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See production, box office & company info. >> i think we pretty well proved there was a gun in the victims' car that they fired at chad. In the California mountains, a young father calls 911 to report that he had been in a shoot-out with a car full of strangers. >> the meadow that is, the dirt road where the shooting took place. Originally aired on NBC on October 18, 2013. >> whether it's your first trial or your 50th you're holding your breath. he had printed up business cards. 01:31 Dateline Miles From Nowhere Deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a family's idyllic vacation home is threatened when an unknown car enters their property in the dead of the night. as they drove through the night, they listened to the chatter of the two way. you seemed so cool there's a better way to save with sears and shop your way coupons. strangers had come very close, middle of the night, strangers who stole a solar light and may have been tramping around on their property. Uploaded by With one man dead and two others injured, authorities wonder if this was self-defense or something else. 20 years later, its still unfolding. >> first they had to choose a jury, which would be from quincy, a place with gun owning people and liberal city transplants. >> the dirt road, emptied into a meadow. >> he kind of starts to circle around the car. >> and prior to that, had you shot the 223 at them at any other time? >> i laid there on the ground for a while and somebody was. >> you want to show the jury the two sweet little girls he wanted to protect. are you the new colgate slimsoft? >> they determined it was a murder. >> we've pretty much burned our budget for trials for the year. i give up. >> the justice system can't give him what i feel he has coming. murder and also assault with a deadly weapon. >> early on saturday morning at 2:00 a.m. chad was jolted awake. >> everything. >> here's how olson presented his stand your ground defense in his opening to the jury. >> remember, throughout chad's interview with police he talked again and again about his army career. meanwhile, two women are frantic with worry, one for her husband, the other for her son. i thought, you know, these guys are going to get out. i had swerved my vehicle out of the way of their vehicle. >> but would the warning be enough? what? but it didn't look good. >> get their license plate or something. well, perhaps because the ar-15, which chad bought legally in nevada, was illegal in california. outlast is a primer, concealer and foundation all in one for all day flawless skin. and what they revealed was. i was just saying, i'm sorry. >> the halloween crime. that was when i shot the ar the first time. nobody knew if there was, you know, multiple people shooting at each other, two people shooting at each other. a soldier did this? comfort individualized. web pages hiding the only remnants of what happened here. [ male announcer ] colgate slimsoft. >> that's a picture. >> it was worse than anything you had seen in a movie. >> i'm up by antelope lake. (beeping) yes. what if you didn't know that as the price of gold rises, so should the coverage on your jewelry? 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. he was vivacious. did you push them on that? >> it was very chaotic. at that point, that was when i got shot. >> absolutely. Jan 7, 2021 Miles From Nowhere Play 1 hr 23 min playlist_add 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. when he comes up he says, you [ bleep ] shoot at my house? >> staley and the warden were now joined by a total of three deputies. so what did you do? and now there's no good memories to be had but we can hold on to the ones that we have. m'm! >> right. >> my children were definitely, daddy, we love the place. All other programs and/or marks are the property of their respective owners. because when people talk, great things happen. >> then carrie, chad's devoted wife, took the stand. no idea where help might be. here's keith morrison with "miles from nowhere." >> and when the shooting stopped, a man lay dying. >> lying there, couldn't feel a pulse. >> we the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant gregory chad wallin reed guilty of a felony, to wit, murder, first degree, of rory, mcguire. the use of deadly force is authorized for use on those found in noncompliance. >> california doesn't have a stand your ground law per se like some states do but there is a state jury instruction that says a person under threat has a right to stand his or her ground and even pursue an assailant. >> i can't describe it. and he said, we need to go call 911. >> yes, sir. i mean, you've got louis smythe with a leg propped up and the turniquet there and you've got rory mcguire in the back seat with a horrible head injury. >> no. >> entrepreneurial, too, trying to start a mobile car washing business with a friend. canned soup? i'll be down right away. Prosecutors say a group of men stole a solar light from Wallin-Reed's home and he pursued the car driven by McGuire for eight miles, firing as many as 26 shots at it. here chad explained what was in his mind when those men seemed to be terrorizing his family, how he decided he had to do something to protect his kids. >> i think it finally sunk in that he was going to get caught in the story. our property and invade our lives. >> yes. Did Mary Beth Harshbarger Shoot Her Husband Accidentally? they're discovering the world around them. >> he's an amazing father. no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. >> no car, no cell service, no idea exactly where they were. >> they asked, what if they come back and come all the way up to. >> oh, yes. >> nothing like that, no. curious. at least that is how it was for the plumas county new district attorney david hollister who moved here after years of prosecuting the worse that oakland had to offer. please just call an ambulance. >> then staley saw something strange poking out of the meadow floor. but they didn't all run. he was making sure that we were safe. >> no. Miles From Nowhere. >> a sound chad knew very well. tylenol. for them to take my husband away. louis smythe crouched wounded and immobile in the back seat, watched the green dot move across his body, waited for the gunman to finish him off. Diana Galastyan, 26, denies that the Russian authorities may be trying to scare people . crying? meadow. >> the cabin has been broken in numerous times. >> yeah. [ female announcer ] suave professionals works as well as salon brands. S22 E3641m. 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. olive garden's buy one, take one, just $12.99. "Dateline NBC: (True Belivers)" Miles from Nowhere (TV Episode 2013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. go further. >> no. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain ready or not. >> chad declined to take the stand in his own defense. sprint network is important. Listen to this episode from Dateline NBC on Spotify. i do love the touchscreen. and something else. fuzzy rollbacks, chunky rollbacks, and pretty rollbacks. >> he didn't say, shoot at me in the car? >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." that's when louis weakly stuck his left hand up out of the meadow grass. here in the dark, miles from nowhere, what had just happened? >> i got one off to the right. >> remember the defense forensic expert was clear there was gun shot residue in the young men's car and on some of their hands, proving they must have fired a gun. this was so violent and so gory. and then shortly after that, my left leg started going numb. coming up -- confusion and terror, a very different story of those shots in the dark. he'd been in the army, remember. i'm by the dvds. best foods is the secret to making parmesan crusted chicken. >> there's a story to be told. whatever the dish. some do their chores at the crack of dawn. >> why do you say rory is fine? >> i put myself in that same scenario, and if i needed to i would defend myself, but once it's over, it's my responsibility to render aid. >> i just shoved it out the window and fired off. Air date: Oct 11 . and i called back immediately and i just couldn't believe it. and suddenly the cabin felt more remote, the woods less like home, and the children? >> no. he looked as if he continued to forecast that he would just not be able to maintain any composure whatsoever. i told him, i guess just naively, i said, i feel your pain. Dateline. they threw out the solar lights. >> hooked back in here is when i, fired when he was coming back this way. starts this triple effect of if you never had a gun -- but something just grabs me inside to say, they were wrong. >> his shot placement was very well placed. uh oh nut up my brothers! one of them we have a facebook page displaying both a gun and a knife. buy one, take one just $12.99. and right at that moment i saw the laser light again. i think it was just some sort of random act of vandalism that i guess young kids would do. best foods. and now he faces 50 years to life. >> a solar light, one of several attached to metal poles marking the edge of the property, a cheap item, but, still. >> when "dateline" continues. the citi thankyou preferred card. my mind frame, these people are trying to kill me. he is about to give us his account of a july 4th weekend on a dark and lonely road in the high sierra. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. >> louis told us it's his duty now to keep rory's memory alive for himself and for carol who's in his life now for good. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. [ slimsoft ] my floss-tip bristles are up to 17x slimmer than other toothbrushes. 7.6 miles they went careening up the winding country road until the car took a quick turn on to a remote dirt road. some of the friends had run for cover during the shooting. and all i could think of was my kids, thinking, you're yelling at me about your daughter and look what you just did? >> come quickly, they said, to the hospital. is a daily game of "what if's". >> yeah. >> here's the thing. >> around the same time at the jail in quincy an hour and a half away chad placed a telephone call to his father. >> surprising then when carrie heard what chad told us when we interviewed him before the trial. while racing to the scene, staley and the warden met up with the sheriff's deputy. i knew. [ female announcer ] just about anywhere you use sugar, you can use splenda no calorie sweetener. >> in fact, the army asked chad to leave. >> the young men in that car not exactly boy scouts said olson. Keith Morrison reports.. did you see the defendant sitting over there in the courtroom? what was going on? >> i'd been in the quincy area for a couple months getting in all kinds of trouble with the california game wardens. time to bring out a little ammunition. >> when the trial began this, past summer, olson seemed satisfied with the jury he could that it could go either way but -- >> my desire is to walk him out of that courtroom, take him by the elbow and lead him out of the courtroom, turn him over to his family. >> i was thinking maybe i could go back and one of us could go make a phone call and one of us could go back and help. one went low into the rear passenger door, which then went into smythe's leg but most of the shot placement was high. so the gunman points the gun right at me. that's not gonna happen. >> staley recorded everything. impressive! >> we'd fish and go up there and fish and swim. hey! >> a promise this father meant to keep. i looked out and i saw this spotlight being shined all over the place. >> carrie didn't pry. >> expert versus expert, matter, of opinion, how would a jury know? Now available at no extra cost to Sky and NOW subscribers in the following locations: UK and IrelandGermany, Austria, and SwitzerlandItaly. >> gaining on you. a remote mountain meadow in his ar-15 at the ready, chad reed approached the car full of. >> didn't expect it? it was head height, shooting at the windows of the vehicle. team or something like that has come in. they have to go on with their lives and they kind of make a new plan. that's not self-defense. >> we were looking for a friend of ours brother who was having a gathering up by antelope lake. >> but what should he do? i could hear sounds. sorry. literal trail of evidence through the grass. suave professionals infused moroccan argan oil into our moroccan infusion line. >> and here is what made this, mystery so macabre. >> i remember i screamed to my dad and mom, what are you going, to do if they come back and what would happen if somebody got hurt. only from fisher-price. i don't think there was any other way to put it. seemed almost like a dare. mostly they lived in reno, nevada, but this at the end of a two-hour drive into the woods was the applies they lived. and then? the warden, the deputy, arresting the wounded men, the hand poking out of the grass. >> i knew my dad had it under control. somebody was either dead or dying, something very serious has happened here. so slim! to wait for a jury's decision is a kind of agony for both sides. and thus, prosecutor david hollister's big challenge. nothing short of shocking. this was perhaps the worst -- wearing a combat infantry badge and a ranger tab and other such patches when all of those things which the jury had been made to believe about chad's military service based on his own statements to police were all lies. View Details. i just remember this young voice saying, i give up. as it turned out, it was a messy and public display of the deep rooted problem between bro.a.r. >> in that case, chad could walk since little quincy couldn't afford to try him again. >> at the very same time, rory mcguire's mother, carol, cried for a son, a future, and expectations gone forever. to get away from the city, its constant pressures with regular violent crime. our new italian masterpiece. >> deadly force. yeah. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. >> he said, i'm going to go call the sheriff. 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For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. there's always a place for me in her home. the old plumas county courthouse, lovely in the autumn sun, has pride of place here on main street in quincy, california. >> this northern stretch of the sierra nevada is an up-and-down road of mountain peaks and river gorges far from any towns. because, the men told detective hendrickson, there were cabins there, people, safety. you know. For other international audiences:Peacock is not yet available in your territory. >> meanwhile this whole time we've been trying to call 911 and there is no service and somebody suggests we wave my. [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. it's just, you know, being able to put in a 30-round magazine and set up a target and just go at it. choose one of five amazing entrees to enjoy today, like smoked mozzarella chicken. you can make dinner disappear. Dateline NBC 01:23:27 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. [ smoke alarm beeping ] oh! only red-blooded patriotic christian americans are authorized for access. this is where it ended, in an ink black meadow in the high sierra, barely illuminated by a pair of headlights. >> coming up, police try to figure out who is telling the truth about the confrontation. >> he's really funny. How Did Anti-Freeze End Up in Ray Kotomskis Blood Tests? A survivor of the chase and shooting, 22-year-old Lewis Smyth, shares his account of what happened that night- and it's quite different from Chad's version.March 15, 2015. they had seen him race off into the night. this is sears. and what was about to? >> but as the hours stretched through the night into july 4th chad began to see more and more clearly that he was not to blame. heart healthy, huh?! and there? Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. but the other five, said detective hendrickson, he talked to them separately, told exactly the same story. and it's just complete chaos. he came for the quiet, the family values. they were alone in the dark and their friend, the driver, rory, was clearly in bad shape. i switched to some weird bargain detergent instead of tide but no matter how much i poured, our clothes were missing that tide clean we were used to. >> he actually looked perfect. it was in my cup holder, and pointed it out the window. that's banking for how you live your life. i'm on my way. ha yeah, that'd be like using nuts or bolts. >> something had happened. and they soon find chad's account is changing. stayed home and worried, mostly. Kristen Grindleys Family Determined to Find Attacker, Jane Doe Found on Side of Road Identified as Kristen Grindley. Keith Morrison reports. is it possible you were wrong? >> what i remember was i got loaded into a paramedic. >> at a cabin in the woods a family terrified. NBC News. was somebody shooting they asked each other? >> right away there's two guys coming toward us with their hands up. i mean, what woul my grandma say if she saw the kids looking dingy? >> well, the police asked these people if they had guns and they said no. chad, right behind. >> wait a minute. splenda lets you experience the joy of sugar without all the calories. >> so how much did you have to do with the decision to charge him? our new italian masterpiece. >> chad was still in hot pursuit. well where are you at? >> when he pulled into the driveway, chad was greeted by his friends. >> once the defendant in imminent fear of death or great bodily injury -- was he in fear? For US customers: Your device must physically be located in the US to stream. i like that you can personalize it - that you can have the things that you like. >> and then it just shut off the headlights and pulled up on the driveway. he's using you. The Disappearance of Sandi Johnson. he loves this country, you know, he fought for his freedom. >> in my mind, how are they. wardens find everything from bear poachers and pot farmers and it attracted a reality show which sent a photographer named ben staley to the little town here in plymouth county. [ horns blaring ] only to find out that the project you were working on for a year was suddenly canceled. stand up. and now it was something like 12 hours since chad ran off to chase those men. they drove as fast as they could. protect us. no. the laser site was back, the roving bulls eye. [ male announcer ] in honor of all the important things you do on the new sprint network, we bring you one up. talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. also available in powder with acti-lift crystals. >> when the car finally came to a stop, those who could ran. then i walk out and as i'm, looking down, this car goes speeding away. and i said, no, i think i killed one of them. he was -- >> to set the scene so to speak prosecutor hollister showed the, video shot by the reality show cameraman now part of the public record. that same sunday morning chad and carrie's children woke up to the sound of strangers rummaging through the cabin. >> no. stand your ground and also, a certain attorney discovered, there were some tiny specification of evidence at the crime scene that just might set chad free. a photographer, of all people, one of the first to reach the scene of the shooting. >> sometimes i cried for my dad. [ daughter ] mom burned the muffins! >> like a military term. 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