By Carlos E. Casta\u00f1eda<\/p>\n
Oakland police officers shot and killed an armed suspect in the parking lot of a strip mall on Monday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n
Police Chief James Beere said the armed suspect was being pursued by the California Highway Patrol at about 2 p.m. when the CHP requested assistance from his department.<\/p>\n
Police and a CHP officer located the suspect in a public area and attempted to get the suspect to comply to their demands, but he refused, Beere said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt which point the subject attacked the officers, causing the officers to use less-lethal and lethal force,\u201d Beere said. \u201cTwo Oakland officers discharged their firearms. The subject was struck and fell at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
The location of the shooting was the parking lot of a strip mall at 40th Avenue and International Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Beere said after the shooting, officers provided first aid but the suspect died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Beere added that the suspect \u201cwas armed with dangerous weapons that were a threat to the public as well as the officers,\u201d but would not specify what type of weapons. Earlier, a police source told CBS News Bay Area the suspect had a firearm and two knives.<\/p>\n
No additional details were provided in order not to prejudice any statements from possible witnesses, Beere said.<\/p>\n
This is a breaking news update. More information to be added as available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Carlos E. Casta\u00f1eda Oakland police officers shot and killed an armed suspect in the parking lot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-397265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397265","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=397265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}