Police activity in the Sherman Acres neighborhood of Pleasant Hill, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Photo: PHPD
Posts on social media; stand off ends Thursday, begins again Friday evening, police close nearby roads
By Lt. Jason Kleven, Pleasant Hill Department
On December 7, 2023 at around 7:05 PM, Pleasant Hill Police Officers responded to a residence on Cleopatra Drive for a welfare check on an adult female who reported to family that she had been locked out of their residence by her husband. Upon arrival, Officers located the female who had minor injuries to her lower body. Officers determined the female had tried to gain entry to the residence, through the barricaded side garage door, and her husband fired a single shot from a shotgun towards the door, striking his wife. The female was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries where she was treated and later released. The husband remained inside the residence, alone.
Officers secured the scene and called crisis negotiators and the Central County SWAT team to the scene. Over several hours, numerous attempts to contact the husband, via telephone and loudspeaker, were made, but he was unresponsive to these attempts. The husband continuously posted to social media during the incident. The posts suggested he may be suicidal.
Crisis negotiators tried for several hours to communicate with the husband with no success. The circumstances surrounding this event indicated the husband was not an immediate threat to the general public. The SWAT team disengaged from the scene and the husband was left alone inside the residence.
According to a tweet by Henry Lee of KTVU, the man is a retired police officer.
On Friday, Dec. 8, Pleasant Hill Police announced they had returned to the neighborhood by tweeting, “5:30 pm Monument Blvd at I680 both directions and Marcia Dr is closed to all thru traffic. Please use alternate routes. Shelter in place issued for the Sherman Acres neighborhood due to police activity.”
Learn more from KTVU’s report here.
This is an ongoing investigation by the Pleasant Hill Police Department.
Allen D. Payton contributed to this report.
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