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Aug 26, 2008 10:29 am US/Pacific

Witness: CHP Shooting Of Stockton Man Unprovoked

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A witness says a man shot dead by California Highway Patrol officers was not charging the officers with his truck as they allege.

According to the CHP, officers shot 21-year-old Joseph Pinasco after he ignored their warnings to stop and then charged them with the truck early Sunday morning. The confrontation followed a short chase when officers tried to pull Pinasco over for driving erratically.

But Geri Wade, who lives on the rural road where the shooting occurred, says Pinasco's truck was stuck between a fence and a ditch and the officers "did not give him one second of a chance."

The incident is under investigation, and the officers have been placed on administrative leave.