SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – An Oakland police officer will be placed on administrative leave after shooting and wounding a man while off duty on Wednesday morning, according to officials.
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The Oakland Police Department briefly locked down Hoover Elementary School after the off-duty officer told their colleagues they had shot a person nearby on the 800 block of 35th Street just before 9:30 a.m. Officer Kim Armstead said Wednesday that the officer – whom police didn't identify – shot the person at least once.
Police said in a release on Wednesday that patrol officers found "a loaded firearm" following a "search of the area." While officers investigated, police said the person the officer is believed to have shot checked into a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds. They are in stable condition, according to police, and the officer wasn't injured.
Oakland police officials also didn't identify the victim. A witness, Vincent Ray Williams, told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday that he saw one man run away bleeding profusely after hearing gunshots during an argument between two men.
Williams told the outlet that he saw the two men arguing around a car as he waited to cross 35th Street on Monday morning. One man shot the other, the latter of whom lived in the car.
Williams said he saw the two men carrying firearms after hearing gunshots. The man who was shot wasn't pointing his gun at the other man, nor was he raising his gun, according to Williams.
The co-founder of the Urban Compassion Project, Williams told the paper he recognized the man who was shot, following him to ask if he was OK. After losing him as he turned onto Brockhurst, Williams returned to the scene, where the other man – the off-duty officer – said the man he shot pulled a gun on him.
The car had at least eight bullet holes in its windshield, according to Williams.
"Because of the work that I do, I don't want to take any sides," Williams told the paper. "I just know that both men's lives are going to be changed forever. My prayers are going out to both individuals and their families."
Oakland police homicide detectives, internal affairs officers and the Oakland Community Police Review Agency are investigating the shooting, according to department officials.
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