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S.A. 15-005 Investigator: DEAN FULCHER Approved By: Date of Report:03/12/2015 Date: 03/17/2015 Page 2 of 4 information indicated that two men were involved in a fight, and one was armed with a firearm and shots had been fired. Additional information was relayed that one of the suspects was leaving the scene in a white pick-up truck. DIAZ responded to the area of 800 South Cypress, and while enroute, heard SAPD Officer JIM BERWANGER advise that he was northbound on Main Street following a vehicle possibly involved in the shooting. Shortly after, BERWANGER advised that he was stopped behind the vehicle in the area of 300 South Main Street. DIAZ arrived on scene, stopped his vehicle in the southbound lanes of Main Street, facing north, behind several other SAPD vehicles. DIAZ exited, and walked toward the officers, who were conducting a felony car stop. DIAZ estimated the officers conducting the felony car stop were approximately twenty-five to thirty feet south of the white pick-up. As DIAZ advanced toward the other officers, he heard information over the radio that the suspect in the white truck was armed with a handgun. DIAZ removed his service weapon from his holster and took a position of cover behind the vehicles immediately south of the suspect vehicle. DIAZ heard SAPD Officer DAVID GARCIA instructing the driver to exit the vehicle and “don’t do it.” DIAZ heard GARCIA giving the commands in both Spanish and English. Approximately four to five minutes after he arrived on scene, DIAZ observed that SAPD Officer RYAN SHIFFLET had taken a position approximately seventy feet west of the white pick-up, near a large tree, in the southeast portion of the parking lot at 312 South Main Street. DIAZ surmised that there were enough officers behind the suspect vehicle, and that he would have a better vantage point if he were to take up a position near SHIFFLET. DIAZ began repositioning himself and while doing so heard a single gunshot, which he believed originated from the cab of the white pick-up.