodily injury and assault with intent to do bodily harm on November 27th, 2023. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O Hickeyi sentenced Scott to 20 years in federal prison on both counts. He is currently serving out his sentence and will be nearing 60 years old when he has completed serving his time in 2043. Now, this is something that no officer wants to experience. When police officers go into the police academy, a lot of thoughts are going through your mind. You're excited. You're nervous. And many officers may not want to admit it, but part of you is afraid because deep inside your mind. You know the possibility of what could happen over 20 years ago. I'm working with my partner and we respond to back up a fellow officer who was investigating a male in the highway. So, we pull up and it seemed to happen in a millisecond after a brief struggle with the mail. He took out a pistol pointed at my co-orker's head and pulled the trigger. And to this day, I still don't know how he missed. So, I quickly park and we exit the car guns in hand, making our way towards the male. And by this time, he's running up the street while looking behind him and shooting at us. Now, thankfully, other officers arrived in location was able to take the suspect down cuz I didn't have the opportunity to return fire due to my back stop not being cleared. Now what backs stop is what is beyond your target. And in this situation there were many houses behind the suspect. When an officer has to fire his or her weapon, they can't just think about the target. They must think about what is beyond the target. But thankfully the suspect went to prison and not one officer was injured that night. Now today we have a case at a hot springs, Arkansas in a heavily populated area and he has a firearm. Now numerous calls are coming into the 911 call center. And when this happens, the dispatcher and the officers know that it's probably a founded call. And in this case, it is now the officer locates the male and engages with him along with a nine officer by ordering him to drop the weapon numerous times. However, the male continues to walk away, ignoring the commands of the officer. Then the suspect makes the mistake of turning with the firearm in his hand, raising the weapon towards the officer, and simultaneously the officer fired at the suspect incapacitated. Now, most officers never have to fire their weapon during their career. And in fact, only about 27% of all officers say they've ever fired their service weapon while on the job. But you just never know if it's going to be you. And when an officer fires the weapon, they're responsible for every bullet that comes out of it. That's all I have for today, guys. Remember to be safe and I'll see you on the next