Two suspects were arrested but no one was injured in a gun battle Wednesday outside an unmarked Oakland police car occupied by an undercover officer.
OAKLAND — No one was injured after two men exchanged gunfire Wednesday afternoon in West Oakland outside an unmarked police car occupied by an undercover officer conducting an unrelated surveillance, authorities said.The shooting happened about 1:52 p.m. Wednesday in the 3600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
The plainclothes officer was in his unmarked police car, performing surveillance on an armed robbery suspect, when the two men not connected to the surveillance began shooting at each other outside the vehicle, police said. The gunmen apparently had a personal dispute and did not realize it was a police vehicle, authorities said.
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