S3 Ep9: Thurston High School Shooting, Part 2

Small Town Dicks

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True Crime, Paul Holes, History, Small Town, Yeardley Smith, Society & Culture, Police

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

(Part 2/2) This is the Thurston School shooting through the eyes of the Springfield police officer who was first on the scene that morning, as well as one of the detectives who arrived minutes later to help process the carnage. We also sit down for a rare interview with one of the students who survived being shot that day.

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Officer Donnie was a police officer in Springfield, Oregon for almost 12 years. While he was there he spent three years on the SWAT team, two years as an auto theft detective, and two years as an undercover narcotics detective. In 1998, he was a first responder to the Thurston High School shooting and assisted with taking the shooter into custody. In 1999, he was awarded the City of Springfield and the State of Oregon Medal of Honor for his actions during a critical incident in the line of duty. He retired from law enforcement in 2007.

Detective Don recently retired after serving in law enforcement for over 30 years. Don spent much of his career as a detective but also served on SWAT and as a Hostage/Crisis Negotiator.

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0:00.0	This episode marks the second and final episode of Thurston, a high school shooting.
0:05.5	If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, we encourage you to go back and listen to that one before continuing.
0:18.3	I'm Yardley, and I'm Zibby, and we're fascinated by true crime. So we invited our friends detectives Dan and Dave to sit down with us and share their most interesting cases. I'm Dan and I'm Dave. We're identical twins and we're detectives in small town USA. Dave investigates sex crimes and child abuse.
0:38.6	Dan investigates violent crimes,
0:40.5	and together we've worked on hundreds of cases,
0:42.6	including assaults, robberies, murders,
0:44.9	burglaries, sex abuse, and child abuse.
0:47.6	Names, places, and certain details,
0:50.2	including relationships, have been altered
0:52.4	to protect the privacy of the victims and their families.
0:55.8	Though we realize that some of our listeners may be familiar with these cases, we hope you'll
1:00.6	join us in continuing to protect the true identities of those involved out of respect for what they've been through.
1:07.1	Thank you.
1:27.3	Melissa was one of the students in the cafeteria the morning the shooter, a student who had been suspended for having a stolen gun in his locker the day before,
1:32.3	opened fire on his peers.
1:35.3	Melissa was shot in the shoulder.
1:37.3	The bullet missed her heart by a quarter of an inch, and still, she survived her injury.
1:42.3	In a rare interview, she sits down with us to talk about
1:46.7	her experience that day. We begin with a recording of her meeting Donnie Jr. and his father, Don
1:53.4	Sr., who were among the first police officers to respond to the 911 calls that morning. Melissa
2:00.0	had asked if she could meet and thank them personally
2:02.7	since she hadn't had the chance that horrific day in the cafeteria. Of course, both men were happy
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