WITNESS STATEMENT

PART ONE


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WITNESS STATEMENT

PART TWO


I,_________________________________,  do hereby voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence, or unlawful inducement.

Statement -  July 5, 1999 
   Michael Lynn Mincy  



I left home ( 5425 Mallory Drive, Haltom City, Texas) at exactly 10:43pm, Saturday night, 19 June 1999. As I drove northward on Denton Highway (US 377) at Glenview Drive at 10:45pm, I passed by two (2)
Haltom City Police cars, both heading in the opposite direction and traveling southward, as I was traveling northward. One car was a new "white" police car, the other the older color of very dark blue. Both were clearly marked with the words "Haltom City Police", and had the color lights on the tops  of their cars.
There was no incident here.

I continued traveling north on Denton highway to the intersection of  820 and Denton, where I turned right (eastward) on drove onto the freeway there ( 820), traveled at 55 mph to Rufe Drive, North  Richland Hills.
At Rufe Snow Drive, I turned northward, drove across the freeway there, and as I passed by the 
"Mc Donald's" restaurant there at 11:01 PM,  a North Richland Hills Police car suddenly appeared in the entrance to the restaurant, and after I passed this UNKNOWN North Richland Hills Police officer, he began an immediate "pursuit" of me, and maintained a close and constant surveillance of me. At first, he drove behind and to my right side, then, as we approached the intersection of Rufe Snow Drive and Industrial Blvd (about 1/2 miles from the Mc Donalds restaurant) , he very quickly raced up to my right side, and at that point, I took at least one "photo" of him. It was "after" I took that photo, that he very quickly broke off his pursuit, and turned off onto Industrial Blvd, driving eastward on it, and away from me. This was at 11:05 PM. I then proceeded to the Albertson's Food Store at the intersection of Rufe Snow Drive and Watauga Roads (in Watauga city limits). This was 11:06 PM.   I left that store at 11:28 PM, and traveled acrosss the street to the Kroger Food Store, in the North Richland Hills city limits, arriving there at 11:30 PM, and I left there at 11:40 PM. I then proceeded to the "Papa G's" sports bar, at 5600 Rufe Snow Drive, arriving there at abut 11:45 PM. 

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I left "Papa G's" at 1:45 AM ( 20 June 1999), drove onto Rufe Snow Drive to the freeway at 820, then on Interstate 820 eastward, to an "Albertsons Food Store" at 820 and Pipeline Sreet in Hurst, Texas, arriving there at exactly 2:00 AM.  As I approached the  parking lot, I
saw a  Texas State police car parked near the entrance. 

As I arrived in the store, there was a  Texas State Trooper in line at the only open check-out stand in the store. He was a black male officer, about  5' 11" tall, and did not take notice of me at all.  When I was ready to make my purchase, and as I stood in line at the check-out stand, both the store's checker and  a black male civilian ahead of me seemed in distress to see outside, the "flashing" color lights of two Hurst Police cars outside. They arrived at about 2:02 AM, or only two (2) minutes "after" I arrived at the store. After I paid the checker, I proceeded to the exit/entrance doors to the store, and as the doors opened, I took Only a few steps, and stopped momentarily. I stopped because immediately in front of  me, and entirely blocking my way to my car,  were two Hurst Police cars, with all lights flashing, one at the front of a private car, the other at the rear of that private car. At "that" point, one of three UNKNOWN Hurst Police officers, fully dressed in a Hurst  police uniform, and armed, began to follow me with his eyes, and kept visual contact, even turning his body to do so, and as I passed by him in order to go between his police car and the front of the private car, he spoke to me saying, "Hi. How are you?", in a completely   unemotional  tone of voice.  I replied something like "Fine!.", and continued to slowly walk, but he continued to maintain his watch of me. As I passed by the two cars, I saw what seemed like the black man I had seen in The store, sitting in the driver's side of the private car. I slowly continued to walk to my car, and saw only A Hurst police officer wearing bicycle gear, in addition to the officer who spoke to me, but there was no Sign of the third officer, who I assumed to be the driver of the second police car. I entered my car, drove A short distance from the three cars ( one civilian and two police cars), then took several photos of them. This was 2:08 AM, 20 June 1999. 

I then drove out of the parking lot, into the access road of the freeway at that point, drove onto the freeway, Proceeding West on it, untill arriving  at Denton Highway in Haltom City, where I turn onto it, and proceeded south on Denton highway, and as I again approached the intersection of Denton Highway and Glenview Drive, there were the same two Haltom City police cars, parked in a parking lot of the "Strip mall" located there, on the north side of the "Block Buster" video store. I continued on my way without Incident, arriving home at 5425 Mallory Drive at 2:19 AM, 
20 June 1999.
   


                                                                    Michael Lynn Mincy

                                                                          5 July 1999
    










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