Mr. Belin. You saw him?
Mr. Benavides. I mean, he was acting like. I didn't see him actually put a shell in his gun, but he acted like he was trying to reload it.
Maybe he was trying to take out another shell, but he could have been reloading it or something.
Mr. Belin. Let me ask you now, I would like to have you relate again the action of the man with the gun as you saw him now.
Mr. Benavides. As I saw him, I really—I mean really got a good view of the man after the bullets were fired, he had just turned. He was just turning away.
In other words, he was pointing toward the officer, and he had just turned away to his left, and then he started. There was a big tree, and it seemed like he started back going to the curb of the street and into the sidewalk, and then he turned and went down the sidewalk to, well, until he got in front of the corner house, and then he turned to the left there and went on down Patton Street.
Mr. Belin. When he got in front of the corner, when you say he turned to his left, did he cut across the yard of the house, or did he go clear to the corner and turn off?
Mr. Benavides. There is a big bush and he catty-cornered across the yard.
Mr. Belin. He kitty-cornered across the yard?
Mr. Benavides. Yes. In other words, he didn't go all the way on the sidewalk. He just cut across the yard.