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ELWOOD, Ind.--The man who police believe believe shot and killed Elwood Police Officer Noaf Shahanavaz, was able to fire 36 rifle rounds, while the officer was not able to shoot him once. Carl Boards, II, was charged Monday with murder, resisting law enforcement, resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, and possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.

Court documents say Boards, 42, owner of a barber shop in Marion, shot Shahanavaz while he was inside his patrol car. The car was also shot up.

The Madison County coroner did not say how many times the officer was shot, but his report states Shahanavaz died of “two perforating gunshot wounds to the head, and several gunshot wounds to the body.”

Carl Boards mug shot

PHOTO: Madison County booking

The shooting happened after Baords was pulled over in Elwood. He was caught after a chase that went into Hamilton County. When he was caught, according to the court documents, Boards had a 9 mm pistol and in his car was a tifle with a high-capacity magazine.

At a Sunday news conference, Madison County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Andrew Hanna said it would be determined later whether his office would seek the death penalty. As of Monday, his office was seeking life without parole, keeping the death penalty option open.

Court documents indicate that Boards FaceTimed his mother, father and girlfriend while being chased by police. When detectives went to his barbershop, a man who rents an apartment over the shop told them that Boards recorded a song saying he would kill cops if they ever caught him. That man also told police Boards is a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

That group believes Black people and some Latin and Native-Americans are descended from Hebrews. Some extremist members are known to be violent and anti-Semitic. Those are classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as extremist and Black separatist.

Boards has a weapon possession conviction from 1999 and a drug possession conviction from 2001. In 2006 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder after firing shots at cops in Indianapolis. He appealed, was instead sentenced on a criminal recklessness charge and got out early.