In rural Contra Costa County where a wild shootout left a Domestic Violence suspect three wounded by shotgun fire. A shotgun most of the time. But i heard two different guns going off. One quieter, and one louder. Reporter neighbors say the suspect made it clear to deputies that he didnt want to go back to jail. They obviously had guns drawn, and there were two police officers, like, at this wall right here, and you can tell they were trying to peek around. Reporter it began when a woman called 911 saying her ex boyfriend had held her hostage overnight, and poured gasoline on her, threatening to set her on fire. She managed to escape but warned deputies he had a gun in his waistband and carried a shotgun from room to room. Hostage negotiators trying to get him to come out peacefully, but he barricaded himself inside. I heard the flash bang, and it sound like someone was yelling, screaming, panicking. Reporter authorities brought up the suspects brother in hopes of getting him to surren
Police. Reporter a lucky spokeswoman did not get back to us on the workers job status, and Antioch Police say race didnt appear to be an issue in the case. Both the suspect and worker are white. Lastly, the other layer is will this worker Face Criminal Charges like manslaughter . We talk to the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office and a legal analyst coming up at 6 00. For now, live in antioch, im da lin, kpix. Now the latest on californias sharp spike in coronavirus cases. 5,340 new cases have been confirmed in just the past 24 hours. While that is down from more than 7,000 cases the day before, its still troubling, and heres why. More people are being tested every day, more than 101,000 yesterday alone. But a higher percentage of tests are coming back positive. 5. 6 in the past seven days, up from an average of 5. 1 over the last 14 days. Kpix 5 reporter andria borba on what it could all mean as we forge ahead with reopening. Reporter well, veronica, at this point, we need t
Crisis, marin county is now asking Governor Newsom to put an Incident Commander in charge. We need to have someone thats able to make good decisions to protect the health and safety of the prison population and make sure there isnt a capacity issue in the local hospitals. Were working, you know, actively to take a regional approach to this. You know, this is a State Facility that happens to be in one county. Reporter the county Health Officer says everyone understands that marin needs help, so the state is drawing up a plan on how to spread the very sick to hospitals around the bay area. So theres an allocation regionally that ensures that people are gereity distrite frusion th Assembly Member mark levine was asking about outbreak plans here two months ago. I asked cdcr and san quentin to develop a Site Specific plan back in april. In may, they declined to do so. But now what were seeing if the transfer of inmates is that they had no plan at all. Written or unwritten. We need someone i
Of its employees accused of pulling off her mask and coughing on a baby. Good evening, im ken bastida. Few weeks mark a critical and im elizabeth cook. It happened friday at the juncture. Its very frustrating. Frozen yogurt shop. Police say the woman did it i myself am at wits end, but this is important. Because she was upset the i really feel as though the fate of our region, even our childs mother wasnt keeping nation over the next few weeks her social distance. About whether or not we can she has not been arrested or get a handle on this. Publicly identified, but the reporter the metric you district is urging people not want to keep your eye on is hospital beds. To take their anger out on the when we talk about critical mass, think about the situation the city of houston schools. A lengthy Statement Reads in part, violence or damage to is in right now. Our students schools only theyre between 97 and 100 serves to harm the very capacity with their icu beds population that those who a
And businesses boarded up some closed for good as the pandemic leaves many of these places in downtown San Jose Holding on by a thread watching these invoices you can see him right here behind me these are all invoices that of piling up over the past few months that were working with our vendors pay cash born on a decade old bar called haberdashery in downtown san jose. Hes also the cochair of the newly formed 40 Person Coalition called the greater downtown san jose Economic Recovery Task force which was championed by Council Member role parolees in may. Over the last 5 weeks. The group examined ways to keep businesses in district 3 open this week they submitted a list of 9 recommendations to the city. Some of them include extending free parking downtown and a new Marketing Campaign for the store fronts so being able to help build Consumer Confidence that we are operating safely and were hearing to guidelines so that they can. Come in and and support the businesses they love. Of course