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Sgt. Mark Dunakin

Officer Ervin Romans

Sgt. Daniel Sakai

Officer John Hege

I hope SWAT didn't have a partially full clip at the end.

[Cajun Blake]

very sad indeed

prayers up for their families , especially any children

[Texasredneck]

Prayers sent for these men and their familes.


John Hege is being keep on life support while a decision is
being made about donating his organs.

I feel for the family but, I also feel like they need to let this man go home and be with God. I don't think that anyone would wanna be kept alive as a vegetable.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone but, its just my opinion.

[Pav]

Prayers up for the fellow brothers and their families!!!

[Bufford]

Prayers sent

[TXChickenRanch]

I have been away from the TV today, so could somebody fill me in on any details

[windwalker]

very sad indeed

prayers up for their families , especially any children

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[tvc184]

Officer Jon Hege




Sergeant Daniel Sakai




Sergeant Ervin Roman





Sergeant Mark Dunakin

[Tuffbroadhead]

Rest in peace....prayers for the family's and friends and fellow officers..

[woody wood]

Prayers sent for the ones they left behind. RIP Officers.

[Eric Pence]

RIP officers hope that piece of trash that did this likes it hot

[Kdog]

I have been away from the TV today, so could somebody fill me in on any details

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090322_wz_officersshot.5d9959ab.html

Associated Press

AP
Officer John Hege was gravely wounded by the gunman; the other officers pictured died of their injuries.


AP
Lovelle Mixon

OAKLAND, Calif. — A police officer was battling for his life and three more were dead after a parolee with an "extensive criminal history" opened fire at a routine traffic stop and hours later gunned down members of a SWAT team searching for him.

The gunman was also killed Saturday, capping a day of violence that the Oakland Police Department said was the worst in its history. Never before had three police officers died in the line of duty on the same day.

"It's in these moments that words are extraordinarily inadequate," said Mayor Ron Dellums at a somber news conference Saturday night.

The mayhem began that afternoon, when two motorcycle patrol officers stopped a 1995 Buick sedan in east Oakland, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said. The driver opened fire, killing Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and gravely wounding Officer John Hege, 41. He was pronounced brain dead on Sunday, but was still on life support.

The gunman then fled on foot, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland police, California Highway Patrol officers and Alameda County sheriff deputies. Streets were roped off and an entire area of east Oakland closed to traffic.

About two hours later, officers got an anonymous tip that the gunman was inside a nearby apartment building.

A SWAT team had entered an apartment to clear and search it when the gunman shot them with an assault rifle, police said.

Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35, were killed and a third officer was grazed by a bullet, police said.

SWAT team members returned fire, killing 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon of Oakland, Acting Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said.

Officer Hege suffered brain damage and may not survive, his father, Dr. John S. Hege, said late Saturday.

"It is a stunning thing to face," he said.

Grieving officers at the police station hugged and consoled each other. People left four bouquets of white roses under a granite memorial wall inside the building lobby that lists 47 officers killed in the line of duty. The wall shows the last officer killed in Oakland was in January of 1999.

Police said Mixon wielded two different weapons. One gun was used at the first scene and an assault rifle was used at the apartment building where he was hiding.

Jordan said Mixon had an "extensive criminal history" and was wanted on a no-bail warrant.

"(Mixon) was on parole and he had a warrant out for his arrest for violating that parole. And he was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon," said Oakland police Deputy Chief Jeffery Israel.

Police said they did not know exactly why the officers initially stopped the suspect, but said it apparently was a routine traffic stop.

People lingered at the scene of the first shooting. About 20 bystanders taunted police.

Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.

That former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. Violent protests erupted on the streets of Oakland in the weeks after Grant's death, further inflaming tensions.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger planned to fly to Oakland on Sunday from Washington, D.C., to meet with police and Mayor Dellums, the govenor's office said.

[Kdog]

Prayers sent, how sad.

[Tmag]

Rest in peace....prayers for the family's and friends and fellow officers..

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