A man was shot at the Sierra Madre Villa Metro station in Pasadena on the evening of March 2nd. Officers arrived, found the victim — gunshot wound to the shoulder — and started working the scene.
Then a second victim came forward. The story got worse.
The first victim hadn’t just been shot. He’d been shot trying to stop a sexual assault.
Officers got a description. Found a man matching it a few blocks north on Sierra Madre Villa Avenue. When they moved to detain him, he ran.
Foot pursuit. Twelve minutes. Half a mile through a residential and commercial neighborhood. Multiple commands. Suspect didn’t stop.
It ended in a gunfight.
Officer Bryan Vasquez — five years on the job — took a round to the leg. Multiple surgeries. Weeks at Huntington Hospital.
Suspect Malcolm Buchanan, 32, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Pasadena PD held the bodycam under California law while Vasquez recovered. He hadn’t been interviewed yet. The department wanted his testimony intact before anything went public. Right call.
The video dropped Friday. Full sequence — in-car footage, dispatch audio, private surveillance, narration through every decision point.
