After initial CHP report, authorities confirm I-80 standoff suspect is alive

Friday rush hour in the Bay Area is usually a little lighter than the rest of the week but tonight gridlock after a Pursuit that spanned multiple counties ended up as an hours long standoff the whole incident kept law enforcement agencies across the bay area busy for most of the day and the SWAT Operation that followed played out in front of our cameras and this information just came about five minutes ago the CHP just told us they were wrong when they said the suspect had died in fact the CHP says the suspect shot himself but Medical Teams were able to revive him he is now in critical condition from the hospital Andrea Nano shows us what happened during that standoff this is the scene tonight traffic is still very slow and it's a parking lot on eastbound 80 after a Pursuit led to a standoff on the highway instead of waiting hours on the road for the traffic to move Colleen nap decided to just wait it out on the side of the road unbelievable this is not your typical Friday night this after a while Chase through four counties California Highway Patrol officers trying to slow the Toyota Corolla down with spike strips but the driver navigating around them this all started in Santa Rosa where a woman reported someone had shot into her car she gave officers a description of the car and that car was spotted in roner park that's when the pursuit began it all came to an end near Cordelia where the SWAT team cornered the suspect and a standoff began in a joint effort with the Fairfield Police Department officers smashed the back window of the car to get a better look inside police even deployed several flashbangs but with no effect CHP telling us the man had a gas mask with him in the car officers eventually discovered that the driver had shot himself police used CPR right away and the suspect was taken away in an ambulance while all of this was going on in a span of several hours drivers parked on 80 were left wondering what was going on people were rolling their windows down and they're saying ma'am ma'am do you know what's going on and I said I don't know maybe calr is working on the road and I kept asking Siri and she didn't have any answers for me so officers in Santa Rosa say that the woman in Santa Rosa was not hurt and they do not believe that the suspect and victim knew each other investigators are now looking into what led up to that shooting in the first place and as of tonight the suspect has not been identified yet but we will keep an eye out for updates

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Length: 2min 42sec (162 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2024