Incident, the following radio transmission was received “Unit 34 (Harold Moe) to Headquarters. We have At 1:24 PM, ninety-two minutes from the time the original call came in about the Tower Halt the ground fire. Policeman George Shepard and Policeman Milton Shoquist then entered the Martinez ran from the scene yelling “… stop firing, stop firing, stop firing, I got him” in a vain attempt to Martinez would be dead since Whitman had a semi-automatic rifle in his hands. If Martinez’s shots had not wounded, disabled, and eventually killed Whitman, Pistol into him. McCoy fired his shotgun at least once, spinning Whitman around. Seeing Whitman’sĬontinued movements as a threat, Martinez grabbed McCoy’s shotgun and ran toward Whitman and fired again. Finally Still be seen in the wall. Martinez rounded the last corner and seeing Whitman, emptied his six-shot The northwest corner. Policeman Houston McCoy and Policeman Jerry Day finally followed out on the deck. McCoyįollowed Martinez and Day followed Crum. Crum fired the rifle at the southwest corner and the shot can Moves toward the southwest corner and Martinez continues toward the northeast. Whitman was crouched in Obstacle was that they had to dodge the bullets coming up from the people on the ground. Crum then Were on the Tower. At the time, it was unknown if this was just one person or many. Another Was very courageous of Martinez to continually look around the corners in order to learn how many snipers Martinez tells Crum to stay put while he rounded the southeast corner looking for the sniper or snipers. Top of the tower with bullet damage on walls. Ramiro Martinez forced open the door to the deck pushing away the dolly Whitman had placed there. Crumįollowed Martinez out the door to the deck. They had covered each other ‘Service style’ on the stairs Crum and MartinezĪgreed to do it ‘service’ style, and they covered each other as the other advanced up the stairs and aroundĬrum asked, “Are we doing this for keeps?”Ĭrum exclaimed, “Well then, you better deputize me.” Martinez started up the stairs to the 27th floor to confront the sniper.Ĭrum said, “You are not going by yourself,” and joined Martinez at the stairs. Crum was an employee of the UT bookstore and was unarmed. Officer Dub Cowan, a DPS plain clothes officer and a civilian, Allen Crum - were the only ones Once inside the building, he rode theĮlevator up to the 26th floor, expecting to see other police officers. Zig zagging, he ran up to the mall to the tower building. Using all the buildings as cover, he ran to the UT South Mall. Martinez drove to the UTĪrea, and seeing all the streets in police control, parked his car behind St. Hearing about it, he called the APD, and told to report to UT for traffic duty. He was off-duty on the day of the shooting. Ramiro Martinez was an officer in the Austin Police Department (APD).
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