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  • Officer Killed During a Routine Traffic Stop

    06/14/2003 10:29:47 AM PDT · by Southflanknorthpawsis · 80 replies · 371+ views
    North County Times ^ | June 14, 2003 | Yvette Urrea
    OCEANSIDE ---- A rookie Oceanside police officer died Friday after a motorist shot him several times during a routine traffic stop, and then sped away in his patrol car. The 27-year-old officer, whose name was not released, died Friday evening at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, officials said during a press conference held late Friday at the scene of the shooting. Meanwhile the suspect, identified as Adrian Camacho and described by police as a documented Oceanside gang member, surrendered peacefully after a four-hour standoff in an Oceanside neighborhood, where he barricaded himself inside the two-story home of his in-laws. Witnesses...
  • Shooter’s home searched (Massillon, OHIO)

    08/11/2002 3:36:29 AM PDT · by ResistorSister · 9 replies · 236+ views
    The Canton Repository (OHIO) ^ | August 11, 2002 | ROBERT WANG
    JACKSON TWP. — Federal agents and police searched for weapons and explosives Saturday in the apartment of a man who was killed in a shootout along with a Massillon police officer Friday night. Less than a day after Police Officer Eric Taylor was shot and killed, about 25 agents and police officers spent more than three hours at the home of gunman Donald W. Matthews at 6688 Casper Ave. NW. At about 7 p.m., a group of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, many wearing blue shirts and gloves, entered the two-story red brick apartment. ATF Agent...