Shootout breaks out for suspicious Rams during the persecution, fires shots at Cruisers

From Ishani Desai
The Sacramento bee

Elk Grove, California – The police authority Elk Grove was released on Thursday A video of officers who fatally shoot a man this month After persecution in which the suspect supposedly shot into a law enforcement authorities and rammed another.

The call began at 11:45 p.m. February 1st, as Police officers tried to prevent a man to drive a Ford Explorer According to the video, no license plates near Auberry and Spengler in South Sacramento drive near Auberry and Spengler in Florin. The area is located north of the city limits of Elk Grove.

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The driver, 22-year-old Jonnie Bartholomew, did not stop and long persecution began north of Calvine Road. He ran several stop signs and wounded through the living area around the Florin High School before firing his weapon, the police said in a edited video press release.

Bartholomew shot An Elk Grove Police Patrol vehicle behind him And shot several times into the car of the Sklamento sheriff of a Sacramento sheriff that the vehicle hit, the police said. The video publication showed pictures of at least one bullet hole in a door of a sheriff office vehicle.

On the highway, Bartholomew reached a speed of 100 miles per hour before taking the outcome of the 47th street and entering oncoming traffic in the Franklin Boulevard, the police said.

The persecution ended when an officer rammed his SUV in Bartholomews SUV in 69th Street and the Lemon Hill Avenue in South Sacramento and made the vehicle stop.

Video, which was published by the police on Thursday, showed that Bartholomew made a U -turn in the Lemon Hill Avenue when an official hit the side of his car.

Bartholomew tried to drive again and fell against the policeman's SUV. The official who drives this vehicle, whose name was not announced by the authorities, then screamed “not moving, hands up” and started shooting less than a second later, as the video showed.

Another officer, whose name was also not announced and was described as an officer No. 3 in video operations, also opened the fire from Bartholomew's vehicle directly in front of the passenger side. The two officers fired more than 15 shots together, showed the video, with about 10 seconds distributed the SUV between the police vehicle during the U -turn and the offset shot.

The officials provided medical help, but he died at the scene, the police said.

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A woman who was sitting in the passenger seat was not injured in the crossfire, the police said. The video showed her scream when glass smashed and she was torn out of the vehicle. The video reduced the identity of the woman by blurring her face.

The publication on Thursday includes body material for body camera and vehicle fitting board. However, the officer's body camera, which was shot from the passenger side, was “rejected by its vest” and fell when this officer left his vehicle. The other officer's body camera left, but this officer did not leave his vehicle during the shootout, and the view from this angle is partially hindered by the closed police door.

Text contained in the video publication on the screen reads: “After the Legal Intervention Manöver, officer #2 'don't move, hands up.' Bartholomew did not meet and drove his SUV into the vehicle from Officer #2. Officer No. 2 has released his service weapon. “However, the dashboard video shows that the officer shouted his command after Bartholomew drove into the officer's vehicle.

The Sacramento Police Department examines the shootout because it happened within the city limits. The case is then also checked by Sacramento County's prosecutor to determine whether the officials have broken laws.

The police authority of Elk Grove also conducts an investigation to determine whether the officers have adhered to the department's guidelines.

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