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1605 HOURS:
The following is a summary of the interview with After introductions, she stated the following.
On 12/01/24, she went to the Casa Linda Furniture store with her boyfriend, and his 3-year old son,
They parked their vehicle in the parking structure located next to the Casa Linda Furniture store.
After making a purchase, they exited the furniture store and proceeded south on Broadway towards the parking
structure. Before turning into the parking structure, saw a subject standing at the corner. She described this
area as a gap between the furniture store and the parking structure.
She described the subject as a male wearing a “hoodie,” sweats or baggy pants and appeared homeless. She was
unable to see the suspect’s face because of how he was positioned. She approximated coming within 3 feet of the
suspect.
What also caught her attention, the subject was holding a long firearm, which was pointed in an upward position
above his head. She described it as a long firearm, NFD. Although she did not see ammunition, it appeared the
suspect was loading the firearm because he was manipulating the firearm in that fashion.
She made eye contact with who also observed the suspect, and immediately turned the opposite direction to
walk away and walked back into the furniture store. said she panicked fearing if they had walked in front of the
suspect, he would have shot them. said there was no eye contact or communication with the suspect.
Once inside, they told employees of the suspect outside of the store. One of the employees took them to view
surveillance video cameras to point out the suspect, but the camera angles did not capture the suspect. Employees
proceeded to lock all doors leading into the store as a female employee called the police to report the incident. As the
employee was on the phone with the police, heard 5-6 gunshots outside of the store. She remained inside of the
store until police arrived and evacuated them.
said she did not witness the shooting and only heard the gunshots.
said she feared for her safety and believed the suspect was going to shoot the stores and bars in the area. That
concluded our contact with
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F. Gomez #2706
Author: Gomez, Francisco 2706 BWC NOT Activated
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scene and the preliminary investigation by patrol personnel.
2041 hours:
Sergeant Barragan concluded his briefing. At the conclusion of the briefing, Detective F. Gomez #2706 was assigned
as the case agent. Detective Gomez assigned me to document the involved officer processing.
2125 hours:
I exited the crime scene and signed out of the crime scene log with A. Carrillo #3424. I returned to the Santa Ana
Police Department.
2314 hours:
The officer processing was conducted in the Internal Affair’s office located on the 4th floor of the Santa Ana Police
Department. This is a summary of the officer processing. The officer processing of Officer L. Casillas #3755 was
completed prior to the processing of Officer Ibarra. For further details regarding the processing of Officer Casillas,
please refer to Detective G. Raya’s supplemental report.
Department of Justice Special Agent Alvin Hernandez, Department of Justice Senior Criminalist Gina Williams, Santa
Ana Police Department Internal Affair’s Corporal N. Guijarro #3482, Officer Isaac Ibarra #3178, Officer Ibarra’s
representative Attorney Brett Rutkowski and I were present.
Santa Ana Police Officer Ibarra is currently assigned as a patrol officer in the field operations division. I observed him
wearing a Santa Ana Police uniform with police patches on each shoulder of the shirt. I observed a police badge on
the upper left portion of his chest and a name tag displaying “Ibarra” on his right upper chest. Officer Ibarra was
wearing a black nylon Sam Browne belt, which included a 9mm Glock 17 handgun (used during this incident). Officer
Ibarra had his body worn camera (BWC) mount positioned in the center of his uniform. Officer Ibarra’s body worn
camera had already been docked in the assigned housing dock for download.
Senior Criminalist Williams examined and photographed Officer Ibarra, his uniform, Sam Browne belt including the
items attached to his belt (firearm, Taser, magazine pouch, handcuff case) and the contents of his pockets. The
handgun contained one (1) 9mm bullet in the chamber and seventeen (17) 9mm bullets in the magazine inserted in
the handgun. Officer Ibarra had two additional magazines in his magazine pouch attached to his Sam Browne belt.
The first magazine contained seventeen (17) 9mm bullets and the second contained six (6) 9mm bullets. All three
magazines have a capacity of 17 bullets.
2348 hours:
The officer processing of Officer Ibarra was concluded. For further details regarding the officer processing refer to
Department of Justice Investigator Hernandez’s report.
Author: Bruns, Jason 2973 BWC NOT Activated
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