Summary

A MAN WHO NEGOTIATED WILL POLICE FOR TWELVE HOURS AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 212461
Story Slug Car - Chase - Suicide
Location Newman, CA
Format VOSOT
Date 9/7/2001
Archive Time 1:01:03
TRT 1:07
Supers Newman, California Kelly Huston, Stanislaus Co., Sheriff's Dept.
Video Description SHOTS OF THE SCENE, SNIPERS IN THE GRASS, NIGHT SHOT OF SCENE, MAN SOT, MORE OF THE SCENE, TRAFFIC BACKED UP.
Description A MAN WHO NEGOTIATED WILL POLICE FOR TWELVE HOURS AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.
Script A HIGH SPEED CHASE AND A TENSE STANDOFF IN CALIFORNIA COMES TO AN END WHEN A DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. (TAKE VOSIL) AUTHORITIES SAY 40-YEAR-OLD JOAQUIN GUTIERREZ (wah-KEEN goo-tee-ERR-ez) SHOT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST WHILE SITTING IN HIS CAR ON INTERSTATE FIVE IN NEWMAN. POLICE NEGOTIATED BY CELLULAR PHONE WITH GUTIERREZ FOR ABOUT 12-HOURS AFTER HE LED THEM ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE THURSDAY MORNING. POLICE SAY SWAT TEAMS FIRED TEAR GAS AT THE CAR AND WERE READY TO APPROACH THE SUSPECT WHEN HE SHOT HIMSELF. (SOT - Huston "He actually set the phone down and they had silence for about six minutes. They heard the radio in the car going. And they heard a pop, no movement and then heard some sort of wheezing sounds inside there." :12) (MORE VO) GUTIERREZ WAS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE MURDERS OF HIS WIFE AND STEP-SON. RECAP
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