"We don't know if he was still alive. The report said he died at the hospital, but there are witnesses who say that they think he was dead at the scene." Ramirez said.
Ramirez said there were at least four witnesses. One was working at the pawn shop where the incident took place. Sol Pawn Shop at 31st and L Street. Another witness was across the street at a car wash. And the other two witnesses "are in my sister's pocket," Hermus Lone Dog told me, or, in other words, Julia Ramirez isn't giving up the names of these people to anyone. "They say they will testify if they need to," Lone Dog said. "Nobody wants any retaliation from the police department."
Hermus Lone Dog said all four witnesses agree there were two police shooters. All agree there was no crime
lab/forensics team sent to the scene. All agree that Lance wasn't given any
medical attention at the scene. And all agree that the police handcuffed him
and as they did so, they had their knees in his back.
At the present time, family members do not know if the ambulance leaving the scene had its flashers flashing and its siren sounding or if it just left quietly without any kind of emergency notice, as if a cadaver was being transported, Lone Dog told me.
Lance McIntire was a happy-go-lucky young man who loved going to baseball games, powwows, and family functions with his wife, Ashley
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D'Shawn Cunninghum, a community organizer with an Omaha-based activist group named Stand For The People, also said to this writer during a telephone interview, "One of the main things I noticed is that there was an Officer Distress Call discrepancy. This was an audio recording that was posted online. Omaha police are not supposed to use an Officer Distress Call for this type of incident. Officer Distress Calls are only to be used when a shot is fired. This is a problem, as it gives the idea that Lance initiated violence and deserved violence in return when in fact the officers initiated the violence and created a violent situation."
"Another thing I noticed was that in one newspaper article, the officers said they didn't know Lance was in the vehicle. Another newspaper article said (to Action 3 News -- KMTV News) the police knew Lance was in the vehicle and they followed him. If you read between the lines of the KMTV News article, it appears from what the police said, that they followed Lance around for two or three hours."
"I've dealt with these gang units before and they seem to have ID-ed Lance as a gang member. There is no evidence that Lance was a gang member," Cunningham said.
The officer who shot him was black. All four witnesses said a second unnamed officer also shot McIntire. Lance was shot and hit four times but was shot at numerous times. According to media reports, 16 shots were fired by .40 Glock Standard Police Issue firearm(s). Lance had a .22 caliber handgun in his car, according to the papers. No other guns were inside the car, Cunningham said.
Even the gun that was recovered was not loaded. "It was never mentioned in any report that Lance McIntire pointed the gun at the police and witnesses did not say this either. The gun was found in the back seat after he was shot and wasn't even in arm's length. We're saying that since the gun was found after the fact, this contradicts the officer's statement. There might not have even been a gun in the car," Cunningham said.
Ashley
McIntire said, "The family is helping me through this. We were married June 27, 2013.
We've been married almost three years."
She said she has never seen any indication
her husband was in a street gang.
"He was happy-go-lucky. He'd give someone the shirt
off his back if they needed it. He was always smiling. He was a hard worker," she told me.
"He
did home repairs for different rental properties. He stayed busy with this when
there was work to be done. We lived on the North Side of Omaha," Ashley McIntire said.
"I live with his
sister now out here in Wilber, Neb. It's a suburb of Omaha," she said.
She admits she's had some long
days since her husband's murder. "We went to powwows together. And baseball games, cookouts, and family
functions. Now with him gone, it won't be the same."
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