Deputy shoots, wounds suspect after East Bay holdup

Alameda County sheriff's deputies shot and wounded a robbery suspect near San Leandro early Saturday and arrested another after a high-speed chase that ended in Hayward, authorities said.

The incident began when deputies received a holdup alarm from the 7-Eleven store at East 14th Street and Fairmont Drive shortly before 1:30 a.m., said sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson.

A deputy and a sergeant arrived almost immediately and spotted two men running out of the store, Nelson said. Deputies later learned that the robbers had made threats to the clerk that they had a gun and assaulted the employee before taking an undisclosed amount of cash, Nelson said.

Outside the store, one of the suspects, a 22-year-old Oakland man with prior convictions for robbery and resisting arrest, began reaching for his waistband and the sergeant, fearing the assailant was armed, shot him numerous times, authorities said. The man was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and is expected to survive.

"When you're in the business of robbing and beating people, you put yourself at great risk for something like this to happen," Nelson said.

The other suspect, a 21-year-old San Leandro man, got into a Chevrolet Impala and led deputies on a chase on East 14th Street, Highway 238 and Interstate 880 - where speeds reached up to 105 mph - and Highway 92 before he crashed the Chevy at the Industrial Boulevard off-ramp, authorities said.

He was also taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. Money taken from the 7-Eleven was found in his possession, Nelson said.

The names of the suspects weren't released. No guns were found on them, but deputies were planning to search the Chevy, Nelson said.

The sergeant who fired his gun was placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure, pending investigations by the Sheriff's Office and Alameda County prosecutors.