Hello all, I John Reese, was the supervising officer regarding the situation between you and my officers. While I don't know your prior charges, being a convicted felon does not mean a death sentence if you pick up another charge. While it may seem like my officers were out to get you, you obviously cannot get the full picture none of us can. What I can say is that you're the one who shot at officers and they did what they could to arrest you instead of shooting you.
Regarding evidence, I was the one who asked my officers to hold off as you were being cooperative and said you had to leave soon. You technically baited us to investigate as you were the one interacting with us then called your friend over to chat in the same sidewalk where you discharged your firearm. I rounded the area and noticed that there was no one even close enough to have been shooting aside from you. You then came up to me and my officers to tell a story in which I let my officers know that I did not believe. Interaction ended soon afterwards. My officers wanted to still investigate you and I let them know I would back them up.
Yes, your friend did help us in our investigation and gave us info that help our hunch. The next interaction with you, I told my officers to be carful and they must try to get you to admit you have a firearm on yourself and that if they couldn't they needed to detain and frisk you. Prior to this you gave your license to one of my officer and they ran a firearms license check on you as we wanted to make sure the firearm you had on you was valid.
You unfortunately decided to shoot one of my officers and my other officer shot you to protect them. This is the biggest issue here as this will decide your PK. They did there best to not use tasers and guns but once you started running and shooting, they had no choice. Officers had no intention of getting into a shootout that's why they were talking to you and questioning you and being so lenient with you. Staff has the final say regarding this situation and I don't think there really needs to be any further discussions on this.
