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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Surveillance video captured respective gunshots being fired successful an officer-involved shooting vicinity adjacent Platt Avenue and Eighth Street connected Saturday.
Officers responded to a Shot Spotter activation astir 5:00 p.m. where, aboriginal that night, they recovered a antheral dormant with a gunshot wound.
As constabulary were investigating the Shot Spotter activation, the fishy drove by officers astatine astir 6:30 p.m. and began shooting astatine them.
Interim Chief Mindy Casto described the shooting arsenic an ambush and the fishy fired astatine a precise adjacent distance.
"Sergeant was successful his car. The fishy returned wholly unexpectedly and began firing shots astatine the sergeant, striking him arsenic helium was sitting successful the patrol vehicle," Casto said.
Shortly after, the fishy continued to thrust and the sergeant initiated a abbreviated pursuit.
The fishy got retired of his car and opened fire.
"[The suspect] began firing much shots astatine the sergeant and 2 different officers who were besides adjacent who responded aft proceeding the archetypal shots fired to the sergeant's side," Casto said.
Chief Casto says the fishy yet went to the ground.
After receiving archetypal assistance connected the scene, the sergeant and the fishy were brought to a CRMC wherever the fishy aboriginal died.
The sergeant, a 21-year seasoned of the Fresno Police Department, is recovering from aggregate gunshot wounds.
"To person specified a convulsive crime, an ambush of a constabulary officer, not to notation the homicide of idiosyncratic who lives successful this neighborhood, it's highly violent. You know, the grooming that these officers spell done is what prepares them for this. That's wherefore they stay truthful calm and collected and courageous nether fire," Casto said.
Chief Casto says this is an ongoing investigation.
