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SECTION ONE
The Shooting
Introduction
The following narrative of the Newhall shooting1 is drawn from multiple sources, including interviews with participants, a thorough examination of the homicide investigation files completed and maintained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and official California Highway Patrol (CHP) documents, photographs, and film.
Unfortunately, the reconstruction of a complex event is often limited by the fallible memories of the participants and witnesses. It’s a matter of extensive research, investigation, and discussion within medical and legal circles that witnesses often don’t remember the details of an event, particularly a dramatic and life-threatening event such as a gunfight, with total accuracy.2 Since a memory is “a record of people’s experiences of events, not a record of those events themselves,” it is bound to be influenced by a host of physical, spatial, cognitive, environmental, and emotional factors that affect those personal experiences and place their own imprints on the individuals’ perception of the true action that occurred.3 This leads to the inevitable result of conflicting testimony and complicates the investigator’s and author’s task of understanding the incident as it truly happened.