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Jul 1, 2009 5:55 pm US/Central
Dallas Constables End Lancaster Standoff
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Alonzo Mendoza was apprehended by Dallas County constables on July 1, 2009 at a Shell gas station in Lancaster. He held authorities in a standoff for five hours before officers approached his car and hauled him out.
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A five-hour standoff between a murder suspect and Dallas County
constables ended Wednesday afternoon when a team of officers approached
the suspect's car and hauled him out of it.
The standoff had shut down a
Lancaster gas station as the man sat in his car with a gun to his head.
Several officers approached the suspect's car on foot and fired some kind of projectile at it. The device released a cloud of smoke, and officers used the distraction to pull the man from the car.
The standoff, at I-35E and West Pleasant Run Road, also shut down traffic on the interstate's service road and in the intersection.
Constables said that the man is wanted for a double murder in San Antonio earlier Wednesday morning.
Officers at the standoff said that the suspect, 31-year-old Alonzo Mendoza,
walked into a store and opened fire, killing two people. Police in San Antonio said that the shootings were the result of domestic problems that the man was having.
One of the dead is Mendoza's wife of just two weeks, Misty Dawn Espinosa, who worked at the San Antonio Dollar General store. The other shooting victim, Clarence Adolfo Blades, was also an employee.
The San Antonio gunman fled the scene after the shootings.
Deputy Constable Gene Forester told CBS 11 News that constables in Lancaster tried to stop a car for a traffic violation. The driver pulled into a Shell gas station, where constables saw that he was holding a gun to his head.
Constables later learned that the driver was wanted for the San Antonio shootings.
Chopper 11 was over the scene, and showed more than a dozen police vehicles in and around the parking lot of the gas station. Authorities said that they took an armored vehicle to the scene, as well as negotiators and sharp shooters.
Several other cars, presumably those of customers, could also be seen parked at the gas station. Some were at gas pumps. Customers and those in surrounding businesses were evacuated.
This is just another incident that supports the CBS 11 News report about a 'new breed' of county constables.
Click here to read that report.
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