Sheriff Mark Lamb

The firefighters are working him.

And I'm just praying he doesn't die.

Because if he dies, I mean, we got problems.

We got problems anyway, but...

So I go back to my son and one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life was my son standing there, there's eight cops standing around him, and I looked him in his face and I said, I have to leave you here.

If I stay here, they're gonna say that I influenced this case in some way.

So you're on your own.

He was 18 or, I think he was 18 or 19 at the time.

And so one of the hardest things to do was to walk away from him, get in my car and drive away.

and let consequences, let him deal with the consequences of his decisions.

And ultimately, the guy did not die.

The guy survived.

My son got sentenced.

The way the law works is by the time you get sentenced is usually two years later.

So he had some more struggles.

And part of the reason my wife and I wrote our first book

My first book, American Sheriff, Traditional Values in a Modern World.

I wrote that book, and my wife wrote her book, Sheriff's Wife, Traditional Values in a Modern World, so I could pay for the legal fees and the lawsuit of getting hit.

Because he lived in my house, he was driving one of our cars, and he hit the guy, so we became financially responsible for it.

So to be able to pay for that and to be able to pay the lawyer's fees, my wife and I wrote books and we went and sold those books every weekend at gun shows and any other event we could go to so that we could pay for my son's legal expenses.