Sunnyvale: Second suspect in fatal officer-involved shooting escapes - San Jose Mercury News
SUNNYVALE -- The death of a man Saturday in a police encounter is the fifth time in eight years -- and the fourth in three years -- that someone has died at the hands of Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officers. The episode began about 4 p. m. Saturday, after a caller alerted two men in a black Jaguar XF sedan near a Motel 6 in the 800 block of W. Ahwanee Avenue. Those two men ran from police when officers approached them, Ahearn said, and went into a commercial complex in the 700 block of San Aleso Avenue. One of the officers shot at least once during the chase, and one of the two men was hit. Police searched until around 11 p. m. in the neighborhood near Ferndale and Madrone avenues but never found the second suspect. On Saturday the department tweeted that it was seeking "a black male adult last seen wearing a red or orange shirt with blue jeans" in the area of West Ferndale Avenue and Borregas Avenue, about four blocks east of the shooting site. officers had been responding to a report of "suspicious circumstances" at the Motel 6 on West Ahwanee Avenue. The shooting occurred in the 700 block of San Aleso Avenue, just south of the Mathilda Avenue exit on Highway 101. Ahearn said officers were responding to a call involving two men. One of the men was shot, and one fled from police, he. Source: www.mercurynews.com
