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911 call: Police at right home during shooting


ASSOCIATED PRESS

8:29 p.m. July 24, 2008

INGLEWOOD – Transcripts of a 911 call released Thursday show that police were at the correct apartment when they fatally shot an Inglewood man, despite a claim from the man's family that officers went to the wrong door when responding to a domestic disturbance report.

Kevin Wicks was killed Monday by officers who said he pointed a gun at them as he answered his door.

Wicks' family, friends and other Inglewood residents have questioned the official version of the shooting, with at least one family member saying officers went to the wrong apartment.

Transcripts from a neighbor's 911 call show that officers had in fact been called to Wicks' No. 10 apartment. Police also released a transcript of radio communication between a dispatcher and officers that confirmed police were responding to the No. 10 apartment for a domestic disturbance report.

In the 911 call, the dispatcher asks the caller, “You went to apartment 10 and he's having a fight with a female?” The caller responds, “Yeah, they were arguing.”

Wicks, 38, was a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service whom friends and family called a kind, gentle man who never had a problem with police.

The officer who shot him, Brian Ragan, was placed on leave for the second time in 10 weeks. He was still under investigation for a May 11 shooting in which he and his partner fired multiple rounds at a car, killing a 19-year-old passenger.

That has spurred angry calls for an independent probe into the shooting and for the resignation of police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks.


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