NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla.--A Pasco County sheriff's deputy is back on the job nearly two months after surviving what was described as an "absolute gun battle" while on duty.
In June, Deputy Chris Stone and others were trying to negotiate with Terrance Peterson on a domestic violence call when Peterson started shooting.
Deputy Stone was hit. The bullet severed the femoral artery in his leg.
"I started to get very light headed and it felt like someone had taken a garden hose down my pant leg," he recalled.
For the next several minutes body camera video shows deputies doing everything they could to save him.
While gunfire continued erupting from inside the house retired firefighter Bill Ricci, who lived nearby, was among those trying to help. "When he came out of the house and collapsed, I seen him it the ground and I turned to my wife and I said get me towels, whatever you can get your hands on."
Ricci was ready to assist and stood alongside Stone who was fighting to live.
"Was today going to be the last day my wife and my kids saw me?" Stone wondered at the time.
Today, Stone is back uniform ready for work. But he says he'll never forget everyone, including Bill Ricci who saved him that night.
