CALIFORNIA BRIEFS
Police have arrested one of two teenagers they say opened fire at a San Francisco Bay Area shopping mall days earlier, wounding two people.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini announced the arrest Saturday of a 16-year-old San Francisco boy on suspicion of attempted murder.
A 15-year-old boy suspected of being an accomplice also was arrested.
Police are searching for the other suspect in the shooting, 18-year-old Deandre Gantt of San Francisco.
Police say two groups got into an argument last Tuesday at The Shops at Tanforan. One person in each group pulled a gun and opened fire. Panicked customers and employees fled or hid. Barberini won’t say what sparked the confrontation but calls the argument relatively minor.
Two teenagers who were wounded are expected to recover.
ELOY, ARIZ.
The departure of California prison inmates from an Arizona correctional center is expected to leave more room for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees.
The Casa Grande Dispatch reports that up to 2,500 beds at the La Palma Correctional Center could be available for ICE detainees after California announced plans in June remove their inmates.
Owners CoreCivic Inc. have said no families or unaccompanied minors would be placed in the facility southeast of Phoenix.
The private prison started housing ICE detainees under a contract with the federal government in 2018.
CoreCivic spokesman Brandon Bissell says no layoffs or closures are expected at 3,060-bed the facility that was originally built to house California inmates.
ANAHEIM
A police officer has shot and killed a 17-year-old girl on a Southern California freeway.
Authorities say the Fullerton officer shot the teenager during some kind of altercation Friday night on eastbound State Route 91 in neighboring Anaheim. She died at a hospital.
The girl’s name wasn’t immediately released. Anaheim police say the teenager was a suspect but why police confronted her and details of the shooting haven’t been released.
However, police say an item that appeared to be a handgun was found at the scene.
LAKE HAVASU CITY, ARIZ. Authorities say they have recovered the body of a California teenager who apparently drowned after jumping off a cliff at Arizona’s Lake Havasu.
Officials say 16-year-old Chance Huerta was found Saturday, a day after he tried to flip off a cliff near Mohave Rock but landed wrong.
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Department says he briefly resurfaced at the site just north of Sand Bar, but then witnesses lost sight of him.
Dive teams began searching Friday night, and returned on Saturday morning.
The Victorville, California, teen was found using side scan sonar and recovered by divers.
Lake Havasu is a reservoir located near the with Nevada and California.
OAKLAND borders
Authorities say a man who stole a fire truck led them on a 55-mile chase through three Northern California counties before he was captured.
The chase began shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday when the truck — not a fire engine but a smaller vehicle — was stolen from the Oakland Fire Department.
The truck was chased on Interstate 80 through Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties to Vacaville, where spike strips were used to puncture the tires.
The driver got off the freeway and hit the back of a parked car at a restaurant, where he was taken into custody. — The Associated Press