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S.A. 15-005 Investigator: DEAN FULCHER Approved By: Date of Report:03/12/2015 Date: 03/30/2015 Page 2 of 4 had just occurred in the area of 800 South Cypress Street. SHIN responded to the area and received additional information, via the police radio, while he was enroute to the location. An update was broadcast that the suspect involved in the shooting was driving a white pick-up truck. SHIN heard SAPD Officer JIM BERWANGER advise that he was in the area that shooting had occurred and had possibly located the vehicle. Shortly after, SHIN heard officers advise that the vehicle was stopped in the area of Main and Pine Streets and were requesting additional officers for traffic control. As SHIN neared the scene, he heard radio transmissions from officers, who were conducting a felony car stop on the pick-up truck, advising that the suspect had a gun and had placed the gun to his chin. SHIN surmised the suspect, later identified as BENITO OSORIO, was possibly contemplating suicide. Just prior to arriving on the scene SHIN heard a radio broadcast that a shot had been fired from inside the white pick-up truck. SHIN arrived at the scene of the felony car stop and parked his vehicle approximately two to three car lengths behind other SAPD vehicles, in the northbound lanes of Main Street. SHIN’s vehicle was parked facing north, behind several other SAPD vehicles. SHIN observed several SAPD officers, behind their car doors, with their guns drawn and pointed at the white pick-up. SHIN estimated that the row of SAPD vehicles and the white pick-up were separated by approximately thirty feet. SHIN observed as several SAPD officers attempted to engage OSORIO in conversation telling him, “Don’t do it,” and “Keep your hands up.” SHIN could see the silhouette of a person’s head, through the tinted windows, sitting in the driver’s seat of the truck. OSORIO’s head was pivoting and moving inside of the truck. SHIN took upon the role of field supervisor and held a position, approximately three to six feet behind the line officers, acting as a facilitator for any additional resources needed to resolve the incident.