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Please keep the Oakland Police Department in your thoughts and prayers! Extremely tragic!!
OAKLAND, Calif. — Four Oakland, Calif., police officers were shot to death in two separate incidents involving one suspect near the Eastmont police substation Saturday afternoon, law enforcement sources said.
The first shooting happened in the 7400 block of MacArthur Boulevard about 1:16 p.m. PDT when two motorcycle officers were wounded. What led to the shooting was not immediately known.
About 3:20 p.m., two more police officers were hit in an exchange of gunfire with the suspect while trying to take him into custody in the 2700 block of 74th Avenue. That suspect was shot and killed.
Officers were walking to the substation consoling each other, some visibly crying, to attend a news conference at 4:30 p.m. local time.
A man who did not want his name to appear in print and who works at a barber shop on the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and 73rd Avenue, said he heard gunshots from outside and went down the block, where he saw two officers lying on the ground near each other.
“I went over to one officer and saw he was bleeding from his helmet pretty bad,” he said. “The other officer was laying motionless.
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He said the officer lying near a car had two gunshot bullets near in his face. One bullet was lodged in his jaw and the other in his neck.
The man said he proceeded to give the officer CPR until police arrived on the scene.
Dozens of Oakland police, California Highway Patrol officers and Alameda County sheriff deputies had cordoned off stretches of blocks around 73rd and 74th avenues and MacArthur Boulevard. Helicopters hovered for hours over the crime scene. Officers staked out the neighborhood trying to find the suspects involved.
No one could remember when four officers were shot in the line of duty on the same day.
The last time an Oakland officer was killed was in 2004 when William Seuis, 39, died in a hit-and-run crash.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/6328872.html
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