THE DAILY TITAN The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Volume 92, Issue 53
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012
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SUSPECTS EVADE POLICE
ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan More than 20 SWAT officers and about 60 other police officers, from seven different law enforcement agencies, were deployed Wednesday in a multi-city effort to arraign two pawn shop thieves.
CSUF LOCKED DOWN Two suspects still at large after high-speed chase ends on CSUF’s doorstep
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Students were told they could go home at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday after a complete lockdown and evacuation of Cal State Fullerton paralyzed the campus for hours. Dozens of SWAT members and other officers from seven agencies flooded the campus in search of one of the men suspected of shooting a pawn shop employee during a robbery in Moreno Valley. Police originally pursued five suspects to Fullerton before they fled on foot after crashing into a student’s car at Nutwood Avenue and Folino Drive at about 3:50 p.m. Helicopters circled overhead as one suspect was arrested near the on-campus Carl’s Jr. while another was caught outside College Park. The third suspect carjacked a vehicle and led police on a second pursuit that ended in a baseball field in Watts. Two suspects remained at-large Wednesday night. The other missing suspect is believed to have fled south of CSUF on foot. Fullerton Police Sgt. Jeff Stuart said most police resources went toward the search for the suspect on campus. At 11 p.m., Stuart said attention had shifted to getting students off campus. “Some of these kids have been in the buildings for more than six hours,” said Stuart. “We’re concerned about their needs at this point, so we’re trying to get them out to their cars and off campus.” Stuart was unsure how long the campus-wide sweep would take, but predicted it would continue well into the night. “It’s a slow, methodical process when we search
rooms,” Stuart said. “That one corner that you miss could be the corner where the suspect might be hiding.” Riverside County Sheriff’s Cpl. Angel Ramos said the incident began with a shooting during a robbery at a Moreno Valley pawn shop just after 3 p.m. “Moreno Valley officers responded to a robbery in progress at the 24500 block of Sunnymead Boulevard,” said Ramos. “The preliminary information is that at least one male entered the business, displayed a handgun, shot a victim inside the business and fled the scene.” Sgt. Lisa McConnell, public information officer for Riverside County, said the wounded individual was in stable but critical condition when he was transported to a local hospital. Dakota Durrego, 19, undeclared, was working her job as barista at the Steven G. Mihaylo Hall Starbucks when she was told to evacuate the building. “I was ringing everyone up and making customer orders, then I look up and see someone run through the building,” said Durrego. “It didn’t look serious because it just looked like a student running late to class.” Durrego described the suspect as having braided hair and wearing a large white T-shirt and jeans. She said she did not understand the gravity of the situation at the time. “I was not thinking of how severe this could really be,” Durrego said. “He could have easily pulled a gun on someone or taken someone. That’s just scary even thinking about.”
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