To kill a police officer, take his car and just drive on out of there. it s just unreal. coming up an officer is nearly dragged to death. i remember thinking that if this vehicle runs over me, i m probably going to die. when caught on camera, dash cam diaries continues. (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won t call an exterminator. can i call you back, mom? he says it s personal this time. if you re a mom, you call at the worst time. it s what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it s what you do. where are you? it s very loud there. are you taking a zumba class?
After midnight, bermudez is doing traffic enforcement. she clocks a car doing 48 in a 30-mile per hour zone. he pulls into a parking lot. we re now at 2410 east riverside. still advising. ten-four. all right, let me see the other hand. where are you all going? where are you coming from? my mom s house. the officer thinks the driver maybe impaired so she radios for backup. i noticed his eyes were really glassy. that s where i m going right now, is my mom s house. you know where it s at, right? that s where i m going. i knew the driver. i recognized his face. i just couldn t remember his name. you have your i.d.? no, i surely don t, ma am. how come you don t have your i.d. with you? remember, i just barely got out. you barely got out from where? then it hits her. wait a minute. this is armando torres.
The officer is working the day shift when a strange call comes over the radio. the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i d never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. he knows he has to act fast. first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle. but w
as the gunman closes in on mcginniss, officer turner races in, opening fire. it was so fast. as soon as i saw him draw the gun the way he did, it was just instant reaction. drop the gun! [ gunshots ] shots fired. he eventually dropped to his knees. and we tried to direct him to throw the gun away so we could approach him. drop the gun! he s still got the gun, dean. drop the gun! the suspect was still armed. you okay? he was still moving. and he still had the gun pointed down towards officer mcginniss. the gunman is down, but he isn t dead. and as day turns to dusk, backup arrives and disarms him. he dies shortly after on scene. he had a blood alcohol of 18. that s roughly double what would
it was a non-injury vehicular, one car into a tree, which is a pretty nondangerous call. only officer turner is dispatched to check out the scene. mcginniss stays back to continue running radar. as i drove a little further towards the accident, i saw an hispanic male wearing a white t-shirt. i slowed down, look at him in my rearview mirror. it crossed my mind i wonder if he knows anything about the officer, he saw it or was involved in it. as officer turner pulls up, there s no driver in sight. over the radio, he learns that a latino man was driving the suv and has fled the scene. i radioed back to dean, i knew he was sitting right back there up the street. i asked him if he would stop the male. it was kind of shocking that somebody could just walk away from that. responding to his partner s call, mcginniss takes off in search of the man and sees him walking into a nearby park. there was something odd, something more to what he was doing than just walking away