Int Ofc Don Kozakowski by Linn_Redacted

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SA-15-005 Investigator: BRUCE LINN #327 Approved By: Date of Report:3/13/2015 Date: 07/13/2015 Page 2 of 5 On the day of this OIS incident, KOZAKOWSKI was working patrol in full uniform driving a marked black and white Santa Ana police car. He was inside the police station when he heard a dispatched radio call of some sort of shooting in the southeast district. KOZAKOWSKI was with SAPD Sergeant DON HUMPHRIES and SAPD Officer ROGER TELOSA. A vehicle description of a white truck had been dispatched. KOZAKOWSKI heard the radio traffic that SAPD Officer JAMES BURWANGER had located the white truck and was following it. Officer KOZAKOWSKI got into his marked black and white and followed Sergeant HUMPHRIES and Officer TELOSA southbound on Main Street. KOZAKOWSKI heard via the radio that the truck had stopped and the suspect was armed with a weapon, a pistol, and had put the gun to his own head. While holding the gun to his head, the suspect appeared to be on a cellular telephone with the other hand. KOZAKOWSKI heard the radio traffic that a shot had been fired KOZAKOWSKI believed the officer who made that radio broadcast was SAPD Officer MIKE GIBBONS. Although not certain, KOZAKOWSKI believed he had also heard on the radio traffic that shots had been fired at the original incident, before the suspect fled the scene in the white pickup truck. KOZAKOWSKI drove southbound Main Street to eastbound 1st Street to southbound Cypress Street then right on Chestnut Avenue. KOZAKOWSKI had heard the radio traffic of the , as he was travelling southbound on Cypress Street. KOZAKOWSKI arrived at the incident scene at about the same time as Sergeant HUMPHRIES and Officer TELOSA. KOZAKOWSKI asked Sergeant HUMPHRIES if he had a collapsible, ballistic shield. Sergeant HUMPHRIES got a shield from a different patrol unit. KOZAKOWSKI and Sergeant HUMPHRIES