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    2 officers, 1 suspect shot dead in Santa Cruz

    2 officers, 1 suspect shot dead in Santa Cruz

    By J.M. Brown, Stephen Baxter. Jessica Pasko
    Santa Cruz Sentinel
    santacruzsentinePosted: 02/26/2013 05:39:17 PM PST

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    Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Deputy member of the SWAT team gears up to enter the... ( Dan Coyro )



    SANTA CRUZ -- Two Santa Cruz police officers and one suspect are dead after a shootout in Santa Cruz Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Phil Wowak said.

    Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel said, "Our department is in mourning. This is a horrific day. We lost two exceptionally fine officers today.

    Santa Cruz has never lost an officer in the line of duty.

    "It's a horrible, horrible day for the Santa Cruz Police Department and the community of Santa Cruz," Vogel said.

    Wowak said the Sheriff's Office will take over patrol operations for the Police Department for the time being.

    "My heart goes out to those who were involved," Wowak said.

    Wowak said they do no believe there are any suspects on the loose but as a precaution deputies are going house to house.

    Here's what unfolded earlier Tuesday.

    About 3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz police were investigating an incident at a house on the 800 block of North Branciforte Avenue when a suspect fired at police, hitting the two officers.

    The second shooting occurred a half-hour later while police were in pursuit of at least one suspect, maybe two on Doyle Street. A barrage of gunfire erupted that apparently left a suspect dead on Doyle Street.

    Megan Kausch, a Capitola resident, was sitting outside Whole Foods reorganizing her purse when police swooped in.

    Police came up, chasing a suspect who appeared to have two guns. She heard a barrage of gunfire. She ducked down and when she looked up saw the gun smoke. She believes the suspect on Doyle Street was shot dead.

    "I've never been so close to a real shooting. It was so loud, so many bullets back and forth."

    Police were on a citywide manhunt for several hours after the initial shooting. The FBI joined the investigation just after 4 p.m. as well as law enforcement from the sheriff's office, Capitola, Watsonville and Scotts Valley police departments and the California Highway Patrol.

    Police Chief Kevin Vogel rushed out of a City Council meeting upon hearing the news.
    City Manager Martin Bernal pulled Mayor Hilary Bryant out of the council meeting to discuss the shooting. Several people at the council meeting were crying.

    Police issued Project ROPE for a white four-door Honda or Toyota Corolla seen leaving the scene of the Branciforte shooting. They were looking for a white male with long, blondish brown hair in his 20s with a backpack, gray baseball cap and white T-shirt.

    Police put out a be on the lookout for Jeremy Peter Goulet, 35, described as 155 pounds, 5 feet 8 inches tall, blond hair, green eyes. It's unknown his relation to the case. The police bulletin said Goulet has three weapons registered to him including a .40-caliber semi-automatic Sig Sauer. Goulet was arrested by Santa Cruz police on Friday on suspicion of disorderly conduct at 801 N. Branciforte Ave., according to arrest records. He listed his occupation as a barista.

    About 10 minutes after the first shooting police were called to 203 Stanford Ave. for a victim who said he was grazed by a bullet but was declining medical attention.
    Santa Cruz resident Charlie May was inside his home on North Branciforte when the incident erupted, with dozens of police cars descending on the area.

    "I actually went out to take a look and they shooed us all back," May said.

    May heard the second burst of gunfire -- at least 15 shots, he estimated -- which occurred on Doyle Street near Whole Foods, about a half-block from his home.

    "I imagine they got him. They've still got the whole block surrounded," May said.
    Though his home is inside the police perimeter, May also said many spectators are gathering near the scene.

    Melissa Stevens, who was waiting at Doyle Street where the street is blocked off for her son who is on lockdown at the Midtown Montessori School on Branciforte. She said the owner of the school said the students were all safe at the school.

    "I'm sort of freaked out," Stevens said. "Everyone is safe, but as long as there is a shooter on the loose, I don't know what I should do."

    Paul Rolen, who lives on the 800 block of Branciforte, said police told him there is a shooting suspect still barricaded in a building and he could not go to his house. He had just gotten off a bus from Cabrillo.

    "It sucks and it's scarey," Rolen said.

    Police also have issued a temporary flight restriction zone for an area above the shooting scenes.

    Branciforte small schools and middle schools are on lockdown. The shooting happened after school let out. It's unclear if there were any students left at the campus.

    Students from the locked down schools will be bused to the County Building to be picked up by parents.

    Authorities have blocked North Branciforte Avenue from Water Street to Soquel Avenue. Soquel is also blocked from Cayuga Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. Doyle Street is blocked as well. Deputies with guns drawn are on Doyle Street.

    At one point police has two sharpshooters on the roof of Whole Foods.

    Follow J.M. Brown on Twitter at Twitter.com/jmbrownreports
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    APNewsBreak: Father of California police shooting suspect says son was ‘ticking time bomb’


    (Santa Cruz Sentinel, Dan Coyro/ Associated Press ) - A California Highway Patrol officer carries his rifle near the shooting scene in Santa Cruz, Calif., where two Santa Cruz Police detectives were shot and killed Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The shooting in the community about 60 miles south of San Francisco took place as police were investigating a report of a sexual assault, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Phil Wowak said. A suspect was shot while police were in pursuit of the shooter, the sheriff said. Authorities said that person also died.

    By Associated Press,
    Feb 27, 2013 07:25 PM EST
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    SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The father of a suspect in the fatal shooting of two California police officers said Wednesday his son was a ticking time bomb who had contempt for police and the justice system.
    Jeremy Goulet, a 35-year-old coffee shop worker, had numerous run-ins with the law and swore he would never go back to jail, Ronald Goulet told The Associated Press.
    He said he never thought his son would turn to such violence.
    Santa Cruz police Sgt. Loran Butch Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler were shot and killed Tuesday outside Jeremy Goulet’s home, where they had gone to question him regarding a report that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward a co-worker at her home.
    Goulet, who was fired from his job at Kind Grind coffee shop on Saturday, was killed a short time later in a shootout with police.
    A manager at the coffee shop said no one would speak to the media at this point.
    The shootout occurred about 60 miles south of San Francisco in the town with world-class surf spots, historic downtown with bookstores and coffee shops, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
    Its boardwalk is a major summer draw for tourists hoping to escape inland heat or enjoy a classic California experience.
    Lately, the city of 60,000 people had seen a spike in assaults that community leaders had planned to address Tuesday during a downtown rally that was cancelled along with a City Council meeting by teary-eyed leaders after they learned of the deaths.
    “There aren’t words to describe this horrific tragedy,” said Police Chief Kevin Vogel.
    The mid-afternoon shooting about a mile from the boardwalk prompted the lockdown of two schools and an automated police call to nearby residents, warning them to stay locked inside. The ordinarily quiet neighborhood echoed with a brief barrage of gunfire that killed the suspect about a half-hour after the officers were shot.
    A store clerk a few buildings from the shooting said the shootout was terrifying.
    “We ducked. We have big desks so under the desks we went,” said the clerk, who spoke on condition of anonymity and asked that her store not be identified because she feared for her safety.
    In May 2008, Goulet was convicted in Portland, Ore., of peeping on a 22-year-old woman who was showering in her condominium, and of carrying a concealed weapon, according to The Oregonian newspaper.
    The elder Goulet said his son constantly undermined any success he had in the military or college due to an insatiable desire to peep in the windows of women showering or getting dressed.
    “He’s got one problem, peeping in windows,” his father said in a halting emotional voice. “I asked him, ‘Why don’t you just go to a strip club?’ He said he wants a good girl that doesn’t know she’s being spied on, and said he couldn’t stop doing it.”
    Jeffery Goulet, the suspect’s twin brother, released a statement Wednesday saying his family was deeply saddened by the events in Santa Cruz.
    “We would also like to extend our deepest sympathies to the families of Sgt. Loran Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler,” it said.

    Desiree Salas-Murphy, whose husband owns Cole Coffee in Oakland, where Goulet worked for six or seven months last year, would not say why Goulet was let go in August, describing the firing only as work-related.
    Goulet’s coworkers had noticed him becoming withdrawn and anxious, enough so that Salas-Murphy and her husband wanted to make sure the parting was as amicable as possible, she said.
    “We did feel like he was becoming increasingly tense. He made people uncomfortable,” she said.
    Baker, a 28-year veteran of the force, and Butler, a 10-year veteran, had been shot at and called for backup before arriving officers found Goulet, who was killed after opening fire on them, authorities said.
    A concrete wall at the site was riddled with bullet holes and splattered with blood. The shots on the wall and a garage were marked with identifying letters placed by police that went from “A’’ to “K.”
    Baker’s son, Adam Baker, served as a community service officer, and father and son had mailboxes side-by-side at the Police Department.
    Loran Baker told the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 2010 that his son’s choice to pursue a career in law enforcement surprised him, but he saw glimpses of himself in Adam.
    Loran Baker said he told his son to work hard for the department.
    “It’s a great community to be a cop,” he said. “You don’t get bored.”
    Butler came to Santa Cruz to study at the university and stayed, the newspaper said.
    “You have to be a people person down here,” she told the newspaper in a 2005 interview. “I really do know people’s names.”
    After the shootings, police went door-to-door in the neighborhood, searching homes, garages, even closets, to determine whether there might be additional suspects.
    Law enforcement officers filled intersections, and helicopters and light aircraft patrolled the neighborhood.
    Mayor Hilary Bryant said the community was “heartbroken at the loss of two of our finest police officers who were killed in the line of duty, protecting the community we love.”
    The recent violence in Santa Cruz included the killing of a 32-year-old martial arts instructor who was shot outside a popular downtown bar and restaurant; the robbery of a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was shot in the head; a 21-year-old woman who was raped and beaten on the UC campus; and a couple who fought off two men during a home invasion.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2-calif-police-officers-fatally-shot-while-following-up-on-sex-assault-case-suspect-dead/2013/02/27/59d4d8b6-80bf-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_story.html
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