ROSEVILLE —

“We didn’t hear anyone say ‘Stop! Hold! Police!’. Shooting was already happening,” said Donna Sandoval, aunt of accused police shooter Samuel Duran.

She calls her nephew Sammy.

The first things Sandoval says she saw when she looked out her kitchen door Friday evening was her nephew Sammy running by.

The next thing she saw was a Roseville Police officer crumble to the ground before her eyes.

“Sammy had run by and already jumped the fence,” Sandoval said.

She showed us how she says the officers were chasing behind him, in a line to get around a parked truck.

“We heard a ‘bam’ and the officer fell down,” Sandoval said.

We spoke with Sandoval after a veritable platoon of FBI agents served a search warrant on her house.

It’s a search warrant Sandoval says she refused to acknowledge.

“I go ‘nope I takin’ it,'” Sandoval said.

And Sandoval insists tonight that there is no clear evidence it was her nephew Sammy Duran who shot the officers chasing him.

Six officers were hit, one is still in serious condition. Sandoval says she wants someone to prove it wasn’t friendly fire.

Duran had told Sandoval he had missed a meeting with his parole officer. She knew he was wanted by police. She didn’t know if he would survive the night they finally found him.

Sh says, it didn’t have to go down like that.

“These ex-cons need help, and they’re treating them worse,” Sandoval said.

“There’s money. You guys got money out there. Help these kids. Help these men.”