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S.A.#15-005 <br />Investigator: R. Smith Approved By: <br />Date of Report:07/13/15 Date: 04/26/2016 <br />Page 24 of 32 <br />South Cypress Avenue, Santa Ana, regarding two males fighting. Callers reported hearing at <br />least one (1) gunshot and one of the involved males seen armed with a handgun. Callers also <br />reported the male seen with a gun was last seen leaving the area in a white pickup truck. <br />Officers SANTIAGO DIAZ, MICHAEL GIBBONS, AND ERIC MAJORS were all initially <br />dispatched to respond to the call in a code three emergency response. Officer JAMES <br />BERWANGER, a uniformed motor officer, was in the area and first observed BENITO OSORIO <br />driving a white Toyota pickup truck at a high rate of speed northbound on Cypress Avenue from <br />the scene. BERWANGER advised dispatch via the radio he was following the suspect vehicle. <br />BERWANGER followed the suspect vehicle driven by OSORIO north on Cypress Avenue <br />to eastbound Chestnut Avenue, then south on Orange Avenue, and west on Myrtle Street <br />towards Main Street. BERWANGER advised dispatch that OSORIO had stopped on Myrtle Street <br />at Main Street then turned onto northbound Main Street from Myrtle Street. BERWANGER also <br />advised dispatch over the radio the license plate, California 7X06303, of OSORIO’s vehicle, a <br />Toyota truck. BERWANGER also advised dispatch over the radio that OSORIO was in possession <br />of a gun. <br />At approximately 1255 hours, OSORIO stopped his truck on Main Street, south of Pine <br />Street, facing north in the number two (2) northbound lane of traffic. BERWANGER pulled his <br />police motorcycle onto the east sidewalk of Main Street, south of OSORIO’s vehicle. SAPD <br />Officers DAVID GARCIA and NICOLE QUIJAS were together driving in a marked black and white <br />Santa Ana Police patrol car, unit 3164, and pulled behind OSORIO’s vehicle. GARCIA and QUIJAS <br />offset their patrol unit in the number one, northbound traffic lane, in the 300 block of South <br />Main Street. GARCIA and QUIJAS’s patrol u nit, 3164, had its red lights activated when it pulled <br />behind OSORIO’s vehicle.