Berkeley police shot and killed one person while responding to an alleged car burglary early Monday morning, the department confirmed.
A Berkeley Police SUV is rammed into a truck with a bullet hole through its driver’s side window near Grayson and Seventh Streets in Berkeley, California on Monday, November 6, 2023. Police are investigating after one of their officers fired their gun in an early morning encounter with a suspect. BERKELEY — In what’s now the department’s second deadly shooting in recent months, Berkeley police officers shot and killed a person early Monday morning, department officials confirmed.
An unknown number of officers were in the area of 7th and Grayson Streets around 5:25 a.m. investigating a suspected vehicle burglary in progress when they encountered three adult suspects, police said while speaking to reporters Monday. Officers eventually opened fire on the suspects, hitting one person, according to authorities. After life-saving measures were attempted, the person was later pronounced dead at Highland Hospital.Crime and Public Safety |Antioch police ID four cops who shot and wounded homicide suspect; one had spent just 4 days on the job
Police did not reveal whether the suspects fired any shots in the exchange, or whether they were armed with a weapon, citing an open investigation into the incident. When asked why the officers felt the need to open fire, a police spokesperson said she didn’t have that information. At the scene, a Ford truck was seen adjacent to a police vehicle with at least one bullet hold in the driver’s side window. The Alameda County Coroners Bureau was unable to release the identification of the person killed as of Monday morning.after he allegedly killed the mother of his 7-year-old child, before an apparent attempt to take his own life at the Toyota of Berkeley Service Center. When police found him, he allegedly pointed a revolver at officers before they opened fire.
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