May 17, 2009 1:31 pm US/Pacific
3 Killed In Berkeley Shooting, Oakland Crash
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / KCBS / BCN) ―
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Scene of the crash in North Oakland following the shooting in Berkeley.
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Three people were dead following a murder and high speed chase through the East Bay Saturday night, which ended in a fatal crash.
Berkeley Police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said it all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports of gunfire near Allston Way and 10th Street in West Berkeley.
Patrol officers found an unidentified male victim suffering up to 10 gunshot wounds, who died at the scene. They also spotted a tan Cadillac speeding away from the area, and pursued the suspects inside.
Kusmiss said the officers chased the suspects to North Oakland, where the Cadillac crashed into two other vehicles at the corner of Aileen Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way -- killing two innocent bystanders, one in a car, and one who was walking down the sidewalk.
After being struck by the Cadillac, a Mazda was forced across the street and into a pedestrian on the sidewalk in the 5600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and then crashed into a building, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said.
The driver of the Mazda, a 26-year-old Sunnyvale man, was pronounced dead at the scene, Thomason said. The pedestrian, a 41-year-old Berkeley man, died at a local hospital.
Meanwhile, the force of the collision with the Mazda sent the Cadillac into a Lexus along Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Thomason said. The driver and passengers of the Lexus were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The driver of the Cadillac, a 22-year-old San Leandro resident, and another suspect were taken into custody by Berkeley police officers and guns were also confiscated from that vehicle, police said.
SWAT teams combed through Oakland Streets late into the night, pounding on doors, and using dogs to try to find two other men who were also in the Cadillac -- both of whom ran away from the scene.
Meantime, Kusmiss said Berkeley officers also dealt with a chaotic scene at the site of the shooting, where a number of the victim's friends and family members showed up with a lot of questions they wanted answered.
All three deaths were being treated as homicides, according to Thomason.
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