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    Armando Luis Juarez Sentenced in 2018 TX Murder of Officer Rogelio Santander


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    Home Depot shooting critically injures 2 Dallas officers, police say

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    DALLAS -- Two Dallas police officers were shot and critically wounded in a shooting at a Home Depot on Tuesday afternoon, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth reports.

    Dallas Police say a civilian was also shot. Their condition wasn't known.

    A large police presence was seen outside the store and one person was seen being loaded into an ambulance. Sources told CBS DFW's JD Miles a manhunt was underway for a suspect near a creek behind the store, and officers were seen searching a creek bed.

    In a tweet, Dallas police asked for prayers for the officers and their families.

    Police with guns drawn were responding as employees appeared to be rushing out of the back of the store and away from the area, the station reports. Police were evacuating the employees remaining the store. Armored vehicles were responding to the scene.

    Employees tell the station the incident started as a shoplifting, and shots were fired after police responded around 4 p.m. One officer was taken to Presbyterian Hospital, the station reports.

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    Update: Officers were shot in head

    Sources close to investigation tell me 2 DPD officers shot, a male and female.

    They stopped suspect for outstanding warrants outside Home Depot. He pulled gun and shot male officer in the back of head and female officer in face.

    Both are gravely injured, one resuscitated.

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Update: Officers in Critical Condition

    Multiple sources say one officer flatlined in operating room but was revived. Both officers in critical

    Sources say one of the officer’s mothers is on way to hospital. He is in critical condition and being kept alive until she arrives. We are all praying for a miracle and pray he pulls through. He is 27 years old.

    Police are searching for Armando Juarez who is the suspect in the shootings.

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Suspect in Custody

    JUST IN: Dallas PD have person of interest Armando Juarez in custody after two officers and a Home Depot loss prevention officer were shot earlier today.

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Dallas Police Officer Dies, Another Critical After Home Depot Shooting

    By CBS DSW News

    DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Dallas police officer has died less than 24 hours after being shot at a North Dallas Home Depot store. Another officer and a store employee, who were also both shot, remain hospitalized.

    Officer Rogelio Santander died at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas hospital at 8:11 a.m. Wednesday.

    Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall held a press conference outside the hospital this morning. When CBS 11 News reporter Robbie Owens offered sympathies the Chief said, “We appreciate it” and then made the announcement.

    “We come before you this morning with broken hearts and we regret to inform you that Officer Rogelio Santander, Badge 10934, has succumbed to his injuries,” she said. “We’re asking you to continue to pray for the [Santander] family and the DPD family.”

    Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also announced Officer Santander’s death during a regularly scheduled city council meeting. Interrupting the meeting, which was already in progress, he said, “It is with great sadness that we must inform you that Officer Rogelio Santander, Badge #934, passed away at 8:11 this morning.”

    Along with Officer Santander, Officer Crystal Almeida and the Home Depot security guard, now identified as Scott Painter, all underwent surgery after the shooting. Officer Almeida and Mr. Painter both remain hospitalized.

    During the press conference Chief Hall said, “We are happy to report that Officer Crystal Almeida and our loss-prevention officer Scott Painter is making remarkable recovery. They are still in critical condition but we are optimistic about what we’re seeing with them right now.”

    The man who police say shot the officers and the security guard – Armando Luis Juarez – woke up behind bars today. After the shooting, a manhunt, and late night police chase, Juarez was taken into custody and ultimately transferred to the Dallas County Jail very early Wednesday morning.

    Officers Santander and Almeida both joined the Dallas Police Department there years ago, assigned to the Northeast Division.

    A source close to the investigation told CBS 11 News reporter J.D. Miles that Officer Santander was shot in the back of the head and Officer Almeida was shot in the face.

    Wednesday morning Dallas police Sergeant Michael Mata, who is also president of the Dallas Police Association, said, “When an officer is shot or killed or injured in one city, it affects every officer across the country. We are one huge family.”

    The shooting happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Home Depot store in the 11600 block of Forest Central Drive, near U.S. Highway 75 and Forest Lane, after the two police officers were called to help an off-duty officer.

    According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Dallas police Officer Seward was working off-duty at the store when Mr. Painter alerted him that a male customer was acting suspiciously in the store. Officer Seward detained the person, identified him as Armando Juarez, and discovered a felony warrant had been issued for him.

    Officer Seward had called on-duty police officers to the scene and Officers Santander and Almeida responded. All of the police officers met in the store’s loss-prevention office and then Officer Seward then went to Officer Santander and Almeida’s squad car to look up the felony warrant for Juarez and confirm that was the person being detained inside.

    The affidavit details how Officer Seward was returning to the building when he heard a “shots fired” broadcast over his police radio, proceeded inside and found Officers Santander and Almeida and Mr. Painter all on the floor of the loss-prevention office “with apparent gunshot wounds.”

    Police say there was a witness inside the office who said he saw Juarez shoot all three people.

    Immediately after the shooting armed officers were seen in back of the Home Depot as employees and customers rushed out of the store and away from the area.

    A massive search for the suspect — including police helicopters and officers on the ground — followed after witnesses reported the shooter had fled on foot and may be hiding in a nearby creek. But when police reviewed security camera video they discovered Juarez fled from the scene in a white-colored work truck. It was then police put out a description of the truck — that had “GX4” on the back fender, a ladder rack, and large exhaust pipes rising from the front — and issued a be on the lookout (BOLO) alert.

    Police later spotted the truck, with Juarez and a female passenger inside, in Southeast Dallas and gave chase. Officers were ultimately able to corner Juarez in a residential neighborhood near Dallas Love Field Airport and took the 29-year-old man into custody.

    The unidentified woman was also detained. It isn’t know if she is facing any charges.

    “We got our man,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a late-night news conference.

    Moments after Juarez was taken into custody, Chief Hall thanked the officers on a radio call.

    “Base to all units: Excellent work, excellent work. Thank everybody for their diligence in this matter. Appreciate you so very much and we’re still praying for our brother and sister,” she said.

    A number of officers continue to hold vigil at Presbyterian Dallas hospital. “Most of the family that is coming is already here,” Mata said. “Obviously, they’re holding on the best they can. This [being shot] is something I think all [police] families realize they could be facing. But when it happens, you never want it to be you.”

    At the time of his arrest Juarez had an outstanding warrant for Felony Theft. With the death of Officer Santander, Juarez has now been charged with Capital Murder in addition to the charge of Aggravated Assault on a Public Servant for the shooting of Officer Almeida. He remains in jail on a $1.1 million bond.

    http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/d...ng-home-depot/
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Grand jury hears from witnesses in deadly Home Depot shooting

    By FOX4News.com Staff

    DALLAS - A Dallas County grand jury began hearing from witnesses in the Home Depot shooting where a gunman killed one Dallas police officer and critically injured a second officer and a civilian.

    The grand jury heard from witnesses on Thursday about the shooting suspect, 29-year-old Armando Luis Juarez. It’s the first step as two investigations play out at the same time by Dallas PD and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

    Investigators began getting witness testimony on the record right away after the shooting Tuesday at Home Depot.

    “The DA’s office needs to get on the case early so they can develop the type of evidence and look at the evidence they need to determine if they are gonna seek the death penalty,” explained former prosecutor Toby Shook, who is not connected to the case.

    The gun recovered after Juarez was in custody is part of the ongoing investigation. It’s unclear if he owned the weapon, if it was stolen or borrowed.

    “As long as he had the weapon and used it, that’s all they care about proving,” Shook said. “And that’s all they need to prove.”

    Shook has tried several cases where defendants were accused of capital murder after killing police. While the district attorney's investigation will include some of the same evidence and witnesses as the police investigation, it is independent of DPD's case.

    “What the DA's office will do will begin looking into not only the evidence that shows guilt but also background because they'll have to prove future danger if they seek the death penalty,” Shook said.

    DPD Officer Rogelio Santander was shot and killed. DPD Officer Crystal Almeida and Home Depot Loss Prevention Officer Scott Painter are trying to come back from their significant injuries after they were all shot in the face and head area.

    “Any time you have a lethal shot such as the head and particularly all three victims, it’s obvious the defendant was aiming for the head,” Shook said. “It will come into consideration as to his true intent wanting to cause death when he fired that weapon.”

    Following a dizzying chase from Pleasant Grove to the Oak Lawn/ Uptown area, Juarez and a female passenger who was in the truck at Home Depot were both taken into custody. Her name has not been released or whether she was in jail.

    “The police will have interviewed her extensively to determine what he was telling her, what their relationship, was what his emotional state was and any incriminating statements he may have made,” Shook said.

    The truck police released images of Tuesday night while looking for Juarez was not the same white truck he was in at the end of the chase. Police still have not located the first vehicle.

    While witnesses were giving statements on Thursday, the presentation to a grand jury is nowhere near complete. There is a 90-day window from the time a person has been charged for a case to be presented in total and for a jury to indict or not.

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    What the Home Depot murder suspect did during manhunt that doubled his bail to $4M

    By Tasha Tsiaperas
    Dallas News

    A 29-year-old man accused of killing a Dallas police officer also shot at police during the car chase that came hours after the shooting at a Lake Highlands Home Depot, arrest records show.

    Armando Luis Juarez was arrested after a five-hour manhunt Tuesday night. Before his arrest, he fired at two officers in a police cruiser on the highway, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

    Additional felony charges were filed against him Friday, including two charges of aggravated assault of a public servant and two charges of forgery of a financial instrument.

    His bail was doubled to just over $4 million, jail records show.

    Juarez is accused of capital murder in the fatal shooting of Officer Rogelio Santander, who died early Wednesday after he was shot Tuesday afternoon at the Home Depot where he and his partner were called to arrest the theft suspect.

    Juarez also faces a charge of aggravated assault against a public servant and another against the civilian for critically injuring Officer Crystal Almeida, 26, and Home Depot employee Scott Painter.

    The shooting occurred around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday after Santander, 27, and Almeida responded to a shoplifting call at the Home Depot near U.S. Highway 75 and Forest Lane. Painter was working as a loss-prevention officer and saw Juarez behaving suspiciously and possibly trying to steal something.

    A Dallas officer working an off-duty job at the store detained Juarez and found that he had an outstanding warrant. The officer was double-checking that the warrant was for Juarez when the man pulled a gun and shot Santander, Almeida and Painter, police records show.

    After several hours, two officers spotted Juarez's vehicle on C.F. Hawn Freeway in southeast Dallas. They were following Juarez when he fired a handgun several times at them, a warrant says.

    One of the officers said he heard the shots and "then observed a cloud of smoke from the driver's side of the suspect vehicle," the warrant says.

    Because Juarez had already shot two officers, the warrant says, the two officers following him were "in fear for their lives and slowed to create distance between themselves and the suspect."

    The car chase ended after Juarez drove into a dead end in a neighborhood in the 3700 block of S. Versailles Avenue near Love Field. Juarez reversed and hit a parked car.

    He then threw his handgun out of his vehicle. Officers found a box of ammunition and several shell casings inside his vehicle, the warrant says.

    Juarez's criminal record doesn't show any violent offenses.

    He had been arrested twice in the past five months: on a felony theft charge in December and on an unlawful use of a motor vehicle charge in January.

    He was released on bond in January, but a judge increased his bail in February, records show.

    Juarez has pleaded guilty in the past to attempted possession of a controlled substance.

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    Dallas bishop says slain officer Rogelio Santander 'wanted to save a city'

    By Associated Press

    DALLAS — The bishop of Dallas' Roman Catholic Diocese told hundreds of mourners that a slain Dallas police officer was a man of character and discipline who put his family first.

    Bishop Edward Burns spoke during the funeral Tuesday for 27-year-old Officer Rogelio Santander, who was fatally shot last week while questioning a suspected shoplifter at a Home Depot store.

    The bishop says that as a boy, Santander wanted to fight crime like Batman. He says the officer "wanted to save a city."

    Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the country gathered for the funeral in Rockwall, just northeast of Dallas.

    Another officer, El Paso native Crystal Almeida, and a store employee were injured in the April 24 shooting.

    The suspect, Armando Luis Juarez, is charged with capital murder. He's being held at the Dallas County jail.

    An arrest warrant indicates that Juarez was detained at a Home Depot store because he was acting suspiciously and might have tried to steal from the store.

    The warrant reveals an officer who was working a part-time job at the store learned 29-year-old Juarez had an outstanding felony warrant.

    Two on-duty officers, Almeida and Santander, were called to the store and, along with a store security officer, were speaking with Juarez in the loss-prevention office.

    The off-duty officer stepped away and when he returned to the office, he found all three on the ground with gunshot wounds.

    Police body-camera footage shows Juarez pulling a handgun from his pocket as Almeida and Santander attempted to take him into custody.

    Santander died the next day of his injuries, and Almeida and the store security officer, Scott Painter, were in critical condition.

    Authorities filed a capital murder charge against Juarez after Santander died. Juarez was captured hours later after a chase.

    Juarez is being held at the Dallas County jail on a bond of more than $1 million. In addition to the capital murder charge, he faces other charges that include aggravated assault on a public servant.

    Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said Painter and Almeida were "making remarkable recoveries" from their wounds after surgery.

    https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/ne...ity/571412002/
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    Dallas police officer wounded in Home Depot shooting 'not out of the woods yet'

    By Claire S. Cardona
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    The Dallas police officer wounded in a shooting at a Lake Highlands Home Depot last month is improving but has a long road ahead to recovery, her father said.


    Officer Crystal Almeida, 26, was critically wounded in the April 24 shooting while responding to a call to help an off-duty officer who had detained a man at the store .


    Almeida was placed in a medically induced coma last week after having surgery to remove excess fluids and bullet fragments from her brain, her father Manuel Almeida told the El Paso Times.

    She regained consciousness later in the week.


    "She is doing a lot better, but we still have a long way to go," Manuel Almeida said. "She regained consciousness, she is starting to walk around. She still can't speak much, but she is slowly starting to talk. She can't talk much right now. She has said very, very little."


    Her partner Rogelio Santander and Home Depot loss-prevention officer Scott Painter were also shot. Santander died the next day from his injuries and was buried Tuesday. Painter was critically wounded and also remains hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian of Dallas.


    Almeida, an El Paso native, is expected to undergo reconstructive surgery to repair the bone structure on the left side of her face next week, her father said.


    "Doctors say she is doing really well right now," Manuel Almeida told the El Paso Times. "She is not out of the woods yet, but her progress is really good. She is going to be here for a while, but, thank God, she is doing much, much better."

    He said his daughter has anxiety and wants to move and talk more. There is no timetable for her discharge from the hospital.


    "It is hard, very hard," he said. "We just keep praying she continues to get better and ask for the community to continue to pray for her. I will stay here beside her until she is released."


    Dallas city officials and police recognized all three shooting victims at Police Chief U. Renee Hall's swearing in ceremony on Wednesday.


    Classmates of Almeida and Santander sat on stage with Mayor Mike Rawlings, City Manager TC Broadnax and the chiefs in Hall's command staff.


    "As we sit in this auditoriumOfficer Crystal Almeida and loss-prevention Officer Scott Painter are only a short distance away, recovering from what will be life-altering injuries," Hall said.


    The Dallas Police Association's Assist the Officer Foundation is raising is raising money to help the families of the officers. The Latino officers group, the Blue Guardian Foundation, is also raising funds and paying for the Santander family's hotel stays.

    Police arrested the suspect in the shootings, Armando Luis Juarez, after a five-hour manhunt and chase that started in southeast Dallas and ended near Dallas Love Field.


    Juarez is accused of shooting Santander, Almeida and Painter then fleeing while the off-duty officer who detained him was checking on an outstanding warrant, according to police records. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on $4,110,000 bail.


    Staff writer Naheed Rajwani contributed to this report.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dall...-not-woods-yet
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Capital murder indictment for cop-killing suspect in Dallas Home Depot shooting

    By CBS News

    DALLAS -- A suspect has been indicted in a Home Depot shooting that killed a Dallas officer and wounded two more people. Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson announced Tuesday that Armando Luis Juarez is indicted on charges of capital murder and attempted capital murder in the April 24 shooting.

    Officer Rogelio Santander died April 25.

    Juarez is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant.

    A second police officer, Crystal Almeida, and Home Depot employee Scott Painter were hurt when they confronted Juarez, a shoplifting suspect.

    An attorney for Juarez hasn't returned a message seeking comment Tuesday.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capital...epot-shooting/
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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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