CALIFORNIA BEAT STAFF REPORT
An Oakland Housing Authority Police officer, following up on a call about a suspicious vehicle, was rammed by a man driving the car and sent to the hospital around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday morning near 9th Avenue and East 25th Streets near Park Blvd. in East Oakland.
The man who allegedly rammed the officer was shot and wounded by another Oakland Housing Authority Police officer who feared that the driver would try to mow him down too.
A neighbor who lived across the street from where the incident happened said that he heard three consecutive gunshots and said officers fired through the car’s back window shattering it and wounding the driver.
These photographs captured by the California Beat show the vehicle in question parked in a driveway.
He, along with the officer was taken away to an area hospital with what authorities are describing as non-life threatening injuries.
At least a dozen police vehicles descended on 9th Avenue immediately after the initial call went out. Oakland Police officers blocked off the 2500 block of 9th Avenue as they processed the crime scene and interviewed witnesses who saw the morning melee unfold.
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