SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — An armed man who allegedly threatened to shoot residents in a Hayward neighborhood in U.S. Northern California was shot and killed by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies early Saturday morning, authorities said.
Deputies responded to multiple reports shortly after 3:30 a.m. local time and confronted the man in a nearby yard, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect fired multiple rounds and one of the bullets grazed the head of a deputy. Deputies returned fire and killed the suspect, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The man “went for the gun so quickly, leaving us no options.” Multiple officers fired at the man, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ray Kelly told media on the scene.
According to The Washington Post’s police shooting database, 38 fatal officer shootings have happened so far this year in California.
The most recent was the deadly shooting of a man in the parking lot of the Hyatt Place Hotel in Fremont on April 1, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people marched through downtown Oakland, state of California, to demonstrate against fatal police shootings in Minneapolis and Chicago, according to a police statement released early Saturday morning.
“The City of Oakland experienced disruptive protests in the Downtown area,” the city’s police department said in a tweet.
Some protestors assaulted a community member and police officer, broke windows, spray-painted buildings, set a car on fire along with multiple debris fires, the police reported.
The police put the number of demonstrators at between 250 and 300 participants. Despite the damage, police issued no citations and made no arrests. — NNN-XINHUA