(KRON) — Two minors face charges of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and carjacking following a crime spree that led authorities on a chase from Oakley to Orinda.
Officers with the Oakley Police Department were called to the area of Cypress Road and Frank Hengel Way for possible kidnapping and shooting at 1:08 a.m. Monday. Arriving at the scene, officers found multiple underage people, including an injured young man whose head was grazed by a bullet.
“A group of three Oakley residents (two young adults, a male and a female, and one juvenile female) picked up two other males, who are also juveniles from Oakley,” the Oakley Police Department said. “Collectively, the five people began hanging out at Cypress Grove Park in the vehicle of one of the females. The two male juveniles, who were picked up, became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana. At one point the male who had taken part in picking up the two other males got out of the vehicle.”
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When the young man got out of the car, the two juveniles who allegedly wanted to purchase marijuana forced the young female to drive away at gunpoint, Oakley PD said. When she refused to drive any farther, the pair allegedly forced her out of the car at gunpoint…