State Trooper Shot at 10 times and left to die on the side of the road
Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories
Bleav + Law Enforcement Talk - John J Wiley
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🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And back to our conversation with Dub Gillum, Texas Highway Patrol. |
| 0:05.0 | Again, thank you for your service. |
| 0:06.6 | I gotta get the nickname. |
| 0:07.6 | Your first, your real first name is not Dub. |
| 0:10.0 | It is. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Earl, E-A-R-L, Earl Gillum Jr and that's it and |
| 0:15.0 | How does it do about that? How does it like W is that what it is? |
| 0:19.0 | No sir, there's no W in my name. My granddad was fishing when I was born and he came back |
| 0:25.2 | one know where Dub was. |
| 0:26.4 | So eventually it grew into double trouble as a young man, but I outgrew that obviously and but that's that's where it came from so it's just |
| 0:34.9 | B. U. B. and that nickname is stuck through the years. |
| 0:38.6 | Isn't that funny? Yeah it's like my real name is John Joseph my dad was the same |
| 0:42.4 | and his nickname was Jay and I was called Little Jay and now it's just Jay so I want to thank you for your service and I really really appreciate you kind of talk about this you know you pulled over a guy who was speeding there's nothing to indicate |
| 0:56.3 | that was anything crazy happening I remember doing car stops and you would try to be |
| 1:01.6 | on your game every moment of every time, you know, do things, check the |
| 1:06.4 | trunk, everything else, keep an eye, walk slowly, look at the back seat, everything else, |
| 1:11.4 | especially the flashlight at night. and no matter what you do |
| 1:14.3 | sometimes if you let down your guard just a little bit there's that guy there's that guy |
| 1:20.0 | and he's he's a nobody and this guy pulls out a semi-automatic weapon. Hey officer what's the problem and starts firing immediately? |
| 1:30.0 | Well John he he was a wanted felon by the way. Had seven felony warrants the night I stopped him, |
| 1:36.6 | had a long history of assaulting other officers as well, and a meth addict. And 26 hours later, by the way, he was shot and killed in a shootout with |
| 1:45.1 | four tactical canine unit where he killed a canine a beautiful shepherd and but he |
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