Oakland Grieves For Slain Officers

Grief is rippling from department headquarters on Seventh Street throughout the city after the shooting deaths Saturday of Sgts. Mark Dunakin, 40, of Tracy, Ervin Romans, 43, of Danville, and Daniel Sakai, 35, of Castro Valley, by Lovelle Mixon, a 26-year-old parolee whom police had pulled over in a routine traffic stop.

Mixon was killed in a shootout with SWAT officers.

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Tags: Duty Deaths, Oakland PD, Oakland SWAT Ambush, Officer-Involved Shootings

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