Antioch Police are investigating the third shooting in less than 24-hours after a gunfight broke out at Sycamore Square in Antioch before entering westbound Highway 4. at L St. and Sycamore Drive.
Police quickly responded just before 3:00 pm to the Quick Stop and taped off the parking lot where they located at least 20-casings and two vehicles that had been hit by the gunfire.
Upon further investigation, the suspects in two vehicles then left the parking lot and headed westbound on Highway 4 towards Pittsburg where the California Highway Patrol began pursuit of the vehicles along with an air helicopter.
According to sources, one of the firearms used was an AK-47 and that suspect is in custody after the CHP entered pursuit. The firearm was also recovered.
While police were investigating the shooting, there were reports that gunfire then erupted on westbound Highway 4 in Pittsburg.
The sheriffs Office has confirmed that the shooting along Highway 4 took place near Bailey Road.
According to acting Antioch Police Lieutenant Tarra Nissen, the investigation is currently active and numerous suspects are in custody.
She says they will be issuing more information as soon as its available.
Westbound Highway 4 Shutdown
CHP : Police department activity & Severe traffic alert on CA-4 Westbound east of Loveridge Rd (Pittsburg). All lanes blocked. Avoid the area.
4:45 pm Update: Antioch Police Press Release
On 5/16/2016 at approximately 1450 hours, the Antioch Police Department responded to a report of shots fired by two people in a black Jaguar near the parking lot of Quikstop at 1108 Sycamore Dr.
Several rounds were fired with a rifle. There are no known injuries at this time, but there were unoccupied vehicles in the parking lot struck by gunfire. The Jaguar and a second vehicle sped away and got onto west bound Highway 4. There were reports the occupants of the two vehicles were shooting at each other on the highway, but that is not confirmed.
Antioch Police caught up with the Jaguar at the Shell gas station on Bailey Rd. in Bay point and took two subjects into custody and recovered a firearm. The California Highway Patrol located and stopped the other vehicle along with Antioch Police several miles away on west bound Highway 4 where two other subjects were taken into custody. A firearm was also recovered at that location.
At this time, it is not believed there are any outstanding suspects. It is also not known at this point in the investigation if there is a connection to the recent shootings on Highway 4.
The names of the involved parties will not be released at this time pending possible eyewitness identifications. Currently, officers are following up on possible leads and interviewing witnesses.
This incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to contact the Antioch Police Dept. at (925)778-2441. If you have information regarding this case you may text a tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using key word ANTIOCH.
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Hope these cowards all die a slow death one day along with all their family members and every single person they are associated with. Damn animals have no regard for human life. Kill them all California, stop saving these low lives
Good job coppers. Get that freeway opened up. Hello Antioch City Council………crickets.
Antioch city council lolz
Know wonder another shooting happened it literally takes APD TWO FUCKING HOURS TO SHOW UP TO A CALL.
So they’ll get felonies since they didn’t kill anyone and then be back on parole on our city streets! Thanks city leaders!
Figures this shit would start up once they got rid of the guards.
Antioch is the new Wild West. These crooks are not scared of the APD, they commit shootings and murders in broad day light while our coward Antioch Mayor sits behind closed doors. It is time for that coward of a mayor to step out and address the crime, especially 3 shootings within 24 hours. That mayor is a joke! Luckily all these goons were apprehended, but knowing today’s laws, they’ll be out in no time. Stay safe people.
I am so tired of these piece of trash low life motherfuckers they are young ignorant males that have no regard for human lives they deserve to die they don’t deserve to take another step to inhale fresh air the cops in Antioch are so out numbered and that piece of shit Antioch mayor just sits on his ass and says overall that crime is down I would not want to be an Antioch cop there is an average of 8 patrol cars on duty at one time for a city of over 100,000 people I say we just start really going back to the old West and hang these bastards in the street so all there friends and family can watch them die
why does this article not mention the races of the suspects involved?
Because race doesn’t matter.
why do they need to?
The individuals have been apprehended as far as I know, so therefore race (description of the suspects) is irrelevant. If they were searching for the individuals, it’d be a different story. In that case, yes, we would need a description (race is apart of description). Don’t allow yourself to get caught up in race, being that we’re in the 21st century and it has been basically, completely disproved. Race simply helps describe someone, it doesn’t define them.
Yes, WHY???? I’m sick of the “Media” always being “politically correct”!
VOTERS:
Federal Glover (Past Antioch Mayor) started this snowball of crap. As County Supervisor, it just grew even bigger.
Wade Harper (Current Mayor) turned that snowball of crap into an Avalanche of crap.
To this date neither one have stepped forward to handle these issues that Antioch is undersiege.
Thus, vote NO on all ballots with their name attached to it and for any and all positions they are running for.
This is the starting point to clean-up Antioch!
AGREE 100%
Our starting point was back in the 1990’s before approval of mass development without a growth in middle class paying employers. Do a history check of Antioch politics at that time, We are now and forever will be the people dumping place for the County.
Clean up Antioch? No, we missed that opportunity when the City Council in the early 1990’s failed to see the consequences of a community that outgrows infrastructure and large employers. We lost many middle class jobs since then and only now is infrastructure nearing the size needed to support the community. Only a miracle can save us. A miracle: The people in Contra Costa County stop their elected officials from releasing inmates that will go to this city, stop allowing government assistance to crime ridden families in this city, and no real estate sales to successful crime families. A miracle indeed.
Wade Harper is slick. His whole campaign to get you idiot gullible voters to promote him to mayor was “Zero tolerance for crime” what great marketing trick.
Where’s the “zero tolerance” now?
Now he wants to be Supervisor with his buddy Glover.
What will you voters do now?
Answer: the “progressive liberals” will overwhelmingly vote to re-elect Glover and promote Harper to the Board of Supervisors. Voters in east county are idiots
PITTSBURG City Council voted unanimously Monday night to install “several” surveillance cameras along Highway 4.. Antioch needs to do the same plus more cameras all around the Sycamore L St area;
Federal Glover was never mayor of Antioch. Bless his heart he was mayor of Pittsburg. Concerned Antioch Resident you need fact checking.
If Harper gets elected to supervisor it will by all those misdirected thinking that is the only way to get him OUT of Antioch. Do not vote for Harper for anything. He is running for mayor again also. Just as his ace in the hole incase he loses the supervisor gig.
Here is your fact check: Julio increase your fiber intake, and buy bigger panties because you are very disgruntled. Save your best and shut up!!!
Harper needs to loose both so east county can get some sanity back. No Harper if you want change. The murders need to stop now.
These animals involved yesterday need to be shot and killed. They don’t deserve to walk this earth anymore. I’m sure they don’t contribute to society much and they have no regard for human life. Losers and failures of society at it’s finest.
Here’s what I don’t understand, why aren’t you folks filling the council chambers and protesting the failure of this council to do the will of the people? When I lived in Antioch and ran a highly organized community activist group we had both Federal Glover and the council shaking in their collective boots and made them get off their butts and do something about the crime in Antioch. Demand that the council resurrect the quarterly Quality of Life community forums that occurred from 2006 through 2009.
These forums were demanded and established by United Citizens for Better Neighborhoods (UCBN) and they were attended by 200 to 300 residents, the City Council, District Supervisor, County Housing Authority, APD, and representatives of AUSD which gave residents a platform to voice their concerns regarding crime and violence in the city. There were very effective in facilitating change in the community and these regular meetings made elected officials accountable to residents because each entity had to report back at each forum what action the city had taken to improve the cities Quality of Life. Unfortunately, these forums were discontinued when Jim Davis became Mayor of Antioch.
If you want Antioch to improve you need to be willing to get off these message boards, get organized, and make it happen yourselves.
Amen Gary Gilbert!! Get out off the couch and get to the meetings. If you don’t do anything, quit complaining. It takes a village, not just a handful of people.
Our group (UCBN) filled the city council chambers on a regular basis and forced them to address crime in the city; we held crime marches throughout the city; we held community forums in the community room of APD with the Director of Housing Authority to demand that they take action against Section 8 tenants who were terrorizing their neighbors; Chief Hyde, myself, and Hans Ho created and implemented the monthly neighborhood cleanup program that still exists; and UCBN created the APD Appreciation BBQ to honor our police officers and their families for the great job they do for the community. Our first BBQ was held in 2006 and we had over 300 people attend in the park on James Donlan. Because of the success of the first event, in 2007 we moved the BBQ to the water park and we had over 600 people attend.
Why am I telling you all this? Because YOU have the ability to come together and force the city council to do the job you elected them to do. If you want Antioch to become a safe place to live and raise your families then stop whining and complaining on these message boards and do something about it!
What we need is constitutional carry. If all these low lifes knew the citizens *could* be armmed there would be way less of this crap going on. Wake up people the police can’t protect you even if they wanted to! I’m glad no one was hurt during all this. Be safe people.
Knowing the other person has a gun doesn’t appear to stop them, does it?
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