05-14-2005, 02:21 AM
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Curious about if there was something in his pocket I did a quick google.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1...865349,00.html
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LONG BEACH ・Police officers shot and killed an auto theft suspect who pointed a gun at them in a fast food restaurant parking lot in East Long Beach Wednesday after a high-speed pursuit, authorities said.
Television viewers watched the high-speed pursuit through Long Beach, Carson, San Pedro, Wilmington and surrounding communities, which ended when the suspect pulled into the parking lot of an El Pollo Loco restaurant on Anaheim Street and Redondo Avenue.
"The suspect immediately exited the vehicle with a handgun in his hand," said Long Beach Police Officer Greg Schirmer. "Officers, fearing for their safety, as well as the patrons in the businesses fired at the suspect. He fell to the ground and dropped the handgun. He then immediately reached into his pocket and officers fired again believe he was reaching for another handgun." The man was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.
Schirmer said another handgun was later recovered from the pocket into which the man was reaching.
A woman, who asked not to be identified, said at least one bullet pierced a window at the El Pollo Loco.
"There were about 10 people in here and this bullet just came through the window and nearly hit me," the woman said. "Everybody hit the floor ・nobody was hurt."
The pursuit began just after 5 p.m. near 20th Street and Lemon Avenue in Long Beach, where an officer's check of a blue Buick sedan's license plate revealed it had been stolen during a home invasion robbery in Riverside County on Monday, Schirmer said.
The officer attempted a traffic stop, but the suspect fled.
A 39-minute chase followed onto the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway at speeds exceeding 100 mph. At one point in San Pedro, the suspect got off the freeway, turned around on a surface street and re-entered the northbound 110 before exiting at Pacific Coast Highway, where he crashed into a guardrail.
As officers ordered him out of the vehicle at gunpoint, he maneuvered his vehicle back on the roadway east on Pacific Coast Highway into Long Beach.
At some point, "officers saw a weapon during the pursuit ・an officer radioed that he has a handgun," Schirmer said.
In Long Beach, a man and child came close to being struck when the Buick nearly jumped a curb while turning south onto a residential street from Pacific Coast Highway.
The chase continued on surface streets through Long Beach before the man turned into the El Pollo Loco lot in the 3400 block of East Anaheim Street, where he leaped from the car holding a handgun.
Police were investigating whether one of their bullets struck the restaurant. No bystanders were injured at the restaurant or during the chase.
The fatal shooting is the city's second by police since Saturday, when a transient was shot by a Marine Patrol officer following a confrontation outside the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific.
In that incident, police say 44-year-old David Hunnewell charged the officer while swinging a long chain with a padlock at one end after the officer told the man to stop digging through a trash can in front of the waterfront tourist attraction.
Officers said Hunnewell chased the officer nearly 50 feet before the officer opened fire."
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Looks like the police were right to shoot. What we can worry about is that stray bullet.
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