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he was going into a helmet state of mo, with a bicycle helmet sitting on a bicycle lol
This is from an article in the Shreveport La. Times. The link at the end will take you to the series of still pics taken from the patrol car video:
A Shreveport man was shot by police late Saturday after a chase that began when he was observed driving erratically - two days after an unrelated police chase in which an officer was shot after a botched getaway attempt following an armored car robbery.
Saturday's 25-year-old victim was identified Sunday by police as Marquise Hudspeth, of the 400 block of Seneca Trail. He was killed by Shreveport police just before midnight Saturday after a nearly five-mile chase that ended with his cellular phone being mistaken for a pistol.
Police Chief Jim Roberts said Hudspeth was observed driving "erratically, dangerously," and a chase between Hudspeth and police officers took off on North Market Street, proceeding four or five blocks to the intersection of North Market Street and North Hearne Avenue, then continued south to Midway Avenue, about six blocks south of Interstate 20.
"When police attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver refused to stop and continued driving erratically southbound on Hearne Avenue," said police spokeswoman Kacee Hargrave.
She said Cpl. Denver Ramsey and patrolmen Michael Armstrong and Steven Hathorn were about to end the pursuit when Hudspeth's gray Cadillac pulled into the parking lot of a closed Circle K just off Hearne Avenue, at Rightway and Midway avenues. Hudspeth left the car and walked away from the officers.
After ignoring several commands to stop, Hudspeth turned and pointed a "chrome, shiny" object that appeared to be a gun, but turned out to be a cellular phone, Roberts said.
"He was holding it like you'd hold a pistol in your hand," he said. "It was chrome, shiny, and he was holding it with two hands, as though it was a weapon." Roberts said the distance was "maybe four or five feet between the suspect and the officer."
Hudspeth's wife, Lekesha Hudspeth, said "it was real messed up with the way things were handled ... real messed up with what they say he did, the things they said he had done."
She couldn't comment on why her husband might have been driving "erratically" because "I don't know if that's true."
The three officers involved are on paid administrative leave pending an investigation, Hargrave said.
Roberts said multiple shots were fired at Hudspeth, although the exact number hasn't been determined. He said Hathorn and Ramsey fired the shots from their Glock .40-caliber handguns, which carry 15 rounds in the clip and one in the magazine. As detectives and crime-scene technicians collected evidence at the scene early Sunday, at least eight markers could be seen where shell casings were located.
The incident was captured on video, tapes of which Roberts reviewed Saturday night and early Sunday morning. He said he didn't know if alcohol played a factor in Hudspeth's behavior.
Hudspeth was black, as is the police supervisor in the chase. Ramsey, Armstrong and Hathorn are white.
www.shreveporttimes.com/photogalleries/policeshootingphotos/photoframes.shtml
Certainly not a White tail or Mule Deer.
Cool videothough! Thanks for posting.