Paramedics. You can see the commotion there on the upper left corner of the cell phone video. Its not clear who that person is, but other witnesses say they spotted a man running through a parking lot. Nbc bay areas Michelle Roberts is also with us. This is a busy part of town. A lot of people saw this unfold. What are you hearing on the streets . Reporter we talked today a lot of people today. The one word everybody shares is scared. Fear the suspect may be still out there. The manhunt is underway in the middle of a busy street. Were here on fremont and washington boulevard. You can see the major activity behind me. We talked to several people who had their cars actually parked in the safeway parking lot. They dont have access to get those cars. Even those there is a shelter in place, earlier there was confusion. People wondering how do i get home. There was a salon down the street, we spoke to one of the hair dressers there. He said its business as usual. When we entered the doorway,
Hour ago but now they have confirmation that first officer was shot once and he is now out of surgery and in Critical Condition. The second officer shot twice but is in stable condition. That first officer who is in Critical Condition, lets go to some video where we can show where this all happened. This is in the parking lot of the auto zone where police tried to pull over this white truck with multiple people inside. Fremont police say the Truck Drivers rammed the officers vehicle where you can see the vehicles are head to head and the police car smashed in, both officers and one of the suspects started firing. This happened at 1 30 this afternoon. A driver of a vehicle backed into our officers vehicle. And gunshots were exchanged between the two of them. During that encounter our officer went down. The suspect pulled forward in his vehicle and took off on foot. About 10 minutes later we encountered the same suspect on roberts avenue and fremont a short distance away. And during that
Receiv searching for more than nine hours for this man. The irving district of fremont, near the safeway near washington and fremont boulevard, the suspect shot two officers. And more at the Regional Hospital where the officers were being treated. But we begin with Terry Mcsweeney with more. Reporter its an intense search and more going on behind me as you can see. Dozens of police cars, heavily armed officers and they seem to be focusing where the shootings happened nearly ten hours ago. You look down the street where one of the officers was shot. Battering rams taking down a fence tonight near washington and fremont boulevards. That is near where a traffic stop happened at about 1 30 p. M. Today, saw a man back into a police officer. Gunfire was exchanged between the two of them. During the encounter, the officer went down. Reporter the suspect fled, later, two blocks away, the officer spotted the suspect, a hispanic man, bald, wearing a giants shirt. Later, again they exchanged gufr
Im dan ashley. Weve been live at the scene focused around the area of washington boulevard and fremont boulevard. We want to get live for the latest information. Its about to get started. Weve been hearing from Sergeant Ray Kelly with the Alameda County sheriffs fice, theyve been taking over the tactical response. Again, two separate scenes, two officers shot and were waiting for the live news conpresence to begin from the Sheriffs Department. Lets begin with abc7 News Reporter vic lee. Hes been speaking with witnesses. Were on adams avenue near fremont boulevard. This is a small street. The sheriffs helicopter has been circling this neighborhood and behind me, you can see flashing lights of cars. Theyre part of a larger contingent of vehicles and have encircled this neighborhood. Witnesses say they saw shootings that occurred next to the auto zone car parts store. That is a couple blocks from where we are and we have three witnesses. Here they are. We saw a truck and an officer, cles
Nearby. They fired flash bangs and tear gas as we have been showing you live on mornings on 2. The house itself now is on fire. Ktvus janine de la vega live at the scene to get us up to date. Janine. Reporter yeah, it has changed dramatically in the last hour because this house now looks like a raging inferno. I mean, you can see the black smoke is just billowing up into the air and its just orange flames everywhere. Completely engulfed. In the last impact five, ten minutes ago Freemont Fire Department has started dousing water on this. Today flared up before and they contained it. Now we are not sure what caused it to completely sort of explode into flames like this. They want to make sure it doesnt spread to the other homes. Now, the suspect is still believed to be inside. It seems sort of crazy to think how could somebody actually survive there . We just dont know. That is a question we asked a Freemont Police officer that was here in the last few minutes, and he says he doesnt know