Cold Case Files - I SURVIVED: I Knew I Was Going To Die Saving My Son

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

Shannon’s ex husband hold her and her two year old son hostage as he attempts a murder suicide. Ken and his friend Ed went for a fishing trip on Ken’s new boat, but when the boat sinks the men are forced to swim in the freezing cold water looking for safety. Angela is attacked by a stranger who forces her to drive to a secluded area where he sexually assaults her. Huggies: Head to Huggies.com to learn more! Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 

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Our eyes were big as saucers. And simultaneously, we both just said, what the hell just happened? Who faced death? It was like he switched from being very nice and friendly to being a monster. And lived to tell how. I knew I was going to die. But I also knew I was going to die saving my son. This is I Survived. It's May 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Shannon has found the man of her dreams. I met Gamal out through mutual friends. We met out at a nightclub, actually, and just instantly I was attracted to him. You know what I loved was that he was really attached to his mom. And I thought that that relationship was so amazing. And I thought, if that's so amazing. And I thought, if that's how he treats his mother, you know, he would, he's going to be amazing to me. Gamal and I dated for roughly a year before I found out I was pregnant. And it was somewhat of a surprise. It was nothing that was planned. Then once I heard that little heartbeat, I was instantly in love. After their son Gavin was born, Gamal became controlling.

You know, it started turning into one of those things where if my mom babysat him one night when we went out, then his mom had to babysit him the next weekend. My mom wasn't going to get more time than his mom. As Gavin got older, it just, it turned into having to account for where we were or how long we were gone or how long we were going to be at my mom's, how long we were going to how long we were gonna be at my mom's how long we were gonna be at my friend's house is that really where you're at I told them all that if I was ever gonna be able to

move forward with my life I was gonna have to get a restraining order against him because he was crazy and he pulled me off the couch and I hit my head on the floor and he drug me into the kitchen and got on top of me and started to strangle me. I knew that I could make one phone call and have a restraining order placed and get him arrested, but I didn't want to take him away from Gavin. I didn't want to disrupt that relationship, and I thought, he'll never do this again. Seven months after moving out, Gamal insisted Gavin stay over with him for the weekend. Shannon redecorated her son's bedroom

and surprised him on his return. I wanted him to choose where his Toy Story poster would go. So I asked him where he wanted his poster, and I hung it up. And the last things that Gavin and I said to each other were me asking him what he thought of his new room. And he said, I love my new bed. And I said, so what do you say?

And he said, thank you, Mom. And when I turned to go down the stairs to take the nails and the hammer down the stairs, Gamal was waiting on the staircase with black gloves on. I was just shocked and asked him what he was doing there. And he said this was his house too, and that he wasn't going anywhere, and we just, we started arguing.

Gamal was always worried about if I was dating and who I was dating and who I was with. And that's what the argument was about. He wanted to know where I had been while he had Gavin over the weekend. He took my phone and wanted to look through the phone. And he put the phone in the bathroom in the hallway upstairs. After he put the phone down, we began to argue about who I was talking to on the phone, and he started to hit me.

Gavin came running out of his room and asked, What are you doing with my mom? When he saw Gavin, he picked him up and he took Gavin to the master bedroom and said, It's okay, son, just stay here. And he put the TV on for him and his demeanor towards Gavin was very calm. I mean, it was daddy. I was just like, okay, at that point I knew something really bad was going to happen today. Shannon had never seen such behavior swings from Gamal. He came up towards me slowly to where I was backing myself into the corner in the hallway.

He punched me in my arms and more in the torso. And I mean, I'm just shocked. At that point, he stepped back and he punched me between my eyes with all his might. And I fell to the floor. And when I looked down, I saw that there was blood everywhere. There was blood coming down my face, my mouth, everywhere.

Gamal pulled out a gun from his waistband. And he said three things. He said, we were all going to die today, that we would die as a family, and that nobody else was going to raise our son. I asked Gamal if I could please, please just rinse my face off, because I didn't want Gavin to see me like that. I didn't want to scare the baby anymore.

Please let me wipe my face off. And he wouldn't. And I begged, please, Gavin doesn't want to scare the baby anymore. Please let me wipe my face off. And he wouldn't. And I begged, please, Gavin doesn't need to see this. And he finally said I could. I knew I needed to call 911. I had to find a way to get to my phone. So I went into the bathroom that he had left the phone in and I rinsed my face and I dialed 911 to let it just play so that they could hear what was going on. And as I walked out of the bathroom, I yelled really loud, look what you did to my face, so that 911 would already know I'd been hit.

And at that point, I realized how bad it was. I mean, it was split down to the bone. And it seems like immediately there was a ring at the doorbell rang. And Gamal said, did you call the cops? And it seems like immediately there was a ring, the doorbell rang. And Gamal said, did you call the cops? And I told him, you have my phone, there's no way that I could have called the cops. So he takes me at gunpoint into the spare bedroom which faces the front of the house,

and the cops were outside. And Gamal opened the window and he waved the gun and he told the cops that they had till the count of 10 to get out of there or that he was gonna kill his family. I had been on my knees in front of Gamal begging him not to do this. I told him that I didn't care what it took. I would do anything to make this work with us

and I just begged him not to hurt Gavin and I. Gamal opened the window and he waved the gun and he told the cops that they had till the count of 10 to get out of there or that he was gonna kill his family. Somewhere in between the countdown, he fired a warning shot into the ceiling and Gavin came running. I thought, okay, if I can get my hands on him, we'll run out.

So as soon as I saw Gavin, I grabbed him. And when I grabbed him, Gamal put the gun to my head, and I started screaming. And then Gavin started to scream, and Gamal took Gavin from me. After Gamal put Gavin back in the room, I just felt helpless. I mean, as a mother, you wanna do anything you can

to protect your child. And a million things ran through my head. Do I just run to the bedroom, get him and jump out the window? I mean, how can I get Gavin out of this situation? When we got downstairs, there was a gas can to the right of the staircase. And our kitchen was to the right,

the living room was to the left. So Gamal began to douse the kitchen in gasoline. At this point, I am just screaming, don't do this with Gavin upstairs by himself. Let me get the baby. Gamal is just telling me to shut the F up. Shut up. And he insisted that he was not going to get Gavin,

just to shut up. Her two-year-old son was upstairs in the spare bedroom. Shannon and Gamal were downstairs. While Gamal was pouring the gasoline through the house, he had one hand on the gas can dowsing like a maniac. And he's pointing the other hand at me with his gun. He turned his back to, I assume, get a lighter from the kitchen. And I was two feet, one and a half to two feet away from the door.

The cops were out front. I had seen them from the window upstairs. So I knew that if I ran, Gamal would chase me. I had to make a move. This was the only way I was gonna get him away from Gavin. I knew I was gonna die. I knew I was gonna die. But I knew I was going to die. But I also knew I was going to die saving my son.

So I ran, and I made sure to slam the door behind me so that I could create a barrier and give me a chance to get ahead of him. When I got to the end of the driveway, I realized the cops were gone. I had seen them, what seemed like 30 seconds prior, and they were gone. I'm running, and I hear a very loud bang,

and I know that it felt like rocks were being thrown at my back. I was shot once in the arm. I was shot a couple of times in my back. I was shot twice on my side. I was shot in the buttocks. But I just kept running. I just kept running until somebody would help me.

Shannon alerts a neighbor backing out of a driveway. And I told her a couple more times just to call 911. But I didn't wanna leave until I knew they had gotten Gavin out. And that told her a couple more times just to call 911. But I didn't want to leave until I knew they had gotten Gavin out. And that was the last thing I remember saying to her before waking up in the ambulance. Shannon was kept in the intensive care unit for two weeks, much of it sedated.

One of the detectives came in to see me a couple of days after I'd been awake. And the first two things that I had asked were, where's Gamal? Because I was afraid that he was gonna come back and where Gavin was. I was told that they were both deceased and I just, I didn't believe it.

I had to be told numerous times that they were both gone. I was told that Gamal was able to let off 11 to 12 rounds. He shot Gavin once in the head. And he shot himself right here. I survived because I have to keep my son's memory alive. I have to keep his name alive. My family needs me. I can't imagine what my family would have gone through

to lose both of us. Gavin was an amazing child. It's difficult to try to sum him up in a couple of words, but I tell everybody he was really special, and I don't say that just because he was mine. He was smart. He was gorgeous. He was really intelligent and full of life. He was just a vibrant, vibrant little soul, full of life. But if you're not in some kind of moving vehicle, there's something else you can be doing right now, getting an auto quote from Progressive Insurance.

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me to him. And we got to talking. We really hit it off good. We actually had a lot in common, hunting, fishing, riding motorcycles. As a retirement present to himself, Ken bought a new boat. The man I purchased it from had just spent over $15,000 having work done to it, had new live wells, new marine radios, radio box. You know, I had a lot of confidence in the boat. Ken and his friend Ed prepared for their first fishing trip in the new boat. We got up at 6 o'clock in the morning. We were at the marina by about 7.30 or so, back in the boat inn. I had all the charts that were

required. I had flares on board. I had whistles, flashlights. Everything was in an ammunition can, a waterproof ammunition can that was stored in the bow of the boat. Ken and Ed headed out to fish in the Gulf of Mexico. They steered a course amongst the many gas and oil rig platforms. We got out to the first rig about 9, 9.30, and then we got to the second rig about 10.30 or so. There's a lot of them out there, but there's not many of them that are really manned.

There's only, I would say maybe in a percentage, if there was a thousand out there, maybe 15 of them would be manned. 12 miles offshore, the friends tied up their boat to one of the unmanned rigs. We hadn't been sitting there visiting for quite a while because both Ed and I had just about finished our diet sodas. And Ed looked in the back of the boat at that time and he goes, hey, you might want to turn the bilge pumps on. Looks like we're taking on a little water. And I said, what? Ken and Ed untied their boat from the rig. Myself and Ed both knew that the only way to get water bilged out was to get the boat up on plane, let the pumps work, let the water run out through the self-bailing hull, and we were both in agreement with it. I fired up both motors. I pulled forward. One motor died, and I was kind of concerned about that. Then, 100 yards from the oil rig,

the second motor also stopped. We went from getting back to shore mode to what are we going to need? At that point, I was still kind of thinking to myself, well, it's not going to submerge completely. I thought, you know, at worst, the boat would roll over, and we'd still have a boat to sit on until the Coast Guard got there. But then the boat began sinking. The water was coming in so fast, I put out a mayday call. I got no response. I picked up my cell phone, dialed 911.

It never went to ring. It was still searching for service. And I said, grab anything that'll float and throw it up on the deck and grab us our life jackets. He snapped his on, threw me mine. I snapped mine on. Ed kept hollering at me. we need to stay with the boat. I said, there's no boat to stay with, Ed, it's going down. I still had the mic in my hand.

I don't remember if I was still trying to make Mayday calls, but at that point the boat started to roll, and I didn't have any option but to kind of run down the side of the boat as the boat went bow up into the air. Then I hit the water. I swam in some cold streams and cold water, usually in wetsuits, though, and things like that. But I would never voluntarily jump into water that cold. It took my breath away. Ed swam over to me, and I kind of swam over to him at the same time. We kind of grabbed a hold of each other and I said, let's just start policing stuff up,

get anything we think we can use. The men only had time to grab life jackets and a bottle of soda. We looked at each other when the boat first went down with our eyes were big as saucers and simultaneously we both just said, what the hell just happened? I told Ed, I said, we have to swim for that rig. And he said that we're going the wrong way. The currents, I said, we got to try. I said, we can't stay in this water. We're going to end up with hypothermia. We started to drift and as we started to drift, I noticed that Ed had already started to shake. I was shaking a little bit. Ed was quite a bit smaller than me. He was about 150 pounds, and I'm 210.

So I had some insulationing on me that he didn't necessarily have. To keep their spirits up, the men talked about their families. Ed talked about his girls, his grandbabies, and stuff like that. But I did say something to him. I said, you know, I've been in a lot of tough situations in my life, but I told him, I said, I just can't remember being in more of a dire situation than I am right now. It was terribly cold. Not only was it cold in the water, but it was colder out of the water. The temperature got down to about 60,

65 degrees. Ken had talked, and I knew that the Mayday call didn't get answered. And even if it did, they wouldn't have known where it came from. So we were dependent at that point on my wife. My wife knows that I call her when I get in from fishing. so she's going to be getting us some rescue help out there. Once the first night rolled around, we were kind of discouraged when the sun went down. We were like, well, they're not going to find us tonight, but they'll find us in the morning. Tied together for warmth and safety, they managed to get some sleep. We were both awake when the sun came up, and we both watched the sunrise. It was a beautiful sunrise. We decided at that point that we were going to pull out that diet soda that we

had. And he said, what do you think about getting a cap full of it? After 20 hours in the water, Ed was showing additional signs of hypothermia. Ed was digging around his pocket. I said, what are you doing? He pulls out his Bic lighter and he's blowing on it, trying to get the water out of it, trying to get it lit. And I said, what are you doing? You going to signal somebody with your Bic lighter? He said, no, I'm going to light this cigarette. I got a dry cigarette. I said, where? He goes, right here in my mouth. And I went, buddy, you don't have a cigarette in your mouth. And he reached up there and grabbed his mouth. He went, oh, crap. I knew at that point that Ed had stopped shivering. His teeth had stopped chattering.

He just kind of laid there with his head in the water, and he was talking about stuff that didn't make any sense. And I knew he had gotten into that advanced stage that if something wasn't done, that he wasn't going to make it. Ken and Ed have been in the ocean now for a day and a half. We were both kind of dozing, and I could hear in the distance what sounded like a helicopter. And it looked like an orange and white helicopter.

And I told Ed, I said, Coast Guard helicopter right over there. And then the helicopter flew and then it turned and landed on a rig that was maybe five or six miles, four or five miles from us. We went into kind of a self-survival mode where we were like, well, you know, if they're not going to find us, we're going to have to help ourselves. And Ed was, mentally, he was on board for that. Physically, he just couldn't do it. He just couldn't kick his legs and move his arms. He just didn't have any strength left,

didn't have anything left in him. I said, Ed, I think we can, if we aim for the gas platform to the right of where that rig is, that the current should carry us right into that rig. And I said, can you swim? And I was telling Ed, I said, kick. He goes, I am, I am. And I looked and he was back on his back and his feet were just barely moving. I said, are you swimming? He goes, yeah, yeah, I'm swimming, you know, kind of just mumbling to me. And, and I said, you're going to have to swim. You're going to have to swim harder. You're

going to have to try. You're going to really try it. Reach down and try. I said, well, this is our, this is our only chance. And then he just told me, he says, I can't. At that moment, the former Marine made the toughest decision of his life. To save his friend Ed, he must leave him. I knew that our only chance was if I could get to a rig and get him some help. And I said, if I don't, you're not going to make it. He goes, I know, I know. He said, go.

He kind of grinned at me and he goes, first one back to dock, and he said, go kiss them babies for me. He was talking about his gaggle of girls, his three daughters and his two granddaughters. I untied his life jacket from mine, and that was probably the hardest thing I've ever done, was to swim off and lose sight of my best friend there in the water. At nightfall, Ken left his friend and swam for help.

As I was swimming, I noticed that my perception of the rig was changing. But I seemed like I was swimming in the correct direction. But then as I did, the rig was closer and the gas well was farther away. And I knew at that point that the current had carried me past. And I had reached a point of no return that I could not get to the rig. Ed was alone in the water. I was alone in the water. And I didn't know what to do. I looked off to my left

and there were trees everywhere. And I was like, is that a rig through those trees? And then I was thinking, wait a minute, there's no trees out here. I said, oh no. So now I'm starting to hallucinate. And I started seeing these bushes right in front of me that were like a crystal were like a crystal bush.

And it was so real. I mean, I knew it wasn't there, and I told myself, that's not there. There's no trees here. You just fight through it. And I guess I fell asleep, and I woke up. It was about 7.30, and I heard a bellows or a foghorn from a rig. As I heard that foghorn off in the distance, I was looking over there and then a wave kind of picked me up another foot or two and I saw lights from another rig. Ken swam for the

second rig, not knowing if it was real or imagined. And it just so happened that rig was right underneath the North Star. And I said, all right, well, if I stay in this track, which way am I going to go? And I figured out that it was going to carry me to the left of the rig. You know, this is it. This is going for broke. I'm either going to make it or I'm not going to make it. I'm going to die out here. I just kept swimming.

And finally, I got to a point where I could pick out, you know, where the stairway was, where the ladders were. I started easing up the steps, and I got up to the first level off of the water, and there was a tool bin or a big walk-in tool shop. And I went in there, there was lights on in there, and there was pipe wrenches and stuff everywhere and pipe fittings, things like that. Ken found drinking water, but no people. He climbed up to the fourth level looking for someone to help him. On the counter was a cordless phone sitting on a charger. I said, no way. I pick it up, dial tone. I dialed my home phone number. It rang and rang and rang. My youngest

son, a 21-year-old, answered the phone, and he just went, he went nuts. Mom, mom, Ken's on the phone. Ken's on the phone. So he handed her the phone and I told her, I said, look, the boat sank yesterday. We've been in the water. Ed's still in the water. I just made it to a rig. Call the Coast Guard. And she goes, we've already got five agencies looking for you out there. The rig crew were all asleep at that hour of the morning. Ken awoke the RIG supervisor, who confirmed the location to the Coast Guard. At about four o'clock in the morning, I finally had a chance, after talking to the Coast Guard on the phone, they had boats in the area, they had helicopters, they had planes, everybody looking for Ed. And I asked them, I said, any word? And they said, no, not yet.

They're still, everybody's out there looking. At about 8.30 in the morning, they had found a body in a life jacket floating. I lost it. I mean, I completely fell apart. They had to, and all I wanted to do at that point was walk back over, jump back in the water. Ed's body was taken ashore. Ken went to the hospital to see his friend's body for the last time. I went in and visited with him. I told him I was sorry and hope he forgave me for not getting to him in time. I just had to get home and hold them girls and let them know that the last time I talked to their daddy, his thoughts were about them.

Ken survived 37 hours in the water. In that time, he had drifted more than 54 miles. I survived because I had to. I had to for Ed and for his daughters and for me and my wife. I had to. I Survived is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Most of you listening right now are probably multitasking. Yep, while you're listening to me talk, you're probably also driving, cleaning, exercising, or maybe even grocery shopping. But if you're not in some kind of moving vehicle, there's something else you can be doing right now. Getting an auto quote from Progressive Insurance. It's easy and you can save money by doing it right from your phone. Drivers who save by

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It's September 1992 in Akron, Ohio. Angela has just bought her first car. Me and my best friend, we used to go places a lot and we would take lunches and food and she had left a paring knife in my car. I had cleaned out my car that day and I was going to throw the knife away, but as I was getting ready to throw it away, I said maybe I should keep that because that's her mother's knife. Angela and her girlfriend attended a Labor Day fireworks display. Afterwards, she planned to drive into the city. When I dropped my best friend off after the fireworks and I went to the city, I stopped at a payphone that was at the intersection. It was at an abandoned gas station, but there were other buildings around. So I parked my car towards the payphone. I used the payphone to call a friend that I was going to see later on that evening.

As I was hanging the phone up, I noticed the man come around from the left side of my car. The man was telling me that he was seeing me around town a lot, and I made small talk. The talk was very normal. He was very nice. And then when I went to shut my doors, when he got into the way where I couldn't shut the door, he put his body there. And then that's when he grabbed me. It was like he switched from being very nice and friendly to being a monster. He grabbed my hair and he grabbed my wrist and he said he had somewhere to go and I was to take him. He got into the passenger side, and he told me that as long as I do everything he says, he won't hurt me.

That was my plan. I was going to do everything that he wanted me to do. I would give him a ride somewhere, I'd take him, then he'd let me go. And then, you know, it would be over. The man directed Angela to drive to the parking lot of a local school. I had lots of fear because all the way from the pay phone to the school, he was asking me a lot of questions, sexual questions. He was asking me if I had done certain things, that he was going to do certain things to me. And I knew what was going to happen.

And then something reminded me that there was a knife that my friend left and that I had under the compartment of my radio. And there was a soda can as well. And I asked him, can I take my soda with me? And he said, well, I don't care. You can bring it. So I put the knife in my hand along with the can so he couldn't see the knife. And then he dragged me out of the passenger side car. The attacker forced Angela into the woods behind the school. I couldn't let him see the knife, so I put it in a dark spot on the left-hand side of me,

up on the incline, and I left it there. When he pushed me down, he still had a hold of my hair. He let go of my arm, and then I remember that's when he started to take my clothes off. He ripped my bra off. He took everything off. And then he started to rape me. I can remember hearing the leaves

and then him just saying, come on. He starts to rape me, and then he also starts to choke me at the same time. And he's squeezing, and he's squeezing harder, and he's getting harder and harder, and it's starting to make me pass out. As I start to pass out, I start thinking of my family. I start saying my goodbyes. And this is how I'm going to die. But it doesn't hurt.

And it feels almost peaceful and calm, and I almost accepted the fact that I was going to die. But just as quick as I started thinking about that, I couldn't have my family receive the knock at the door that they'd have to come and identify my body. So I gave myself one push. Angela managed to force the attacker off her. And that's when he stood up. And when he stood up, I heard this fizzing. And I just kept thinking, where's this fizzing coming from? And then I look over and the light from the street shows and shines on the knife and what it was is the soda can had fallen down and the

soda started to run down the hill and as soon as he stood up and then I stood up because I was the first time he let me go we were eye to eye I know my heart was racing I knew that my fight or flight kicked in. I knew that I was going to fight and then I was going to run. I was, I was, this was my chance and I had to take it. And I reached down as quick as I could, picked that knife up and I just started stabbing him. Stabbed him in the chest the first time. The first time it went in really easy and then the second and third time, I think I did it so fast he didn't even realize that I had been stabbing him. And then the fourth time

it hit a bone and it bent in half. And then that's when he said, bitch I'm going to kill you. So I knew I had to run because I knew he was going to kill me. I knew that I've made this man angry. I've stabbed him. And now I have to get away. And he chased me for about 50 feet. If he caught me, he was going to kill me. He would definitely kill me.

Angela's attacker suddenly stopped chasing her. When I looked back and saw him gather my things and get back into the car and drive behind the school, I thought that he would come around the front of the school and get me, pick me up, and kill me. Not to leave a witness. Angela, naked, saw two police officers responding to another call. I stood up when I seen the police officers, and I just screamed, help, please help me. And they stopped, they turned around, and they just flew over the sidewalk.

And they asked me, what's happening? Why are you here? You know, what's going on? And that's when I told them that, you know, this man just stole my car. He just took off behind the school. Go get him. The attacker, despite his stab wounds, escaped Angela's car. The man eventually sought medical attention. The next day, he actually did go back to the hospital. He was still having problems with the wound near his heart. It wouldn't stop bleeding, and then that's when they went and arrested him. When I went to court and testified against him, the detectives told me that I was acting too strong.

They said, you can't go in there and act like that. You know, you have to act like you're a victim and that you're sad. And I told them, I'm done being a victim and i'm done being sad i want him to pay for what he's done to me george edward davis jr was convicted for kidnapping theft and gross sexual imposition he served eight years in prison and is now on a registered sex offender list i survived because of the love of my family. Through the whole ordeal, I never stopped thinking about them. No one was going to take me from them, and they weren't going to take me away. I knew that I wanted to have kids in the future, and I wanted to help people, and I wanted to be there for my family.

So I survived because of my family. So I survived because of my family.