Episode 127 of The Wild Chaos Podcast is streaming NOW on YouTube and all major podcast platforms!
Former Navy diver and San Diego County law enforcement veteran Ali Perez survived an encounter that should have ended his life. What began as an operation to arrest a suspected child predator turned into a close-range gunfight after Ali entered a darkened apartment and was met by a rifle.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Ali Perez’s Incredible Story
04:46 Who Is Ali Perez?
09:24 Inside Navy Dive School
21:53 Diving Nearly 200 Feet Underwater
24:30 Nitrogen Narcosis at 190 Feet
32:17 From Navy Diver to Law Enforcement
01:40:00 The School Shooting
01:48:39 Face-to-Face With the Shooter
01:51:31 What Happens After a School Shooting?
01:57:52 What Police Must Do During an Active Shooter
02:30:51 Becoming a Child Abuse Detective
03:01:16 The Child Predator Investigation
03:03:20 Approaching the Apartment
03:07:53 Entering the Darkened Apartment
03:09:04 The First Rifle Round
03:16:30 Trapped Inside With the Gunman
03:17:51 Shot Through the Chest
03:20:00 The Gunman Stops Ali’s Reload
03:26:56 Ali Says He Saw Jesus
03:30:56 An Out-of-Body Experience
03:38:55 Eleven Minutes Bleeding Out
03:48:45 Dying in the Ambulance
03:51:45 Emergency Surgery
04:04:14 Why Ali Believes He Survived
04:05:20 Bam Opens Up About Faith
Ali describes being shot multiple times, suffering catastrophic injuries, becoming trapped inside the apartment with the gunman, continuing to fight while severely wounded, running out of ammunition, and eventually believing he was about to die.
Then the story takes a turn that Ali says changed the rest of his life.
While bleeding out, Ali says he experienced an encounter with Jesus that challenged everything he was feeling toward the man who had just tried to kill him. Instead of revenge, Ali says he was told to bless him.
This conversation goes far beyond that single day.
Ali takes us inside Navy dive school, including the brutal underwater training and what happens to the human mind nearly 200 feet beneath the surface. He recounts responding to a school shooting and helping apprehend the teenage shooter, the psychological aftermath of seeing children killed, his thoughts on law enforcement response during active-shooter incidents, and the disturbing reality of investigating physical and sexual crimes against children.
He also walks us through the aftermath of his own shooting: massive blood loss, emergency surgery, his family being warned that he likely would not survive, years of recovery, 43 surgeries, faith, forgiveness and rebuilding a life after everything changes in seconds.
Whether you share Ali’s beliefs or question what he experienced, this is a conversation about what happens when a man reaches the absolute edge of life and has to decide what comes next.
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