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NAME: MEX SHOOTOUT 20051124I TAPE: EF05/1044 IN_TIME: 10:58:35:06 DURATION: 00:01:48:15 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/Police Video DATELINE: Mexico City, 24 Nov 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST Police video 1. Wide of police commander Juan Victor Rosas being fired at when attempting to detain suspect 2. Police men talking to gunman UPSOUND: "Leave your weapon, we are going to do what we have to do, we are not lying to you." 3. Car entering garage, police keep talking to gunman UPSOUND: "leave your weapon." 4. Suspect arrested by police 5. Car leaving the scene with gunman in detention 6. Police transporting gunman 7. Eleazar Quintero being secured for transportation AP Television News 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alfonso Navarrete Prida, Attorney General of the State of Mexico: "The suspect had to appear before a council to be notified of the allegations against him. It wasn't a special operative to arrest him, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed into the building and yes, the police officer that attempted to arrest him was taken by surprise. If another type of operative had been made, they would had been using flack jackets." 9. Wide of news conference STORYLINE A shootout between detectives inside a police station on the edge of Mexico City left a police commander dead and two people wounded on Thursday. The gun fight broke out before dawn when officers attempted to arrest another policeman, Eleazar Quintero, who is accused of heading a gang of kidnappers. Quintero, who was accompanied by his brother, drew out a pistol and shot police commander Juan Victor Rosas several times. Rosas later died from his injuries. After a drawn-out exchange of fire, officers shot and wounded Quintero. A man who washes the police cars was also shot and injured. Mexico State Attorney General Alfonso Navarrete Prida released a police video which showed the moment the shootout broke out when Quintero was being arrested. The footage shows commander Juan Victor Rosas approaching Quintero and being shot repeatedly until he falls out of the picture. Later, Quintero is shown being arrested by one of his former colleagues. Investigators learned about Quintero's criminal activities after two kidnapping gang members confessed after their arrest on Wednesday. This year, Mexico overtook Colombia to become the world leader in reported kidnappings, according to the Citizen Council for Public Safety, a private-sector think tank. Mexico state, which is home to many of Mexico City's sprawling suburbs, has one of the nation's highest kidnapping rates.