Shooting and tactics Hollywood scene.
One dead, officer injured in Natomas shootout
By Christina Jewett -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:33 pm PDT Monday, May 22, 2006
An injured Sacramento police officer is attended to by other officers after robbery suspects tried to run him down with their car in the parking lot at the Natomas Marketplace shopping center on Monday.
Special to The Sacramento Bee/ Devin Bruce
A Sacramento Police officer shot and killed a man while clinging to the hood of the man's car Monday afternoon in the parking lot of
the Natomas Marketplace shopping center, Sgt. Terrell Marshall said.
Just before 1 p.m., officers received a call of an armed robbery near San Juan Road and Northgate Boulevard. The officer who responded was directed to the Natomas Marketplace on Truxel Road just north of Interstate 80.
Marshall said the officer approached a maroon car in the parking lot, but the driver accelerated, breaking the officer's leg and flinging him onto the hood of the car. The officer, whose name was not yet released Monday afternoon, then fired several times into the car, Marshall said, killing one man inside.
Police took a second man from the car into custody; a third is believed to be at large, Marshall said.
"This is in fact a scene out of Hollywood," Sacramento Police Chief Albert Najera said.
The officer who broke his leg in the shooting was taken to UC Davis Medical Center. Najera called his actions heroic.
Police shut down the shopping center while they investigated the shooting. Federal parole officers in the area helped to capture some of the suspects, Marshall said.
Sacramento police officers secure the scene of an officer-involved shooting while suspect's vehicle sits at right with bullet holes in the windshield at the Natomas Marketplace shopping center on Monday. Obscured from view in this photo, the body of one of the suspects is in the driver's seat.
Special to The Sacramento Bee/ Devin Bruce
The windshield of the suspects' car is left riddled with bullet holes after they tried to run down a Sacramento police officer. One suspect is dead, others were taken into custody.
Sacramento Bee/Randy Pench
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