HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A search warrant filed within the case of a fallen Harris County deputy particulars feedback made by one of many defendants simply previous to the capturing.
Dremone Francis and Ronald Palmer are charged with capital homicide of a police officer. Francis was launched on bond two weeks in the past and Palmer stays in custody.
Harris County deputies had been known as out to a Little Caesar’s Pizza on the night time of July 11 for experiences that an worker was pistol-whipped by a buyer who was driving a Chrysler 300. Deputy Fernando Esqueda situated the automobile and started following it, in accordance with authorities, in an unmarked truck.
In accordance with a search warrant, Palmer’s girlfriend instructed investigators she was with him within the automobile and that he took notice of the truck following him. Once they bought house, she stated they went inside the house on Blue Marvel Lane and stated, “I am going outdoors to deal with this. I am not coming again,” the search warrant notes.
She instructed investigators she heard gunfire and Palmer left shortly after.
Esqueda was hit, and his truck got here to a relaxation on the finish of the road in somebody’s driveway. He died.
Throughout their investigation, deputies discovered 41 spent casings, in accordance with court docket data. Of these, 26 had been from a pistol and 15 had been from a rifle. They famous within the search warrant that a number of had been present in a neighbor’s driveway, others had been discovered within the grass between Palmer’s home and the neighbor’s driveway and others had been discovered within the bushes outdoors of Palmer’s entrance door.
5 neighbors’ houses had been hit with gunfire, in addition to a automobile throughout the road.
Francis’ legal professional was essential of the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace and the unmarked automobile that Esqueda was driving. He urged the capturing wouldn’t have occurred if Esqueda was in a marked unit.
Throughout an interview with Palmer’s spouse, she described him to deputies as “having a particularly quick mood and suggested he owns a number of firearms,” the search warrant says.
The search warrant stated that Francis, whose girlfriend additionally lived on Blue Marvel Lane, was on the scene across the time of the capturing. Authorities discovered that he contacted somebody he knew since center faculty and gave him the pistol to eliminate. He stated he additionally had a Draco AK-47, however “he couldn’t go get the DRACO in the meanwhile as a result of it was too ‘sizzling,'” in accordance with the court docket document.
That man, who just isn’t charged, instructed authorities that he offered the gun for $300 money to a member of the family who attended CE King Excessive Faculty.
Regulation enforcement surrounded a house close by the place the capturing occurred the following day, and Palmer surrendered. He stays in jail on a $3.1 million bond.
Francis was launched from jail on a $500,000 bond and is topic to deal with arrest.
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