Thanks for all the added info and conjecture, I suspect the outcome will please no one.
Let me try to put what I've gleaned into my opinion of the activities:
- Sgt. Loggins - as he normally does around 04:30 daily - drives into the area not expecting to hit an obstruction.
- He hits something - there is blue transfer on the white plastic bumper of his Yukon's right side and damage to the headlight on the left side - and pulls down and stops to ascertain the damage. He may have gone to the field to find whatever he hit as it doesn't show on any photos released so far.
- The OCSD Deputy - alerted/woken by the clash - drives up when Loggins is out of the vehicle with no lights or siren to alert Loggins, to 'catch him in the deed' - and fails to notice the kids in the rear.
- The Deputy walks out yelling, but fails to fully identify himself.
- Bear in mind it's dark, no or few lights, and tinted windows.
- Loggins, concerned for his kids and a possible robbery or worse from unknown assailant(s) yells back and attempts to get away from this assailant to protect his kids.
- The Deputy - also uncertain of what he's stumbled onto - is now on full "respect my authority" mode, and shoots at Loggins either as he's getting in or seated in the Yukon. (I had seen a report early on that Loggins was shot in the back.) Loggins is hit, and the window is blown out of the driver's door. (Where did the shards go, inside or on the ground?)
- Screaming kids alert the Deputy that they are in the Yukon.
I don't believe either Loggins or his daughters in the Yukon knew that it was a Deputy until after the shooting. The Deputy broadcast that the call for "HIT AND RUN AND CHILD ENDANGERMENT" three minutes after his initial report of the stop; less than two minutes later he's calling for Medical Support. So I question as to whether the Deputy fired before or after 04:44.
Had the Deputy known the kids were in the Yukon prior to him shooting or putting out the call at 04:44 don't you think his first response would be to move them to the relative safety of his cruiser? That he didn't says either he didn't know or didn't care.
Still too many inconsistencies.