Three Bay Area officer-involved shootings occur in 8-hour span

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- An officer-involved shooting happened at a 7-Eleven store located at 2105 Scott Blvd. near Monroe Street in Santa Clara at 2 a.m. Sunday.

It was the third officer-involved shooting in the Bay Area since Saturday.

Officers in Richmond shot and wounded a man Saturday night. And police in Vallejo fatally shot an armed suspect.

The Santa Clara shooting happened in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven store. The name of the man has not been released and police say the robbery suspect left the 7-Eleven store with a loaded gun and cash. Then, officers coincidentally showed up and confronted him.

"I saw the cops with guns drawn near the entrance of the parking lot," Frank Ramirez said.

Ramirez said he heard five to six gunshots coming from the 7-Eleven store where Santa Clara police shot and killed a suspected armed robber.

Cellphone video captured the chaos outside the store moments after the shooting.

"The officers witnessed an arm robbery in progress where the suspect fired a shot at the clerk," Santa Clara Police Department Lt. Kurt Clarke said.

The suspect missed and took out a chunk of the floor.

Police were waiting for the man outside and told him to drop his weapon.

"The officers confronted the suspect and he failed to comply with the officers orders and subsequently the officers fearing for their lives and see citizens that were in the parking lot discharged their firearm fatally wounding the suspect," Clarke said.

"I got scared because it was my first time experiencing gunshots. I ran outside and it was like a person is dead," Judith Cruz said.

"I was kind of mad because what the hell, why are they killing people?" Lolly Gomez asked.

It's the third police shooting in the Bay Area this weekend. On Saturday night, an armed man was shot by Richmond police after a routine traffic stop. The man ran away on foot and was injured during a brief shootout with the pursing officer. Police say that man has had a criminal history.

Hours earlier, Vallejo police shot and killed an armed agitated man with a gun in the waistband of his pants who was holding a knife in the parking lot of a Target store. The man refused to drop the knife and officers fired.

Officials say the gun he was carrying turned out to be a replica.