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My first case is a case close to home out of Indiana, and it's an extremely disturbing one. My sources for this were Fox59 for some latest updates. I also listened to the dispatch audio involved in this case, which was disturbing. But predominantly, I relied on court documents obtained through my case. So this, I think the. Probably the easiest way to understand what happened here is to Go through the probable cause affidavit in the case and then kind of go forward from there because there's a bunch of layers to this. Unfortunately. This, this incident took place on Sunday, July 31, 2022. And this is the probable cause affidav. Richard W. Clay, who is a investigator with the Indiana State Police. So quote, I was notified by Sergeant Scott Jarvis regarding a shooting incident involving an officer with the Elwood, Indiana Police Department. Following is a summary of the shooting incident involving Elwood, Indiana Police Officer Noah Shanez. At approximately 2 7am Officer Noah Shannon, an officer with the Elwood Police Department, conducted a traffic stop on a white Buick Lacrosse. Indiana in God We Trust on on State Road 37 southbound near County Road A Thousand north in Madison County, Indiana. As Officer Chanez initiated the traffic stop, he contacted Madison county emergency communications regarding his traffic stop. Officer Chanez transmitted via radio that he had conducted a traffic stop. And the last radio transmission received from Officer Chanez indicated that the driver of a white Buick Lacrosse had a gun. At that time, additional officers with the Elwood Police Department and Madison County Sheriff's Department began responding to the location of Officer Chanovez's traffic stop. Upon their arrival, responding officers located Officer Shanavez, still located in his patrol vehicle, a fully marked Dodge Charger with emergency lighting still activated. Initial responding officers observed Officer Shanavez suffering from multiple wounds consistent with gunshot wounds. Damage to the vehicle consistent with being caused by gunfire, as well as what appeared to be rifle casings lying in the road was also observed. No other vehicles were observed at the scene. Upon additional officers arrival, other than Officer Shanavaz's Dodge Charger patrol vehicle, life saving measures were conducted on the scene by responding law enforcement officers. Officer Shanavaz was transported by emergency medical services personnel to Mercy Hospital in Elwood and then transported by helicopter to St Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis where he was pronounced deceased. From Z injuries, information regarding the white Buick Lacrosse and the license plate number was dispatched to surrounding law enforcement agencies. End quote. So we have a situation that is unfortunately all too common where you have a law enforcement officer pull somebody over for a traffic stop and get shot and killed in the process. And in this situation it's especially chilling because it sounded like he saw the gun and he had no opportunity to react. His Officer Shanavaz's gun never left his holster. So this happened very, very quickly and it's a, it's an immense tragedy. So some background on this officer. He was only 24 years old. He was a, formerly a United States army military police Officer, it's by all what I've read about him in the media and comments on some of these news articles. I mean people who knew him just said he was a great guy. So this is horribly tragic. So from there things spill over into Hamilton County, Indiana. Hamilton county is the county that is to the north of Indianapolis. So at around 2:25am Hamilton County Sheriff's Department Deputy Jared Wilcox, he is near, he's in like a church parking lot off of Indiana 37, 168th Street. And he gets the call about an officer down situation. There's a countywide dispatch that goes out about that and they're telling everyone, be on the lookout for this white Buick Lacrosse. And it's wanted in connection with the shooting. They have the license plate number, they have the car description. So he goes out and is looking for it and then he sees it on Indiana 37 near 116. It's 216th street in Hamilton County. So he does a U turn, starts following and the Buick is going like 70 miles per hour, you know, very well above the, the speed limit up there. And he sees the license plate, realizes it's the correct car. They send out the dispatch to Hamilton county communications and they all, they all start going in that direction. And the, the, basically the, the driver though will, will not stop. So what they start doing is they start deploying tire deflation devices around Indiana 37 and 141st Street. And then Fishers Police department gets involved. Fishers is a city within Hamilton County. So you have the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department responding. And then Fisher's comes in. Fishers starts putting down precision immobilization techniques. And, and they are, they ultimately result in the Buick being stopped and a man is taken out and arrested. And his, his name is Carl Bordes ii. So then basically investigators have to go in and figure out what happened. When he's arrested, police find a silver and black Taurus 9 millimeter handgun on him. They have a black rifle with a high capacity magazine. They try to interview him at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department. Actually the people interviewing him, you'll recognize his name. Kevin. Lieutenant Jeffrey Heron. Yes, and Detective Matthew Beaver of the Indiana State Police. But boards does not give a statement. He does not end up talking to them from there. Indiana State Police Detective Brad Tucker interviews this guy's parents and they indicate that Boards actually contacted them through FaceTime while fleeing from police, which, like who does that? And also did the same with his girlfriend. I mean like, yeah, they looked into this guy they found out that he owned a barbershop business in Marion, Indiana. And when they went up there to search it, they also met another witness who talked about how this guy boards, was a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites and also recorded a song saying if he was ever caught by the police, he would kill them. Okay, so at the barbershop, they find, like, that he's been sleeping there and a bunch of high capacity magazine, or at least one high capacity magazine, and they find a bunch of flyers on Black Hebrew Israelite philosophy. So I just want to do a little tangential thing because there's actually some history here. Obviously, any group has people who are nice and people who are bad. Like, so I don't necessarily seek to paint the Black Hebrew Israelite philosophy or movement as, you know, people who are just bad. That's not fair. I'm sure there's some very nice people, but it's generally a religious movement that incorrectly believes that African Americans are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites. This is revisionist history. It's not supported by anything. But some of the. I mean, but that's fine, whatever. People believe what they're gonna believe. Some of the sects within that movement are incredibly anti Semitic and racist. And when I say racist, I mean like black supremacist. So African American supremacist, black supremacist. Normally we hear about white supremacists, and that's certainly something that's been more, you know, pervasive in society in the sense that it's. White people have traditionally held the political power. So that's been more damaging to the African community, American community. But this stuff can still be corrosive, right? It's actually. I didn't know this, but in. On June 30, 1974, a man espousing Black Hebrew Israelite ideology, a man named Marcus Wayne Chennault, shot and killed Alberta Williams King. That is MLK Jr's mother. I did not know that. In additionally, December 10, 2019, there was a series of shootings in Jersey City, New Jersey. This is a really crazy story. So in Bayview Cemetery, a detective happened to be meeting with a confidential source, Detective Joseph Seals. He sees Dave and Ed Anderson and Francine Graham in a stolen U Haul. They shoot and kill him, but whatever he's like, sort of disrupted them. They had been planning a massive attack on, like, the Jewish community and law enforcement. I think his intervention ended up kind of like. They ended up kind of like doing something else. So they go into a nearby kosher Supermarket, they kill a store owner, Mindy Ferencz, employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, and a customer named Moshe Deutsch. And you know, so there, there is like a, there is a strain of this movement that's very anti police and also anti Semitic and that has been linked to violent attacks in the past. So I think the, the presence of that paraphernalia is significant in that sense. So just as if, if you found a bunch of white supremacist literature in somebody's house, that might be significant.
