Mr. Scoggins. The policeman. I was excited when I heard them shots, and I started to get out—since we went back over there the other day and reenacted that scene, I must have seen him fall as I was getting out of my cab, because I got out of the cab, and in the process of getting out of the cab I seen this guy coming around, so I got out of sight. I started to cross the street, but I seen I didn't have enough time to cross the street before he got down there, so I got back behind the cab, and as he cut across that yard I heard him running into some bushes, and I looked up and seen him going south on Patton and then when I jumped back in my cab I called my dispatcher.
Mr. Belin. Why did you jump out of your cab first when you heard the shots?
Mr. Scoggins. Because anytime that there is anything going on that is one thing the cab driver wants to do is to get away from that cab, because the man is going to try—if he had ever seen the cab, he looked back over his left shoulder, and I don't think he even seen the cab—he would have probably jumped in the cab and had me take him somewhere or maybe shot me, too, you know, and I didn't want to be around the cab at anytime while he was in the neighborhood, you know, when there was anything like that going on, or anything, robbery, or anything.
Mr. Belin. I believe you said you saw the officer fall. Did you see where he fell?
Mr. Scoggins. Yes; he fell right by the side of the front, about, a little bit forward of the door, right about the door.
Mr. Belin. Did you ever later go up and view the officer?
Mr. Scoggins. Yes. I went up there, but by the time I got up there the ambulance had already got there. You see I got my dispatcher and was telling him about it, just by that time the ambulance got there.
Mr. Belin. Did you notice anything in the street to indicate where the officer fell?
Mr. Scoggins. There was blood there, of course. They picked the man up by the time I got there, the ambulance did.
Mr. Dulles. Could I ask one question? You were in touch with your dispatcher over your radio contact?