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03-21-2009, 09:20 PM
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| 3 officers dead, suspect killed in Oakland, Calif.
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OAKLAND, Calif. – A man wanted for violating his parole killed three officers and gravely wounded another in two shootings Saturday, the first after a routine traffic stop and the second after a massive manhunt ended in gunfire, authorities said. The gunman was also killed.
Two officers were shot in the first incident just after 1 p.m. after they stopped a suspect's vehicle in east Oakland, said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason.
The suspect fled the scene on foot into a nearby neighborhood, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland police, California Highway Patrol officers and Alameda County sheriff deputies. Streets were roped off and an entire area of east Oakland closed to traffic.
At about 3:30 p.m. officers, acting on an anonymous tip, found the suspect barricaded inside an apartment building, police said.
Police said the suspect, 27-year-old Lovelle Mixon of Oakland, fired an assault rifle at officers who came into the building to arrest him. Two officers were killed and a third was grazed by a bullet, police said.
Acting Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said police returned fire, killing Mixon.
The slain officers were identified as Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, who was killed at the first shooting. The two members of the SWAT team who were killed at the second location were Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35. Officer John Hege, 41, is in grave condition.
Somber officers at the police station hugged and consoled each other.
"This is probably one of the worst incidents that has ever taken place in this history of the Oakland police department," Thomason said.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was a tragic day.
"All four officers dedicated their lives to public safety and selflessly worked to protect the people of Oakland," he said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those lost, the Oakland Police Department and law enforcement officers throughout California during this difficult time."
Police said Mixon wielded two different weapons, one an assault rifle. One gun was used at the first scene and another at the apartment building where he was hiding.
"(Mixon) was on parole and he had a warrant out for his arrest for violating that parole. And he was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon," said Oakland police Deputy Chief Jeffery Israel.
Police would not elaborate on the location of the gunshot wounds on the officers' bodies.
Hours after Saturday's shootings near a busy intersection just blocks from a police substation in east Oakland, people were still at the scene of the first shooting as police tape blocked off streets.
Mo Wiley, 32, of Oakland, said emotions still are raw from the Grant shooting.
"Oakland is a beautiful place," Wiley said. "But I just hate when it gets ugly like this."
Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.
That former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. Violent protests erupted on the streets of Oakland in the weeks after Grant's death, further inflaming tensions.
On Saturday afternoon, about 20 people taunted police near the scene of the first shooting.
A group of Oakland ministers went to the hospital to offer prayers and condolences to the family members of the injured officers and the dozens of Oakland police officers who gathered there.
They said that on Sunday morning they would urge their parishioners not to let the event tear the city apart.
Pastor Raymond Lankford, executive director of Healthy Oakland, urged people to show support for the officers and their families.
"What officers do, that's a tough job," Lankford said. "They need love, they need support. They need to know the community is behind them."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/...police_shot_ca
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03-21-2009, 10:41 PM
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Fail by SWAT... they're supposed to be elite...
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03-21-2009, 11:16 PM
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03-22-2009, 12:18 AM
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"Police said the suspect, 27-year-old Lovelle Mixon of Oakland, fired an assault rifle at officers who came into the building to arrest him"
i don't care what you wear- ASSAULT RIFLE. direct hit and you're a dead man. intense close range btw.
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03-22-2009, 12:33 AM
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I know that... but they should be good enough that they shouldn't be hit with assault rifle shots... they should be tactical enough to take him out before he even gets the chance...
Or maybe I've just been watching too many movies.
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03-22-2009, 05:43 AM
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"This is probably one of the worst incidents that has ever taken place in this history of the Oakland police department," Thomason said.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was a tragic day.
"All four officers dedicated their lives to public safety and selflessly worked to protect the people of Oakland," he said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those lost, the Oakland Police Department and law enforcement officers throughout California during this difficult time."
| This ironically coming from someone whose shot god knows how many cops in his life time
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03-22-2009, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul I know that... but they should be good enough that they shouldn't be hit with assault rifle shots... they should be tactical enough to take him out before he even gets the chance...
Or maybe I've just been watching too many movies. | Well, we dont know what kind of training the suspect had either.
Damn, 3 Sgts.
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03-22-2009, 07:50 AM
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Here's the shooter: 
He was on parole for Assault with a deadly weapon...
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03-22-2009, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by azzurro32 This ironically coming from someone whose shot god knows how many cops in his life time | In movies? Like Terminator?
thats not real life.
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03-22-2009, 10:34 AM
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There are some very nice areas in Oakland but East and West Oakland sometimes resemble war zones. The sheer number of shootings / deaths in these 2 areas alone are staggering.
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03-22-2009, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah Al Zawahiri "(Mixon) was on parole and he had a warrant out for his arrest for violating that parole. And he was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon," said Oakland police Deputy Chief Jeffery Israel. |
sounds like something you'd read in Canada... the judge should get charged for assisted murder.
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03-22-2009, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by asian_speedster In movies? Like Terminator?
thats not real life. | you fail at spotting jokes
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03-22-2009, 01:50 PM
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taking bets on how many days before GTA/COD gets blamed for training this guy's shooting skills.
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03-22-2009, 02:19 PM
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just watched the news its 4 now
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03-22-2009, 04:44 PM
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You don't need CoD or GTA when you live in Oakland, that place is ghetto.
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