19-05804 Supplemental Report (Alcala and Martinez Interviews)_Redacted

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patrolling the east side of the city and looking for various law violators including those involved in violent and gang-related crimes. Corporal Alcala said that there are three probation officers assigned to the team and tonight two of them were working, Larry Ibarra and Carlos Pinto. These probation officers assist the gang suppression unit with compliance checks of offenders as well as providing assistance during proactive patrols. Typically, the units will spread out into the neighborhoods in a coordinated manner and attempt to limit avenues of escape if someone attempts to flee from them. Corporal Alcala said that tonight he drove southbound on Standard Avenue, westbound on Occidental Street, and then northbound in the east alley of Cedar Street. Corporal Alcala advised his partners over the radio of the direction in which he was traveling. Corporal Alcala was driving with his windows down and Detective Bodnar was seated in the front passenger seat of the police vehicle. Corporal Alcala stated that as he was driving northbound through the alley he heard three distinct gunshots. His vehicle was roughly positioned four garages north of Occidental Street near the midpoint of the alley. The gunshots were not rapid in succession but relatively slow and methodical in succession. They sounded to be a calculated volley of fire as opposed to someone firing blindly. It was as if the person firing was deliberately shooting at something specific. Corporal Alcala immediately looked at Detective Bodnar and remarked that those were gunshots which they had just heard. The shots came from south of their location, but they did not know where the shots were coming from. Corporal Alcala said that after the shots were heard an unknown dark-skinned Hispanic male in his thirties, approximately ¶´tall with a thin to medium build, ran into the alley and said someone was shooting. The male had not been in the alley prior to the sound of the gunshots, however. Corporal Alcala did not see or hear any bullet impacts to his patrol car nor did he see any bullet impacts in the area around him. Corporal Alcala then heard radio traffic on Green 4 initiating from the unit with Detective Martinez and Detective Solorio. One of the detectives broadcasted that they were in pursuit of an armed suspect. Corporal Alcala did not know their location and he accelerated northbound through the alley to Edinger Avenue. Corporal Alcala inquired over the radio as to the location of Detective Martinez and Detective Solorio. Dispatch responded that their unit showed on Minnie Street but Corporal Alacala knew this to be incorrect information. Detective Bodnar attempted to check the GPS location of Detective Martinez ¶s and Detective Solorio¶s unit through the patrol car¶s computer. Detective Martinez and Detective Solorio then radioed that they were in the alley off of Cedar Street. Corporal Alcala immediately drove back to the west alley of 1800 S. Evergreen Street. Corporal Alcala said that upon arriving in the alley, he observed Detective Martinez and Detective Solorio with their guns drawn and a subject on the ground with a black and gray or silver firearm on the ground next to him. Corporal Alcala discovered that Detective Solorio had shot the suspect and both detectives were okay. Corporal Alcala did not hear the gunshots fired by Detective Solorio. He only heard the initial three gunshots. Santa Ana PD 2019-05804 5 of 9