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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to The Washington Post’s police shooting database, 38 fatal officer shootings have happened so far this year in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The City of Oakland experienced disruptive protests in the Downtown area,” the city’s police department said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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