Post by WaTcHeR on Feb 7, 2007 13:13:04 GMT -5
BAKERSFIELD - Tempers flared at a court hearing Tuesday morning for a man involved in last month's deputy-involved shooting during a traffic stop.
Sterling Endsley, 23, will face charges of brandishing a firearm at a deputy even though detectives couldn't find the alleged gun.
"Where's the officer who arrested me?" Endsley said in court. "Why isn't he here?"
"Mr. Endsley, you have a lawyer," the judge said.
"He ain't doing his job," said Endsley. "All this is hearsay. He ain't doing sh**. He ain't even listening to me."
Emotions ran high inside the courtroom as well as outside.
"The man was a trigger-happy police," said Endsley's mother, Sharon Endsley. "I know it was wrong for that man to shoot at my son."
Sharon Endsley said her son is being railroaded.
Her son is charged with brandishing a gun at Deputy Art Rummel after failing to pull over during a traffic stop in mid-January on Allens Road.
Rummel shot at Endsley nine times after he said he allegedly saw Endsley crouch next to his car and try to pull a gun from his pocket.
Endsley and a witness said he was holding a cell phone.
Sheriff's detective Trett Lackey testified on Rummel's behalf.
"Deputy Rummel … told me he saw what he thought was a large-framed black possibly semi-auto weapon in his hand," said Lackey said.
"My son said, 'I was on the cell phone, mom. The man didn't say pullover … didn't have lights on.' The car was not rolling. This was a bunch of bullsh**."
A team of 13 detectives, deputies, and investigators could not even find the alleged gun Endsley brandished, but the judge will charge him anyway.
Six homicide detectives came back for a second search for the gun the next day and has yet to find it.
"To be very honest with you, we still don't know whether there was a firearm or there was not a firearm," said Sheriff Donny Youngblood. "We have several witnesses and is almost always the case, each witness saw something differently."
Judge Lee Felice ruled Tuesday morning Endsley will face charges of possessing a gun and using it to resist arrest.
Much of the case will come down to one man's word against another's—Sheriff Deputy Rummel and Endsley's.
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Sterling Endsley, 23, will face charges of brandishing a firearm at a deputy even though detectives couldn't find the alleged gun.
"Where's the officer who arrested me?" Endsley said in court. "Why isn't he here?"
"Mr. Endsley, you have a lawyer," the judge said.
"He ain't doing his job," said Endsley. "All this is hearsay. He ain't doing sh**. He ain't even listening to me."
Emotions ran high inside the courtroom as well as outside.
"The man was a trigger-happy police," said Endsley's mother, Sharon Endsley. "I know it was wrong for that man to shoot at my son."
Sharon Endsley said her son is being railroaded.
Her son is charged with brandishing a gun at Deputy Art Rummel after failing to pull over during a traffic stop in mid-January on Allens Road.
Rummel shot at Endsley nine times after he said he allegedly saw Endsley crouch next to his car and try to pull a gun from his pocket.
Endsley and a witness said he was holding a cell phone.
Sheriff's detective Trett Lackey testified on Rummel's behalf.
"Deputy Rummel … told me he saw what he thought was a large-framed black possibly semi-auto weapon in his hand," said Lackey said.
"My son said, 'I was on the cell phone, mom. The man didn't say pullover … didn't have lights on.' The car was not rolling. This was a bunch of bullsh**."
A team of 13 detectives, deputies, and investigators could not even find the alleged gun Endsley brandished, but the judge will charge him anyway.
Six homicide detectives came back for a second search for the gun the next day and has yet to find it.
"To be very honest with you, we still don't know whether there was a firearm or there was not a firearm," said Sheriff Donny Youngblood. "We have several witnesses and is almost always the case, each witness saw something differently."
Judge Lee Felice ruled Tuesday morning Endsley will face charges of possessing a gun and using it to resist arrest.
Much of the case will come down to one man's word against another's—Sheriff Deputy Rummel and Endsley's.
www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9b6b50dc-c5d6-4c05-a6fb-ea7ab71563e0