the store owner told him two customers saw a man run by. >> there was two black gentlemen in there that had told him that a white fellow had dropped it there, and then had gotten in a white mustang and drove off. >> the bundle was covered with a green bedspread, this one. >> i took the bedspread off and looked, and it was a gun box. and a took a pencil and opened up the gun box and we could see a rifle. we knew it was a rifle, it was a hunting-type rifle. >> there's a weapon in front of 424, and the subject ran south on main street. >> the captain told a patrolman to guard the evidence. >> he had a pump shotgun and he brought it up to port arms like this and he got a very stern face on it and i said, don't let anybody see it. >> this is the rifle that had the fingerprints of james earl