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Man shot, killed by Temecula police officer
by JOHN HALL
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/03/01/news/californian/16_30_302_28_06.txt
TEMECULA
A man was shot and killed by a Temecula police officer
inside an apartment Tuesday in what authorities say
could have been a case of "suicide by cop." Eric James
Andrews, 18, of Temecula, died at Inland Valley Medical
Center in Wildomar, according to the Riverside County
coroner's office. The shooting happened at about after
Temecula police were called to the Temecula Gardens
apartments at 29425 Rancho California Road regarding
a possible attempted suicide, said Riverside County
sheriff's Sgt. Earl Quinata. Temecula contracts its police
service from the Sheriff's Department. "Officers were
at the bottom of a stairwell shouting verbal commands
for whoever was inside the apartment to come out,"
Quinata said.
A woman came out from an upstairs apartment, carrying
a knife, the sergeant said. Officers ordered her to drop
the weapon, which she did, he said.
"It's unclear why she had a knife when she came out,"
Quinata said, adding that she did not brandish it in a
threatening manner.
The woman, who police have not identified, was detained
in a patrol car, and officers found that there was still a man
inside the apartment. "So they then gave more commands
for the man to come out, but he didn't," Quinata said.
Officers went upstairs, found the apartment door open
and saw the man inside. They again ordered him to
come out with his hands up, but he instead pulled a
knife from his pocket, Quinata said.
"At that point, they gave several verbal commands for him to drop the knife, but he
advanced toward the officers with the knife pointed at them," the sergeant said.
Quinata said one officer fired his weapon at the man, hitting Andrews at least two
times in the upper body. Officers radioed that shots had been fired, a suspect was
down, and requested medical personnel.
Paramedics arrived, and as they treated Andrews, the woman who had also been in the
apartment stood nearby crying and was being consoled by friends.
"It appears that this was her apartment, not his, and that he was there as the two
were dealing with some type of relationship issue," Quinata said.
Andrews was taken by ambulance to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, where he
was pronounced dead shortly before 4 p.m., Quinata said.
The name of the officer, per department policy, has not been released. He is a
10-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department, officials said. The officer has been
placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, also
department policy, Quinata said.
Dozens of officers and Sheriff's Department officials descended on the apartment
complex after the shooting. Detectives with the sheriff's Central Homicide Bureau, as
well as its Administrative Investigations Unit arrived to investigate. The district
attorney's office also is involved in the investigation.
The incident is believed to be the first officer-involved shooting in Temecula in
nearly a decade.
On June 4, 1998, Officer Dave Smith was called to the Sycamore Terrace Apartments on
Margarita Road where he was confronted by George Holstein, 24, of Fallbrook. Holstein
used a .25-caliber handgun to fired at the officer, hitting him three times. Smith,
however was able to return fire, killing the assailant.
On May 9, 1993, Mother's Day, Temecula police Officer Kent Hintergardt was killed in
the line of duty near where Smith's shooting happened. Hintergardt was called to
Sycamore Terrace on a domestic violence call and stopped to talk to a possible
suspect in the parking lot.
What Hintergardt didn't know was that the man, later identified as Mark Kamaka, 37,
of Simi Valley, had just strangled to death his estranged girlfriend, 22-year-old
Allison Jacobs, in her apartment. Hintergardt was shot in the face by Kamaka, who
then fled in his car with his 12-year-old son. Kamaka dropped off his son near a
freeway call box on Interstate 15 before heading to Canyon Lake where he committed
suicide by shooting himself.
Hintergardt was the first Temecula police officer, and the only one so far, to die on
duty.
Contact staff writer John Hall at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2628, or jh...@californian.com
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