Antioch cops shoot man who rammed police car

Antioch police shot a man after he drove into their patrol car while attempting to flee the scene of gunfire, officials said as they investigated the latest in a rash of officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area in the past week — including three that were fatal.

Officers in Antioch responded to reports of gunfire about 11:15 p.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Mokelumne Drive, a residential neighborhood.

Upon arrival, officers tracked down a vehicle suspected of being involved in the shooting, in which no one was reported injured. The driver of the car immediately fled when police attempted to stop him.

Officers chased the driver to Wawona Court, a cul-desac almost half a mile away from the shooting. The driver was cornered in the cul-desac and attempted to escape by “ramming” into the police vehicle, prompting the officers to shoot him, police said.

The man, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a nearby hospital and was listed in stable condition, officials said.

A firearm was found in the man’s car, police said. No officers were injured. It was the fourth officerinvolved shooting in the Bay Area over the past seven days.

Police in Napa shot and killed a knife-wielding man Monday in the parking lot of a busy shopping center. Witnesses said the man was lunging at cars before two officers arrived and opened fire, officials said.

Both officers, who were not immediately identified, fired multiple times. Following standard protocol for investigations of officer-involved shootings, they were placed on administrative leave.

A 16-year-old girl, who was in her first trimester of pregnancy, was fatally shot by Fremont detectives in Hayward on Tuesday when they opened fire on a stolen car she was riding in that officials said rammed the officers’ vehicle. The driver, who had fled the scene, was taken into custody in San Francisco on Wednesday night on an outstanding warrant for multiple robbery charges, police said.

Police officials have not yet released the names of the detectives involved in the shooting.

On March 10, police killed a man in Santa Clara after his parents called 911 to report that he was acting erratically. Police confronted the man, who reportedly had a weapon, at an overpass near his family’s home.

Officer Colin Stewart, a 13-year veteran law enforcement officer, shot him “in fear of his safety” when the man refused to show his hands and started to advance toward Stewart, police officials said. Police did not find a weapon on him, but a bloody knife was found on the trail on which he was running, officials said.

Anyone with information on the Antioch shooting can contact the Police Department at (925) 779-6988.