Posted on 02/25/2019 3:29:04 AM PST by csvset
OAKLAND — Police said they detained several suspects in connection with the Sunday afternoon robbery of a television station’s photographer and shooting of a security guard outside a library.
In a statement Sunday night, Oakland police Officer Johnna Watson said a three-person crew from a local television station was working a story in the 1000 block of 81st Avenue at 4:47 p.m., when a vehicle pulled up and two suspects got out and robbed the crew’s cameraman.
According to police, one of the suspects shot the crew’s security guard in the upper leg, and the guard then returned fire. The suspects fled in the vehicle.
The guard was taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Around 5:15 p.m., a man apparently showed up at a local hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. Investigators said they were looking into whether he is connected with the incident.
Oakland police said officers pursued the suspect vehicle until it crashed moments later at 55th and Bancroft avenues, with a solo driver detained.
“Currently the Oakland Police Department has detained several other individuals in connection with this armed robbery/shooting and some of the loss has been recovered,” police said.
In tweets, KPIX-TV said reporter Joe Vazquez was covering the Oakland teachers’ strike when they were robbed of a camera and tripod. A security guard watching over the reporter and crew was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital, the station said.
“Our guard was shot today in Oakland while we were on assignment covering the Oakland teachers strike,” Vazquez said in follow-up tweets. “We believe his wounds are not life threatening, thank God.
“Photographer John Anglin was robbed at gunpoint.John abandoned the camera, took cover inside the news van where I was and told me to get down. We heard a flurry of loud gunshots. Very close! More shots, I saw a guy drag the camera away and saw our guard Matt was hit. Quickly called 9-1-1.”
Vazquez identified the guard as a former Berkeley police officer and said his wounds did not appear life threatening: “He got some shots off at the robber. We are trying to confirm if a ‘walk-in’ gunshot wound patient at a local hospital may have been the perpetrator.”
For information leading to the arrest of a suspect, police are offering up to $10,000 in each shooting. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3326 or Crime Stoppers of Oakland at 510-777-8572.
Perhaps the Perps couldn’t get funding for their next film venture. The Oscars are on! Move over Spike Lee.
They knew they would need an armed guard because of the extremely high violent crime rate in Oakland. And they were right!
Street rats trying to make a few bucks, got filmed by the news crew. Got into a shoot out with the security guard to get the camera and “filmed evidence” of who was doing the robbery and shooting...……. Sounds pretty simple to me. the real question is why $10,000 reward for a few street rats when they already had one of them just walk-in.. More to this than what we are hearing.
Yesterday was Black Joy day in Oaktown.
one thing all should learn from the Jussie Smollett case is there are cameras EVERYWHERE! Why just this camera? you are correct with ‘more to this than what we are hearing’.
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Oh. Wait. If they were, that would've been mentioned in the headline. And in every sentence of the story.
“Sounds Third Worldish.”
my first thought as well ...
Mexifornia.
It can and will only get worse.
Best for us to stand back and watch until the big one takes care of things. We can then move in, clean things (and liberals) out and make the great place it once was.
Betcha it was something to to with the teachers strike. Some whacko lib teacher was worried about having to teach the truth about tyrannies being mental patients.
“Video at 11.”
“Video at 11.”
Verry long history of the news-cam robberies in the Bay Area.
Remember the girl Katy Steinlie shot to death on a San Fran pier two years ago...?
TWO different news teams were robbed in this way, responding to cover that story..!
I mean two different hits, same day, same place.
I heard they can flip the fancy cameras to porn outfits doing biz in the Mission District, Castro district.
“I heard they can flip the fancy cameras to porn outfits doing biz in the Mission District, Castro district.”
Thanks. I was wondering where these morons were going to get rid of this gear. It’s high dollar stuff and not just any Joe would want one.
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Unbelievable, broad daylight in front of a library, on a Sunday.
Too close to my neighborhood.
Too close to my neighborhood.
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