The Grimes County Sheriff's Office including the Texas Rangers in Anderson were busy dissecting this patrol car Tuesday morning. In the midst of transporting 31-year old Joshua Johnson to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Monday afternoon, something went terribly wrong.

Sheriffs tell us while sitting in the back of the patrol car, still shackled and chained, Johnson managed to break through the partition, he then physically assaulted the deputy and stole his gun. Johnson then fired three rounds at the deputy before taking off in the patrol car. Able to escape from the patrol car--the injured deputy called for backup. Several hours and nearly 50 miles later, Johnson's journey was interrupted by a dead end road. With no one to turn to and no where else to go Johnson turned himself in.

"Dispatch can you hear me, this is Josh Johnson come in."

But not before Lt. Blake Jarvis got involved.

"At that time I immediately took control of the radio and started talking and communicating with him," says Jarvis.

Lt. Jarvis: "Can you hear me Josh? I'll be there shortly, do not point the gun at them all right Johnson..."

Johnson: "All right. Like I said, I'll give myself up so long as it's to you..."

Lt. Jarvis: "How fast does that Crown Vic go?"

Johnson: "I don't really know, I didn't get to test it out, it's kind of hard to maneuver with my cuffs on. I don't mean to brag, but I'm a good driver..."

Lt. Jarvis says Johnson was distraught and emotional. "He had a gun to his head and said he wanted to commit suicide."

Johnson: "What happens to me now? Will I go back to Grimes County?"

Lt. Jarvis: "We will go to the hospital and get you taken care of we will do what you need and we'll sit up there and and talk about it and work it out..."

Johnson: "Tell Sgt. Trent I smoked all of his cigarettes."

Lt. Jarvis: "I will."

Johnson: "And for an old guy he hits pretty hard. He reminds me of my grandpa, he was my hero."

Nearly 45 minutes into the conversation, Lt. Jarvis finally got through to Johnson. "I was able to talk him out of it, he finally told us where he was at, units responded on scene, he said he wouldn't surrender unless we arrived on scene."

Jarvis says once he arrived on scene: "He walked to the front of his car he laid on the ground and we took him into custody."

While many are calling Jarvis's actions heroic--he says he's just doing his job.

"There was nothing heroic about it, any officer in our department would have done the same thing."

This isn't the first time Johnson has tried to run from the law. Earlier this year he tried a similar stunt in Montgomery county where he was accused of tazing an officer during an escape attempt. That time though, the situation ended with Johnson being shot two times.