HomeMy WebLinkAboutOIS2012-0006 Paramedic Netzher Muro int S.A. 12-026
Investigator: P. CARVO Approved By:
Date of Report:11/16/2012 Date:11/29/12
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CASE NAME: GUILLEN, JAIME LOPEZ
CLASSIFICATION: OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING (NON-FATAL)
INTERVIEW OF: NETZHER MURO, FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC
ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY
DATE AND TIME: NOVEMBER 15, 2012 1511-1522 HOURS
LOCATION: 120 WEST WALNUT STREET, SANTA ANA
On the above date and time, I conducted an audio digitally recorded interview of
Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Firefighter/Paramedic NETZHER MURO regarding an
officer involved shooting involving JAIME LOPEZ GUILLEN and the Santa Ana Police Department
(SAPD). During parts of the interview, MURO referred to a copy of the OCFA Incident Report
(#2012-083372) and Pre-Hospital Care Report for this incident. The following is a summary of
the interview.
MURO has been a firefighter for twelve years and a paramedic for the last nine years.
He started working for the City of Santa Ana Fire Department prior to that agency being
absorbed by the OCFA.
On October 22, 2012 at approximately 2217 hours, OCFA Engine 75 was dispatched to
the area of 211 South Ross Street in Santa Ana regarding a shooting victim. Engine 75
responded to the scene with the following personnel:
• PAUL CARLTON CAPTAIN/PARAMEDIC
• NETZHER MURO FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC
• ANTHONY ACUNA ENGINEER
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• RODOLFO SARABIA FIREFIGHTER
Battalion Chief JAMES HENERY also responded to the call.
Upon arrival at approximately 2222 hours, MURO saw the area had been cordoned off
by SAPD officers. Officers directed him to the side of a house, where MURO saw a male subject
handcuffed and lying on his back. The male subject identified himself to MURO as CALEB
TORRES; however, later at the hospital, he was positively identified as JAIME LOPEZ GUILLEN.
MURO said there were two or three SAPD officers standing near GUILLEN, monitoring his
condition. One of the officers pointed out GUILLEN’s injury to MURO, which MURO described as
a through-and-through gunshot wound to the left upper thigh and buttock. MURO said the
smaller of the two wounds was on the front part of GUILLEN’s thigh, and the larger of the two
wounds was on GUILLEN’s left buttock. MURO noted there was not a lot of blood on the ground
and the wound was not actively bleeding.
MURO asked the SAPD officers to remove GUILLEN’s handcuffs, and they did. He then
cut GUILLEN’s clothing off and saw there were no other apparent injuries. MURO described
GUILLEN’s condition as being stable, but he was also uncooperative and belligerent. MURO
could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage on GUILLEN’s breath and person. GUILLEN
refused to give his name or provide any medical history. He continually screamed that the
injury hurt, and he wanted something to make the pain go away. Eventually, GUILLEN identified
himself as “CALEB TORRES” and said that he had been walking with his girlfriend when
someone shot him. He did not know who had shot him.
MURO placed a cervical collar on GUILLEN and put him on a backboard. He started an
intravenous saline line in GUILLEN’s left forearm but did not administer any medications. MURO
accompanied GUILLEN when he was transported by CARE Ambulance to Western Medical
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Center-Santa Ana (WMCSA). They arrived at WMCSA at approximately 2242 hours, at which
time MURO relinquished care of GUILLEN to WMCSA personnel.