KTVU.com and wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
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SWAT team surrounded an Oakland home early Sunday morning where
officers believed a homicide suspect was hiding, according to Oakland
Police.
A blue alert search for a dangerous suspect began at about
1:25 a.m., and officers set a perimeter in the 1400 block of 25th
Avenue, Officer J. Moore said
The standoff began after two men pulled up to highland hospital, bleeding from gunshot wounds.
One of them had been shot in the neck and he died from his injuries.
As of 8 a.m., dozens of officers were positioned around the home and were waiting to make contact with the suspect, police said.
Sometime
before 9 a.m., SWAT officers were recorded escorting a man in cuffs to
nearby vehicle, but officers on scene would not confirm if it was the
suspect.
No additional details about the search, or the suspect, were immediately available.
