‘Don’t let me die in the ambulance,’ said man shot 12 times, per testimony
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
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JACKSON, MI – The man allegedly shot a dozen times by a childhood friend in June begged and pleaded with a police officer not to let him die, according to testimony at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
“He kept saying, ‘Help me. Help me. Don’t let me die in the ambulance,’” said Jackson police Sgt. Peter Postma, one of the first people at the shooting scene.
Blake Curran, 28, was ultimately bound over to Jackson County Circuit Court on one felony charge each of open murder and second offense felony firearms in the case.
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Demonstrators raise their arms and chant Hands up, don t shoot on Aug. 17, 2014, as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, Hands up, don t shoot, in August 2014 as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Ronell Foster was riding his bicycle through the hushed streets of Vallejo, Calif., one evening when a police officer noticed that the bike had no lights and that he was weaving in and out of traffic.
The officer, Ryan McMahon, went after Foster with lights flashing, siren blaring and the car s spotlight pointed directly at him. Foster stopped. The pair exchanged words before Foster, who was on community supervision for a car theft conviction a month earlier, fled, eventually ditching the bicycle. McMahon caught up with Foster and jumped on top of him. The two struggled. McMahon, a rookie on the force, used a Taser on the father of two and struck him several times with his department-issued flashlight. Gu