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S.A. 15-005
<br />Investigator: R. SMITH Approved By:
<br />Date of Report:7/1/15 Date: 07/08/2015
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<br />the motor officer behind a white truck. Uh, as I began to drive further
<br />South I remember looking over, uh, to the left and seeing the red
<br />sweatshirt and my partner saying there’s, you know, there’s the truck red
<br />sweatshirt. Uh, we were able to make a U-turn and get behind the truck
<br />which put us in a northbound position now on Main Street, and we did
<br />that because in my mind I’m thinking okay this, you know, we have, uh,
<br />armed suspect, uh, if it goes to pursuit or something like that the
<br />motor’s, uh, not as safe as a actual unit. So we were able to take the,
<br />what we refer to as the primary position, behind the suspect vehicle and
<br />we activated our lights and the, uh, vehicle actually yielded quite quickly.
<br />Uh, so at that particular time we knew that we had a, uh, a suspect who
<br />was shooting, uh, at somebody. At that time I didn’t know if anybody was
<br />hit or not but really didn’t matter. Uh…once we had the vehicle stopped,
<br />uh, typically the driver of the vehicle will give verbal commands, uh, I
<br />remember saying, you know, turn off the car let me see your hands
<br />however, uh, we were getting no response from the person in the vehicle
<br />at which time, uh, my partner DAVID GARCIA who’s fluent in English and
<br />Spanish, uh, took over the verbal commands. Uh, again the suspect
<br />didn’t, uh, cooperate and we didn’t see the hands and, uh, he wasn’t
<br />doing what he was, was told. Uh, I remember after going through
<br />numerous times of DAVID saying let me see your hands and giving him
<br />commands to exit the vehicle I remember, uh, seeing the suspect take a
<br />gun, uh, and I identified that by it was silver and it was obviously a semi-
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