{"id":156849,"date":"2026-01-30T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:54:08","slug":"man-suspected-of-striking-sfpd-officer-in-oakland-charged-with-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156849\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected of striking SFPD officer in Oakland charged with attempted murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man suspected of striking a San Francisco police officer in Oakland while attempting to flee in a vehicle is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, prosecutors said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said 26-year-old Joseph C. Willis II has been charged with attempted murder, three counts of assault upon a police officer with a deadly weapon, attempted carjacking and illegal possession of a gun and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the charges include sentencing enhancements for using a deadly weapon, inflicting great bodily injury and committing an offense while on bail or released on his own recognizance in an unrelated felony case.<\/p>\n<p>The charges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-francisco-police-officer-hit-by-fleeing-driver-in-oakland\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stem from an incident on Wednesday afternoon<\/a> in which the SFPD Community Violence Reduction Team attempted to stop a wanted suspect in a vehicle on the 800 block of 47th Street in North Oakland. Police said the driver refused to stop and struck an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland police followed the vehicle and took the suspects into custody after they fled on foot, according to SFPD. Willis allegedly attempted to carjack a vehicle while he resisted efforts by police to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco police said the officer who was struck had suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital. Police have not said why the wanted suspect was originally being sought by officers.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland police said that while the suspect was being detained, one of their officer&#8217;s gun was discharged. Police have not released any other details about the shooting, but confirmed that no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Willis is scheduled to be arraigned at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suspected of striking a San Francisco police officer in Oakland while attempting to flee in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2598,5526,27058,143,145,144,3805],"class_list":["post-156849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-assault","tag-attempted-murder","tag-carjacking","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-francisco-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}