OAKLAND, Calif. --
A SWAT team conducted a tense neighborhood search early Friday for two suspects after an officer-involved shooting on an Oakland street left one man dead and another in custody after being bitten by a police dog.
The incident began around midnight when residents in the Ritchie Street and Bancroft Ave. neighborhood called 911 to report four suspicious men in a car with its engine running. Two patrol cars were dispatched and quickly arrived on the scene.
As officers approached the car, they said the driver pulled out a gun. The officers opened fire, striking the driver at least twice. However, he managed to still flee the scene, crashing the vehicle about a half mile away on Ritchie and May. The four suspects fled into the neighborhood.
The driver was found bleeding in nearby bushes, rushed to the hospital where he died.
"He was found back in the yards," said Oakland police Lt. Lawrence Green. "Unfortunately he did not get medical treatment in time and died."
Another suspect was corned by the K-9 unit around 3:30 a.m. and bitten by the dog. He was taken in custody to the hospital.
A SWAT team was called in and began a search of the area near Ritchie and May.
"Everything looks proper," said Green of the officers' use of deadly force. "This is sort of a routine incident -- suspicious people in a car with the engine running that looked out of place. So it's one of those incidents that on its face it was a dangerous sounding call…It's typical of the things that do happen when a routine incident turns into a life-threatening incident."
Police told KTVU that appeared the car may have been stolen. The ignition was tampered with and the register owner was already in jail. The driver's gun had been recovered in the vehicle.
The incident remained under investigation.
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