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To: TobagoJack who wrote (37649)	7/28/2008 4:13:19 PM
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income tax on global income?" and be shoot by police? DA details police shooting in Yarmouth Email\| Text size – + July 28, 2008 02:30 PM By John R. Ellement, Brian R. Ballou, and Michael Levenson, Globe Staff YARMOUTH -- Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe today provided the most detailed account yet of the fatal shooting by police of a motorist in Yarmouth Sunday morning, but declined to say whether the officer’s use of deadly force was justified. O'Keefe said that Officer Christopher Van Ness, a three-year veteran of the Yarmouth Police Department, was on patrol at about 1:10 a.m. when he saw Andre Martin’s vehicle speeding on Harbor Road. Van Ness switched on his blue lights and saw Martin’s car turn on to Baxter Avenue, which intersects with Route 28. O'Keefe said witnesses told police that Martins tried to get away from Van Ness, and sped off at 80 to 90 miles per hour. Meanwhile, other Yarmouth police cruisers moved into position to block the intersection of Route 28 and Baxter Avenue. As Martins headed in the direction of the blockade, he turned left onto a lawn on Baxter Avenue. Van Ness pulled his cruiser onto the lawn behind Martins’ vehicle. As Martins attempted to make a U-turn, his vehicle struck Van Ness’ cruiser, through it was not clear if Van Ness was inside his cruiser at the time, O'Keefe said. Van Ness at some point got out of his cruiser and opened fire, O'Keefe said. Martins finished the U-turn and drove several hundred feet back down Baxter Avenue, before his vehicle came to a stop. It was not clear how many times Martins had been shot, or how many shots Van Ness had fired. O'Keefe said Martins, 25, was killed by a gunshot wound that perforated his heart and lungs Martins' girlfriend, Camila Campos, who is also the mother of his 5-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son, was in the passenger seat and was not injured during the shooting, O'Keefe said. When paramedics pulled Martins from the car, he had a marijuana cigarette in his mouth, O'Keefe said. No firearms were recovered from his vehicle. Van Ness, 34, was put on administrative leave with pay while the shooting is investigated, O'Keefe said. He said Van Ness was “upset” by what O'Keefe called a “tragedy.” Marlene Campos said that her daughter, Camila, and Martins had dated for at least eight years. Martins has lived in the United States for at least a dozen years, and was originally from Paraná, a state in the south of Brazil, Marlene Campos said. O'Keefe declined to comment on Martins’ immigration status. Martins "lived for his kids,” Malene Campos said, crying outside her front door in West Yarmouth. “He loved them so much.'' "His whole family is still in Brazil,'' she added. Martins recently rented a house in Dennis with his children and Camila Campos but several months ago was forced to move because a bank had foreclosed on the owners of the property, said Cristina Rivera, a former neighbor. "Andre was a great guy, very nice and very dedicated to his kids,'' Rivera said, just moments after learning about the fatal shooting. "He had a dirt bike, and would take his kids on rides around the yard. And when the kids had birthdays, he would throw these huge parties for them, he'd invite so many people.'' Rivera said Martins was self-employed as a painter and that he had painted her son's bedroom for free. "He was the kind of guy that just offered to help out where he could,'' she said. Rivera said the police visited the house several months ago after an argument broke out between Martins and his girlfriend