By Bob Walsh
Two L. A. County Deputies are in critical condition after a running gun battle with a man who evaded a DUI checkpoint and took a hostage in the early hours of Friday (06-24).
The shooter has been identified as Juan Manuel Martinez, 39.
A motorcycle officer pulled Martinez over after he ignored the DUI checkpoint. Martinez stopped, bailed out and opened fire, hitting the deputy several times. The deputy returned fire, and Martinez beat feet. He was then spotted by responding deputies who engaged him, leaving another deputy wounded.
Martinez fled the immediate scene and took a man hostage in a converted garage space at a nearby house. The hostage was able to get out leaving Martinez cornered. After about an hour the cops gassed the crap out of him and took him into custody, alive.
He is being held pending a $10,000,000 bail. Both officers are likely to survive and one has already been upgraded to fair condition.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shit, in my day Martinez would not have been taken alive. Now they try to sweet-talk a cop shooter into giving up.
1 comment:
In your day there were no cell phone cameras. Cop shooters seldom made it to jail. If they did, they wished they hadn't.
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