A gunman in California shot and wounded a highway patrol officer, and then took two bystanders hostage before fatally shooting one and wounding the other, police in Roseville said.
The violence unfolded minutes after a California Highway Patrol officer reported on a police radio that they’d been shot at around 12:30 p.m., Roseville police Capt. Kelby Newton told reporters.
Officers arrived to the area of Mahany Park and found a man running from them and shooting at them, Newton said.
He then took two hostages, both adults, according to Newton.
Those people “were struck by the suspect’s gunfire during the incident,” and one of them was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
The man surrendered, and he and the injured hostage were taken to a hospital for treatment, Newton said.
At a news conference Thursday, their conditions were said to be unknown, although Newton said the suspect wasn’t believed to have been shot. He didn’t elaborate on why the suspect was taken for treatment.
The California Highway Patrol officer who was shot was stable, CHP Officer Ricardo Ortiz said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the hostages ended up being shot. Their identities and the identity of the suspect haven’t been publicly released.
The shooting happened near some Little League fields, police said. There were no official events there at the time but people were in the area.
A man who was at the fields with his 12-year-old grandson and his friend to do batting practice told NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento that officers ran up and told them to get down.
“We ran to the dugout. I think the cops were shooting this way, and this guy was shooting back at the cops,” the man said. “The bullets were coming by us, so we got down low. Very scary.”
Newton said the CHP was serving an arrest warrant at the time of the incident, but referred to that agency for more details.
The CHP didn’t immediately respond to a request for additional details Thursday evening.
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