OAKLAND — A police chase on Monday of a person who allegedly brandished a gun in a hit-and-run crash final week ended after the suspect crashed right into a pickup truck at an East Oakland intersection, killing a 44-year-old Oakland man behind its wheel, authorities mentioned.
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Monday afternoon mentioned the suspect, recognized as 23-year-old Jonathan Hernandez, struck a automobile in entrance of him on the intersection of 73rd Avenue and Worldwide Boulevard round 4 p.m. on Friday. When that automobile’s driver obtained out and tried to speak, Hernandez obtained out of his automobile and brandished a handgun, racking its slide on the different driver, the chief mentioned.
Hernandez fled earlier than police arrived, however investigators managed to acquire an outline and sufficient data from the sufferer, who recorded the incident. Officers recognized Hernandez as a suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of threatening and brandishing a weapon.
Simply earlier than 7 a.m. Monday, in one other East Oakland neighborhood, officers noticed Hernandez get into the automobile and tried to cease him, however Hernandez drove off, authorities mentioned. Officers proceeded to chase Hernandez to the intersection of 69th Avenue and San Leandro Road, the place his automotive touring westbound alongside San Leandro struck the pickup truck.
The truck’s driver, recognized solely as a 44-year-old man, suffered main damage and was pronounced lifeless on the website of the crash. Police didn't title the person, pending next-of-kin notification from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace coroner’s bureau.
Police took Hernandez, who didn't endure main accidents, into custody. Armstrong mentioned officers recovered a firearm from his automobile.
Hernandez was booked into Santa Rita jail after his arrest on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, carrying a loaded handgun in a public place, carrying a loaded handgun he didn't personal, being a felon not permitted to own a firearm, being prohibited from proudly owning ammunition, and evading police. He was held on $310,000 bail, and faces arraignment Wednesday at Oakland’s Wiley Manuel courthouse, in keeping with an Alameda County information test Monday evening.
No officers had been injured, police mentioned. All concerned officers can be positioned on administrative go away, pending investigations by the Oakland Police Division’s murder and inner affairs divisions and the Group Police Assessment Company, the investigative arm of the civilian Police Fee.
At a Monday afternoon press convention at police headquarters, Armstrong mentioned the police chase was inside coverage as a result of the suspect was needed for a violent felony and had earlier brandished a firearm.
“Our coverage does permit officers to pursue a automobile that's concerned in a violent felony or has a firearm concerned on this case, each of which seemed to be afoot with this specific pursuit,” Armstrong mentioned. “However all areas of this pursuit [are] being investigated by the division and, sooner or later when the investigation is concluded, this pursuit will go earlier than a overview courtroom to find out whether or not [officers] complied with coverage or not.”
The police division has struggled to deal with prior incidents involving officers’ pursuit and engagement of sought suspects, together with one below investigation as unauthorized that led to a deadly June collision on Worldwide Boulevard. The 2 officers concerned in that incident had been nonetheless on go away and suspended from obligation, pending that investigation’s final result.
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