Sergeant Tyrone Hassel III

All three of them are here in Benton Harbor, Michigan, celebrating the new year.

My name is Sergeant Mike Lanier, St.

Joe Township Police Department.

December 31st, 2018, I was actually on my normal patrol duties that night.

I heard dispatch of a subject had been shot.

I actually broke off my traffic stop immediately and proceeded to the address on Colfax.

Your husband is outside.

Okay, stay on the line with me.

Ma'am, take a deep breath.

How many shots did you hear, ma'am?

Ma'am?

Multiple officers have already been dispatched to the scene, including Officer Jeremy Peppers.

My partner informed us that we had an emergency call for a shooting that had just happened.

We got something else now?

Yeah, a shooting guy on the ground.

Are you kidding me?

Ma'am, take a deep breath with me, okay?

When I arrived on scene, I arrived with numerous other officers and also an ambulance was backing into the driveway.

I saw the subject, who was later identified as Sergeant Tyrone Hassell, laying on the ground next to his pickup truck with a large amount of blood, with his wife had grasped onto him, hysterical.

It is chaotic, but we have to control that chaos.