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Domingo Benavides saw Tippit standing by the left door of his parked police car, and a man standing on the right side of the car. He then heard three[34] shots and saw Tippit fall to the ground. Benavides stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street from Tippit’s car. He observed the shooter fleeing the scene and removing two spent cartridge cases from his gun as he left.

Benavides waited in his truck until the gunman disappeared, and then “a few minutes” more, before assisting Tippit. He then tried, unsuccessfully,[23] to use the radio in Tippit’s car to report the shooting to police headquarters. Then another, unidentified person used the radio in the car and reported the shooting to a police operator for the first time. After that, Ted Callaway, who was Benavides’ boss at the used car lot and a former Marine, used the radio and reported the shooting, hearing in response that the police already knew about it.[34][35]

Callaway testified that he had seen the shooter with the gun “in a raised pistol position”, and shouted at him, but what the shooter responded was unintelligible.[35] Helen Markham witnessed the shooting and then saw a man with a gun in his hand leave the scene.[36] Markham identified Oswald as Tippit’s killer in a police lineup she viewed that evening.[37]

Barbara Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis heard the shots and saw a man crossing their lawn, shaking his revolver, as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later, the women found two cartridge cases near the crime scene and handed the cases over to police. Two other cartridge cases were handed to a policeman by Benavides. That evening, Barbara Davis and Virginia Davis were taken to a lineup and both Davises picked out Oswald as the man whom they had seen.[38]

Taxicab driver William Scoggins testified that he was sitting nearby in his cab when he saw Tippit’s police car pull up alongside a man on the sidewalk. Scoggins heard three or four shots and then saw Tippit fall to the ground. As Scoggins crouched behind his cab, the man passed within 12 feet of him, pistol in hand, muttering what sounded to him like, “poor dumb cop” or “poor damn cop”.[39] The next day, Scoggins viewed a police lineup and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen with the pistol.[4