they walk into danger first and put their safety last in the effort to save others. But what happens when the first responders you're supposed to call for help show up, but don't do their jobs. Only on 10 10 on your size Aisha Oliver investigate if a man could still be alive had two Newport News firefighters acted. It was a shot spotter alert on October 15th, 2023 that first sent Newport News police and firefighter medics to Garden Drive when they got there. They found 39 year old quadril Williams of Smithfield with a gunshot wound behind. Quantrill Williams with the gunshot wound. So let's see how these first responders is going to go to prison. You should fire fighters must have shot him, right? Yeah, they got fired. So they got fired because quadril Williams got shot that first sent Newport News police and firefighter medics to Garden Drive when they got there. They found 39 year old quadril Williams of Smithfield with a gunshot wound behind this home Williams was transported to a local hospital where he died 10 days later. That's the story the city shared with the community. But the story 10 on your side uncovered might lead one to question why the city didn't share more on March 4th. We received an anonymous email. It claimed a man who was shot wasn't transported for medical treatment immediately upon arrival at first responders. Rather, the message alleges the victim was left to sit there for nearly an hour with no medical care at all. We went to work to see if there was any way this could be true. Dozens of emails, phone calls, information requests and door knocks later, we connected it to Williams homicide case. All ultimately leading us to this interview with police chief Steve Drew and interim fire chief Wesley Rogers. Where for the first time, they're admitting some of the allegations made in that email did happen when medics responded and they found Mr. Williams. They declared Mr. Williams disease. After some time of being on the incident, they realized that Mr. Williams was not the see we had a lot of questions. What made them believe? OK, so they made a mistake. That's reason. They made a mistake. OK. You know, they were rubbing the sleeve out of their eyes after treating the fifth sun men shot to death that day, you know, on the block and they thought, oh my, you know, he's dead. We got to move on to the next one. And it actually was alive. So yeah, they're going to lose their jobs and be, uh, you know, prized forever now. Racists. They're going to be racist for this. Trust me. He's black and they're probably white. They're racists. Leave he was dead. Did medics attempt any aid? And what did they tell the family? Neither Rogers, nor Chief Drew would go into details saying this was an active criminal investigation. But they did say what occurred was in no way what should have. I just would like to say that the employees and when that incident and the senior providers did not live up to the standards of care that are accepted not in Newport and his fire department. The city's important sources close to the fire department. Say Williams laid on this porch alive for close to 40 minutes with a gunshot wound to his head before he was transported to Riverside Regional Medical Center. Court documents say he was pronounced brain dead on October 25th and taken off life support. We've got to make changes. Move forward or fifth. What about the fucking sun turned that shot? Not a word. Any thoughts on it? I didn't hear that now one damn time. Yeah, man. It's the firefighters for me. Cat, dog, my son's son put you in a fire. I'm a fuck the shooter that actually shot them in the head. It's like nobody talks about that. But it's the firefighters like they got your fire. That's why there've been no rest. Hey, it's in the research to believe you know if you see somebody with a head shot, you know, a gunshot room to the head. Gonna assume they did. No, I would. I assume you did. Here's the thing. They're first responders. So they've seen a lot of this stuff. So they probably made a judgment called based on the scene. We don't know what the scene looked like. We don't know his friends are saying it out. We don't know if he had no pulse. We don't know if they checked his pulse. He didn't have a pulse. And then maybe a pulse came back. You know what I'm saying? Like we don't know what happened. All we know is that they made their as they made a assessment that he was dead. And I wonder what's he moving? He probably wasn't moving on the step. And it was wrong. I mean, I'm sure he was moving. They were. I mean, yeah, like they didn't detect the pulse or something. That's what we got to do. But as an organization, we got to be better. The whole situation was captured on Newport News Police body camera. While we asked to see it, citing the investigation, the city wouldn't release it. So what really went wrong? We went out to the neighborhood to try and see if anyone saw anything. We spoke to a neighbor who remembered hearing around five shots that morning. But they couldn't recall how long it took before Williams was transported. One ringed doorbell camera faces the scene, but the person inside the home didn't answer the door. If you had to have it. You're getting in that. Right. You look back on all the body camera footage. And you say, you know what? My guys did everything they could. They did the right thing followed protocol all the way through what without a foot like. Mr. Ways would have been transported immediately. Immediately. Yeah. Roger says the senior EMS captain was initially canceled because they thought the victim was dead. But went back to the scene later when it was discovered he was still alive. We do it to help people to save people. And you know, when people don't live up to that or don't live up to those things. The conduct that we we hold so dear is what we do. Absolutely. It breaks your heart. Do you believe in any capacity that race played a role? Absolutely not. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, what the fuck? Yeah, the government moral and new port news is a hundred percent some people are 98 excuse me. 98 percent. They call it bad. They're on it. People they're calling they call it bad news. Man. Listen man. Listen. They probably say or or treated on the scene. Hundreds of sons. That's all they do is. You know, if you hate black people, why are you a first responder in new port news? If you hate black people so much. Very perplexed. Help people to save people and you know, when people don't live up to that or don't live up to those things. Those or their dueuff Jur dieser Are you aware absorption Capasy that can and can deliver a fucking lying call? I can now you know how do you end up that kind of void between you two taking like 3, I mean you did hit Surprise. Oh jeezee and what does the family think about all of this, that part of the story at six. A shatilever is on your side. In a story you'll see only on 10 are a shatilever investigates after allegations. Medics didn't follow protocol when responding to a shooting in Newport news. It is a mistake that could have been all this is the same day they doubled up on the story. This is. Yeah, but I feel like it's racist to to emphasize that they had to be racism only. Yeah, it's like why would why would that be the first thing you think about? Yeah, it's just it's just disappointed man that sons they put you in a bind up because everything is raised nothing's ever the fault. So like whoever you spend your entire life triaging and caring for the wounded in the sun community and like the moment you make a mistake, your fucking shit can't in the racist. You're a racist. You did. You didn't help him because he was black. I never even noticed a pattern of you know the medical personnel leaving black folks stranded like