Crime & Safety
Suspect Killed by Oakland Police Identified
The Hayward resident was in a vehicle that had been used in a burglary in San Francisco Friday night.
An armed suspect who was killed by Oakland police officers in a confrontation off the Lakeshore Avenue exit from Interstate Highway 580 on Saturday morning was identified by police today as 30-year-old Demouria Hogg of Hayward.
Police didn’t release any other new details about the shooting at about 8:40 a.m. on Saturday, which occurred near the area of a popular farmer’s market held on Saturday mornings.
Oakland police said that at about 7:30 a.m. on Saturday they were notified of an armed man sleeping in a vehicle off the Lakeshore Avenue exit from I-580.
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Police said officers blocked off the area and spent about an hour using verbal commands from a loudspeaker trying to wake Hogg and then used a metal pipe to break the passenger side glass in an attempt to establish communication with him.
Police said officers also confirmed that Hogg had a firearm inside the vehicle. Police said officers finally engaged Hogg, who was awake by then, and said a confrontation occurred but didn’t disclose what happened during the confrontation. Police said one officer fired a Taser stun gun and a second officer fired his service gun, striking Hogg.
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Hogg was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Inside the vehicle, officers recovered a loaded handgun with an attached illegal extended magazine, police said.
The same vehicle had been used in a burglary in San Francisco on Friday night, according to police.
The incident was the Oakland Police Department’s first fatal officer-involved shooting since May 2013.
Police said the officers who were involved in the incident had activated their body cameras and investigators are reviewing the footage from those cameras as well as collecting footage from surveillance cameras at businesses in the area.
The shooting is being investigated by the Oakland Police Department’s homicide section, its internal affairs division and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
--Bay City News; Patch Archive Photo
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