6:55 p.m. Update: Dublin police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Ryan Cox. According to a statement issued by police, Cox had been punching holes in the walls of his home when his father called police for help and that Cox met police carrying a 10 inch knife.
2:37 p.m. Update: None of Dublin's schools were locked down during or after Friday's shooting incident, according to Shelley Fischer, secretary to Superintendent Steve Hanke.
Fischer wrote, via email:
"Dr. Hanke did make a message to go out to all families. There was a malfunction with the first attempt, so we immediately cancelled the message and resent it. It was broadcasted without issue."
The following is the automated message sent out to parents from Steve Hanke, Superintendent of Dublin Schools:
"Hello, this is Steve Hanke, Superintendent of Dublin Schools.
I am calling with a message regarding an incident that occurred in our community this morning.
I received word from the Dublin Police Department that there was an officer involved shooting in the vicinity of Frederiksen Elementary School.
The suspect is in custody and no officers were injured in the incident.
There is no danger to students at any of our schools and there is no lockdown in place.
If you have any questions regarding the incident or our school response, please contact the principal at your child’s school or my office.
The District Office phone number to call is 925-828-2551 EXT 8002.
Thank you."
1:20 p.m. Update: A neighbor of the man shot by a Dublin Police officer told Patch he heard loud arguing and looked down the street, where he saw the officer "taking aim" at something behind a truck.
Watch video of the neighbor describing what he saw Friday morning
"I couldn't see what he was aiming at," said Albert Ybarra, a resident of the 7500 block of Frederiksen Lane, where on Friday morning police shot and wounded a 28-year-old man they said was wielding a large "Rambo-style" knife. "It was something on the other side of (the suspect's father's) truck."
He then heard three shots. The suspect's father was behind the truck during the shooting.
11:45 a.m. Update: Alameda County Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said the suspect charged at the officer with a 12-inch, Rambo-style knife.
Get further details in this video where Nelson discusses Friday's officer-involved shooting.
Ybarra said this is not the first time the suspect, who was identified by Bay Area media outlets as Ryan Cox, has been in the street with a knife. Ybarra said he called police on another occasion for that reason.
From Bay City News:
A Dublin police officer shot a suspect Friday morning around 9:30 a.m. on a residential street in the 7500 block of Frederiksen Lane, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect, a 28-year-old man, was apparently alive and talking after the shooting, and the officer was uninjured, Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. The suspect, who was shot in the arm, was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
There is a school nearby, Frederiksen Elementary on Tamarack Drive, but Nelson said the shooting did not involve the school in any way.
Patch will update this story as we get more information.
Editor's Note: Frederiksen Lane and Frederiksen Lane Court were blocked off most of the day during the investigation.
The last officer involved shooting in Dublin was in April 2011, when a police officer shot and killed a transient who attacked and beat her.
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Not sure what you think was so "wrong" about that? Did that officer deserve to be killed because Daryl was having a bad day after learning of his mother's death?
The Dublin officers are part of Alameda County Sherrifs, trained at the same academy, and have all worked elsewhere in Alameda County other than Oakland. They're some of the most highly trained officers in the state of California. Just because Dublin is generally a safe town doesn't make the officers there "hilarious" or whatever you wish to call them. If anything, it shows they're doing a good job of keeping crime low. So kudos to them. You, on the other hand, appear to have trouble expressing yourself intelligently, and seem to have difficulty abiding by laws that others have no trouble with. Shall we air out the actual skeletons in YOUR closet, versus the made-up ones you so pathetically wag at the "big bad cops" who have clearly "wronged" you while you were "minding your own business" committing your crimes?
If so, you'd know that bullets don't always go precisely where they are intended, even if you are a skilled shooter. And that when you add in high stress, where you don't have time to carefully aim, you're lucky to hit the target at all.
Breivik of Norway massacre was diagnosed mentally ill. 77 dead. Central China school attack in dec. 2012 (there are a lot of them in China) 23 injured Virgina Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, Cho's relatives thought that he was selectively mute or mentally ill. On December 13, 2005, Cho was found "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization" - 32 Dead 17 wounded Jared Lee Loughner: 'mentally unstable dropout' - 6 dead Eduardo Sencion – National Guard troops killed, shooter on medication with mental illness. Columbine High School massacre that said shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gunned down 12 classmates and a teacher in 1999; they were mentally ill. Diagnosed very young. Newtown, 26 dead. Shooter had mental illness. Custodial mother reportedly had "problems" The common thread in the USA with massacres is mentally ill people. We used to institutionalize people that have violent mental illness. Why don't we at least require that all mental ill people be placed in a database that can be accessed as part of a background check on purchasing weapons?
The best way of dealing with deadly force (e.g. charging at someone with a knife) is with deadly force. And since a knife is most lethal up close, it's best to use defensive force that keeps a solid distance between you and that knife. A gun works great for this purpose. Also, see the Tueller Drill, which teaches law enforcement that a person within 21 feet of you can run and reach you within 1.5 seconds. With a knife in hand, that means it will only take 1.5 seconds for them to be stabbing you -- possibly fatally. That's hardly much time to use "easier less lethal methods", especially with someone intent on causing harm (and even after being shot, this guy apparently continued to fight!) YOU need to get REAL, because your assertions are based in an unrealistic, uninformed fantasty world. Probably one fueled by the crap Hollywood dishes out.
She was legitimately attacked by Daryl, whether you wish to believe it or not, and whether the report was given to the family or not.
And given that this officer likely knows it takes a person only 1.5 seconds to run 21 feet (and with a knife, get close enough to start stabbing), I don't know any officer that's going to waste even a milisecond aiming so precisely for a very small target area on a moving, dangerous target.
This issue is very simple. When charged by a knife, officers are trained to use their firearm. To not do so would be a blatant violation of training and would be met with an internal investigation, possibly leading to discipline. Anyone taking the time to learn about police procedure will understand this concept.
The common factor here is assault of and toward police officers. If you run at a police officer with a knife or are assaulting a police officer (in the one incident, enough that she had a hospital stay), you will (and should) be shot. This is what is supposed to happen. Getting shot for smoking weed or driving too fast would be bad but I don't think we have any instances of that here so you're safe. Still, don't be upset if you are smoking weed and the police come "harass" you or you're speeding and get pulled over and "harassed". This is supposed to happen as well. There's a distinguishable difference in comments between the law abiding residents here and the other law abiding residents that are always getting harassed (for smoking weed and speeding or etc) As far as the shot hitting the suspect in the arm, that to me is a great shot that will stop the suspect with an injury less life threatening. Kudos Dublin Police for stopping this situation safely.
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