Wheeler also suffered a gunshot wound, according to court records. McKane ran into the open and began firing at Wheeler, who escaped on a dirt bike, but not before shooting McKane in the leg. “I said, ‘Jason, what the hell are you doing?’ He said, ‘I’m going to kill you, man.”Ĭrotty, who was shot in the leg, tried to shoot Wheeler’s legs out from under him by firing under the car. announced on Facebook that they found the suspect, ending an hours-long search that closed U.S. Lincoln County sheriffs officials just before 11 a.m. Wheeler then chased him around the car, riddling the car with shotgun pellets. Deputy Michael Hutton was shot multiple times while responding to the call near Limon, the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office said in a news release. He and Heckerman took cover behind a car. Koester, who lost his handgun in the battle, ran to his patrol car to grab a shotgun, but Wheeler shot him in the head with the fatal shot.Ĭrotty fired his weapon. “Deputy Koester had a gunshot wound to the face. “I saw Deputy Koester running up the driveway,” Crotty said in his statement. “I turned around just in time to see the dust and debris coming out of the end of the shotgun in my direction.” “I could hear something behind me sounding like a shotgun racking, and there was some commotion and then there was a blast from behind me,” McKane said in a sworn statement. They saw the RV the couple was living in with their children and the mobile home wrecked by a hurricane that Wheeler was trying to renovate, but they did not see Wheeler.Īfter looking around, they began putting up crime scene tape. Crotty had picked up Heckerman in his vehicle.
She said he had hog-tied and assaulted her the day before.ĭeputies arrived at the Lake Kathryn property in Lake Kathryn Heights in three separate patrol cars. "He’s asleep, but he’s as big as a house.” You're a bad police officer, and you don't deserve to be here," he added.“I need an officer to come - well, not my house, down the street from my house, because my old man’s lost it and he’s promised me that if a cop pulls up in my driveway it’s going to be a gun battle… he’s very violent, so I’m telling you this because I’m worried about everybody," she said in a 911 call. LMPD is taking lead on the investigation.
"You probably don't remember me, but you're the police officer who falsely arrested me four years ago." Brandon Shirley, 26, a deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office, was killed Thursday after being shot in a car lot where he was working off-duty. "Joshua Gallardo, will you come down for a second? It's good to see you again," said Gelin, before erupting into a tirade over what he believed to have been a false arrest in 2015. Gallardo accepted his award, took pictures with the city's mayor and was heading back to his seat in when Tamarac City Commissioner Mike Gelin took the microphone and asked him to come back to the front, as seen on a video recording of the meeting. The surprise moment came after other city officials in Tamarac, Florida, honored Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Joshua Gallardo with the deputy of the month award for his role in arresting an alleged gang member who had been wanted for murder. A Florida city commissioner shocked his colleagues during an awards ceremony for outstanding officers last week when he claimed one of the honorees was a "bad police officer" who had falsely arrested him years earlier.
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