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com Report: Suspected Cop Killer's Family Flees To Mexico Group Protests City's Immigration Policy POSTED: 9:56 am MDT May 16, 2005 UPDATED: 6:05 pm MDT May 16, 2005 DENVER -- The search continues for a 19-year-old man suspected of killing a Denver police officer. Raul Garcia-Gomez is accused of gunning down Denver police Detective Donn ie Young. On Monday, police called him "armed and extremely dangerous."
See Where Officers Were Shot Garcia-Gomez was featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" Saturday night. Detectives involved in the search are saying very little about t heir investigation but they do say that they've received several tips fr om the nationally televised bulletin. The search is currently focused on the Los Angeles area and Denver homici de detectives in LA said they have information that he is still in tha t area, despite some reports he may have fled to Mexico. The car police believe Garcia-Gomez used to flee Denver was found behind his mother's home in Los Angeles. Her neighbors told reporters that the suspect's mom, Gregoria Gomez, has since fled to Mexico. They say they saw Gomez leave with four of her other children late Saturd ay. Next-door neighbor Jose Luis Herrera said Garcia-Gomez's 26-year-old cous in, Ismael Goytia, left for Mexico because he was scared after he was mi staken for the suspect by police. Group Argues That Denver Has Become 'Sanctuary' For Illegal Immigrants Meanwhile, a group in Denver protest the police department's policy on un documented immigrants. Protesters with the Colorado Alliance for Imigration Reform gathered at t he City and County Building to protest the way illegal immigrants are al lowed to live and work so easily in the Denver area, using Garcia-Gomez as the example. They say Denver has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants and that of ficials aren't doing their jobs by properly checking paperwork. "What happened was that an illegal got across our border, like tens of th ousands do everyday, and made it to Denver because he knew that Denver w as a sanctuary city and that he's safe here. He can drive without being arrested," said Fred Elbel with the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Re form. They want Denver police to end its policy of not taking any action agains t suspected undocumented aliens, a practice that they said started durin g Wellington Webb's administration. Denver police officers will not go after any person solely because he or she is suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. Garcia-Gomez, an undocumented Mexican national, is suspected of using fak e documents in order to get a job and live here in the Denver area. He was working in the kitchen at the Cherry Cricket Restaurant in Cherry Creek hours after Young was shot and killed. The group is upset that Garcia-Gomez was never reported to immigration au thorities after he was stopped three times for traffic violations and he showed no proof of residency, and no proof of insurance. Young and Detective John Bishop were shot from behind on May 8 while work ing off-duty as security at a baptism celebration. Bishop was treated at a hospital and released the same day. There is a $100,000 reward issued for Garcia-Gomez through Crimestoppers.
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