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01-02-2008, 09:10 AM
Emigdio Preciado Wanted for Attempted Murder of Sheriff's Deputy
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
By Melissa Underwood
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Schaap doesn't remember much from the night of Sept. 5, 2000, when a gunman opened fire, squeezing off 21 rounds and shooting him in the head. But he's heard the story, many times.
Schaap and his partner, David Timberlake, were on patrol when they pulled over a white van for not having working headlights.
Schaap had things on his mind — it was his children's first day back at school. As he approached the vehicle, he had no idea the man in the van was on parole for a drug violation, had served time for narcotics possession and had a rap sheet that included firearms violations.
He found out the hard way, when the bullets started flying.
A bullet fragment from his assailant's AK-47 blasted into the bridge above Schaap's nose, ricocheted across his forehead and exited above his right eye. Timberlake escaped without injury.
The gunman fled.
Before long, Schaap was lying in a hospital bed, his wife and two children wondering if he would live or die.
Police say his assailant — Emigdio Preciado — ran off to Mexico....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319227,00.html
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
By Melissa Underwood
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Schaap doesn't remember much from the night of Sept. 5, 2000, when a gunman opened fire, squeezing off 21 rounds and shooting him in the head. But he's heard the story, many times.
Schaap and his partner, David Timberlake, were on patrol when they pulled over a white van for not having working headlights.
Schaap had things on his mind — it was his children's first day back at school. As he approached the vehicle, he had no idea the man in the van was on parole for a drug violation, had served time for narcotics possession and had a rap sheet that included firearms violations.
He found out the hard way, when the bullets started flying.
A bullet fragment from his assailant's AK-47 blasted into the bridge above Schaap's nose, ricocheted across his forehead and exited above his right eye. Timberlake escaped without injury.
The gunman fled.
Before long, Schaap was lying in a hospital bed, his wife and two children wondering if he would live or die.
Police say his assailant — Emigdio Preciado — ran off to Mexico....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319227,00.html