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A regulation enforcement officer fires a gun at a automobile throughout a standoff on Interstate 580 westbound Thursday, March 7, 2024, in San Leandro, California. The individual within the automobile, a suspect in a earlier murder in Pleasanton, “died of his personal accidents,” authorities mentioned. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Pleasanton police mentioned in a information launch that the girl was discovered useless of a number of gunshot wounds at a house on Saginaw Circle round 11:10 a.m. Thursday.
Officers pursued the automobile round 11:20 a.m. close to I-580 westbound and Benedict Drive till the automobile grew to become disabled.
Police officers from a number of departments had been on the scene, together with one in an armored automobile.
At one level, officers had been seen firing their weapons on the automobile. A California Highway Patrol spokeswoman mentioned officers used less-lethal gunfire and gasoline to attempt to calm the suspect.
Officers finally decided there was no motion from contained in the automobile, in keeping with a police information launch. When police approached the automobile, they discovered the motive force useless from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Pleasanton police mentioned the investigation remains to be in its early levels and extra data will probably be launched inside 24 hours.
The westbound and eastbound lanes of the freeway had been closed in the course of the incident and didn’t reopen till about 5:40 p.m., in keeping with the CHP.
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