Miles From Nowhere

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a young father in the California mountains calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 18, 2013.

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0:00.0	Deep in the woods, a family lives in fear.
0:07.0	What are you going to do if they come back?
0:09.0	Of a threat from strangers.
0:11.0	Daddy will protect us.
0:13.0	Daddy won't let anything bad happen to you.
0:17.0	So when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters
0:21.0	into his own hands.
0:31.0	Near crack, crack, crack, gunfire.
0:35.0	The terror, the bullets.
0:37.0	This was like shooting fish in a barrel.
0:39.0	Loss is exploding. Just complete chaos.
0:43.0	Someone is killed.
0:46.0	Anybody in the vehicle, put it in your hand.
0:49.0	It was bad.
0:51.0	Worst than anything you would see in a movie.
0:54.0	Sometimes I have cried for my dad.
0:59.0	Was this a murder?
1:00.0	Every day I think of that.
1:03.0	What's I could think of as my kids?
1:05.0	What about mine yet?
1:21.0	It was in the dark that the fear began.
1:24.0	In the dark with the sounds of the black knight around them.
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