Fremont detectives fatally shoot girl, 16, in car that rammed them

Fremont police shot and killed a female passenger riding in a packed vehicle that rammed a detective’s car during a traffic stop in Hayward on Tuesday near an East Bay university, officials said. Fremont police shot and killed a female passenger riding in a packed vehicle that rammed a detective’s car during a traffic stop in Hayward on Tuesday near an East Bay university, officials said. Photo: Brian Feulner, Special To The Chronicle / / Photo: Brian Feulner, Special To The Chronicle / / Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Fremont detectives fatally shoot girl, 16, in car that rammed them 1 / 4 Back to Gallery

Fremont police shot and killed a 16-year-old girl riding in a packed stolen vehicle that rammed a detective’s car during a traffic stop in Hayward on Tuesday near an East Bay university, officials said.

The Antioch teenager killed by police was not immediately identified. Two other occupants in the car were taken into custody while a fourth person in the vehicle took off running from the scene.

The incident marked the third fatal police shooting in the Bay Area in five days.

The episode unfolded around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday when Fremont detectives discovered a vehicle that was reported stolen and linked to multiple armed robberies around the Bay Area in an apartment complex at 25200 Carlos Bee Blvd. near California State University, East Bay in Hayward, police said.

When officers tried to stop the vehicle at Campus and Oaks drives, and talk to the people inside, the driver rammed the police car, injuring two detectives, officials said.

The detectives opened fire into the vehicle, hitting the young woman in the passenger seat.

At least one man in the car got out and ran while a second woman and another man were taken into custody at the scene.

Paramedics took the teenager with gunshot wounds to a hospital where she died.

The shooting prompted a shelter-in-place order at an apartment complex near the university while they searched for the man who fled. He was not found.

The detectives were treated at a hospital for injuries from the crash and released.

Hayward police and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the deadly officer-involved shooting.

The shooting comes as the third fatal police shooting in the Bay Area in less than a week. On Monday, police in Napa shot and killed a knife-wielding man in a parking lot of a busy shopping center.

Police in Santa Clara shot and killed a 24-year-old man on Friday. The man’s parents had called 911 to report he was acting erratically, and police shot him dead after confronting him near his home and failing to subdue him with an electronic stun gun.

Anyone with information about the Hayward incident was asked to call police Detective Steve Riley at (510) 293-7034.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky