the officer discharged their firearms. reporter: police are not saying how many shots were fired or how many officers were involved but no officers were injured. they say the suspect s gun has been recovered here at the scene. he was taken to the hospital where he did die. oakland police wear body cameras, so they re going to be reviewing the footage, as well as surveillance video from nearby buildings. officer watson says this is the third officer-involved shooting so far this year. she says the homicide, internal affairs and the district attorney s office are all investigating. we ll have more details of the police department plans to hold a news conference later this evening so we ll have more tonight on abc7 news. live in west oakland, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. thank you. an arrest has been made for two thefts of bay area news crews. the robberies happened as the reporters were following up on the death of kate steinle last month. cornell bernard is live with the de
and witnesses scattered. this is a very violent situation. it was a violent incident. some people were obviously traumatized. either the victims of the incident or people that had to observe or witness what was going on. reporter: police made a public plea for anyone to come forward. so far enough witnesses have been found to charge hernandez with felony attempted carjacking and hit and run. he was also charged with assault on a police officer, battery on an officer and resisting arrest. but investigators want more. in order to go ahead and amend the charges to include the kidnapping offenses that we know occurred, we have to have the victims come forward to go ahead and explain the incident and the situation as it unfolded. reporter: now, hernandez posted $75,000 bail. as you heard was released. as you heard, the investigation is also ongoing and no court date has been set. live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. robert, thank you so much. just into our
27th street where a chase that started in east oakland ended in west oakland and officers shot and killed the suspect. reporter: officers are still here on the scene. this is where a 24-year-old oakland man was shot and killed by police after a chase from east oakland here, to west oakland. sky 7 hd was over the scene where that insy kent ended but police are saying it began at 69th and international boulevard. he was driving that white car and tried to stop him, but they chased him through the city streets with speeds up to 50 miles per hour. they say their helicopter was helping them keep tabs on that 24-year-old. near 27th and mlk, his car collided with a motorist. he got out, and started to run. authorities say he tried to car jack another motorist and that he had a gun. when the suspect was attempting that car jacking, officers noticed the suspect was in possession of a firearm. when officer as approached, the suspect took off, running. what we do know is that there
live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. and we have breaking news tonight. chaos as protesters shut down a bay area freeway. this all started as a peaceful protest, but then things spiraled out of control in the past hour. this is what it look like a short time ago at 980 in oakland. gridlock. chp was nowhere to be seen for some time, it wasn t until 20 minutes later we saw officers roll up at 10:20 tonight. once chp got there, they got creative to clear the log jam. we saw them telling cars to drive the wrong direction to get out. this protest followed a police shooting that left a suspect dead. christin ayers has that part of our story. they started shooting and shooting. boom, boom. reporter: she couldn t believe what she was seeing. the tail end of a police pursuit that ended in gunfire. oakland police say it started when an officer spotted a car that had been linked to a july 21st armed robbery. there was a chase that ended with a crash here.
live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. and we have breaking news tonight. chaos as protesters shut down a bay area freeway. this all started as a peaceful protest, but then things spiraled out of control in the past hour. this is what it look like a short time ago at 980 in oakland. gridlock. chp was nowhere to be seen for some time, it wasn t until 20 minutes later we saw officers roll up at 10:20 tonight. once chp got there, they got creative to clear the log jam. we saw them telling cars to drive the wrong direction to get out. this protest followed a police shooting that left a suspect dead. christin ayers has that part of our story. they started shooting and shooting. boom, boom. reporter: she couldn t believe what she was seeing. the tail end of a police pursuit that ended in gunfire. oakland police say it started when an officer spotted a car that had been linked to a july 21st armed robbery. there was a chase that ended with a crash here