Posted on 09/30/2012 6:19:19 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old woman in the suburban San Diego area after she allegedly hit a Border Patrol agent with her car.
Investigators said Valeria Alvarado ran down the agent with her car as border patrol agents were in a Chula Vista neighborhood to serve a felony warrant on Friday.
The agent said he had no choice but to defend himself and fired at Alvarado get her to stop the car.
Alvarado was hit by five bullets.
According to eye witnesses, the shooting left the mother of five with bullet holes in her face, arms, and chest.
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At this stage all we have is the official approved version.
FlashbackAccording to Virginia State Police, at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday, Culpeper Police got a call about a suspicious women sitting in a Jeep Wrangler in a church parking lot in the 300 block of North East Street. The officer started talking to Patricia A. Cook, 54, of Culpeper. State police say that for some reason, while the officer was trying to get her identification, Cook “suddenly closed her driver’s side window trapping the officer’s arm and started driving away dragging the officer alongside.”
Police say the officer repeatedly asked her to stop but the car kept going. Then shots were fired, and the Jeep wrecked in the 200 block of North East Street.
Thanks, I remember that one.
And there was a similar shooting of a father that would run at the school track early in the morning. Tried to search for it but no luck (a year ago?).
Look at the windshield. That tells you what you need to know. She hit him hard enough for the impact of his body to crush in the windshield.
I would KNOW I'm being jacked by a moron because a cop would NEVER jump on the hood of a running car, lol!
It will be interesting to see what further information comes out about this shooting. Clearly, this woman screwed up, fatally. She did SOMETHING wrong, because a cop doesn't walk up to an arbitrary person in a car and murder them in cold blood for no reason, in front of witnesses. This looks to me - - with the limited info available - - like an attempted hit-and-run.
Translated into Third World Spanglish, that means, "Finally, I win da 'border lottery.' An' if I get enough "justice," I kin stop stealing and selling drugs."
Hubby better watch his step or he'll start drawing attention from the cops. And whatever cartel he's working for won't like that and will whack him like a rabid mutt.
Yeah, true——them drug lords’ trigger fingers get sap-happy when they think they’re being cheated.
Ditto. This over-use of "plainclothes" agents needs to stop. If I see a guy in scuzzy clothes waving a gun at me, I'm going to assume I'm under attack by a criminal and that I need to use deadly force.
Witnesses in the area at the time of the shooting told NBC 7 San Diego they saw Alvarado slowly driving in reverse as the agent opened fire on her at least six times.In this version, the (plainclothes) officer was not on the hood. It should be easy to determine the correct version. If the officer shot from the hood of the car, there should be powder residue on the windshield."As the car was backing up the officer was in the street walking toward the car, and discharging,” recalled witness Prince Watson.
“I heard it, ‘Pow, pow,’ and just told my family to get down,” said witness Ayanna Evans.
Witnesses believe Alvarado may have accidentally struck the agent and panicked when he told her to stop and pulled out his gun.
They said the agent was in plain clothes and was not displaying a badge.
Well, the next time an illegal runs down a BP agent or any other citizen, perhaps they will be legally licensed to operate a motor vehicle.
Every operation I went on with my federal colleagues, there was an operations order written, of which I have written a few myself.
In that operations order are checklists. One of those checklists specifically delineates what the officers/agents are to be wearing during the operation. During search/arrest warrants they are MANDATED to have outer garments that prominently display whatever law enforcement agency they represent but the most common is just “POLICE” on both front and back, as well as a badge.
Even when we were on plain clothes surveillance we had to have those garments within reach in case the op went bad.
Hopefully they were wearing such. Because honestly, I would panic and not likely follow directions of a man in plain clothes. Especially that close to the border.
“”I want justice. Yes. Whoever shot my wife, that guy whoever that is, that guy needs to get shot,” he said.”
Typical, turn the victim into the criminal and the criminal into the victim. This women ran this officer down and then failed to stop even with the guy still on her hood!
What kind of woman does this? “
What kind? The kind that makes excuses for all their criminal deeds. The kind that jumps the border with total disregard for our laws.
That’s what kind!
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