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Neighbors in the Young Terrace apartments said Sunday night was chaotic. There were two shootings, two victims, all if it happening within about 20 minutes.

The chaotic and tragic night ended with the death of a Norfolk police officer in the courtyard of the Young Terrace apartments.

One woman toldYour NewsChannel 3 she saw it all happen. Ebony Harvey said her brother was outside, trying to figure out what happened in the first shooting.

A police officer told her brother to get down on the ground. That’s when she said another police officer started firing.

“The police officer that got shot was saying, get on the ground,” Harvey said.

Then, moments later, Harvey said that officer was shot. And, Harvey said it was another officer who pulled the trigger.

“The cop that got shot had his gun drawn on my brother,” Harvey said. “So, when he shot him, he kept [shooting]. He just kept shooting.”

The police officer died.

That was the end of chain of events that began with another shooting around 11:15 Sunday night in the 500 block of Nicholson Street. Police said a man was shot in the stomach.

Joanne Freeman heard shouting outside her apartment, then several gunshots.

“WhenI got up and went to the window, that’s whenI saw the policemen had dogs out there,” Freeman said.

Witnesses said a crowd of about 50 people were swarming around, and police had to use pepper spray to hold them back.

“One police officer pushed me back,”Harvey said. “After he pushed me back, the other police officer started shooting at the other guy.”

Witnesses said they saw a detective who was not wearing a uniform, draw his gun, telling Harvey’s brother to get down on the ground.

That’s when, witnesses said, another officer, coming up from behind, shot the detective.

“I looked outside, and that’s whenI saw the policeman laying on the ground,” Freeman said. “It scared me to death.”

The first shooting victim, the man who was shot in the stomach, is at the hospital recovering. Police said they think they know who shot him, and that person is in custody and will probably be charged with malicious wounding.

Meanwhile, Norfolk police officers are mourning the loss of one of their own. The officer that was killed has been identified as Seneca Darden.

Norfolk Police Chief Bruce Marquis held a press conference Monday.

Your Newschannel Three’s Priscilla Monti was there and files this report:

Norfolk Police Chief Bruce Marquis said Officer Darden was shot to death by a fellow Norfolk Police Officer. That officer is on administrative assignment. The State Police will investigate the shooting and turn the findings over to the Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Chief Marquis said “no words can adequately convey the grief we all feel. We convey our heartfelt sympathies to the family of Officer Seneca Darden.”

The shooting happened on Nicholson Street in Norfolk. Officers were called to investigate a shooting. While wrapping up that case they received a call of another shooting in an apartment about a block away.

Five uniformed officers responded. Officer Seneca Darden was wearing plain clothes. He was not working undercover. He had on jeans and a white tee-shirt.

When the officers arrived at the apartment they found a large crowd. Chief Marquis said some of the people had guns. Officer Darden told them to drop their guns. Then another officer came up behind Officer Darden.

Chief Marquis said the officer did not recognize Seneca Darden as an Officer. He told Officer Darden to drop his weapon and then fired several shots. Officer Darden died a short time later at the hospital.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Jack Doyle said his office will look closely the case. “An officer has a duty to use deadly force. What is required must be evaluated at the scene. We will look at the facts and determine if the officer acted within the law.”

Most Norfolk Police Officers still had the black mourning bands on their badges from last week’s tribute to 37 officers killed in the line of duty. They’ll leave the bands in place to honor Officer Senaca Darden.

Republished with permission of WTKR-TV.

The Metropolitan Police Department will pay a total of $72,000 to settle lawsuits arising from separate incidents in which citizens claimed officers used excessive force against them.

The department’s Fiscal Affairs Committee on Monday approved a $32,000 payment to Lisa Coatney, whose complaint stemmed from a 1999 arrest, and a $40,000 payment to Robert Garcia and Noi Lewis, who sued police after being detained during 2002’s deadly biker riots in Laughlin.

The settlements, which do not require the department to admit wrongdoing, were both approved without discussion as part of the committee’s consent agenda.

Coatney claimed Las Vegas police officer Glenn Dillard nearly beat her unconscious when Dillard responded to her house in November 1999 on a report of a potential domestic violence situation.

According to the lawsuit, when Dillard responded to the home, Coatney originally denied him entry, saying he needed a warrant. The complaint accused Dillard of placing Coatney under arrest for obstructing an officer and repeatedly slamming Coatney against his squad car.

Prosecutors later dropped the obstruction charge. Coatney filed a complaint with police Internal Affairs in 1999 that was not sustained.

Coatney didn’t pursue the matter further until 2001 when she read a Review-Journal story about another woman who had accused Dillard of inappropriate behavior during a traffic stop.

That woman, Chanin Cuddeback, said Dillard tackled her on the hood of his police cruiser and threatened to arrest her after she slammed down the officer’s pen while receiving a ticket.

Cuddeback later filed an Internal Affairs complaint against Dillard, which was supported by investigators on the basis of excessive force and discourteous behavior.

Then-Sheriff Jerry Keller fired Dillard in September 2001 under the department’s “truthfulness” rule for lying to investigators during an Internal Affairs investigation.

Dillard, who police officials said now lives in South America, could not be reached for comment Monday. Attempts to reach Coatney, now a prosecutor in the Midwest, also were unsuccessful.

Garcia and Lewis sued the department in 2003, saying they were mistreated by police during the prior year’s riots in which members of the Mongols and Hells Angels motorcycle clubs shot, stabbed and beat each other at Harrah’s Laughlin during the annual River Run event. Three bikers died in the brawl.

According to their $2 million lawsuit, Garcia and Lewis are not members of any biker gangs but were detained with others for several hours after the riot.

They also claim officer Robert Grabowski subjected them to excessive force.

Garcia claims Grabowski beat his shoulders and back area with a baton. Lewis claims Grabowski forced her to the ground, causing her shirt to come off her shoulder and expose her breasts.

Garcia also claims police denied him medical treatment while he suffered several seizures, including one grand mal seizure.

Attorneys for the department recommended settling Coatney’s case as a cheaper alternative compared to the cost of proceeding to trial. The Garcia and Lewis settlement was recommended for several reasons, including attorneys’ belief that the plaintiffs could prevail at trial because Garcia and Lewis made for compelling witnesses who could win jurors empathy.

Police yesterday took the extraordinary step of releasing the transcript of a 911 call that describes the shooting of a man who allegedly beat two cops with a kid’s scooter during a heated confrontation in Brooklyn.

At the same time, the case against the man police shot - Robert Ramirez, 28 - was bolstered by his stepfather, Jose Morales, 49, who told detectives Ramirez struck the officers with the scooter, according to a police source.

Nonetheless, the Monday night shooting, which took place on the grounds of Glenwood Houses as police tried to stop a DJ from playing loud music, outraged Ramirez’s family, with their adviser, City Councilman Charles Barron, saying police overreacted.

“If you can’t deal with a community playing loud music without beating someone down and shooting someone in the chest, then you don’t belong on the police force,” Barron said.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, however, that although investigators must still conduct a thorough review, the shooting “appears to be justified.”

Kelly said that Ramirez “attacked them without warning,” backed them against a fence and refused to drop the scooter, which he was swinging over his head, prompting one officer to shoot Ramirez once in the chest.

In the aftermath, tensions continued to flare, with back-up officers racing to the scene and more than two dozen people surrounding the two officers involved, some spitting at them, Kelly said.

The scooter, taken by Ramirez from a child at a barbecue, could easily have killed the officers, Kelly said.

“One woman said the sound of the scooter was so loud that she could hear it from her apartment in the adjoining building,” Kelly said.

About 90 minutes before the 7 p.m. shooting, Officers Jason Jeremiah and Dominick DeSiervi - Housing Bureau cops with less than two years on the job - asked residents at a courtyard barbecue to lower the music because the group did not have an amplification permit.

The DJ, Leonard Jackson, 38, complied, Kelly said, but when the officers returned, the music was back on loud.

They tried to write Jackson a summons, but Morales, “intoxicated, belligerent and muttering obscenities,” pushed one of the cops and tried to interfere, Kelly said.

When police tried to handcuff Morales he grabbed onto a bench and refused to let go, prompting one officer to strike his hand with a metal baton to try to loosen his grip.

A witness, Rakim Washington, 37, said the officers had already ratchetted up tensions with their sharp words.

“Cut the - music off,” Washington quoted Jeremiah as saying. “When I say something, you do it.”

As the officers scuffled with Morales, Ramirez approached them, police said.

Washington and Jackson said there was no scooter attack.

Morales, under questioning by police, said his son struck the officers with the scooter, the source said.

A 911 caller, a woman whose apartment overlooks the courtyards, described the attack.

The NYPD rarely releases 911 transcripts when police are involved in a shooting. Yesterday, however, police officials released a transcript of the call and Kelly played the tape for reporters.

“They are attacking the cops out here in Glenwood, 56 and Farragut,” the woman says, her voice distorted to protect her identity. “They are attacking the cops. There is a bunch of people in the park around them.”

Later, the caller says she saw a man take a scooter “and he beat the cop across the back.”

Ramirez was in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital. His family said he was able to grip his mother’s hand, but that he suffered serious injuries, and doctors removed half his lung.

Ramirez, charged with assault, has six previous arrests. The cases are sealed, but Kelly said “two officers were sent to the hospital” in one arrest attempt.

Morales was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. He has one summons on his record, Kelly said.

Ramirez’s biological father, Robert Ramirez Sr., 51, said his son “only came to protect his stepfather, as he would do for me and I would do for my father.”

Jeremiah fired the shot that hit Ramirez after he was hit on the back and head with the scooter, police said. Both he and DeSiervi, who police said was struck twice in the back with the scooter, were treated for their injuries and released.

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The Portsmouth Sheriff’s Deputy that crashed his motorcycle on his way to escort a funeral procession has died.

Officials say, 52-year-old Charles Fisher passed away Saturday afternoon.

The accident happened on the on ramp to 264 East at Portsmouth Boulevard early shortly after noon Friday.

A passer-by saw the crash, stopped and used the Deputy’s radio to call for help.

Investigators are still trying to figure out why the Fisher lost control.

He was wearing a helmet and is known to be an avid motorcycle rider even in his spare time.

Fisher has been with the Portsmouth Sheriff’s Department for ten years; he just recently joined the motorcycle unit in March.