Metro identifies officers involved in Monday shooting

By Tiffany Gibson

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 6:06 p.m.

Metro Police have identified two officers who fired their weapons at a woman after she allegedly tried to run them over with a car Monday morning as Michael Donovan and David Mikewski.

Donovan has been with Metro Police since March 2008 and Milewski began working with Metro in November 2005. Both are assigned to Patrol Division in the downtown area command.

Police said the officers were patrolling about 3 a.m. Monday when they spotted a 1995 Toyota Camry that a citizen said was possibly stolen near the Stratosphere. When they arrived to investigate, the vehicle sped away, police said. But because no crime had been confirmed, police said, the officers didn't chase the vehicle.

About an hour later, officers saw the same vehicle and noticed the car had expired plates, but the car sped away before officers could stop it, police said.

Then at 7:10 a.m., the same patrol officers saw the vehicle at the intersection of Fairfield Avenue and Philadelphia Avenue, between Las Vegas Boulevard and Industrial Road, north of Sahara Avenue.

Police said the vehicle drove away from the officers, across a grassy area between two apartment buildings and into an apartment complex courtyard. Donovan and Mikewski followed on foot as the driver backed the car down an alley. When the woman, identified as Janine Mcullogh, 42, of Las Vegas, saw the officers she stopped the car, reversed direction and began driving toward them, police said.

Donovan and Milewski each fired twice, hitting the vehicle, police said. Mcullogh was not hit and the officers weren’t injured.

Mcullogh was arrested after hitting a fence and trying to flee on foot. She is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on an officer and one count each of resisting a public officer with a weapon and probation violation.

She was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on $23,000 bail. Her preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 9 a.m. April 22.