Mr. Vaughn. Well, he pulled up in a city squad car and I told him I couldn't allow him in the basement in a squad car and so, he backed the car out and he parked it on Main Street, which would be actually east toward Pearl Street from—it would be on my right from the entrance or exit there—it would be on the right. He parked there and he got out and he come back and he come back up where I was standing inside the ramp, and he stood there a minute or two and talked to me, and, of course, I had known Chabot ever since I had been there. He's married to a policewoman, and he stood there a minute and he told me, he said, "I've got to check the parking situation in the basement."
He said on two previous dates he had had to work later until about 5:30—and so I told him to go ahead, due to the fact that I knew it was Sunday—I seen him driving a squad car—I thought possibly maybe they had sent for him, and there was several cars in the basement, so I told him to go ahead, and I seen him walk down in there—I was standing, and he was standing in my view—I could see him, and he walked down there and I got the view when he was talking to Sergeant Dean, and in 2 or 3 minutes he had come back up. He stopped there and chatted with me a minute and never said a thing, as far as telling him to leave the basement, so then he got out and went and got in the squad car and left.
Mr. Hubert. Now, tell us what happened when you heard the shot?
Mr. Vaughn. Well, after I had stepped back in there when Lieutenant Pierce had left—stepped back inside the ramp, it was, I would say, not over 3 minutes I heard somebody holler, "Here he comes," and so—I turned around and glanced—I couldn't see anything—all I could see was an outline of a few figures at the bottom.
Mr. Hubert. You turned then so that your back was to Main Street and you were looking around?
Mr. Vaughn. I was standing to a side view—I turned like this and looked right just like this a little way.
Mr. Hubert. You looked over your shoulder?
Mr. Vaughn. I didn't actually turn, and just immediately after that I heard something that sounded like a shot, but you know, at the point—it was something like an explosion, but it didn't sound loud enough to actually be a shot.
Mr. Hubert. Did you see any movement?
Mr. Vaughn. Well, at that time there was just mass confusion.