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Crossfire at gas station leads to questions about how fatal takedown was handled

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation / Roger Heard Jr.'s phone is seen next to an evidence marker after a police shooting that killed Heard on Aug. 11 in Chattanooga.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation / Roger Heard Jr.'s phone is seen next to an evidence marker after a police shooting that killed Heard on Aug. 11 in Chattanooga. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation / Roger Heard Jr.'s phone is seen next to an evidence marker after a police shooting that killed Heard on Aug. 11 in Chattanooga.

She was pumping gas when she heard the shots.

She hit the ground and told a friend she was talking to on the phone not to hang up.

“I didn’t know where the shots were coming from,” Amanda Stanton said by phone, nearly 10 months after the police shooting at a Speedway gas station in Chattanooga.

“I was like, ‘Please don’t hit me, please don’t hit me,'” she said. “Then they stopped, and I was like, ‘OK, what just happened?'”

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