Posted on 01/12/2004 4:09:14 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
The man accused of shooting three police officers at an apartment complex in November pleaded not guilty this morning in local state court.
The defendant, Ishmael Salahud-Din, sat hunched over and stared at his feet before District Judge Nanette Hassette called court into session. When he approached the judge, he entered his not-guilty plea in a soft voice.
The grand jury indicted Salahud-Din, 21, last month on five counts of attempted capital murder, one count of felony escape and one count of felony possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. He is accused of shooting the three officers when they responded to a domestic quarrel at an apartment complex near the corner of Schanen Boulevard and Weber Road.
Police said Salahud-Din was handcuffed but pulled his hands free and escaped the police cruiser by kicking out the back window. Police said he ran to the trunk of his vehicle, retrieved a .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol and started shooting.
Police downed Salahud-Din with a shot to the leg.
Before that, officer Jose "Joe" Smith sustained a gunshot wound to the forehead, officer Israel Carrasco was shot in the shoulder and leg and officer Phillip Bintliff was struck in the abdomen.
Salahud-Din’s lawyer, Scott McCrum of San Antonio, did not dispute his client’s involvement in the shooting. He said the plea was a normal development in a case that will eventually go to trial.
McCrum said his client was having a rough time in jail. Salahud-Din was cuffed and shackled. His scruffy beard showed several weeks of growth and his once-neat cornrow hairstyle grew into a general untidiness.
"He’s in bad shape," McCrum said after the hearing. "He’s got his wife and family at home. He hasn’t been in this kind of trouble before."
McCrum, who is new to the case, said he still needs to review Salahud-Din’s file. But he does not expect a plea from the state.
"I think this will end up in trial," McCrum said. "They’ll want this guy away forever."
Prosecutors declined to comment.
Salahud-Din faces a penalty of five to 99 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine for each charge of attempted capital murder. The escape charge could bring two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. And the possession has the potential for two to 10 years and up to a $10,000 fine.
None of the officers injured in the shootout have returned to work, Corpus Christi Police Chief Pete Alvarez said, but added he expects each of them back on the force.
The trial is set for 9 a.m. March 29.
Contact Tim Eaton at 361-886-3794 or eatont@caller.com
Dang........I miss all the fun!!!!!!!!!
I got your law "suite"..
RIGHT HERE!
And yes, it is sweet.
I'd say no way. He/she writes like they just got off the boat.
He/she writes exactly like our very persistent Insider Troll. Which is why I don't believe for a minute that this is really Ishmael's sister, if he has one.
All the research that others have done on this thread in response to those posts, the troll is capable of doing in advance of posting.
DOn't volunteer your chain for yanking, folks. :D
What a bizarre article. It's like a nine year old wrote it.
Doesn't matter what this poster is saying. They make as much sense as the article that was linked here. Almost pure babble.
What is clear here, is whoever the perp is, is going to the joint for a long, long time.
LOL whoever this is, they are certainly "comforatble" with the court system, are they not? Excellent informational post, eastforker!
Ishmail has several AKA's, so does his sister Bahira, That I have established. This brother Khalid I have not found yet. What I have found out is this family goes by several names. The police record I posted about bahira is for real, that is her rap sheet and she is his sister. There is something quite unique about this story and you will notice , after I exposed bahira, she went quiet.
“It was a violent gunfight, where the officer we're forced to defend themselves."
Looks like KZTV 10 could use an editor!
Which doesn't mean that the person posting here is his sister. The information available to you was also available to the poster, you know. We're talking about a person who has more time on their hands than any of us, because it truly has no life, and has to pretend to be other people to make up for it.
The troll I am referring to has a pathological need to be believed authentic, and is shifting tactics of late-- but no matter how clever it tries to be, it still has several identifying hallmarks, and it revealed every single one of them in its first post.
Dey do be kneadin' a editor n' spel chuck.
I doubt the info available to me was available to her, I have to pay for that even though it is public you will not find it on a public website. Her PM to me confirmed in my mind she is who she says she is, you see the poster name she used is her real name or one of her alieses anyway.
Damn those public records! ;-)
Who knows if it's our insider troll or the real person?
This is soooooo bizarre...
��5{��������. They really want to believe its all the same person. As if nobody googles their friend's and family member's names and joins a board to complain ungrammatically about the way their favorite little criminal is treated.
Just nod and smile...
It wasn't him, it was the gun. Guns are like SUVs, always doing things that get their innocent owners in deep doo doo. The trigger kept squeeling, squeeze me! squeeze me! What choice did he have?
So what is your point? (sarcasm)
We're talking about an obsessed individual who will go to lengths most of us wouldn't...someone who is actually saving threads and biding their time, following up on all the stories, collecting all the little details that will make them sound like the real thing, completely inventing other elements to make the fib really sing---and just biding their time until they can revive a thread, and tell us we're a bunch of judgmental people who don't know what they're talking about. And doing it over and over and over.
I'd like to see the freepmail, though, if you don't mind.
Darned strange how every single one of these Googlers all manage to sound alike, isn't it?
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