Oakland Police were engaged in a dramatic shootout in East Oakland Saturday night in which an attempted traffic stop turned chaotic and near deadly. Cops were trying to pull over a van (allegedly because the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt) around 10 p.m. near 54th and International when the van decided to give chase. Just then, a black Acura came out of nowhere and started ramming the police cruiser, from behind. Then near the High Street on-ramp to 880 the driver of the Acura shot out the rear window of the patrol car and both the van and the Acura took off on the freeway. Obviously they did not want that van getting pulled over! Two suspects in the shooting were then spotted Monday afternoon, and proceeded to hole themselves up in a house in a standoff with police that ended early this morning.

Both vehicles were found later — the Acura, which had been stolen, was abandoned, and two suspects were arrested in the van, which was found in a parking lot near 66th Avenue. But the two suspects in the shooting were spotted yesterday and then barricaded themselves inside a house on the 2300 block of East 24th Street. Oakland police were joined by a Fremont police SWAT team, the CHP, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the Oakland Housing Authority, and the OPD Gang Intelligence Task Force in surrounding the house, but still one of the two suspects managed to get away, as only one man was arrested after the twelve-hour standoff ended.

[CBS]