PATRICK WALSH, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1. I am a retired New York City Police Department (NYPD) sergeant. In 1997 I was assigned to the Brooklyn South Investigations Unit (BSIU), which investigates police related incidents that do not involve corruption or serious misconduct calling for investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB). BSIU investigators report to the Chief of IAB. 2. In the early morning hours of Friday August 15, 1997, I and my partner, Sgt. Richard Tully were at the 70th Precinct stationhouse to investigate the shooting of a dog by a police officer. At some point during this time, Sgt. Tully and I met with Eric Turetsky, who said that he had information about the assault of Abner Louima, an incident which had received wide publicity during the week. 3. I then interviewed Turetsky in the 70th Precinct Commander’s Office in the presence of Capt. Peters. The interview lasted approximately one hour. Sgt. Tully was in and out of the office during the interview. Turetsky told me that he had seen Officer Justin Volpe escorting Abner Louima from the direction of the bathroom and holding s stick which Volpe hit against the wall. Inresponse to my inquiries concerning how Louima came to be in the bathroom, Turetsky said that he saw either Officer Thomas Wiese or Charles Schwarz walking Louima toward the bathroom, but that Turetsky could not say which officer it was because he only saw them from the rear and Wiese and Schwarz look alike from that position. I went over Turetsky’s observations with hime numerous times and he repeated each time that he could not tell whether the officer he saw walking Louima toward the bathroom was Wiese of Schwarz. 4. Following the interview, I telephoned IAB Capt. Barry Fried at his home. Captain Fried was the IAB Commander with jurisdiction over the 70th Precinct. I did this, rather than phone the IAB Command Center, because of the sensitivity and publicity surrounding the Louima investigation and the . . . continued on pg. 2