Sunday, June 11, 2006When It Rains It Pours...
email from John Farrell:
He isn't kidding. When I started my shift on Saturday at midnight, I still had the same battery on my camera that I put on it at the beginning of my shift Monday. The fucking thing still had 80% charge on it! It would have been more, but I was using it as a flashlight when I had a flat tire on Tuesday. (I'll blog about that later.)
So Saturday started out typical enough. I woke up about a quarter till midnight. Considering I don't have to go into work and get my gear anymore, that's not a big deal. I can still shower and be out the door sometime around midnight.
Anyway, I drove over to Starbucks so that I could get online via my laptop and check the police and fire websites. It was then that I noticed that I had a page on my pager! I was required to get across town to an Officer Involved Shooting in North Las Vegas ASAP! And I apparently got the page at 11:35. It was now 12:20.
Oops.
I bolt across town just in time to hear the crew I was supposed to take over for leave.
Oh well.
Soon after that I hear a couple of robberies to businesses. Both seem to have been done by the same guy! I'm not interested until I hear that apparently at one the dude put a gun to some chicks head and forced her into the parking lot!
OMFG!!!!!!
So I rush over and get video of the two robbery scenes. At the same time there is a report of a crash and rollover. It's taking CCFD a long time to extract the person. The traffic supervisor asks for fatal, and I groan and head over.
Of course by the time I get there the extraction is complete. So I shoot some stale scene video and wait for my sound byte.
In between, I get a call from the watch commander. A dead guy has just shown up at UMC with a bullet wound to the head. I thank him for the tip and pretty much put that on the back burner, since without a scene, there's going to be some pretty dull video of UMC.
Or so I thought! I call back the watch commander after a bit and ask him if they had located a scene. He told me that the scene was UMC and I should start paying attention to what he tells me! It seems that the poor kid who was shot died en route. When a person is deceased, medical and the police do not move the body for investigative purposes. So the deceased was still inside the car his friends brought him to the hospital in.
It was pretty wild showing up and seeing the outside of the ER roped off in police tape. 13 and 3 join me and we get some decent video. I call and wake up the North Las Vegas PIO (since it was determined that it happened in Northtown) and he tells me to go to hell.
Not really. He was actually very nice, but didn't have much info for us.
Lunch was had, and then I went home.
Tonight didn't want to let up either.
Multiple crashes first thing. I checked out a couple, but none were very interesting. I decided to swing by the station and say hello to Adorable Producer #3. She had me check some tapes for her since it seems our video server went tits up sometime Saturday.
As soon as I was done with that I heard a 415A shooting in the Naked City behind the Stratosphere! I am mere seconds away, so I bolt out the door. Shot twice in the chest, this won't be good.
Then the unthinkable happens.
415A!!! AGAIN!!!
Two fucking shootings at the exact same time. This one is worse, so I do a spray and run on the first shooting and haul ass to the second. The second has one guy 419 DRT (dead right there) and another in very critical condition. What's worse is that there are about 100 of his friends and from the sounds of the radio traffic there is a riot about to start.
I slow down a little. I'm more into aftermath than I am into catching these things as they happen.
Once METRO has the crowd under control, I arrive. 13 and 3, who apparently have more balls than me, are already there. I get the 411 from the Watch Commander and the three of us wait for homicide to talk.
While waiting, some dude walks up to Tony from 3 and starts mumbling and calling him a fucker and all sorts of stuff. Two guys come and drag him away, as a pair of METRO officers walk in our direction. Apparently this guy was a friend of the deceased and was none to happy to see us.
The METRO officers stay by us for the remainder of our stay, and we had no more incidents. Which is good as this one guy fighting us could have quickly involved the other 50 of his friends who were hanging out on the curb.
After that was over and done with, I almost ended up going to BFE near Laughlin as a wanted man from Phoenix was in his car sleeping with a rifle. The guy was apparently suicidal and might have been considering suicide by cop.
Of course by the time someone came in that could authorize me going that far out of the city, the incident was done with and the man surrendered peacefully once SWAT showed up. Good for him, I guess, although I would have liked the overtime.
So in recap, Monday - nothing; Tuesday - nothing; Wednesday - nothing; Thursday - Nothing; Saturday/Sunday - HOLY CRAP!
It could have been worse though. I was expecting the Las Vegas version of the LA riots. On Friday, a coroners jury found the two METRO detectives who shot a fleeing suspect in the back were found justified in their actions. Of course my opinion on that is for another day as my battery is getting low.
From what I saw on TV... you had a busy night last night. Well, compared to how damn slow it's been lately. So let's blog damn it.
He isn't kidding. When I started my shift on Saturday at midnight, I still had the same battery on my camera that I put on it at the beginning of my shift Monday. The fucking thing still had 80% charge on it! It would have been more, but I was using it as a flashlight when I had a flat tire on Tuesday. (I'll blog about that later.)
So Saturday started out typical enough. I woke up about a quarter till midnight. Considering I don't have to go into work and get my gear anymore, that's not a big deal. I can still shower and be out the door sometime around midnight.
Anyway, I drove over to Starbucks so that I could get online via my laptop and check the police and fire websites. It was then that I noticed that I had a page on my pager! I was required to get across town to an Officer Involved Shooting in North Las Vegas ASAP! And I apparently got the page at 11:35. It was now 12:20.
Oops.
I bolt across town just in time to hear the crew I was supposed to take over for leave.
Oh well.
Soon after that I hear a couple of robberies to businesses. Both seem to have been done by the same guy! I'm not interested until I hear that apparently at one the dude put a gun to some chicks head and forced her into the parking lot!
OMFG!!!!!!
So I rush over and get video of the two robbery scenes. At the same time there is a report of a crash and rollover. It's taking CCFD a long time to extract the person. The traffic supervisor asks for fatal, and I groan and head over.
Of course by the time I get there the extraction is complete. So I shoot some stale scene video and wait for my sound byte.
In between, I get a call from the watch commander. A dead guy has just shown up at UMC with a bullet wound to the head. I thank him for the tip and pretty much put that on the back burner, since without a scene, there's going to be some pretty dull video of UMC.
Or so I thought! I call back the watch commander after a bit and ask him if they had located a scene. He told me that the scene was UMC and I should start paying attention to what he tells me! It seems that the poor kid who was shot died en route. When a person is deceased, medical and the police do not move the body for investigative purposes. So the deceased was still inside the car his friends brought him to the hospital in.
It was pretty wild showing up and seeing the outside of the ER roped off in police tape. 13 and 3 join me and we get some decent video. I call and wake up the North Las Vegas PIO (since it was determined that it happened in Northtown) and he tells me to go to hell.
Not really. He was actually very nice, but didn't have much info for us.
Lunch was had, and then I went home.
Tonight didn't want to let up either.
Multiple crashes first thing. I checked out a couple, but none were very interesting. I decided to swing by the station and say hello to Adorable Producer #3. She had me check some tapes for her since it seems our video server went tits up sometime Saturday.
As soon as I was done with that I heard a 415A shooting in the Naked City behind the Stratosphere! I am mere seconds away, so I bolt out the door. Shot twice in the chest, this won't be good.
Then the unthinkable happens.
415A!!! AGAIN!!!
Two fucking shootings at the exact same time. This one is worse, so I do a spray and run on the first shooting and haul ass to the second. The second has one guy 419 DRT (dead right there) and another in very critical condition. What's worse is that there are about 100 of his friends and from the sounds of the radio traffic there is a riot about to start.
I slow down a little. I'm more into aftermath than I am into catching these things as they happen.
Once METRO has the crowd under control, I arrive. 13 and 3, who apparently have more balls than me, are already there. I get the 411 from the Watch Commander and the three of us wait for homicide to talk.
While waiting, some dude walks up to Tony from 3 and starts mumbling and calling him a fucker and all sorts of stuff. Two guys come and drag him away, as a pair of METRO officers walk in our direction. Apparently this guy was a friend of the deceased and was none to happy to see us.
The METRO officers stay by us for the remainder of our stay, and we had no more incidents. Which is good as this one guy fighting us could have quickly involved the other 50 of his friends who were hanging out on the curb.
After that was over and done with, I almost ended up going to BFE near Laughlin as a wanted man from Phoenix was in his car sleeping with a rifle. The guy was apparently suicidal and might have been considering suicide by cop.
Of course by the time someone came in that could authorize me going that far out of the city, the incident was done with and the man surrendered peacefully once SWAT showed up. Good for him, I guess, although I would have liked the overtime.
So in recap, Monday - nothing; Tuesday - nothing; Wednesday - nothing; Thursday - Nothing; Saturday/Sunday - HOLY CRAP!
It could have been worse though. I was expecting the Las Vegas version of the LA riots. On Friday, a coroners jury found the two METRO detectives who shot a fleeing suspect in the back were found justified in their actions. Of course my opinion on that is for another day as my battery is getting low.
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1 Comments:
Why does all the good shit happen on my nights off? Hopefully this week will be super busy. I prefer it that way. I like to feel I'm earning my money.
John
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