OXFORD, Mass. — More than a month after a deadly standoff and shootout with the suspected killer of an Auburn police officer, Ron Tarentino Jr., FOX25 Investigates obtained video inside the unit where suspect, Jorge Zambrano, was holed up.
The video, recorded by an unknown party, shows blood covered floors and badly damaged walls inside a duplex on Watch Street in Oxford.
One of the former residents of the unit, John O’Clair, told FOX25 he and his girlfriend have been unable to return since the incident in May.
“We’ve just got nowhere to go. The house still isn’t fixed,” said O’Clair.
O’Clair said he and his girlfriend were asleep when phone calls from neighbors and police first alerted them that Zambrano was in the unit, next door.
“They told us to get out, get in the car, and drive down the street,” said O’Clair.
After the couple left, investigators say Zambrano crawled through a hole into their unit. He was later shot when police stormed in and later died.
“It could've been (worse). He could've held us hostage. It could've went a whole completely different way,” said O’Clair.
O’Clair said he didn’t know Zambrano, personally, but had seen him on the street before.
“I talked to him because he had a big dog and I had a little dog. I was worried (but) he told me his dog was friendly,” said O’Clair.
A month after the standoff, the windows on the duplex on Watch Street remain boarded up. O’Clair says the District Attorney’s Office paid for him and his girlfriend to live in hotels for the past several weeks, but they’re now looking for a new place to live.
“All my stuff is ruined. Our home is destroyed,” said O’Clair, who also acknowledged that Officer Tarentino and his family paid the highest price.
“I feel bad,” said O’Clair. “He was only doing his job.”
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