UC Riverside police who answered a report of someone firing a gun early Sunday, July 22 shot and critically wounded a man when he showed a gun as they confronted him just outside the school’s campus, Riverside Police said.

The man, whose name and age were not released, was hospitalized “in very critical condition,” Riverside Officer Ryan Railsback said. “As far as I know, this person has nothing to do with the campus or the university,” he added.

Dispatchers for both campus police and Riverside Police got calls at 12:55 a.m. of shots being fired in the 600 block of West Blaine Street, near the north end of the campus.

The call to UC Riverside police came from student worker, Railsback said. They were on the scene first, and spotted a man on Watkins Drive, just east of Blaine Street.

When the officers tried to make contact, an officer-involved shooting occurred, Railsback said. The investigation was still active Sunday afternoon and he could not give additional details.

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Railsback said no officers or anyone else other than the suspect was harmed. He said officers recovered three weapons, one of them described as an “improvised device.”

The shooting took place just outside of the campus in an area under the city’s jurisdiction, so Riverside Police will handle the investigation. Under an agreement with the city, UC Riverside police patrol neighborhoods in the vicinity of the campus as well as the school property.