II         It was a Wednesday morning at about 2:00 a.m. Four police cars were chasing a car through quiet Brooklyn streets. What led to the chase by police was that they had just received a call that an all-night grocery store had been held up by two men with guns. The first police vehicle that arrived on the scene followed in pursuit of a vehicle that was just pulling away from the store and had no headlights on. Another police officer got information from the store owner who had been fired upon by the hold-up men. They left just before the police arrived at thescene. The car was red and sped away without lights. Apparently the car being pursued fit that description. The chase involved approximately four miles of twists and turns at high speed with the suspect vehicle refusing to stop. En route, three other police vehicles joined the chase. Thesuspect’s car finally hit a lamppost and a fire hydrant and came to a halt. The first pursuing officers stopped behind the wreck. The streetlight was out from having been struck by the suspect. The hydrant sprayed water into the air. The two suspects climbed from the vehicle. They were told “drop to the floor,” but one suspect ran, refusing to obey the command. One police officer ran after him into an alley. The alley had no outlet. The suspect turned, and the police officer ordered him to go down on the floor. Instead he unleashed a tirade of expletives, and reached into his pocket as he began to run toward the officer. The officer fired, losing count of the number of bullets he fired; in fact, he continued to fire after the gun was empty. He had no idea whether the gun was empty and kept pulling the trigger. The other officers soon arrived, a moment or two behind. What seemed like an eternity lasted only a few seconds. The suspect was dead. The officer who shot him was shaking. In this case, the suspect did have a gun, but in similar cases of this nature, sometimes the suspect does not have a gun. In police terms, thiswould be considered a justified shooting.         However, the next day the newspapers carried an article that made the suspect appear to be a promising doctor in the near future, if his career had not been cut short by the police. Whilehe had several prior arrests for armed robbery, his friends and family assured the media that hehad changed his life and was studying for college admission. They questioned whether he hadbeen armed because he was not known to own a gun. He was always helpful to neighbors andfriends and liked to help neighborhood children play sports. The other suspect who wascaptured stated that he had just been picked up hitchhiking and had no idea what happened,certainly not a robbery. The official investigation that ultimately cleared the officer and the media coverage lasted for more than a year. The officer continued to have flashbacks and re-experienced the incident to the point that he became unsure about what happened, because of the constant barrage of confusing questions from the investigators and innuendoes from the media. The officer’s family lived through similar kinds of stress, his children were ridiculed in school, his wife wanted him to quit the job and described his personality as totally altered, and his life was totally and permanently changed.
36. Which of the following is true about the suspect’s car?
(A) Its headlights were on.
(B) It sped away from the store.
(C) There were three people in it.
(D) It was chased altogether by four police cars.