The two men, identified by authorities as Fidel Garcia and Gabriel Bernal from Corpus Christi, had pursued Ramon Michael Hutchinson, 49, on Tuesday to a Nissan dealership in Greenville, located about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.
Stew Peters, a bail investigator with the private Minnesota-based company U.S. Fugitive Recovery and Extradition, told the Associated Press that Hutchinson had been sought since March when he failed to appear for a court hearing in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis. Hutchinson, listed in court records as a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, was facing several charges that included assaulting a law enforcement officer.
The two had tracked Hutchinson to the dealership, and after waiting for several hours, approached him Tuesday evening.
Not too far from where I live, back in April, seven bounty hunters shot up a car with two guys they suspected had jumped bail. Oops! One died and the other was wounded but NEITHER one was wanted. All seven of the bounty hunters were charged with 1st Degree Murder. Good.
Oh, I’d bet money that there was blue on blue. Hell, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised if all three bodies had bullets from the same gun it in them to be honest.
If you haven’t watched the video, watch it. The shooting was 10 times stupider than you would think possible.
Not clear if the bond-jumper had committed a major felony or not. Not clear if the bondsman were acting legally.
More importantly, every couple of months we hear of bondsman shooting and even killing totally innocent people, like this:
Yeah, these idiots should all be convicted and serve life in prison. But that doesn’t bring the innocent dead guy back to life.
I’ve said it before - this version of bounty hunting has no place in the modern US. If a bond-jumper isn’t important enough for local LE or US Marshalls to want them, he’s not important for people to get killed over finding them. If we’re going to allow armed, interstate bounty hunters, at the very least they should have the same standards of training (and so licensing) as federal LE doing similar work, i.e. US Marshalls.
I’m not defending Bondsmen and certainly not the example these two have put forth, but a lot of these guys skip for years, sometimes decades. They also often continue the same criminal crap somewhere else.
There isn’t an easy answer here, the bond company is on the hook for the cash paid to bond these guys out.
Lol. Be honest, would it really surprise you if that was the case? I mean, the one guy looks like he is trying to grab the suspect with the gun for ****s sakes.
Honest, was thinking more on the lines that suspect getting a hold of a gun during the exchange. Grade A genuine cluster **** no matter how you cut it though.
Can’t tell much, but to me it sounds like all but one of the gunshots was fired at a regular pace, as if one person was emptying a magazine at a pace they were used to shooting at.
There is only one video version taken from a cell phone camera, there is no alternate view or reverse angle instant playback. The person taking the video wisely took a dive after the shots rang out and one can’t see any of the action shooting between the three parties.