Crime & Safety
Fremont Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting: DA
When she took office in January, Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price announced a review of previously cleared police shootings.
FREMONT, CA — The Alameda County District Attorney's Office has decided not to go forward with any charges against a Fremont police officer that fatally shot a suspect in 2021, the office said Friday.
Oakland man Joshua Gloria, 34, was shot and killed by Fremont officer Brian Burch on March 24, 2021 near state Highway 84 and Ardenwood Boulevard.
Police alleged that Gloria was driving a stolen car associated with an armed robbery and was also carrying a firearm.
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"We believe that Fremont Police Officer Brian Burch 'had valid reasons to believe that Mr. Gloria represented a substantial risk of causing severe harm or even death to both himself and those in the vicinity and further that he reasonably believed that he needed to use deadly force to stop Mr. Gloria from fleeing,'" reads a statement released by the district attorney's office.
Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price in January announced that her office would be reviewing in-custody deaths and police shootings in her area, and she formed a Public Accountability Unit to do so, or PAU. Gloria's case was one of eight examined by her office.
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According to Price, so far, charges have been filed against two sheriff's deputies in the Vinetta Martin case, who took her own life at Santa Rita Jail in April 2021. At the time, there were accusations of inadequate cell checks and that guards had improperly cataloged cell checks.
In May, deputies Sheri Baughman and Amanda Bracamontes were charged with falsifying records pertaining to Martin's suicide.
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