Police video footage of the incident released by the DA office picks up at that point, as a patrol officer driving nearby heard the honking of the school bus horn.Ī nearly 10 minute, high-speed pursuit ensued as officers chased after Baxter’s SUV, the video footage showed, first as the SUV continued to ram the school bus, and then as it sped through traffic on nearby streets.

on a Friday pulled his gray Chevrolet Tahoe up next to a Buena Park School District bus driven by his estranged wife that also had a 6-year-old passenger onboard, according to the DA letter.īaxter followed the school bus and eventually blocked the bus’s path before exiting his SUV and firing the handgun toward the front of the bus as his wife begged and pleaded for him to stop, according to the DA letter. 3, 2021 fatal shooting of 61-year-old Cedric Baxter at the Buena Park School District’s headquarters on Orangethorpe Avenue, according to a letter released Wednesday outlining the results of the DA investigation.ĭays after allegedly assaulting his wife and her son and after refusing to turn himself in on a warrant, an armed Baxter shortly before 2 p.m. David Bernal and Officer Jonathan Choi are not criminally culpable for the Sept.

Prosecutors determined Buena Park police Cpl. (Photo courtesy of the Buena Park Police Department) Officials identified Cedric Baxter, 60, of Compton as the man seen shooting at a school bus and then chased by police in Buena Park before he was shot and killed by officers on Friday, Sept. Two Buena Park officers were justified in shooting and killing a Compton man who fired gunshots at a school bus driven by his estranged wife and then led police on a high-speed pursuit, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office has determined.

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