By Clayton Sandell, Jim Vojtech, and Jennifer Pereira
ABC News
ALBUQUERQUE — When Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officer Lou Golson first spotted the speeding silver SUV in the middle of the night, he figured he had a drunk driver on his hands.
The body camera attached to the front of Golson’s uniform caught every terrifying second of what happened next.
“He was trying to start the car. It wasn’t starting and I told him to turn it off,” Golson recalled. “And when I opened the driver’s door he spun sideways in his seat. He had the gun in his hand and he fired.
“I needed to protect myself, need to return fire, because at this point even though the door is closed he’s still trying to start the vehicle,” Golson said, speaking publicly about the incident for the first time to ABC News.
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