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People v. Mayfield1/2/1997
sing a portable radio, Blankenship broadcast: "If there's an officer crossing the field, identify." He repeated the message two or three times without receiving any response. The man was then about halfway across the field and 60 to 70 yards away. Blankenship yelled: "Halt, Sheriff's Office." The man "immediately started running." Blankenship ran after the man but soon lost sight of him.
Along the western edge of the field, San Bernardino Deputy Sheriff Joanne Hensley had stationed herself behind a warehouse on Acacia Avenue. A few seconds after hearing Deputy Blankenship's radio calls ("If there's an officer crossing the field, identify"), Hensley saw an adult Black male moving very slowly in a crouched position along a dirt roadway between the field and the back of the warehouse. She yelled: "Halt, police." The man paused, then "made a slight turn" toward a house that was south of the warehouse. Hensley pulled the trigger on her rifle, which she had aimed at the man. She heard a "click" sound as the rifle's hammer struck a cartridge, but the rifle did not fire. Hensley racked another round into the chamber as the man ran full speed toward the house. She aimed at the man and again pulled the trigger. The rifle fired, but the bullet missed the man and struck the frame of a large plate glass window just as the man dove head first through the glass and into the house.
The sound of breaking glass in the living room awakened William Haverstick, who was sleeping in an adjacent bedroom. Haverstick jumped out of bed and opened the bedroom door; he saw a man he identified as defendant standing directly outside. Defendant immediately shot Haverstick, the bullet entering his upper right thigh. As he collapsed, Haverstick fell backward, pivoting against the bedroom door and forcing it shut; he came to rest sitting on the bedroom floor with his back against the door.
Anthony Terry Fifelski, sleeping in a bedroom behind the garage, was also awakened by a loud noise. He put on a robe and walked into the main portion of the house. He found the living room window broken. He called out, "Bill." He heard William Haverstick calling, "Get out of the house. There's robbers in the house. Call the police." Fifelski ran out the front door to the front yard and started yelling for the police. Someone said, "Don't say nothing." Turning, Fifelski saw a Black man in the front doorway pointing a gun at him. Fifelski was then called and led away from the house by police officers. Deputy Blankenship, standing nearby, saw a door on the east side of the house open, and "heard a male voice yelling out that he had hostages and to back off."
Defendant pushed his way into Haverstick's bedroom, dragged Haverstick out of the doorway, and started rummaging through a desk in the bedroom. Defendant asked Haverstick if he had a gun. Haverstick told defendant he had only an old shotgun that had been dismantled and was then in the garage. Defendant started making calls from the telephone in the bedroom. During the next four hours, until his surrender, defendant was engaged on the telephone most of the time.
Haverstick overheard one of defendant's telephone conversations that Haverstick summarized this way: ". . . he was saying that--words to the effect 'the police officer started harassing me.' All he went in there for was a pack of cigarettes and to buy some gasoline, and the police officer started harassing him. . . . He said he just tried to get away from him and started running, and the police pulled a gun on him and he just took it away from him."
The house was quickly surrounded by officers from various law enforcement agencies, and a sheriff's helicopter flew over the area and i
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