HERCULES, Calif. (KRON) — A Richmond Police Department detective on their way to work Thursday morning pulled over to help who they thought was a stranded driver on Interstate 80 in Hercules, according to authorities. The encounter ended with the detective fatally shooting the man, setting off a multi-agency investigation that shut down the roadway for nearly 10 hours.
Prior to the shooting, at 6:35 a.m., the California Highway Patrol began receiving reports of a Nissan car that was being driven on I-80 westbound through Vallejo and was involved in several collisions. The callers told CHP that the vehicle was being driven recklessly and at high speeds, and at one point, it was reported that “the vehicle’s hood had flown up, obstructing the windshield, yet the vehicle continued to travel,” Richmond PD wrote.
Forty minutes later, as the Richmond PD detective was driving to work in their unmarked department vehicle on westbound I-80 just west of Highway 4, they came across a gold Nissan car stopped in the fast lane, authorities said…