As Robert "Lavoy" Finicum powered his Dodge pickup over Devine Summit on the state highway north of Burns, he spotted the police van idling on a U.S. Forest Service road.

Finicum glanced over at the state trooper in the driver's seat as he went past.

He pointed a finger at him, as if to say "I see you" and kept going.

That likely was the moment Finicum realized he and his group wouldn't make the community meeting planned that evening in John Day.

Less than 30 minutes later, Finicum was dead and four other leaders of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge takeover were in handcuffs.

New and sharper details emerged Tuesday of what happened Jan. 26 along U.S. 395 as police released their investigation of the fatal confrontation.

Until now, most of what was known came from a soundless surveillance video, a single statement from the FBI and reports from three witnesses who were passengers in Finicum's convoy.

But a lengthy video shot inside Finicum's truck adds voice and sound to the tumultuous events as they unfolded that afternoon. Accounts from the state troopers and FBI agents who tried to arrest Finicum and police photographs also round out the picture. Police so far aren't releasing names of any of the officers involved.

Finicum fell in the snow while police turned their attention to those still in the pickup truck.

Bundy, Cox and Sharp weren't clear what had happened.

"Dammit," Cox said at the sound of gunfire. "Are they shooting him?"

At that point, non-lethal sponge rounds, designed to stop but not kill people, can be heard striking the truck.

Sharp yells "Oh my God" and shouts that she is a medic, apparently wanting to go to help Finicum.

The cellphone recording makes clear none of the three saw Finicum shot.

"Where the hell is Lavoy?" Cox asked.

"I can't see," said Bundy.

Fifty seconds after Finicum left his truck, the shooting was over.

-- Les Zaitz