MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher McCray sat down for his first interview with anchor Shannon Sims four months after surviving an ambush that killed his partner, Officer Kendall Corder.

The goal was simple: go home at the end of the shift.

"We just want to go home at the end of the day. That's literally it," McCray said. "That night, it was a long night."

The two officers were responding to a report of a subject with a gun near 25th and Garfield streets. Surveillance footage captured them walking down Garfield Street. Seconds later, gunfire erupted.

Officer McCray took bullets to his calf and foot. Another grazed his neck, narrowly missing his spine. He spent days in the hospital before being released.

Officer Corder was shot three times. He died at the hospital the day

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