:15:19
It was getting awfully close to Christmas.
:15:21
We'd never gone that long in Dallas
without clearing a murder of an officer.
:15:25
We'd had several killed,
but we'd cleared them pretty quick.
:15:28
And this case had gone a month,
or nearly a month...
:15:31
and we still hadn't cleared it.
:15:33
We finally got the break that cleared it.
It came out of Vidor, Texas.
:15:41
Mr. Calvin Cunningham, who lives
in Vidor, had his home broken into...
:15:45
and his little Mercury Comet stolen.
:15:49
We felt as though
David had committed that crime.
:15:52
For several days, though,
he was missing. We couldn't find him.
:15:57
It was one afternoon, one of our
officers spotted Cunningham's car...
:16:00
on North Main Street, here in Vidor.
:16:03
David abandoned the vehicle
and ran on foot.
:16:08
We started getting
little bits of information, though...
:16:11
that David had been involved in a
shooting in Dallas of a police officer.
:16:16
We would always get
third-hand rumor, fourth-hand rumor.
:16:20
So we went back to a few of his other
comrades in crime, we could call them.
:16:25
They said,
"We thought he was just bragging.
:16:28
"We didn't really take him seriously."
:16:30
Sitting down, watching the
evening news, well, the night news.
:16:33
My father was asleep on the couch.
:16:36
Heard somebody knocking at the door.
It was David Harris.
:16:40
I let him in. He came in.
:16:41
He was standing there beside my chair...
:16:43
and a news broadcast advertised
about a police officer shot in Dallas.
:16:49
Right then and there he starts
swearing up and down.
:16:51
He says, "I swear to God,
I shot that fucking pig."
:16:55
He says, "I'm the one that killed him."
:16:57
Somewhere around Dallas,
they got pulled over.
:16:59
I think he said because
they were checking out a stolen car.