Badges - Re: Deputy shoots out suspect’s truck tires
- From: Mike Check <mcheck@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:31:18 -0500
We are not allowed to shoot at cars. I would be lucky to not lose my job.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Joe Cuchta <oldphatguy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This guy is lucky the officer aimed at the tires and not his head. I wonder
> how much dope he had in his pocket??
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, <CHK8093@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> good shooting Tex!!! much harder than it looks.
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>> In a message dated 7/21/2011 1:03:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> This occurred in Galveston County, Texas
>>
>>
>> Deputy shoots out suspect’s truck tires
>> By T.J. Aulds
>> The Daily News
>> Published July 21, 2011
>>
>>
>> TEXAS CITY — A deputy constable shot out the
>> tires of a man’s truck Wednesday afternoon as the
>> driver tried to hit the deputy while running
>> away, Precinct 3 Constable Derrick Rose said.
>> Officials said the suspect was running because
>> deputies were at his house to arrest a man on outstanding traffic tickets.
>>
>> The man whom deputies said ran and tried to run
>> over a deputy was not the man wanted on
>> outstanding warrants. In fact, the man, who now
>> faces felony aggravated assault of a peace
>> officer charges, did not have any outstanding warrants at all.
>>
>> Rose said two of his deputies went to a house in
>> the 300 block of Crockett Street in West Texas
>> City about 1:30 p.m. to arrest Quincy Paul
>> Henderson, 33, who has 13 traffic warrants, Rose
>> said. Because Henderson has a past conviction for
>> aggravated assault, two deputies went to the
>> house. They found a man in the yard next to an electrical company work
>> truck.
>>
>> As deputies questioned the man, he would not
>> identify himself or provide the constable
>> deputies with proof of identification.
>>
>> “As the deputies talked to him, the suspect
>> started for the truck,” Rose said. “He wasn’t
>> following instructions and kept walking for the truck.”
>>
>> The man eventually hopped in a red Dodge Ram and
>> tried to strike one of the deputies, Rose said.
>> As he drove off, Sgt. Moses Brown fired three
>> shots, each striking the front left tire.
>>
>> The driver kept on going until he came to a dead
>> end on Richards Court, abandoning the vehicle and
>> taking off on foot, Rose said.
>>
>> While officers were processing the scene, the
>> driver’s cellphone rang. Rose said when he
>> answered it, a woman on the other end was asking to talk to her boyfriend.
>>
>> “After talking to her and checking some more, we
>> discovered the man driving the truck was not the
>> man we were there to arrest on those warrants,” Rose said.
>>
>> Instead the constable was able to confirm the man
>> who was driving was James Edward Henderson, 44,
>> who also lived at the house on Crockett.
>>
>> Rose was unable to confirm what, if any,
>> relationship James Henderson is to Quincy, the
>> man deputies were actually at the house to arrest.
>>
>> But, Rose confirmed that James Henderson, while
>> having a history of criminal convictions and charges, was not wanted by
>> police.
>>
>> “If he had just identified himself, that would
>> have been the end of it,” Rose said. “Instead he faces felony charges.”
>>
>> James Henderson’s attorney called Rose on
>> Wednesday night and arranged to have his client
>> turn himself in this morning. Meanwhile, Quincy
>> Henderson still is wanted by deputies to make
>> good on his traffic tickets, Rose said.
>>
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