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.
Late night humor? Gotta love it!!!
They truly have more rights than we do
My concern with any comprehensive immigration reform without emphasis on enforcement, is that while millions will become legal, criminals like this will still stick around.
Damn! That's some serious firepower!
takin' out the ILLEGAL trash... GOOD!
~LOL~
You really don't know???
"An illegal immigrant who had been deported from the United States several times but returned each time.."
It's about time that we give these illegal aliens amnesty so that they don't have to go through the effort of coming back each time. This poor guy would still be alive if we had been more compassionate. All our fault.
Order Up! One illegal mexican to go.
Dane is a Freeper who is pro-WOD, conservative in his views, and would be more than happy to have pulled the lever that sent Saddam to Allah.
According to our local paper this past week it's exactly what is happening... more criminals coming illegally into the country and bringing all the problems from their activity with them.
Bush also calls Islam a religion of peace. I vehemently disagree.
Already posted 2 days ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759486/posts
"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."
Seeing how Amnesty will be law next year, it will be interesting to
see if "screening" is any better than it was with the 1986 Amensty.
Here's one of my favorite cases for NEVER doing a blanket Amnesty
for illegals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Abouhalima
Mahmud Abouhalima (born 1959) is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. His red hair earned him the nickname Mahmud the Red
(snip)
He flew to Brooklyn with his new wife and after his American tourist visa expired, applied for amnesty claiming to be an agricultural worker and was accepted as a permanent resident under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
He worked as a New York cabdriver for five years from 1986-1991, though he saw his license suspended ten times during that period, for failing to attend traffic court for cab violations including traffic violations and an attempt to overcharge a customer.
if he hadn't been killed, he would have been given the fast track to citizenship and given amnesty
Police issued a warrant for Gallegos' arrest
on charges of attempted murder of a police officer.
They urged to the public to help but warned that
Gallegos should be considered "armed and extremely
dangerous."
Batts described Gallegos as a "known thug" and said his
first arrest was in 1990 in Long Beach on a firearms
violation. He was deported in 1994, he said.
tracked him to a taco stand
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I have an urge to post an inappropriate joke about "baiting" being unsporting...
Catching the bullets Americans won't catch ping
ROFL!
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