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Santa Ana PD 2013-17495: Crime Report by #3023 Page 6 of 6 Sergeant Craft provided a briefing concerning the Officer Involved Shooting and the status of the initial investigation by Patrol Officers. Present were Detectives from the Santa Ana Police Department's Homicide Unit, Gang Unit, Family Crimes Unit and Robbery Unit along with Investigators from the Orange County District Attorney's Office Shooting Team and members from the Orange County Crime Lab. Sergeant Craft advised us the address of the Officer Involved Shooting is the east alley of 805 S. Townsend Street. The public safety statement given by Officers Ayala and Esquivel was that they fired 10 -12 gunshots in a northern direction and western direction into garage # 1. Approximately twenty cartridge casings were located in the east alley of 805 S. Townsend Street. Officer Esquivel fired in a northern direction. Officer Ayala fired in a western direction into garage #1. Sergeant Craft told us Officers Ayala and Esquivel were conducting routine patrol in the east alley of 805 S. Townsend Str eet. They came upon the suspect and were invo lved in an Officer Inv olved Shooting. The suspect fe ll to the ground. A toy replica handgun was found four feet away from the suspect's body and a "loaded" syringe was found to be on her person. Two additional unidentified subjects fled the scene . A perimeter was set and the two unidentified subjects were not located. The two unidentified subjects were determined to be witnesses. Additional Officers arrived to the scene of the shooting. Garage #1 was determined to be associated with the shooting. Officers entered garage #1 and discovered no one was inside of the garage. A bullet hole was located going through closed garage door #0 (garage door #0 is on the north side of the driveway . Following the numerical pattern of the garage doors, it should be garage # 10). Officers entered garage #0 to confirm no one was inside of the garage. Officers discovered no one to be inside the garage. Orange County Fire Authority Engine #73 responded to the scene and provided medical tr eatment. Care Ambulance #299 also responded and transported the suspect to U.C.I. M edical Center. The suspect was pronounced deceased at 0855 hours at U.C.I. Medical Center. Sergeant Craft concluded the briefing and walked us through the crime scene. I wa s paired with Inv estigator D . Fulcher from the Orange County District Attorney 's Offi ce. 1305 Hours Forensic Sc ientist F. Burke from the Orange County Crime Lab began the colle ction and remo val of items of evid ence within the crime scene. Refer to Orange Cou nty Crime Lab 's forensic reports for a li st and description of items collected under Forensic Report #13-48764. 1735 Hours O range County Sheriff Foren sic Specialists concluded the collection of evidence within the crime sc ene and security of the cr im e scen e was terminat ed. **** The Investigation Continues **** http:/ /ir2/Report.aspx?action=edit_repo rt&reportid=5500000000001 63 626&userid =7 44 7/2 3/201 3