You're officer mccasco for police. Come
on in. Where's the gun? Right next to
me. You want to shoot me? Shoot me. I
don't want to shoot you. Shoot me. Let
me die. All right. We don't want you to
die, sir. That's the last thing we want.
Die. I don't care about what you want.
Don't be a hero. You're going to end
up the gun. A 911 call for help brings
cops to the bedroom door of a man in
crisis. What follows is a volatile
standoff. And it's not long before this
nerve-wracking battle of wills erupts in
an explosion of violence that will leave
officers shaken and loved ones desperate
for answers. The following report is
based on official police records, and
most of the footage has never been seen
before until now. At approximately 2:30
in the morning on October 16th, 2023, a
woman in Wallingford, Connecticut makes
a frantic call to 911 after hearing a
gunshot from the upstairs bedroom.
God bless you.
Okay. How old is he?
Police are dispatched as Barbie, the
woman on the line, divides her attention
between the operator and the man in the
bedroom, Donald Passmore. Is there any
serious bleeding?
Run away.
Is there any serious bleeding?
Yes, there is some
bleeding. D, hold on. Hold on. There's
They're on my way. Hold on. I don't know
where the phone I already called
them. All right, hold on. All right,
I'll get it. I'll get it. All right,
Donnie, I got it. I got to put the gun
down. I got it right here. Hold on. The
dispatcher updates the responding police
as Barbie tries to explain the
situation. Patient is still breathing
and alive at this time. He still has the
firearm. The caller is outside of the
house. I think he was depressed.
Has this been for a while? I just
started kind of dating him about 3
weeks. I've known him for a long time.
Oh my god. I don't know what to
do. Oh my god. Within minutes,
Wallingford police officers Gordon
McKascal and Robert Beluchcci arrive at
the house for an encounter that will
leave everyone stunned. inside here.
What What room is he in? If you walk up
the stairs, he's up to the left. It's a
second floor house. I guess I mean
upstairs.
Up the stairs to the left.
Sir, Officer McCasford, please. Come on
in. Where's the gun?
Right next to me. Kick it away from you.
Throw it
away. Throw the gun away.
Where is the Is it a gun on the floor,
sir? Is the gun.
Where is the gun in relation to where
you are?
Where is
it? Behind me.
I don't
care. Arrest me. Let me see your hands.
Put your hands down. I don't care. Take
me away.
I don't care. I I don't
care. You want to shoot me? Shoot me. I
don't want to shoot you. Shoot me.
Shoot me.
Shoot me. Where's the weapon, sir? It's
behind him on the bed.
Stand for you. No, do not reach. All
right then. Well, I bet I will. So, you
can shoot me. All right, sir. Just leave
your hands on your head. Get that light
off me or you're going to be dead.
Put the light off of me. The light on
you. It's on light.
You listen to me. I listen to you.
You try. You want to try it? Can you get
off the bed?
Are you going to try it? Can you get off
the bed, sir? No. I'm going to die right
where I'm at. There's no reason for you
guys to have your guns out. No, nothing.
Go down there. That is a negative. Do
not enter. Let me die.
Let me die. All right. We don't want you
to die, sir. I want me to die. I don't
care about what you want. You haven't
let my get the light in. Don't even
think about it. Don't even think about
it. Don't even think about that light in
my eye. You hear me? You keep your hands
where we can see them behind me. You
keep your hands where we can see them.
I'm dying. That's
it. Just leave me alone. Let me go in
peace. Okay. Can you ever do something
like that? Sir, keep your hands in front
of you. Do me a favor. Come down on the
floor. No, I'm not coming on the floor.
I'm not doing nothing. You got two
chances.
One, don't be a hero. Put the light
down. No. Put the light in my face. Keep
your hands where we can see them and I
won't I don't have a hand there. I told
you don't fear. You're going to end up
number zero. Country music blares in the
background of this tense scene. And
though the music has been muted due to
copyright restrictions, the songs
include She's Somebody's Daughter, Save
Me, and The One That Got Away. Go do
what you guys got to do. I'm fine. I'm
going to sleep. I'm not going to wake
up. Keep your hand in front of you right
now. My hands are up. Don't worry about
it.
Grab the
phone. You grab the phone. I don't know
where your phone is.
I don't Can I get up? Get my phone. Keep
your hand in front of you. Right there.
Okay. Where's your Where's your phone?
Where's your phone? around.
Put your Put your hand in front of you.
Put your hand in front of you right now.
Put your hands up. Put your hands up
right now.
Right now. You're coming to that room
where I go grab that phone. You're not
grabbing the phone off the bench. Forget
it. Keep your hands up where we can see
it. Get that phone. Stop ringing. It's
done. Keep your hands up. We'll be done.
Keep your hands up.
Relax. I'm just going to
die. Shut the lights off. We don't want
you to die, sir. I do.
I live 62 years. I'm done.
I will show to you. Just come down off
the bed. Come down off the bed. Come
down off the bed. The gun. Do not touch
the gun. Get the out. You don't tell me
what to do. You don't touch the gun. You
hear me? I tell you what to do. Go to my
house. You You want to find out?
Officers Belaluchcci and Macascal hold
the doorway while backup positions
themselves at the base of the steps. We
need you to come down off the bed.
I believe you. That's what I'm
doing. That's it. I'm going to bleed
that out in the corpse. All right.
That's all I want to do. I just want to
My music.
Sorry. You know guys don't want to hear
it. If you want if you're in the
service, you want to s Why don't you
tell me what what's so bad in your life
that made you do this?
You're not a
negotiator. If you were a negotiator,
you would start up and get it. I know
all so
I don't see me when I'm recording.
Do you want the red be your eyes? Put
the flashlight down. Put both
flashlights down. I'm telling you right
now, you know. Where are you going to
go? What of you are going to go? The
only flashlight that's on is pointed at
the ground right now. Put both of them
off now. We can't. Now you can't. You
know we can't. There comes your hand.
Put your hand in front now. Do not touch
the gun. Get your hand in front of you
now.
Get your right hand up. Suddenly, the
two officers open fire at the same time.
Shots fired. Shots fired. Shots fired.
Good. Yep. After waiting more than a
minute to watch for movement, the
officers move in. Just get him off the
bed. Cough them. Secure that weapon. I
need that light.
Go ahead.
Get that weapon away.
[Music]
Okay. Give me that back.
Go right downstairs to your right as
you're turning towards the front door.
There's a medic bag right there. Great.
Take my spot. Yep. Yep.
Yep. Yep.
All right.
Come in. Yeah.
It's not bleeding anymore. As medics
tend to Donald Passmore, Barbie gives
911 another call. I think I heard more
gunshots in the house. I don't know what
happened. Do you know what happened? I'm
outside.
There was another shot fire, but they
didn't tell us what was going on inside.
Oh my god. Barbie can't get information
from the operator, but soon officer
Beluchcci emerges to confirm her worst
fears. Ma'am, is there anybody else in
the house?
He wouldn't put the gun down, man.
I'm so sorry. He wouldn't put the gun
down.
I'm so sorry, man. He wouldn't he
wouldn't listen to us.
But Barbie isn't the only one reeling
from what just happened.
Hey, they got a they got a transport.
Where's the where's the Lucy over there
with the light? Can you tell me if
anything was what was was going on with
him today that led to this? What
happened was he was he's supposed to go
at 3:00 in the morning right now to move
his friends to Florida
to go to Florida. don't have to use the
drive then move his stuff and he seems
completely got all excited and then he
started
drinking but I think a lot of things
have happened in his
life we just bad luck you know what I
mean soon officer Beluchcci excuses
himself to fill his lieutenant in on the
tragic encounter you all right
beli you all right there as good as I
can
start running the tape uh once Once they
leave we run tape through all the trees
in
it's
Puchi. He's going to be transported to
the hospital. I guess he still has a
pulse. Uh he was laying on the bed. He
had the handgun to his side and you know
he wasn't complying with orders to keep
his hands free and he ended up raising
the gun and we we got to fire on him.
Medics load Donald Passmore into the
ambulance to perform CPR while the two
officers who shot him come together in
the street. Good dude.
You
man arrow come up over the side of him.
She fired too. Yeah. Shot.
Hey, you do exactly what you were
trained to do. Okay. I know it sucks.
You heard him. He said he told him
multiple times not to reach for it. He
knew exactly where it was. He reached
for it. You had no other option. And as
the officers comfort each other, Barbie
struggles to process this nightmare.
What am I going to
do? What am I going to tell this family?
Oh my god.
Despite receiving emergency medical
attention both in the ambulance and at
the hospital, Donald Passmore is
pronounced dead at 3:37 a.m. 43 minutes
after the shooting. 3 hours later, two
Wallingford detectives go out to notify
his next of kin. Hi, good morning. We're
with the police department. Are you
Susan Con? Who are you? We're the police
department. I'm uh Detective Fenza. This
is Detective Hulahan. Yeah. Um are you
you're Susan? Yeah. Are you uh Robert
Pastor's sister?
Yeah. Why? I'm I'm sorry to inform you.
He passed away this morning. No. Yes. Um
he So it was a Uncle Bobby. There's two
rubber passes. Which one? I mean I'm
sorry. Donald. Donald.
Donald. Yes. Donald.
What's going on? So you want to come in?
Um yeah, if if you don't mind. Yeah. Oh
my god. Oh god.
Oh.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
You guys want to if you want to sit
down. So, we were we were called out
there around 2:30 in the morning. Um, I
don't have too many details right now,
but uh, he was um, there was a he was
implying the use of a firearm and from
what I know, there was an officer
involved shooting and shot the cop shot.
Yes, ma'am. Uh, I don't It's a very
active scene right now. It's a very
active investigation.
Donald, shut up.
He's such a bull.
Boy, oh boy. until I hit the ground the
very first time. I'm not going to lie,
he probably deserved it.
He did that one Thanksgiving. Yeah, I
know. Trust and I wasn't there. Trust
me, I know a lot of times I wasn't. He
sat in his bedroom all messed up,
drugged up, shooting in the bedroom. But
it was only while we were downstairs
having Thanksgiving. He was pissed off
cuz his daughter was a real gun or a B
gun. Oh, it was a real gun. Good thing I
was there. No, you couldn't go up there.
That's what he wanted. Someone to go up
there. There's somebody called the cops
so he can get shot. In January 2025, the
Connecticut Inspector General concluded
that officers Robert Beluchcci and
Gordon Macascal were facing what they
reasonably believed to be a threat of
serious injury or death and found their
use of force to be objectively
reasonable and justified. Donald
Passmore was 62 years