POINT BLANK MOVING DRIVER
Before Gonzalez could react, the driver fired two rounds that hit the corporal in the chest. Suddenly, the driver thrust his right hand through the open window, gripping a. Looking for it, he stepped in to make contact. Gonzalez couldn’t see the man’s right hand which was concealed in the vehicle. He told Calibre he never considered aborting the approach at this point or making a passenger-side approach.Īs he got to the driver’s window, the violator’s left hand relaxed and hung down at the side of the Jeep. He continued walking up on the driver’s side, slowing his pace a bit and stepping slightly to his left to get a better view.
Also, the female turned completely sideways in her seat, facing the front passenger window and hid her face with her hands, something he had never experienced before.Īt the time, the corporal thought the driver might just be nervous and that perhaps the woman had been hit during a domestic spat inside the vehicle. First, the driver rested his left arm on the windowsill and flopped his hand around outside as if trying to distract Gonzales’s attention. He did notice a couple of things that struck him as unusual, though. Establishing a good sightline would have been difficult without stepping out of his safety lane onto the highway. “They both looked clean-cut, like normal tourists.”Īlthough there was still daylight, Gonzalez had difficulty seeing into the vehicle because camping gear partially blocked the rear window. “It looked like a really nice car,” Gonzalez told Calibre Press. He noticed that the young male driver and female passenger were moving around in the front seat, but he figured they were simply looking for their vehicle paperwork. When Gonzalez flipped on his emergency lights, the Jeep slowed down but continued creeping forward for about 100 – 200 yards before pulling to the shoulder. The stop came after another motorist reported that the driver was tailgating, weaving and driving erratically. Patrolling a stretch of rural highway one Monday evening, Gonzales initiated a stop on a blue Jeep Cherokee with Florida plates at about 8 o’clock. In an earlier interview with Calibre Press that Corporal, Ismael Gonzalez, who is no longer with the State Police, shared the details of his incident and the valuable lessons he learned that are just as crucial now as they were at the point of the original interview. That’s the elapsed time between the moment he cleared the front left bumper of his patrol car in approaching a reckless driver and the moment he was shot center mass.įortunately, he survived – but not before he experienced a common malfunction with his semi-auto that could have left him vulnerable to being finished off by his desperate attacker. How fast can a “routine” traffic stop go bad? Really bad? For a corporal in Idaho, it took just 12 seconds.
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