Fresno PD officer struck twice in drive by continue to fight suspect until threat is over

The Fresno Police Department released chilling video footage Friday afternoon of an October officer-involved shooting that injured a sergeant and left a suspect dead in a southeast neighborhood.

The gun battle happened Oct. 26 when officers responded to an alarm from a device called a ShotSpotter that is designed to detect when gunshots are fired in Fresno neighborhoods. Two shots were detected in the 3700 block of East Platt Ave. in the early evening.

A sergeant was investigating those gunshots and a nearby homicide as he was parked along the east curb of South Seventh Street, south of East Verrue Avenue, police say. As the sergeant was parked, a blue Nissan Frontier rolled up from Verrue Avenue and the driver began firing.