Teen girl, man arrested after shot fired at police

A 16-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man were arrested Wednesday after a gunshot was fired at a car containing three police investigators, authorities said.

The unmarked car the investigators were in was not hit by the gunfire, and they were not injured. Authorities said the girl was the shooter.

The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 2400 block of Monticello Avenue in East Oakland.

The investigators were doing follow-up work on different cases when they observed a vehicle possibly involved in a shooting last month. As they began to follow it, the girl leaned out of the vehicle on the passenger side and fired a shot toward them, police said.

Authorities did not say if the suspects arrested knew the vehicle contained police officers or if they thought they were being followed by others meaning to harm them.

The investigators called for assistance, bringing other officers and a police helicopter to the area.

The helicopter was able to follow the vehicle to the 2100 block of Delaware Avenue, where the man got out and went into a house. He was arrested there.

The vehicle, with the girl now driving, continued on and eventually stopped in the area of 48th Avenue and Bond Street. The girl got out and went to a home in the 1700 block of 48th Avenue; after a standoff, she surrendered to officers.

Police served warrants, searching the 48th Avenue residence and the vehicle. They said investigators recovered a gun in the house and ammunition and a shell casing in the vehicle.

The girl and man were arrested on a variety of charges. Police did not specify the relationship between the two.