Subtitle to the thread:
Ode to the Humble Tacos
It's nice to see the good guys came out alive on this one.
Posted on 12/30/2006 8:16:34 PM PST by Minutemen
An illegal immigrant who had been deported from the United States several times but returned each time and now was being sought for wounding two police officers in Long Beach, Calif., has died in a shooting with officers who tracked him to a taco stand in Santa Ana, authorities have confirmed. Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters said Oscar Gabriel Gallegos, wanted for the shooting of Long Beach officers Abram Yap and Roy Wade Jr. as they sat in their squad car Dec. 22, died while trying to shoot three of his officers with a .40-caliber Glock equipped with a laser sight. Walters told the Orange County Register that Gallegos carried two fully loaded magazines in his pocket during the confrontation.
"He was either going to kill the officers or be killed," Walters said. "Fortunately, the right person got killed."
The Long Beach officers, who had stopped Gallegos for running a red light, are recovering from their injuries in the hospital, officials said.
At a news conference, Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, said Gallegos was an illegal immigrant who had been deported to Mexico several times, most recently in 1996, according to federal immigration records.
Authorities in Long Beach said Gallegos also had faced weapons and drug charges over the years, and Police Chief Anthony Batts said Gallegos was "an evil man."
Reports said Yap was shot once in the face and Wade, a rookie with less than a month on the force, was hit in the neck and chest. Neither officer had had an opportunity to get out of their car and they never shot back.
After the shooting and Gallegos was identified as the sole suspect, federal authorities tracked him to Santa Ana, and undercover detectives from Long Beach reportedly found him at a strip mall. Authorities said Gallegos apparently saw a police car arrive and he began shooting before the officers could get out of the car.
The arriving officers, members of a SWAT unit, returned fire and killed Gallegos, authorities said.
After the first shooting, police said the officers had just stopped Gallegos when he got out of his vehicle and shot the two, firing through the windshield of their cruiser.
WND also has been reporting on a growing list of illegal immigrants who have not only ignored U.S. immigration laws, but state laws against drinking and driving as well, killing innocents on the highways in the process.
Justice prevails. Yee Haw
Great news! Thanks for posting.
I somehow doubt this murdering thug was a candidate for a guestworker card.
One down, several million left to go.
Some folks just need to be killed.
bush calls our minutemen "vigilantes". I seriously disagree.
Just rubbing his body in a bit of sarcasm!
That is true, good job officers!!
Subtitle to the thread:
Ode to the Humble Tacos
It's nice to see the good guys came out alive on this one.
There are only 30 to 40 million of them!
That's because Bush is just another opportunistic, pandering politician.
The sooner we get that through our skulls, the sooner we can get to work reversing his anti-American border agenda.
I'm wondering when charges of police brutality will be made against the cops that shot this POS.
Wow...
Poncho Villa, is that you??
One less future resident of Aztlan.
Funeral services will be at Dane's house.
Don't be surprised; California prisons are literally overrun with our friends from south of the border.
Compounded by the fact that a guestworker card means virtually nothing. Why even bother to apply for one when current policy virtually dictates that you don't need one.
Who is Dane?
Good deal.
If we cant EXTRACT them, why not consider tagging, taxing and curfews?
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