Man pulls gun, flees when officer fires
STOCKTON — Officers searched from home to home into the night Wednesday throughout a Stockton neighborhood for a man who pulled a gun on officers in what started as a routine traffic stop.
One of two officers fired at least one round at the man, who then ran into the neighborhood and escaped arrest, said Detective Joe Silva, adding that it was unclear if the officer’s bullet struck the man.
The man did not fire at officers, Silva said, and neither officer was hurt.
“This goes to show you that no traffic stop is routine,” Silva said. “You’ve got to approach each one with caution.”
Silva said two officers on patrol together stopped the man at 4:50 p.m. near the corner of Sonora and Sierra Nevada streets just south of the Crosstown Freeway.
That’s when officers said the man got out of the car and pointed a revolver at them, drawing fire. The man is described as a Latino man in his 20s, Silva said.
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