A man who was shot and survived in a traffic accident was arrested days later when he went to the police station to collect his car.
Brookhaven Police said 46-year-old Duc Doung was shot multiple times by an angry driver in Brookhaven on Mother’s Day. The gunman, Joshua Holder, was arrested.
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Channel 2 Michael Seiden received body camera images from the day Duong was shot and from nine days later when he was arrested. Separate videos show Holder’s arrest, first responders’ attempts to keep Duong alive, and then his arrest after he was released from the hospital.
The shooting happened in the middle of the day on Dresden Drive near Peachtree Road.
“The situation was road rage,” Duong told officers in a video featuring a body camera. “My stupidity was to take them out and drive erratically. I did that. I admit all that, but I never shot him.”
The images from the body camera paint a slightly different picture. In the dramatic footage of moments after the shooting, Holder claims he shot Duong in self-defense.
Video shows officers swarming onto Holder’s car and then handcuffing him.
“Stop moving! Stop moving! Lie on the floor! Put your hands behind your back!” police yell at him.
In the footage, Holder tells police he was driving back from the gym when he encountered two angry drivers near North Druid Hills and Peachtree Roads. He said one of the drivers stopped, got out and threatened him.
“He came at me,” Holder screams into the footage. ‘I pointed at him! ‘Dude, go away! I saw what you were doing. Go away! I’ll shoot you.’” Holder says. “He said, ‘Oh, do you want to draw a gun? Do you want to point a gun at me?’”
Holder informs the officers that his gun is still in the front seat.
Meanwhile, first responders and officers have come to the scene to try to keep Doung alive.
While they apply a tourniquet to his wounds, Duong asks the officers if he is “beating” Holder.
Body camera also captured the moments nine days later when Duong, still heavily bandaged, went to the police station to try to retrieve his car.
As he tries to leave, an officer trots after him.
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“Okay, here’s the thing. You can’t really leave,” an officer tells him. “Because you have an arrest warrant. A criminal in possession of a firearm.”
Duong laughs and tells the officer that he expected the arrest.
Investigators say they found a gun belonging to Duong near the shooting scene, although there is no evidence that he used it.
Duong tells the officer that he was arrested at the age of 19 and knew he was not allowed to carry a weapon, but felt he needed one for protection.
He admits to the officer that he took out Holder and says that Holder then waved his gun at him. He says he got out of the car to confront Holder, but didn’t take his gun with him.
While handcuffed, he tells the arresting officer that he called his daughter after he was shot.
“I called my daughter,” Duong says. “I face-timed her. I said, ‘Daddy is dying! I love you!'”
Duong then gets emotional when he talks about the cops who saved his life.
“I had lost a lot of blood and when the ambulance came they couldn’t find a pulse on either arm,” Duong says in the footage. “I had no pulse. I shouldn’t even be standing here.”
Seiden reached out to Duong but has not heard anything because he is in jail. It is unclear what the initial charges were and whether Duong hired a lawyer.
Seiden also contacted Holder, but he declined to comment.
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