Deputies make split-second decisions as suspect attempts suicide-by-cop

555 Dashcam video from a chase and standoff last fall shows how quickly deputies had to make life-or-death decisions last August. A harassment complaint in Dunn County led to a chase that ended in the township of Brunswick. Eau Claire County Sheriff Ron Cramer Diesterhaft confronted officers with a weapon, and two Eau Claire County deputies fired at him. Diesterhaft told investigators he was on the run from authorities in South Dakota and returned to Wisconsin to see his family before he killed himself. He said his plan was to use one of his father's weapons, but because his dad only had long rifles and not a handgun, he wanted to, "do something stupid," and get police called so they would shoot him. He told officers he did not want to go back to prison. Diesterhaft described to investigators how he stole a rifle from a home between Rock Falls and Caryville. He then tried to kiss a woman he did not know at a grocery store in Rock Falls so that she would call police. Once law enforcement made contact, he led them on a chase intentionally using back roads saying he didn't want anyone else to get hurt.. After he lost police, he said he "got bored" and purposefully drove back to find officers so that they would shoot him. After he was first shot in the stomach, Diesterhaft told investigators he stood up so that deputies would be forced to shoot him again. Diesterhaft faces more than 18 years in prison.

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