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September 21, 2010 in City
Sheriff releases tapes of dispatches after pastor’s shooting
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office released the 911 and police dispatch tapes Monday documenting Deputy Brian Hirzel’s transmissions surrounding his fatal shooting of Spokane Valley pastor Wayne Scott Creach.
The transcript is largely as Spokane police officials had previously described. Hirzel calls “code 6,” which means he needs help. A few seconds later he says: “I’ve got shots fired, one down, shots fired.” A few seconds after that, Hirzel says: “respond medics,” making the same request a second time before a dispatcher advised that medics were en route.
Hirzel was in full uniform but in an unmarked car the night of Aug. 25 when Creach, who owned the property where Hirzel was parked at 14208 E. Fourth Ave., approached with a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other. Hirzel said he told Creach repeatedly to drop the gun but that he refused and tucked it into the back waistband of his pants, then refused Hirzel’s orders to lie on the ground.
Spokane County Prosecutor Steve Tucker now has the case and has said he hopes to quickly decide on any potential charges against Hirzel.
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misjustice on September 21 at 7:40 a.m.
SR, could you separate the above articles? It’s a little confusing the way they are posted.
valleyman on September 21 at 1:31 p.m.
It would be instructive of folks to listen to the dispatch tape and hear the fear and stress in the deputy’s voice both before and after the shots fired call… For me, this tape says volumes…
maria on September 21 at 9:21 p.m.
valleyman: Where do we get to hear the tape? Do you have a link? I’m guessing the deputy was calm and reserved at the beginning of the confrontation. Then after he bullied and murdered the old man he kicked into paranoia mode.
misjustice on September 21 at 9:59 p.m.
maria, KXLY had it up on their site. Try this link;
http://video.kxly.com/watch.php?id=22672
It’s sketchy. I read the printed transcript first and then listened, it helped. You can find the transcript by doing a search on kxly.com.
maria on September 22 at 4:11 a.m.
Thanks for posting that. It sounds like they pulled Hirzel away from the scene fairly quickly.
RobertHLocksley on September 22 at 9:06 a.m.
The dispatch recordings are useful but the associated CAD is needed to show the timeline. Hopefully this will also be made available?
ChefGus/ John Olsen on September 22 at 2:35 p.m.
“Spokane County Prosecutor Steve Tucker now has the case and has said he hopes to quickly decide on any potential charges against Hirzel.”
Hmmm….
By My calendar it has been over a week… perhaps the Prosecutor IS paying attention to the potential conflict of interest and is in the process of calling for a special independent investigation by the Feds or some such? John
Ed Byrnes on September 22 at 9:54 p.m.
I can’t imagine Tucker doing something that forthright.
Direct citizen review of police violence would be more immediately transparent.
oink on September 25 at 6:38 p.m.
No more information, statements, leaks or comments will be allowed until after the elections………….