Room Bar. The responding officer parked his patrol car and walked to a vantage point where he could observe the bar. He heard loud banging noises coming from the vicinity of the Sports Room Bar and witnessed two individuals on the roof of the business establishment, neither of whom he could identify. It appeared that one acted as a "lookout", while the other man was banging on the air conditioning vents. Likewise, the second responding officer observed two individuals on the roof of the subject building, but was unable to specifically identify either of them other than both were male.
The suspects made an attempted escape from the scene shortly after the second officer arrived. Both officers followed in pursuit and ordered the suspects to halt. One suspect (lateridentified as David Alan Lapier) stopped in response to this command and was arrested.
The chase and apprehension of the other suspect eventually resulted in the arrest of the defendant, William Gladue. Ignoring the policemen's order to halt, the second suspect, who was carrying a crowbar, ran west from the Sports Room and out of sight around the corner of the neighboring Darigold building. The record reveals that when the pursuing officer rounded the corner seconds after the suspect had, the suspect was nowhere to be seen. The officer immediately determined the probable path of escape to be toward an area where numerous large, wooden shipping crates were stored. Two policemen attempted to contain the area around the crates and began searching the moving containers. Within fifteen minutes a