A shooting reported just after 1am Monday in the area of Rubens Way and Cypress Road in Oakley early Monday snowballed into a high-speed chase out SR4 and onto Highway 24 that ultimately ended with two arrests in Orinda.
One teen was reportedly treated for a gunshot “graze” wound to the head. Two suspects, also juveniles, were arrested after the car they were in broke down in Orinda. Multiple shots were reportedly fired during the incident.
Oakley officers were dispatched to the area of East Cypress Road and Frank Hengel Way at 1:08am for a report of a possible kidnapping and a shooting, police reported. Responding officers found multiple juvenile at the corner of Rubens Way and East Cypress Road.
A juvenile male victim was located, officers determining a group of three Oakley residents (two young adults, a male and a female, and one juvenile female) had picked up two other males, who are also juveniles from Oakley. Collectively, the five people began hanging out at Cypress Grove Park in the vehicle of one of the females. Two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana, police said.
The two males who had been picked up allegedly commandeered the vehicle, forcing the females to drive away at gunpoint. The female victim driver drove down Rubens Way where she refused to drive any further. She and the other female victim were then forced out of the vehicle by the two male suspects at gunpoint. The two male suspects then drove the vehicle back towards East Cypress Road. The male victim, who had previously exited the vehicle, saw everything that was going on and ran towards the flight path of the fleeing suspects and caught up to them at the intersection of Frank Hengel and East Cypress. One of the male suspects shot at the male victim through the windshield of the female victim’s vehicle several times and struck the male victim in the head with the grazing shot.
The two suspects then fled the scene, the victim’s vehicle driving westbound on Highway 4 at a high rate of speed. Deputy Sheriff’s initiated a pursuit of the victim vehicle, which took them all the way out to Orinda. The pursuit ended when the suspect vehicle became disabled on westbound highway 24, in Orinda. Both male suspects were taken into custody and transported back to the Oakley Police Department. It was determined both suspects had warrants for their arrest, in addition to all of the crimes they were just involved in. Both suspects were booked into the Juvenile Hall for those two warrants and:
Attempted homicide
Assault with a deadly weapon
Kidnapping
Carjacking
The male who had been shot was transported to a local hospital and treated and released.
Where in Orinda?
So stupid.
I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see us go full Bukele. We seem to have unlimited patience and forgiveness.