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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerTags: None
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Police Chief Bill Lansdowne, a cop for four decades, had trouble finding words to describe the shooting by a petty criminal who drove alongside Henwood's patrol car and opened fire. The suspect was pursued and shot dead by other officers.
The slaying, said an ashen-faced Lansdowne, "was an assassination."
Police gave the following account of the crime: While Henwood's patrol car was stopped at a stop sign, the driver of a black Audi signaled with his lights, apparently to draw the officer's attention. The driver then pulled alongside the cruiser, lowered his front passenger-side window, leveled a shotgun and fired, striking the officer's head.
The driver of the Audi, later identified as Dejon Marquee White, 23, turned out to be a suspect in a shooting minutes earlier in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in nearby El Cajon. There is no evidence Henwood knew about the incident, authorities said.
"Jeremy had no indication he was in danger," said Lansdowne, backed at a news conference by a dozen members of his command staff and officers from other departments who responded to the incident: the El Cajon Police Department, San Diego County Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol.
As the Audi sped away, bystanders rushed to Henwood's aid. One man attempted emergency first aid. His wife took down a description of the Audi and its license-plate number. She used the radio in Henwood's car to alert the police dispatcher.
It was the kind of help from the community that San Diego officers, including Henwood, have tried to encourage in City Heights. Henwood had said it was the kind of neighborhood where a good beat cop could make a difference, giving adults a sense of security and their children some promise for the future, according to officers who knew him.
Within seconds the dispatcher's alert, "officer down," brought dozens of officers.
Henwood was rushed to the emergency room of a local hospital. Lansdowne and other high-ranking and rank-and-file officers raced to the hospital.
Henwood's parents were alerted and flew from Texas to San Diego that night. At the hospital, the family and medical officials discussed the possibility of harvesting Henwood's organs for transplant.
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