A Livermore police officer shot a driver who police said rapidly approached a traffic stop involving another person early Wednesday.
The shooting wounded the driver in the thigh and forced police to close a portion of Interstate 580, police said. The person whom police originally pulled over was not injured.
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Police did not immediately release the name of the officers or the person who was shot.
The confrontation unfolded around 3:30 a.m. near Airway Boulevard and Kitty Hawk Road, just off Interstate 580, according to police.
In a statement, police said officers in a patrol car had pulled over the driver of a white car on suspicion that the driver may have been under the influence. Officers ordered the driver out of that car onto a nearby access road to perform a roadside sobriety test.
Within minutes, officers and the driver of the white car heard screeching tires and saw a black car speeding up from Airway Boulevard and heading toward them on the access road, police said.
“The positioning of vehicles and the tire marks demonstrate that the driver of the black vehicle made a direct action to turn in the direction of the officers,” Livermore police Officer Art Rosas said by phone late Wednesday morning.
One of the officers fired at the black car as it continued to speed toward them, police said.
Rosas said one shot hit the driver of the black car in the thigh; the car came to a stop a short time later. Police and medics performed first aid, and the person was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Police did not provide a status on the person’s condition Wednesday.
A search showed that there was no weapon inside the black car, Rosas said.
The driver of the white car was not injured or arrested.
All lanes of eastbound I-580 were shut down between about 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. as police gathered evidence, according to California Highway Patrol.
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LPD is currently investigating an Officer involved shooting in the area of Kitty Hawk Road. The scene is secure, LPD Officers are not injured and there are no outstanding suspects. We will provide more information as details are sorted out. pic.twitter.com/p965emWIcw
— Livermore PD (@LivermorePolice) January 22, 2020
