Lovelle Mixon, of Oakland, California, 27
Lovelle Mixon, of Oakland, California, 27, allegedly used an assault rifle to shoot police officers. Mixon was wanted for violating his parole. Mixon was first stopped in his car in east Oakland on Saturday, March 21. Then, Mixon fired at two officers.
Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, was fatally shot by Mixon. Officer John Hege, 41, is hospitalized in serious condition.
Mixon then fled on foot. Mixon ran into a neighbourhood in east Oakland and disappeared. A caller tipped off police that the guman was hiding in a building. As SWAT officers closed in on Mixon, he allegedly shot at and killed Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35. SWAT officers killed Mixon.
our Prayers go out to the familes:
UPDATE:
Police: Fourth Oakland police officer has died
OAKLAND, Calif. — Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.
Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason says 41-year-old Officer John Hege died Sunday at Highland Hospital after being gravely wounded during a traffic stop.
Authorities say a 26-year-old parolee opened fire on Hege and 40-year-old Sgt. Mark Dunakin after they pulled him over around 1 p.m. on Saturday, killing Dunakin.
Suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain later that afternoon in a gunfight with police that left two more officers dead. Thomason identified those officers as 43-year-old Sgt. Ervin Romans and 35-year-old Sgt. Daniel Sakai.
Police say the officers’ deaths were the most ever in a single day in the department’s history.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ The family of the man labeled the killer of three police officers in Oakland, Calif., is defending the 26-year-old parolee who also was slain.
Authorities in Oakland say suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain in a gunfight with police in which two officers were killed Saturday. Police said another officer was fatally shot earlier in the day and a fourth was gravely wounded after the two of them pulled Mixon over for a traffic stop.
A cousin of Mixon said Sunday that he was “not a monster.”
Twenty-eight-year-old LaTasha Mixon of Sacramento also said her family’s prayers were with the slain officers’ relatives.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday ordered flags at the state capitol flown at half-staff in honor of the slain officers.
