The October sun was beginning to set when Caldwell Police Sgt. Andrew Heitzman and his officers heard a barrage of gunfire on the other end of a 911 call. A witness said a man wielding two guns had just threatened them. Heitzman, already in a patrol car, was four blocks away from the Freeport Street address.
Arriving on the scene, he saw people fleeing in all directions.
“There were people running in the road, screaming that the vehicle went that way,” Heitzman said. “And before long we learned that the suspect had made it onto the freeway.”…