 My name is Kevin, I'm a corporal with Boise Police. I've been there pushing 19 years, 13 years on our SWAT team. So, November 11th, right, Veterans Day, was the day that I got shot. I'll tell you how it went down. The guy that shot me, he was in for burglary. He gets out and I guess he thought that his family had snitched on him. Two rolls up into this apartment, shoots his own sister, paralyzes her, her boyfriend gets shot too. The next day, we get a carjacking at a planet fitness. Dude, yanks her out, 89 years old, throws her on the ground, takes her car. So, November 11th, one of our detectives is off duty and this is a lot of cavity, looks over to his right, sees the guy, he goes into a neighborhood and the troops are just swarming the area. We find his car abandoned in this neighborhood. Our biggest concern is innocence. We gotta try to get this guy and this guy without a doubt would take somebody hostage. So we started doing a yard to yard open air search in broad daylight with this guy who's already shot two people. We're using Jardo as our canine. We use him every time because he's real quiet. And so Jardo, we were sending him in the backyard and we're kinda searching behind him. We think he's gonna be in the backyard of this last house on the south side of the block. I go up to the gate and I pop it and I look and there's a teeny little alcove on the side of that house and he pulled his trash can down. He was stuck where he was, it was a damn good spot. He was squatted down on his feet and I looked down at the corner of my eye and he had his gun up just like that and that split second. He went pop and the first shot went underneath my body armor that far because he was so low. Boom went right in my lower back and immediately that fast I was paralyzed and I knew it. I went face down, boom. He stands up and shoots me four more times and this is all in a split second. Right when he stands up and he starts shooting me, Jardo comes flying in and bites the guy up here and spins him around a little bit and probably put about a five second delay in him shooting me in the head and I would think he shoots Jardo and ultimately kills him. That's when some guys came up and got some angles and they let him have it. They scooped me up and threw me in the back of the bear cat. We didn't wait for an ambulance. Our tac med was great and we went to the hospital. I ultimately had to make the decision to remove my leg. They were doing surgery after surgery and it was getting kind of infected and I'll tell you what, that's pretty hairy saying I want you to cut it off. Two days later, I was in amputee. I'm staying at Craig hospital. It's the best without a doubt, spinal cord, rehab facility they have in the world really and I'm really blessed to be there. The place is amazing for regaining strength. The therapy is very, very regimented. All day long, man. And when you get done, you're smoked at the end of the day, it's really hard. Our chief came to me and he said, you know, Kevin, I don't care if it's three months, six months or eight months. You have a position here when you get back, just make yourself right. I'll be the most badass wheelchair guy at Boise PD. I may not be able to walk and I may not be able to put a uniform on and I may not be blasting doors open at four in the morning anymore, but I'm alive. I'm still gonna do everything that I can do. It may be a little bit different, but for the most part, man, I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna try as hard as I can.