18-year-old Shot By Deputies While Running With Gun

Marquise Chapple, 18, was shot and wounded by Sacramento sheriff’s deputies while fleeing holding a loaded gun. But a bizarre sequence of subsequent events saw Chapple in a hospital, then jail, then released and then made to return to jail. On March 5, Chapple, The OBSERVER has confirmed, was a passenger in a car that had pulled into a nearby strip mall at Fruitridge Road and Odea Drive around 8:30 p.m. when he was shot. & “An adult male passenger from that vehicle opened the front passenger door and began to run away on foot,” Sheriff’s spokesman Amar Gandhi said in a statement. “Detectives gave chase and observed the suspect holding a gun in his hand while running.” Chapple does not deny that he was holding a gun but said that the person driving the car gave the gun to him when police began approaching the vehicle. “He just said ‘brotha hold this’ and I wasn’t even thinking so I just got out of the car and tried to run,” Chapple told The OBSERVER in an exclusive telephone interview Tuesday. “I was just scared.” The sheriff’s office said that a few moments later, an officer-involved shooting ensued, where Chapple was...