Crime & Safety

Officials Identify Parolee Shot, Killed by Deputy

Andre Milton, 36, died on Thursday afternoon after officials say he crashed into another car in an attempt to get away from a deputy and then drove his car toward the deputy who shot him.

Authorities today identified a man who was fatally shot by an Alameda County sheriff's deputy during a confrontation in unincorporated San Leandro on Thursday afternoon as 36-year-old Andre Milton.
 
Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said Milton had prior convictions for assaulting a police officer and on drug and weapons charges and there was a warrant for his arrest for possession of a weapon by a drug offender.

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Nelson said the fatal shooting of the suspect occurred after the deputy, who was on a motorcycle, responded to the intersection of 168th Avenue and East 14th Street at about 4:40 p.m. Thursday after multiple callers reported seeing Milton beating a woman in a car and said the woman was bleeding.
 
The deputy dropped his motorcycle, rushed to help the woman and ordered Milton to stop but Milton disobeyed the order and got into his car and tried to drive away, Nelson said. However, Milton then crashed into a car driven by a pregnant woman, according to Nelson.
 
Milton then drove his car in the direction of the deputy so the deputy fired multiple shots at him and killed him, Nelson said. The woman who was attacked by Milton went to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley to be treated for the lacerations she suffered and has been released, according to Nelson.
 
Milton and the woman had an on-again, off-again relationship and deputies had previously responded to domestic violence calls at her residence in San Leandro, he said. The pregnant woman whose car was struck by Milton's car was shaken up because she saw Milton beat up the woman and then get killed by the deputy, but she wasn't injured, Nelson said.
 
The deputy who shot and killed the suspect has been placed on paid administrative leave, as is standard practice in officer-involved shootings.

—By Bay City News


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