[Music] shoot the weapon away from him if it's possible in 1993 it was the shot scene around the nation a police Sharpshooter ended a 2-hour armed standoff in Columbus Ohio Monday not by taking out the Gunman but by taking out his gun a man had been sitting in the road for hours pointing a gun at himself and others on the northwest side Columbus SWAT officer Mike Plum ended the standoff with one shot that split with the gun in Doug Conley's hands so my idea was hit it right where that cylinder snaps in it'll break the
gun into pieces take the cylinder out and uh you know disable the weapon game over Plum says he was on a grassy null hidden behind pine trees on that Hot August day I heard over the radio it's got an earpiece in there Lieutenant says go ahead and do it so that's when I just kind of pulled the earpiece out let it lay there zero it in on where I thought he was going to put that gun when he sat back down and slowly he just lowered it right into position I adjusted myself probably a couple
inches or so if that and lined it up and just made my trigger squeeze and it happened the story of his amazing shot lives on today the archive footage has more than 8 million YouTube views it was a nice ending to a what could have been a very very bad situation as far as the notoriety and that stuff um I'd rather just go on with my life really Plum retired from SWAT in 2000 but still works for the city as security manager he oversees hundreds of cameras around Columbus from the basement of City Hall most
of them we you're not actually looking at them they're being recorded So we go back and we can pull archives if they need them in March he plans to retire completely from the city still his rifle and the remains of the gun he shot are framed at the Columbus SWAT offices a reminder of his action on that August day I couldn't have done what I did unless all the men there did their jobs and did the you know what they were supposed to do they afforded me the time to train with that rifle I just
did what I was supposed to do
