Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Fairfield Police Exchange Gunfire With Suspect

Suspect surrenders after North Texas Street shootout, suffers injuries that are not life-threatening

Updated 6/27/11 7:28p.m.:

By Bay City News Service

          Fairfield police identified the man who was shot in his
girlfriend's apartment Sunday night as 20-year-old Jordan Hughes.
          He had a confrontation with his 19-year-old girlfriend in Vallejo
earlier Sunday and was waiting in her apartment for her to get home, Lt. Greg
Hurlbut said.
          The woman's father picked her up in Vallejo after the
confrontation and called police around 11:15 p.m. because he believed Hughes
was hiding in his daughter's apartment, Hurlbut said.
          When police went to the apartment, the girlfriend told them Hughes
was dangerous and that there had been several previous incidents of domestic
violence, Hurlbut said. She said Hughes had threatened her with a handgun on
another occasion, Hurlbut said.
          The girlfriend asked police to check her apartment because the
door to it was unlocked and she was afraid that Hughes was hiding inside,
Hurlbut said. The girlfriend also told police Hughes had made suicidal
statements, Hurlbut said.
          Two officers searched the apartment and found that the bathroom
door was locked, then called for additional officers, Hurlbut said.
          When two more officers arrived, police called out several times
for anyone inside the locked bathroom to surrender, Hurlbut said. When no one
responded after several minutes, the officers forced the door open, Hurlbut
said.
          Hughes fired at the officers and police fired back and yelled for
him to surrender, Hurlbut said.
          Hughes surrendered more than an hour later and was taken into
custody. He had been shot once in the right arm and once in the chest and was
taken to a Bay Area trauma center, Hurlbut said. His injuries are not life
threatening.
          Hughes faces four counts of attempted murder of a police officer
Hurlbut said. Hughes' family lives in Vallejo but he often stayed overnight
at his girlfriend's apartment, Hurlbut said.
          Fairfield police and the Solano County District Attorney's Office
are investigating the incident.        

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 By Bay City News Service

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         Fairfield police exchanged gunfire with a man who locked himself
in the bathroom of his girlfriend's North Texas Street apartment late Sunday
night.
          The unidentified suspect, who eventually surrendered, suffered
injuries that are not life-threatening and was taken to a hospital, Lt. Greg
Hurlbut said. No one else was hurt.
          The incident began around 11:15 p.m. Sunday when a caller told
police their daughter had been assaulted by her boyfriend in Vallejo and that
the boyfriend now might be hiding in her apartment in the 2900 block of North
Texas Street, Hurlbut said.
          When police went to the apartment, the girlfriend told them her
boyfriend was dangerous and that there had been several previous incidents of
domestic violence. She said her boyfriend had threatened her with a handgun
on another occasion, Hurlbut said.
          The girlfriend asked police to check her apartment because she was
afraid her boyfriend was hiding inside, Hurlbut said. The girlfriend also
told police her boyfriend had made suicidal statements, Hurlbut said.
          Two officers searched the apartment and found that the bathroom
door was locked, then called for additional officers, Hurlbut said.
          When backup arrived, police called out several times for anyone
inside the locked bathroom to surrender, Hurlbut said. When no one responded
after several minutes, the officers forced the door open.
          The person inside fired at the officers, and police fired back and
yelled for him to surrender, Hurlbut said.
          More officers responded, blocked off the area around the apartment
complex and evacuated residents from nearby units, Hurlbut said.
          The suspect in the bathroom surrendered more than an hour later
and was arrested for attempted murder of a police officer, Hurlbut said. He
had apparently been armed and waiting for his girlfriend to get home, the
lieutenant said.
          Fairfield police and the Solano County District Attorney's Office
are investigating the incident.

6/27/11 7:24 p.m.: This story has been updated to correct garbled copy.


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