Another road rage shooting, with a twist.

[KD5NRH]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... bde91.html

Dallas police officer arrested on suspicion of shooting at vehicle in Garland
08:43 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News
teiserer@dallasnews.com

A Dallas police officer was arrested Wednesday, after authorities identified him as the man who shot at a woman's vehicle in Garland.
Senior Cpl. Daniel Hageman, who was hired in 2001, is charged with deadly conduct in the incident, a third-degree felony.
Cpl. Hageman turned himself in to Garland police about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Dallas police have placed Cpl. Hageman on administrative leave pending an investigation by the department's Internal Affairs Division, according to a news release.
Garland police Officer Joe Harn, a department spokesman, said the incident happened about 11:30 p.m. May 9 in the area of LBJ Freeway and Centerville Road.
A woman and her friend were driving down the road when they noticed two speeding cars approaching from behind, Officer Harn said.
One of the cars moved into the lane to the right of her, and it appeared that the man inside was yelling at them.
"They said he appeared to be mad," Officer Harn said. "The driver said she continued to drive straight and tried not to look at him."
They told police that the man pointed a gun at them before they heard what sounded like gunshots. Her passenger rear tire went flat, Officer Harn said.
The motorist pulled to the side of the road and called authorities.
"Officers see what they think is a bullet hole in the tire," Officer Harn said. "They got a good description of the car and a license plate."
Police got a driver's license photo of the person thought to be driving the car and showed it to the passenger in the car that was shot at. She identified Cpl. Hageman, Officer Harn said.
Garland police said they did not realize the shooter was a police officer until after a warrant for his arrest was issued in mid-June.
Cpl. Hageman is assigned to Dallas' southeast patrol division.

[billfromtx]

Thats Scary...When to "Protectors of the Public" go nuts.
Probabaly al ot more to the story...

[Rokyudai]

Hmm... how can you shoot out a car's tire going freeway speeds and NOT be held pending investigation?

Really not a lot of info. to go buy. Did this happen off duty? Unmarked car in pursuit? No excuses, just trying to put a coherent story together....

[BigDan]

I wonder if he was in pursuit and she cut him off somehow, making him lose the car. He probably just saw red after that. No excuse for a firearm discharge, however!! That is really a scary situation.

[DoubleJ]

Well, she shoulda AT LEAST got a ticket for failure to keep right.
I hate it when people are just camped out in the passing lane :

and obviously he needs some more time at the range.. only hit the TIRES???? geeeeeeeez.










jk, btw

[ricor]

This is why the 2nd Amendment is so important.

[WarHawk-AVG]

This is why the 2nd Amendment is so important.

Is that sarcasm or what? I really don't understand this post as relating to the story

[baseballguy2001]

A story I read, (sorry, I've lost the link) said he was off-duty at the time of the incident.
Update -- found the story:

DALLAS - Two months after a man shot out the tires of a car during a road rage incident, a Dallas officer turned himself into the police Wednesday.

A woman driving the car targeted in the incident wrote down Sr. Cpl. Daniel Hageman's license plate. She later identified Hageman as the driver through his driver's license photo.

Hageman wasn't on duty at the time of the incident. He has been placed on administrative leave.

[waffenmacht]

Although not a cop, I wonder if in the spirit of fairness, I can get administrative leave for shooting tires as I go down the freeway?

[retrieverman]

Although not a cop, I wonder if in the spirit of fairness, I can get administrative leave for shooting tires as I go down the freeway?

My guess is that you would get to go straight to jail pending the investigation. Sounds like there MIGHT be a double standard as to how suspects are treated if one of the happens to be a cop.