On 06/28/16 at approximately 2236 hours, I, Officer Artaz responded to 1390
Crawford Avenue, to assist with a gun shot victim. Upon arrival I heard a male and a female yelling, and saw the female waving her arms in the air. I ran to their location and the male advised the female victim was in the residence. I asked if anyone else was in the residence and he said, "My brother and my dad".
I entered the residence through the rear door, which faces south. The door enters into a mud room to the rear of the residence, I walked through the mud room and into the kitchen. I walked through the kitchen and into the family room, where I observed two male parties telling a female party to keep breathing and that they love her.
The female was lying on the floor, her head was north and her feet south. The …show more content…
I could see at this point the female was still taking breathes. I observed a pistol on a cooler to the left of the female. I removed the pistol from the area.
At this time ambulance crew arrived on scene. Sergeant Gay and I took the pistol outside and cleared it. The pistol had a spent casing, which had not fully ejected. I took a couple of photographs of the pistol prior to clearing it, which were later transferred to a CD and entered into evidence. Once the weapon was cleared the serial number was ran, and it was secured in the trunk of
Officer C. Hammon's patrol