WORCESTER, Mass. — State police released a search warrant Wednesday that describes everything they learned during the search for Jorge Zambrano.
Police say Officer Ronald Tarentino radioed Auburn police dispatch at 12:26 a.m. on Sunday, May 22 reporting that he was pulling over an SUV. Just a short time later, he reported that shots had been fired and he was struck.
A source has told FOX25 that the gun Jorge Zambrano used to kill officer Tarentino was stolen.
When officers arrived, they said they found Tarentino bleeding from at least two gunshot wounds. He was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he was pronounced dead.
A witness saw the SUV that Tarentino had stopped speeding away after hearing about shots fired on a police scanner.
Police eventually determined that the vehicle was being driven by by Zambrano and tracked down several of his relatives. One of them was his daughter, who said he had called her a short time after the shooting was reported and said he wished he had been there for her.
Zambrano’s girlfriend told police he had left their home around 11:30 p.m., about an hour before the shooting, and took her cell phone, a bag of clothes, and his pit bull with him.
A man who said he knew Zambrano called police and reported Zambrano’s SUV parked at a home on Watch Street in Oxford.
When police arrived at that neighborhood, a four-hour standoff ensued and around 6 p.m., police stormed the duplex. Zambrano ambushed police, shooting a trooper, said the district attorney. Law enforcement returned fire, killing him.