Posted on 04/17/2004 7:39:47 AM PDT by runningbear
Merced police comb area for suspect
Merced police comb area for suspect
Members of the Merced Special Weapons and Tactics team search the Evergreen Park Apartments complex Friday afternoon while looking for Tahua 'Tao' Cuitlahuac Rivera, the suspect in the shooting death of Merced police officer Stephan Gray on Thursday. GEORGE MacDONALD/MERCED SUN-STAR
(Tahua "Tao" Cuitlahuac Rivera, 21, of Merced) Rivera BEE FILE
Merced Police Officer Stephan Gray, 34 BEE FILE
By MIKE DE LA CRUZ
MERCED SUN-STAR
Last Updated: April 17, 2004, 04:56:54 AM PDT
MERCED -- All eyes were on the city's residential areas Friday as officers sought the man they believe killed one of their own the night before. But as of late Friday, the gunman had not been found.
Officers in a helicopter, surveillance planes and on the ground surrounded an area near where the shooting occurred -- at Glen and East Santa Fe avenues.
They served search warrants at several other spots Friday, looking for Tahua "Tao" Cuitlahuac Rivera, 21, of Merced.
Rivera is wanted in connection with the slaying of Merced police officer Stephan Gray, 34, Thursday night. Gray was gunned down after stopping a vehicle Rivera was riding in, police said.
Gray, in uniform but driving an unmarked Chevrolet Caprice, stopped a green Geo Metro driven by an unidentified woman at 7:23 p.m. Thursday near East 19th Street and Glen, police said.
A seven-year department vet-eran, Gray was assigned to the special operations unit that works street-level narcotics and gang .......
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