OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) -- A fatal officer-involved shooting has left one man dead following an altercation at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland early New Year’s morning.
The Fruitvale Station, located at 3401 E. 12st., was closed at 2:15 a.m. Thursday when Bay Area Rapid Transit officials received reports that two groups of men were shouting and fighting on an eastbound Dublin/Pleasanton train.
KCBS’ Chris Filippi reports
Five BART police officers intervened at the station where the train was stopped and restrained some of the men. BART Spokesman Jim Allison says there was a lot “verbal jockeying and shouting” between the men and the officers. It was during the chaos that an officer’s weapon fired and struck 22-year-old Oscar Grant.
Allison says that while some men were restrained in zip-tie handcuffs, preliminary investigations indicate that Grant was not restrained when he was shot.
Grant was transported a nearby hospital where he later died of his injuries.
Allison says each station uses different surveillance methods. Fruitvale, however, is one of the few BART stations that doesn't have any tape recording equipment, so there is no "official tape" of the incident.
The station was closed until about 2:50 a.m. due to police activity at the scene of the shooting.
BART had extended its services much later than normal early Thursday morning to accommodate New Year’s Eve celebrators.
The last fatal officer-involved shooting at BART was at the Hayward Station in April 2001.
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