Posted on 09/01/2006 1:20:50 PM PDT by radar101
A car-theft suspect who was shot and killed by Oceanside police Wednesday has been identified by the county Medical Examiner's Office as 23-year-old Josue Garcia of Vista.
No new details in the shooting were released by police yesterday. The officer's name is expected to be released today.
Garcia was pronounced dead in the parking lot of La Valle de Vista apartment complex on Taylor Street yesterday morning after he was shot about 8:45 a.m.
Police said Garcia, who was driving a stolen Chrysler PT Cruiser, tried to run down the motorcycle officer in the parking lot.
The officer was responding to the report of the stolen car, which had been taken from an apartment complex on Calle Las Positas minutes earlier.
An Oceanside city worker spotted and followed the car into Vista until the officer caught up.
An eyewitness said she saw the officer pull up behind the PT Cruiser and ask the suspect to get out of the car, but the driver then went into reverse, straight toward the officer.
The witness said that the officer fired several times at the driver.
“The officer was in the right,” said the woman, who asked that her name not be used. “I hope everything turns out for him.”
The car ended up crashing into her parked Chevrolet Blazer, causing a carport roof to collapse onto other cars.
Kristina Davis: (760) 476-8233; kristina.davis@uniontrib.com
Good shooting, officer!
Did anyone happen to get the assailant's Immigration Status?
My concern:
Josue Garcia--from "Vee-Stuh".
Legal citizen, Gang member, or Illegal alien?
clearly a case of self-defense. Every police officer has the right and obligation to protect himself from bodily harm or death.
In a related story, JJ boards a jet for California.....
Doesn't matter now
Yeah, but soon the Hispanics are going to catch on to the Jesse Jackson/media relationship. And when they do we are going to have marches, riots, and societal extortion.
All they need now is for a Jackson type to emerge.
Legal citizen, Gang member, or Illegal alien?
Ok, someone has to ask (cause they watch too much TV)...."Why didn't he just shoot the keys out of the ignition?"
The car ended up crashing into her parked Chevrolet Blazer, causing a carport roof to collapse onto other cars.
Yeah, I don't think anyone the neighborhood gangs can figure this one out...
Or.....all of the above. Anticipate heavy lawyer traffic in the area for the next few days, though.....
Good! The cop saved the state some money. As far as I can see the guy broke enough laws to qualify him for at least twenty years in the pokey. This way it is done and over. Let's hear it for some swift justice!
And the cop? Well, even after he shot and killed the perp, the car kept on going straight back into that woman's Blazer.
Guess the cop stepped out of the way eh?!
Un-named woman source on this one.
Let's see her say that under oath when the family sues the devil out of the Oceanside cops, one of whose members just unloaded his weapon on a guy in Vista.
A question: when you have your car in drive and the officer tells you to stop, don't you then shift into park AND as you do so, go right thorugh reverse?
Did the officer shoot this guy just as his backup lights went on or after?
Why don't you just come out and say that you hate police officers? You did this same garbage on the other thread.
What I don't like are guys who are so gun-shy that when they end up feeling they have to fire their weapon (in self defense or to protect the public) they empty it.
People like that belong in a different line of employment.
Now, may I ask why you think folks incapable of handling weapons should be cops?
I don't know why the officer used multiple shots. Perhaps if I was in his situation and being assualted with a deadly weapon I would have done the same.
Now that you've made the first step in this 12 step program let's see what you make of the car backing up at the motorcycle that ended up backing into a Blazer and knocking down the carport.
Why didn't it hit the motorcycle? Your only witness (who says the cop was justified) says the car backed straight up, but, alas, it hit her car and not the motorcycle, and certainly not the cop.
I think this guy is too dangerous to be put back out on the streets.
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