Australian catches his own carjacking on camera

An Australian newsman wound up becoming part of a dramatic story himself this week.

As CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports, it all began when a man jumped off his Harley Davidson and flagged down cameraman Peter Steer, who was on his way to cover a reported domestic dispute.

With blood on his hands, the biker told Steer -- who kept his camera rolling -- that he wanted to confess to injuring a woman at a nearby home.

"I feel like a coward," the man told Steer, saying he wanted to turn himself in. "I couldn't fight the devil."

Steer called the police but before they could respond, the suspect snapped, and apparently changed his mind.

After pointing his gun straight at the camera, the armed man sped-off in the cameraman's company van.

"He was more than willing at first to go quietly," recalled Steer, "but I suppose something tweaked into his mind that 'now I'll do this in a big way.'"

A camera mounted on the news van's dashboard caught what came next, as the suspect veered into a gas station and crashed into a huge tank holding more than a thousand gallons of gasoline.

Possibly dazed but seemingly uninjured, the gunman approached a customer.

"He just walked up to me purposefully and looked me in the eyes and asked me for a cigarette lighter," Guy Elson recalled.

The suspect then made a feeble attempt to escape on foot, but police had surrounded him.

"He moved pretty much straight over to the gas bottles and anything could have happened from there because you could hear gas leaking," said Steer.

The ordeal finally ended with the man being taken into custody.

As for the man who captured the story of his career, he remembered rule number one: keep that camera rolling.

"For a cameraman like this, it's the sort of stuff that you'd dream of, I guess," he said of the incident. "I am fine. I just need a big drink."