Ambush to Triumph: Deputy Kimber Gist's Fight for Survival

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Kimber Gist is a former Corporal at Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, SC. Kimber is currently working in DC. Listeners can learn more about at website, socials

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In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, sits down with former Corporal Kimber Gist to recount the night of February 26, 2016, when her routine patrol turned into a life-or-death situation. While conducting a business check, Kimber was ambushed and shot multiple times. Despite severe injuries, she managed to defend herself and call for help, showcasing incredible bravery and presence of mind. Kimber discusses the events leading up to the ambush, the immediate aftermath, and the overwhelming support from her law enforcement community.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
(1:00) Sheryl introduces guest, former Corporal Berkeley County South Carolina Deputy, Kimber Gist to the listeners
(3:30) Kimber leads into the life-changing story of February 26, 2016
(6:40) The moment Kimber notices the suspicious vehicle
(9:50) Details of confronting the occupants of the vehicle
(16:45) The ambush begins
(21:00) Kimber fights back despite severe injuries
(27:50) “County 144 has been shot. Can y'all send people to the food line?”
(30:30) Arrival of backup and Kimber's transport to the hospital
(33:30) The overwhelming support from the law enforcement community
(36:30) Sheryl praises Kimber's resilience and composure
(43:28) “I knew she was going to be something great. From the day she was born.” -D.G
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.

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0:00.0	Table 15 at the National Law Enforcement Officer Hall of Fame has become a metaphor for me.
0:16.9	Y'all, it's just like this symbolic of something that I love most about law enforcement and policing for me.
0:25.6	And that table was full of heroes that shared stories of the bravery of their friends, the selflessness,
0:35.6	just the honor of doing this job, all without fear or favor.
0:41.3	And the most important thing to me about this job was in full force on that table, and that is the humor.
0:49.3	Y'all, we laughed from the minute we got to that table to well after hours. But one thing that
0:56.6	came from that table was a story of heroism that you are likely not to hear too many of. It was February
1:05.3	26, 2016, and shots rang out as Corporal Kimberg Giss was conducting a business check at a grocery store.
1:13.8	The next two minutes would change her life.
1:17.8	Y'all, it's got to be one thing to save a life of another person when you can perhaps think,
1:23.3	how should I proceed?
1:25.3	How can I maybe take cover and think about the best way to execute this life-saving measure?
1:30.7	And maybe there's even others around to help you.
1:33.2	But when you are ambushed all alone and the life you have to save is your own, that's a whole
1:41.5	different level.
1:43.0	Tonight, we have the great honor of having former Corporal Berkeley County, South Carolina
1:51.2	deputy, Kimber, it is absolutely our pleasure and honor to have you with us.
1:58.5	And thank you for sharing your story.
2:01.2	Thank you, Cheryl.
2:01.9	Thank you for having me.
2:03.3	You know, we're sitting there with Tom Smith and Dan Murphy and I've got to just tell you,
2:09.5	I'm at the Hall of Fame to pass off my award, you know, to Tom and share our challenge coin and all that. And I had told my sister
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