So this week started off with a good slow Sunday. Normally the state highway patrol takes care of our accidents on the interstate during the week. Unfortunately on the weekends, they become our problem-and part of my beat is on the interstate. I got sent to an accident call that had been holding from the previous watch for over two hours. When I finally get there, I think both parties had had enough of waiting. It turns out a 16 year old brand new driver followed too closely and slammed into the rear of a company vehicle from out of state. What a way to start your driving career. Thankfully nobody was hurt and both vehicles were still drivable.
Monday was where the excitement really peaked. My beat partner had to stand duty outside of the mayor's house. Meaning I had to take care of calls on her beat. While I'm taking care of calls (in particular at this time- a missing adult) on her beat, a fight with a weapon call pops up on my beat. The caller stated a male with no shirt on was in a dispute with another male and had a pistol in his hand. While on the call with 911 the male fired a single round into the air. The dispatched officer arrived on scene and went to make contact with the male who then fled on foot.
The officer gave chase and called it out on the radio. Due to the fact that the male had a weapon in his hand the call was upgraded to an officer needing immediate assistance. When a "help call" goes up like that, everything you're doing gets put on the backburner and every officer in the city starts racing to where you are to help you. The officer jumped several fences and ran through several backyards before losing sight of the male around a house. At this time I arrived on scene and we knocked on the door of the house. An elderly female came to the door and we asked if a shirtless male ran into the house and she said yes. She then called for him to come to the room and he was detained. The male started complaining he could not walk and could not breathe. We carried him to the patrol car and an ambulance was called to check him out as a precaution. The elderly female (who turned out to be the male's aunt and owner of the house) started yelling at my sergeant, asking if "all these" police cars and people were really necessary. My sergeant looked her dead in the eye and said "Why yes ma'am THEY ARE.". She started giving us a huge verbal buffet and she was detained while we finished our investigation and calmed down.
Our next focus was on trying to find where the gun went since the male did not have it on him. The male told us he ditched the gun in some bushes. A K9 unit was called out to help in the search but we managed to find the gun under a bush at the next door neighbor's house. Our crime scene investigation unit came out and processed the gun, which was a revolver. Inside of the cylinder was one spent shell casing. The gun actually came back stolen from a case handled by the ATF and the suspect was a convicted felon. Hopefully he'll actually see some good time.
Not too long after helping that officer out with that call, I was dispatched to a possible burglar in a residence. A lady was coming home to her apartment with her young daughter and stated when she went to push open her door it felt as if there was someone on the other side preventing her from opening the door. My partner and I raced to the location and using the callers keys cleared the apartment room by room. Nothing was disturbed and when we went in, in fact, we ended up setting the alarm off ourselves. It was good to help put the lady's mind at ease but crazy how nothing was actually what it appeared (which tends to happen a lot with this job).
After the events of the day, I was backed up on reports and stayed late to get them finish. I was in the parking lot of a beauty supply store on my beat within eyesight of a dollar store when a call came in for a commercial robbery at the dollar store. At this time of the night there were not many cars and I immediately pestered the dispatcher for a suspect description and direction of travel since I was already right there. She couldn't provide me with any of that and I made my way to the store. It turns out the attempted robbery occurred about 20 minutes prior to the 911 and they had just decided to call (after almost waiting until the morning to call.....).
A male was outside of the store waiting for a female to walk her home when a white car with tinted windows pulled up. Two black males exited the vehicle with handguns and approached the male. They told him to face the wall, not move, not look at them, and not say a word. One man kept the gun to his head and the other tried to get in the dollar store. Fortunately the doors were locked (it was after closing time) and they could not get anything. Both males then hopped in the car and took off. I would have loved to have gone after them if I had known about it earlier....
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