Askar had said then she did not recall seeing Smith with a weapon. There is no known video of what happened. Marshals Task Force operation to apprehend the 32 year old. Just last week, the Crow Wing County attorney ruled the shooting justified, clearing the undercover Hennepin and Ramsey deputies who fired on Smith during a U.S. Some taken at the crime scene, capturing the bullet-riddled Maserati, the gun authorities insist Smith fired from inside the vehicle as well as Askar’s bloodied clothing that she voluntarily provided. 'So it would have hit my head if I didn’t move, but I’m just so happy the police didn’t shoot me because I moved because I wasn’t trying to die.'Īskar’s audio-recorded interview is just one of the many pieces of evidence in the redacted BCA investigative case file released publicly Wednesday that includes more than 1,000 pages and scores of photographs. 'But the glass, something shooted in the car, I felt like something coming towards my head so then I went like this and it grazed right here and right here,' said Askar. All of a sudden, I don’t know if police shot the car or if they broke it open.' He was like, ‘I am going to die, I am going to die.’ And then he went on Facebook Live. 'I know they were talking about Winston because clearly, they could see my hands. 'Police was like put your hands up where we can see it,' said Askar. They had just finished up lunch at Stella’s across the street when police descended on the Maserati that Smith had borrowed from an acquaintance and chaos ensued. Norhan Askar said she had been going out with Winston Smith for a few weeks.

Shortly after the deadly June 3 encounter on top of an Uptown parking ramp, the lone non-law enforcement witness to what happened spoke to investigators. I just kept thinking about my son and that was it. 'I was like bleeding and I was terrified because I thought it was a gunshot,' said Askar.

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