BrewTech
30th December 2010, 06:33 AM
Hmmmm....
TSA officer kills himself during police shoot out
Officials are investigating the events around an overnight shoot out where an estranged husband ultimately turned the gun on himself after kidnapping his pregnant wife and young son.
Police say the family of Ashley Varela-Gonzalez, 26, contacted police Tuesday evening to report their daughter’s kidnapping.
The family told police eight months pregnant Varela-Gonzalez and her 2-year-old son had been kidnapped from Pecos by her estranged husband Diego Gonzalez, 27, and gave dispatch a description of the suspect’s vehicle: a large, dark Ford F-350 with Marine Corps plates.
Officers spotted the truck before midnight Tuesday near I-25 and Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe and attempted to pull the truck over. When Gonzalez finally stopped, police say they tried to order him out of the car for about a minute until he leaned out of the front driver window and started firing at police with a handgun, hitting a squad car several times.
Police returned fire and shortly after Varela-Gonzalez ran out of the truck and told officers the suspect inside had killed himself.
Fortunately both Varela-Gonzalez and her young son, also named Diego, were unharmed despite several bullet holes that could be seen inches above a car seat in the back of the truck.
The officer involved in the shooting was placed on standard leave.
A TSA spokeswoman confirmed that Diego Gonzalez was a TSA behavior detection officer who had been employed at the Albuquerque Sunport for almost four years.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1900502.shtml?cat=500
TSA officer kills himself during police shoot out
Officials are investigating the events around an overnight shoot out where an estranged husband ultimately turned the gun on himself after kidnapping his pregnant wife and young son.
Police say the family of Ashley Varela-Gonzalez, 26, contacted police Tuesday evening to report their daughter’s kidnapping.
The family told police eight months pregnant Varela-Gonzalez and her 2-year-old son had been kidnapped from Pecos by her estranged husband Diego Gonzalez, 27, and gave dispatch a description of the suspect’s vehicle: a large, dark Ford F-350 with Marine Corps plates.
Officers spotted the truck before midnight Tuesday near I-25 and Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe and attempted to pull the truck over. When Gonzalez finally stopped, police say they tried to order him out of the car for about a minute until he leaned out of the front driver window and started firing at police with a handgun, hitting a squad car several times.
Police returned fire and shortly after Varela-Gonzalez ran out of the truck and told officers the suspect inside had killed himself.
Fortunately both Varela-Gonzalez and her young son, also named Diego, were unharmed despite several bullet holes that could be seen inches above a car seat in the back of the truck.
The officer involved in the shooting was placed on standard leave.
A TSA spokeswoman confirmed that Diego Gonzalez was a TSA behavior detection officer who had been employed at the Albuquerque Sunport for almost four years.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1900502.shtml?cat=500