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Shockeye:
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Bizarre incident at Quarry leads to death
Web Posted: 05/14/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Vianna Davila, Tracy Idell Hamilton and Vincent T. Davis
Express-News Staff Writers
A man previously charged with indecent exposure was shot and killed Friday by an off-duty constable at the Alamo Quarry Market after the officer confronted the man as he fondled himself inside his car in the parking lot.
The deadly confrontation began when Bexar County Deputy Constable John Burns, working security at the busy shopping center, responded to a complaint about a man, wearing only his underwear, masturbating in a black four-door Mazda in full view of passing shoppers.
The man, 24-year-old Tyler Green, slammed his car door on the constable's hand, started the car and dragged the officer along with him as he careened through the parking lot.
Burns fired two shots while being dragged, one hitting him in the hand, the other striking Green in the head.
The car continued moving, slamming into other parked vehicles before coming to a stop.
Green was taken by helicopter to Brooke Army Medical Center, where he died around 7 p.m., San Antonio police spokesman Sgt. Gabe Trevino said.
An ambulance took Burns, a Bexar County deputy constable, to a local hospital with injuries to his hand and bruises.
The incident occurred at about 4 p.m. in the Quarry parking lot outside of the Old Navy and Whole Foods stores.
Police taped off a large area of the lot, from Whole Foods to PacSun at the edge of the shopping center. Vehicles inside the circle of police tape couldn't be moved for more than an hour, as evidence technicians pored over items in Green's car, including a baby carrier.
Green was charged with indecent exposure in 2002 and then received deferred adjudication, wiping the charge from his record after serving probation. A second 2002 indecency exposure charge, involving a child, was dismissed.
The shooting halted much of the Quarry's shopping traffic on Friday afternoon, as patrons spilled out from stores and their cars to see what happened.
Clayton Crews was sitting in his white Suburban reading "Trace," the latest Patricia Cornwell murder mystery, while his wife Veronica and daughter Sunny were shopping at Old Navy.
The story was getting intense when he heard five loud blasts behind him. He saw the black Mazda speed across several lanes before crashing into a gray truck four lanes away.
Crews called his wife on his cell phone, telling her that a man had been shot and for her to stay inside the store. Police arrived two minutes later, Crews said.
Ramon Vlaun, 35, was shopping inside the Verizon Wireless store when he heard the shots and the screech of tires.
He rushed out to where the black Mazda stopped and saw a man, shot in the head and slumped against a window splattered with blood.
"Right between the eyes," Vlaun said.
A group of teenagers from Tom Moore High School in Ingram stood in front of Old Navy, chattering at each other and into cell phones. Their classmate witnessed the shooting and had been taken to police headquarters for a statement.
"He's kind of in shock," said one girl. "Everyone ran inside when they heard the shots, but he just stood there."
Some employees yelled at shoppers to take cover inside stores.
"People are definitely scared," said Brenna Kuykendall, an Old Navy employee, moments after the incident took place. "It's very chaotic here. There are a ton of police officers. There's a lot of noise and confusion."
Kuykendall said she didn't realize what was going on until she heard the wail of the sirens.
"I didn't hear any (gunshots) because at Old Navy our music is so loud," she said.
Anne Lovell, a sales assistant at another store, heard the popping sounds and assumed it was a shooting.
"I was pretty sure that's what it was," said Lovell, 68. "It's one of those things that could happen anywhere."
Another shooting in the Quarry parking lot, this one just after midnight, took a man's life in February 2002.
Virginia Garza, 40, was walking out of Bally's gym at the Quarry that night in 2002 when she ran into the crime scene and on Friday she was walking out of a movie with her daughter when she saw the circle of tape and throng of police cars.
"Oh no, not again," she thought.
RhyssaFireheart:
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Clayton Crews was sitting in his white Suburban reading "Trace," the latest Patricia Cornwell murder mystery, while his wife Veronica and daughter Sunny were shopping at Old Navy.
The story was getting intense when he heard five loud blasts behind him.
I love how this was included... like just saying "He was reading a book in the car while his wife and daughter were shopping" wasn't good enough, they had to put what book it was and how it was getting intense when the shooting happened. Oooh, coincidence?
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"I didn't hear any (gunshots) because at Old Navy our music is so loud," she said.
"Hey, I can't hear what's going on in the outside world because we drown everything out with obnoxiously loud music. It's +++ because we can't hear the customers either!
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"Oh no, not again," she thought.
I had to re-read the lines previoius to this a couple of times to figure out the connection. It's a really messed up sentence to end the article on. This line should have been first, then the next two sentences to clarify the thought, not the other way around.
Shockeye:
Yeah, that article really shows local journalism at its worst.
stray:
Yay! That's the second time my hometown has made Useless News.
RhyssaFireheart:
Shockeye forced me to post this, honest! His comment about "local news" reminded me of this article from the Trib this past Thursday. Not only is the article hilarious on several levels, but I'd like to see if anyone can find the two glaring typos in the article.
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Cheeky protesters are nearly naked and totally sincere
By Chris McNamara
Special to the Tribune
Published May 12, 2005
They looked just like the shoppers lingering around the vestibule of the Eddie Bauer store at 600 N. Michigan Ave. -- until they stripped off their clothes, stood on benches and began shouting about killer oxfords.
Christy Brown was the first on Saturday afternoon. She peeled off her pink blazer and khaki pants -- nude save for tape over her nipples and thong underwear.
Katie Houlahan and her young nieces (3, 10 and 15) happened to be sitting 2 feet in front of her. Their eyes widened a bit at the 6-foot-tall spectacle standing before them, they giggled, then casually stood and exited the store. "We live in San Francisco, so we see this stuff all the time," chuckled Houlahan.
Here in Chicago, we don't. After about 60 seconds, the Eddie Bauer security manager hustled the members of THONG (Topless Humans Organized for Natural Genetics) out of the store. And that's when things got interesting.
On the sidewalk the protesters, three men, five women and one who "prefers to remain gender-less" (though her exposed breasts hinted otherwise) continued their information campaign about Eddie Bauer's wrinkle-free and stain-resistant clothing. Chemicals in the clothier's Nano-Tex line have been linked to disease in lab animals, claims THONG, a public-interest group that regularly uses nudity during protests at businesses and scientific seminars.
"Of course Eddie Bauer would never sell products that could harm our customers," responded Elizabeth Borrelli, director of public affairs and corporate social responsibility. "This particular material meets environmental health and safety standards. We continue to follow the discussion about this issue."
Shoppers strolling down this haughty stretch of the Magnificent Mile were confronted with flesh concealed enough -- just enough -- to remain within the law. As such, the first policeman on the seen merely watched as THONG members distributed fliers and engaged passersby in discussion.
But that wasn't such as easy task. The audience was often too busy snapping photos and laughing or shaking their heads in outrage. Car horns blared. While riffling through her purse for a camera, Jennifer Potee of Noblesville, Ind., muttered that she had to get a shot of this for her husband.
A THONG member and lawyer who goes by the moniker Just Joking Jerry flitted between Eddie Bauer security personnel and the policeman, politely explaining the group's mission and reiterating that they were breaking no laws. Soon four bike cops arrived. The female officer sternly checked that all nipples were covered. The male officers seemed to be fighting back giggles.
Some shoppers did manage to get through the protest and enter Eddie Bauer. They were welcomed with "Happy Mother's Day!" by the store greeter, who did her best to distract eyes from the butt cheeks lined up outside the store windows.
But most gathered around the show. A panhandler misguidedly begged change from the pocketless, pantless protesters. Four guys who looked straight out of a frat house huddled on the corner howled with laughter. "This is funny but it's disgusting!" said 20-year-old Josh Stack of Livonia, Mich.
After about 20 minutes the members of THONG had run out of fliers. The greasepaint messages scrawled on their legs and backs ("NO NANO") was beginning to fade. And the 45-degree air had sprinkled goose bumps on all of that exposed skin.
"This problem is a lot bigger than our naked bodies," declared Brown during a congratulatory huddle. "I think people really understood what we meant and they had an overwhelmingly positive response."
With that the protesters, in various states of nudity, strolled west down Ohio Street to cars holding their wrinkled clothes, perhaps already thinking about their next undercovered event.
Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune
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