California Highway Patrol Officer Antonio Pacheco testified Friday morning about being shot on the highway after he struggled with a driver in late April 2022.“I was so convinced I was going to die," Pacheco said.
Pacheco said he approached a black Audi parked in the median of Interstate 8 in Mission Valley and found Yuhao Du, 25, behind the wheel with bruising to his forehead and blood trickling down his face.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.The judge asked NBC 7 not to show Pacheco's face during his testimony, where the seven-year veteran of the force shared the frightening moment when he felt a bullet pierce through his thigh and tear through muscle tissue, barely missing his femur and artery.
"I hear a loud pop, I felt this extreme pain go down my leg and some numbness and tingling and warm liquid run down my leg," he said."It was my blood."