Summary

; David Scheela, Witnessed / Shooting;;;;;;;; Jeff Halstead, Phoenix Police Dept. Victor Castillo, Witnessed Shooting Stephanie Guadian, Reporting

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 167476
Story Slug Smuggler - Shoot - out
Location Phoenix, Arizona
Format PKG
Date 8/15/1999
Archive Time 59:53
TRT 1:49
Supers Phoenix, Arizona // DESCRIPT
Video Description MAN SOT, SHOTS OF CARS IN PARKING LOT, SMASHED WINDSHIELD, POLICE CARS AND BODY IN PARKING LOT, MAN SOT, MAN SOT, PARAMEDICS, MAN SOT
Description ; David Scheela, Witnessed / Shooting;;;;;;;; Jeff Halstead, Phoenix Police Dept. Victor Castillo, Witnessed Shooting Stephanie Guadian, Reporting
Script LEAD: THE SMUGGLING OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IS A BUSINESS IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MERCHANDISE AND DISPUTES ARE OFTEN SETTLED BY BULLETS. AND PHOENIX POLICE BELIEVE ONE SUCH DISPUTE RESULTED IN A FIRE FIGHT IN A CENTRAL CITY PARKING LOT WHICH KILLED TWO. AS STEPHANIE GUADIAN TELLS US FOUR MEN ARE IN CUSTODY BUT INVESTIGATORS THINK MORE PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED. (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: NAT SOT SOT: "i tossed and turned all night thinking about the shootout. it was going off in my head." DAVID SCHEELA MADE IT TO WORK TODAY..BUT NOT ON MUCH SLEEP. NATS THIS TIME YESTERDAY...THE MECHANIC'S DAY TO DAY ROUTINE WAS INTERRUPTED BY A VIOLENT GUNFIGHT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PEP BOY'S PARKING LOT. SOT/Scheela: "police may clean up the scene but they can't clean up a memory." PHOENIX POLICE BELIEVE THE SHOOTING IS TIED TO RIVAL EXTORTION GANGS. THE SUSPECTS ARE ALLEGED "COYOTES.." CRIMINALS WHO MAKE MONEY ILLEGALLY SMUGGLING UNDOCUMENTED MEXICAN NATIONALS. SOT: "my heart dropped. you get this breathless felling. oh is this really happening? you tense up." VICTOR CASTILLO WAS STANDING BEHIND A PEP BOYS CASH REGISTER WHEN HE BECAME A WITNESS. SOT/Victor Castillo: "all of a sudden you see the window being smashed out and here comes a something...they just start shooting at each other and you could see the fear in their faces and everything." CASTILLO SAYS TWO MEN RAN INTO THE STORE AND SAID THEY HAD BEEN HELD HOSTAGE. OFFICERS WERE EVENTUALLY LED TO THE COCONUT GROVE HOTEL TODAY WHERE THEY FOUND SEVEN MORE UNDOCUMENTED MEXICAN NATIONALS...AND TWO MORE SUSPECTS. SOT A WAY OF LIFE DAVID SCHEELA KNOWS CAN BE DANGEROUS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED. SOT/Scheela: "i'm still a little edgy...looking over my shoulder. i'm just watchng out." TAG: POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR MORE SUSPECTS THAT FLED THE SCENE YESTERDAY IN A TAN CHEVROLET ASHORE VAN. ---end----AI SUNLATE
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