“He’s trying to assist this lady whose car is being stolen. He was fighting with her, he was trying to protect her. Then at the point the suspect comes to him and he’s trying to take the gun from him, then he’s trying to protect himself,” he said.
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Horrible writing!
Anyway, my money is on the dead perp being an illegal alien.
It sure is! How do these articles get past their editor?
That was a quote from the police and not something the reporter came up with himself. Is it the reporter's job to clean up the grammar of the people he's quoting?
It's a direct quote of a police captain.
Anyway, my money is on the dead perp being an illegal alien.
Probably also at least one of the victims:
Through translator Yajaira Cruz, pickup owner Luis Zarate said a man with a bicycle approached his truck while Zarate was doing landscaping work with a crew. After noticing the man near the vehicle, he called out to him, but the man jumped into the truck and drove away leaving the bike. He said he had left the keys in the truck.