A. Stayed about five or ten minutes. Q. At any time previous to the shooting did you receive any information that he had tried to shoot anybody else that day? A. I did. Q. More than one person? A. Yes more than one. Q. Where did you next see him John? A. I saw him drive around the courthouse. Saw him cross down here and cut that way. Went around the block and turned south and pulled in over there at Frank Lowry's store. Q. That is immediately across the southwest corner of the courthouse square? A. Yes. Q. Where were you when he pulled in? A. Right in front of the courthouse. Garrett Anderson was with me. Q. What did you and Garrett do? A. I told him, "He is pulling in right now, we will go over and talk to him." We had the warrant. Q. You walked across with Garrett? A. Yes and he started backing out before we got there. I rushed over there. I went up and said, "Rucker, stop, I want to talk to you." I said "You are drunk. I have a warrant for you. How about me sending you home and you come back and fix this tomorrow?" He said, "I am not going home." I said, "I will have to put you up then." He said, "I will die and go to hell before I will be put up. God damn you, I am going to kill you." The car was standing perfectly still. Garrett Anderson was standing on the right hand side. Rucker then started after his gun, had it in his shirt bosom. Q. Had you been advised he had a pistol? A. No. |
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