Pregnant teen killed by police

A 16-year-old girl who was fatally shot by Fremont police during a robbery investigation was pregnant, authorities say.

The girl, who was a passenger in a stolen vehicle linked to a series of robberies, was in her first trimester of pregnancy, said Sgt. Ryan Cantrell, a spokesman for the Hayward Police Department, which is investigating the shooting.

Cantrell declined to release the girl’s identity, but her family identified her as Elena Mondragon.

On a GoFundMe page created for the Antioch teen, her uncle, Miguel Minjares, described her as a “witty, fun-loving girl.” He said she was “coldly shot” by police.

“Her family is feeling a pain that seems in this moment that will never go away,” Minjares wrote.

The shooting occurred at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday near Cal State East Bay in Hayward, about 12 miles north of Fremont, Hayward police said.

Fremont police detectives were investigating a rash of robberies in the Bay Area and had traveled to Hayward, where they located a stolen vehicle believed to have been connected to the robberies, a police statement said.

When the detectives tried to stop the car, the driver rammed their police vehicle, and that’s when the detectives fired at the car, striking one of three passengers inside, police said.

The car then sped away but crashed after a short distance, Hayward police said. When authorities reached the vehicle, they found the wounded teen.

Two other occupants of the car were taken into custody near the scene of the crash, police said. A fourth who fled was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco. Police did not identify any of the car’s occupants.

Hayward police and the Alameda County district attorney’s office are investigating the shooting.