Officer down....shot in head...hear his radio call

This is sad.
Click on the link to hear the recording of the police radio traffic prior to and after a Broward County Deputy was shot in the head after a traffic stop on Monday afternoon.

His last words to dispatchers were "He's got a gun on him...gun on him".

http://www.miamiherald.com/779/story/9958-a195703-t4.html


Story:
911 tape released in BSO deputy shooting
Posted on Tue, Aug. 07, 2007Digg BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH

``He's got a gun on him...gun on him ...!''

Those were the last truncated words from Broward Sheriff's Deputy Maury Hernandez before he was shot in the head Monday after what he thought was a routine traffic stop.

Moments later, deputies -- still not aware that an officer was wounded -- sped to the scene, their radios crackling as the dispatchers feverishly tried to determine his location.

Minutes later, another deputy, clearly distraught, arrived at the scene where Hernandez had fallen, his gun and radio on the pavement beside him.

''Officer down!'' the deputy shouted.

And the hunt was on for a gunman.

Those dispatches, from Monday's 911 recording of the minutes before and after Hernandez was shot, were played by Sheriff Ken Jenne at a press conference at BSO headquarters Tuesday afternoon.

Hernandez, 28, a five-year-veteran, remains in critical condition, hooked to a ventilator at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. Jenne on Monday called his injury ``catastrophic.''

The shooting suspect, David Maldonado, 23, is being held without bail at the Broward county jail on charges of attempted first-degree murder and violation of probation.

At Tuesday's press conference, Jenne told reporters that Maldonado told them he shot Hernandez because he feared he would be sent to jail and thereby miss the birth of his child.

At Maldonado's arraignment earlier Tuesday, his court-appointed attorney, Assistant Public Defender Michael Glickstein, noted that Maldonado was injured during his arrest and requested that photographs be taken of his injuries.

Maldonado, of Miramar, is accused of shooting Hernandez after the deputy stopped him on Pembroke Road in Hollywood about noon Monday.

Hernandez was in plainclothes and driving an unmarked cruiser eastbound on Pembroke Road, enroute to an assignment when he noticed a motorcycle running several red lights. The motorcyclist, later identified as Maldonado, made a U-turn into a motorcycle shop on Pembroke Road. Hernandez followed.

By the time Hernandez arrived at the shop at 11:46 a.m., Maldonado had already stepped off the cycle and removed his helmet, Jenne said.

Jenne said Hernandez got out of his car and, according to witnesses, clearly identified himself as a sheriff's deputy. Witness saw Hernandez take out his badge and display it around his neck, Jenne said.

Witnesses, Jenne said, added that Hernandez was ''non-confrontational'' as he informed Maldonado that he had run a red light.

At that point, Maldonado pushed Hernandez and ran toward Pembroke Road.

The BSO tape shows that, after Hernandez broadcast that the suspect had a gun, dispatchers kept trying to reach him on the radio -- but to no avail.

After firing two shots -- one striking Hernandez in the head -- Maldonado fled to a nearby neighborhood where he attempted to carjack an SUV, BSO said.

But he was arrested by Hollywood police. His .45 glock was recovered from a nearby warehouse, authorities said.

Jenne said that the weapon Maldonado was carrying -- the same one used by most sheriff's deputies -- is a very sophisticated gun.

Maldonado, a carpenter, has a long arrest record, driving with a revoked license, possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed weapon.