Here's a timeline of what happened, and a link to the
public statement issued by Jerry Kane's common law wife.
The West Memphis Police say there is dashcam footage, but surprise surprise nobody seems to have seen it.
Timeline 11:36 a.m.: West Memphis police officer Bill Evans made a traffic stop of a white van at Mile Marker 275 along Interstate 40 near Airport Road. Fellow officer Brandon Paudert, son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert, pulled in to back up Evans.
11:50 a.m.: A broadcast goes out of officers down.
12:14 p.m.:
Chief Paudert confirmed the identity of his son and Evans as the victims of a shooting, including that his son was dead. Evans dies later at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
1 p.m.: Shelby County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers broadcast a description of the suspect van â€" a white 1994 Plymouth Voyager with Ohio tags â€" and deputies were at all highway interchanges.
Officers are trained to call in with a description and plate numbers before getting out of their squad cars! Are they saying the officers didn't do this and were imcompetent? Why did it take 46 minutes for a broadcast of the suspect van to be broadcast? And who is this mysterious dispatcher that nobody can find?
1:05 p.m.: Col. A.C. Knight, commander of the Memphis Police Department’s organized crime unit, said teams were searching for the suspects in Memphis, checking all known drug spots. They also were checking motels and parking garages to see if the suspects had abandoned the vehicle. Memphis police also sent reinforcements to West Memphis to help. That included two helicopters and Police Director Larry Godwin.
Shortly after 1 p.m.: The white van is spotted in the Walmart parking lot at 798 W. Service Road in West Memphis. Law enforcement officers scramble from the original shooting scene to the lot. An Arkansas wildlife officer, who has heard about the officers, spots the white van and rams it. Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby, and W.A. Wren, chief of enforcement, who are in a car together arrive at the scene. At some point, both Busby and Wren, as well as the suspects, are shot.
About 1:20 p.m: A WMC-TV Channel 5 helicopter shows about two dozen law enforcement officers swarming a white, bullet-riddled van in the Walmart parking lot. It appears at one point that there is another shot fired at the van.
So, in less than 20 minutes, in a small town, dozens of law enforcement agents, SWAT teams, were that close to the Walmart from hearing the call to being there? How is this possible? If so, why? The broadcast with the van description went out 1 hour and 10 minutes after the Kane's allegedly shot 2 police officers. Are they claiming they were staying in a concentrated area for some reason? Does this make any sense?
About 1:22 p.m.:The video shows a line of officers â€" in uniform, tactical gear and plainclothes â€" approach the passenger side of the van before others move toward the driver’s side. The bodies of both suspects are pulled from the van.
2:30 p.m.: Busby, who was shot in the shoulder, is examined by doctors while Wren goes to surgery at The Med.
