PATROL REPORT
On 5th August 2014,
four-year-old Lilly Garcia was riding
in the backseat of her dad's truck with her 7-year-old brother Peter Garcia when someone in a Toyota opened
fire on the family as they traveled down
the main east - west freeway. The father quickly pulled the truck into the
median (middle) and tried to administer first aid on his daughter as a
bystander called 911 to report the incident. Two nurses showed up and tried to save the girl's life as ambulances arrived and rushed her
to the hospital, where she died an hour later. The child's father and brother
were not injured. Authorities quickly began pressing for tips, offering roughly $25000
for information that led to the arrest
of the shooter, who was driving a newer-model dark red Toyota Corolla with a
big dent (hollow) on the trunk and dark tinted (colored) windows. The
car also had a Greenville license plate.
Follow-up Report #1
Details about the suspect,
described as to be in
thirty-one years, lanky,
emerged after police investigated more than a dozen leads. Witnesses
described the suspect as having short dark hair, a thin face and goatee.
Every officer in law
enforcement in Greenville was looking for the vehicle described. Police were
seeking a warrant to search a Greenville home and car as part of their
investigation. In Tuesday's shooting, the suspect was accused of opening fire
on the truck Lilly was in at around 14:45 hours local time in what police
described as a road rage (temper) accident.
Follow-up Report #2
Alan Garcia had just picked up his two children
from school when it happened. He was trying to get off a freeway, and another car forced him out of his lane. A man in
the car opened fire on Garcia's pickup truck, hitting his 4- year-old
daughter in the head. It was not clear what led the incident to escalate, but the father told officers that the shooting was the
result of road rage. Lily's father, Alan Garcia, told police he was
cut off by a Toyota, he threw
his hands up and yelled at that
driver, and shots were later fired at Garcia's
truck as he sped away, according to the criminal complaint.
Garcia told police he heard two gunshots. The suspect, later identified as Tony
Torrez, continued to pursue Garcia's truck,
and fired twice more, according to the criminal complaint. Garcia pulled over and tried to give first aid to his dying little girl as a bystander called 911. Lilly was shot in the head and died at a hospital.
Follow-up Report #3
An
anonymous call led investigators to Torrez. Police received an anonymous tip from the
caller who alleged that the thirty-one-year-old had acknowledged shooting
the child after he said Garcia's truck tried to run him off the road. Police
said they believed it was a
random encounter and that the
two didn't know each other. Police detained a man on Friday in connection with the road-rage
killing of the 4-year-old girl who was shot in the backseat of her father's truck after he picked up her and her brother
from school, signaling a possible break in the case that horrified the public. Police would not say
if they believed the person of interest taken into custody was the shooter, but they said he matched the description of the
gunman. His name was not immediately released. The person of interest was detained not long after police issued a public
appeal for help to identify
and find a suspect in the
shooting. Police said they recovered the car and the firearm believed to have
been used in the killing. Detectives were scanning the area to collect shell casings or other ballistic
evidence.
Follow-up Report#4
Fingerprints taken from the detainee matched those of
Tony Torrez, who was accused nearly
a decade ago of pulling a gun at another driver. In 2006, Torrez was arrested
on charges of pulling a gun on another driver during an encounter in a parking garage, according to a
criminal complaint in that case.
Torrez' car was blocking vehicles from exiting the garage on July 30
of that year, and there was a confrontation with the
driver of an SUV behind the blocked exit. Torrez
allegedly got out, showed a handgun in
his waistband, and then pointed the weapon at someone in the SUV, and a fight broke out. The gun went off
three times during the struggle. Torrez was
charged with aggravated battery (series) and aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon, but in 2007 the case Vias dropped because prosecutors couldn't secure the cooperation of the victim and
witnesses.
QUESTIONS:
1. When did Police detain a suspect in connection with the road-rage killing?
2. At what local
time did the victim die?
3. Who reported the incident to the police?
4. How many times did Torrez fire at someone in the SUV?
5. Describe the suspect?
6. How many types of vehicles
are mentioned in the passage?
7. What was the color and make of the suspect's
car in the road rage incident?
8. How many shots were fired
in the incident that took place on Tuesday,
5th August 2014?
9. What were the charges against the suspect in 2006?
10. How old were the victim and the suspect?
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