212: Part 3: Nate Hutchinson – Surviving a deadly ambush – 6 officers down!!

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Murph reunites with former guest Nate Hutchinson, a decorated law enforcement officer who survived a life-threatening shooting incident that changed his life forever. Nate shares what it’s like to stand face-to-face with death, the trauma and scars left behind, and the long, difficult road of recovery and resilience.

His story isn’t just about survival—it’s about sacrifice, brotherhood, and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Murph and Nate also tackle critical issues facing officers today, including mental health, PTSD, suicide awareness, and the power of community support.

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0:00.0	So I was part of a narcotics team. We were serving a knock and announced daytime warrant.
0:05.6	The individual that we were serving had no criminal history, no red flags, anything like that.
0:10.3	But it turned out he was very hardcore anti-government and was also wanted to do mass shootings,
0:17.8	wanted to be involved in killing people. And so when we served this very low-level search warrant, he knew we were coming. We had gone to his house to try to do it as a very minor, low-level, just knock on the door and talk to him. He was home. It turns out at that time, he wouldn't answer the door. We tried that over the course of a week for five different times, and he knew we
0:38.3	would eventually come back with the search warrant. This is a felony warrant?
0:41.5	Felony warrant, yep. And when we came back, he had had his house set up for an ambush. So we entered it
0:47.0	trying to do a very low-level search warrant, and he ambushed us. Ultimately, it was about a 13-minute
0:53.2	gunfight. Six police officers were shot.
1:09.2	Hey, guys, here we go again.
1:11.6	Another recap or another re-up with a former guest on Game of Crimes.
1:15.1	So welcome back to Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
1:18.6	This one is the last interview I'm doing at this year's conference.
1:23.2	And like I just said, I saved the best for last.
1:26.3	I got a text message last week from an old friend of Oklahoma cop, Wayne Stannett, who, if you've listened to Game of Crimes, any at all, he was episode 101 that came out in June of 23.
1:39.4	Wayne was taking a picture with another guy that happened to be a former guest.
1:43.9	His name is Nate Hutchinson.
1:45.7	Episode 72 that came out in October of 22 back when Wayne was just thinking about coming
1:51.1	on the show.
1:52.3	But to see two old friends like that, you folks that come here regularly, you hear me
1:57.8	talk about the law enforcement brotherhood and sisterhood, even in retirement, it continues. And that's why I like what I'm doing through the podcast,
2:05.2	through the speaking business, through most anythings I do with the law enforcement or military,
2:09.5	is because I get to live vicariously through what these heroes are still doing out there on a daily
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