Bizarre Murder Followed by Cop Assisted Suicide Shocks California

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Police couldn’t miss the gold Honda Odyssey minivan smashed into the garage door.
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Irvine, California, was the scene of a bizarre murder early Monday morning and then things got even stranger. It appears the deceased suspect expected to go out in a blaze of glory with police. While the developing story has ripened considerably since it first broke, gaps in the details remain. We’ll keep you informed of any updates that matter.

Murder then standoff

The murder was followed by a standoff and police shooting of the suspect but things didn’t happen all at once. Police in Irvine, California, are focusing their investigation at two separate locations.

On Monday, August 5, they got a call. First, they were alerted to a car which “plowed into a home.” That was only the beginning.

When they arrived, Irvine police “found a wheelchair-bound man dead inside.” Initial reports didn’t say much more about the murder part of the story. The home was located on Whistling Swan near Wetstone and the van crashed into it around 2:15 a.m. It prompted a homicide investigation, cops confirmed. The suspect is “a former caregiver.” Early reports only noted he was fatally shot by police at another location.

Around 3:25 a.m. Irvine officers contacted a possible suspect near Stone Creek South and West Yale Loop. Officers opened fire and struck that male suspect. That man was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

My brother-in-law was an amazing person. He had an accident multiple years ago. He had a spinal injury and he was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life,” relative Lindsey Myers explained. “In this situation, he’s a defenseless victim, and he just had no chance to defend himself.

The method of murder wasn’t initially revealed. “It’s not known whether the victim inside the home was struck by the van or possibly stabbed by the suspect.” He was, indeed, stabbed to death.

Shindle had lived in Tampa, Florida, but in recent times was nomadic.

More to the story

Later, we learned from Irvine police spokesman Kyle Oldoerp that cops were called by “the victim’s current caregiver,” who “found him bloody and unresponsive.

Police couldn’t miss the gold Honda Odyssey minivan smashed into the garage door. “They entered the home and found the body of John Alexander Bash III.” No motive for the murder has been revealed.

They went looking for the driver and around 3:25 a.m. came across 47-year-old Aaron Matthew Shindle “walking in the area of West Yale Loop and Stone Creek South, less than a half-mile away.

They knew they had the right guy because “he was the registered owner of the minivan, which had Florida license plates.” He also knew he would be in trouble for murder. The crashed van “had words written on a dusty back window that were crossed out.” They said: “Your last (undecipherable) chasing me around.

Apparently, he decided to choose “suicide by cop.” Shindle “who had lived in Tampa, Florida, but in recent times was nomadic, raised the knife and went toward the cop and was shot to death.” So much for that threat.

At the scene of the officer shooting, police found a blood-stained knife with a long blue handle.” It’s not clear if that was the murder weapon. “Shindle was a former caregiver for Bash, police said, but it wasn’t known how long ago he stopped working for the victim.

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