Editor's Note: This report was updated at 4:35 p.m.
Newark — Police have arrested a Piedmont man in connection to a Tuesday morning shooting in Newark that injured an off-duty federal agent, police said.
Dennis Bagwell, 61, of Piedmont has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, according to a press release. Police said he does not have a history of criminal activity.
Newark Detective Sgt. Mike Carroll said Bagwell is a property manager who lives on Linda Avenue in Piedmont.
Bagwell was arrested without incident during a traffic stop in Union City.
Multiple gunshots were heard on the 7700 block of Mayhews Landing Road at about 5:50 a.m. Tuesday near Bettencourt Street, said Cmdr. Bob Douglas of the Newark Police Department.
Police said when they arrived the federal agent was suffering from at least one gunshot wound and was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, the closest trauma center.
The victim's family has asked that his medical condition not be made public.
The agent's identity has not been released, but Newark police confirmed that he is a 61-year-old Newark resident employed with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency with the Department of Homeland Security.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the victim was an agent assigned to San Francisco International Airport. Read the full Chronicle report here.
It appears that the federal agent may have had a confrontation with the suspect, Douglas said.
It is unknown whether the agent fired a weapon, Douglas said.
Douglas said the victim was shot outside of his home and that it was "a random incident" and that the public was not at risk.
Witnesses described seeing a tall man with a limp leaving the area soon after shots were fired. Douglas said it is unknown whether the suspect was injured.
The suspect was first seen going north on foot toward Sycamore Street and then was last seen driving a small to mid-size sedan similar to a Toyota Camry or Lexus.
A neighbor who lives across the street said she was in her living room when she heard someone yell, "Get down on the ground." She said she then heard multiple gunshots.
The neighbor, who didn't want her name published, said she then saw a man in a white hooded sweatshirt limping away from the house.
Another neighbor said his surveillance video captured the suspect's vehicle heading east on Bettencourt Street toward Hayley Street.
Neighbors said an incident like this is uncommon for the neighborhood.
"It's a pretty quiet neighborhood. It's really surprising," said the woman who heard the shots, saying she's lived there for about 11 years.
Douglas said the Newark Police Department is working with federal agencies and other local agencies in the investigation.
"It's still ongoing and leads are being followed up on as we speak," Douglas said.
The shooting happened less than half a mile away from and Elementary Schools, but no lockdowns were initiated. Newark residents told Patch that they received multiple automated calls from the stating that all schools are open and safe.
Mayhews Landing Road was closed from Buckeye Street to Spruce Street for several hours but was opened by 1:45 p.m.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/08/BARU1N4359.DTL Given the swift manner in which law enforcement apprehended this individual, either the victim knew who he was or the surveillance in the vicinity paid off. either way, Well done NPD getting another creep off our streets.
I have lived all over the American West, and the poverty pit towns on the reservation were better run than this. While the city falls apart, our elected leaders are pushing for a new library and a fancy new city hall instead of spending the money where it is needed, cleaning up Dodge. People give me entire racks of garbage because allegedly all I do is complain which supposedly makes me "lose credibility." Well, maybe it is because I have experienced other places and know that things can be better; Newark had incredible potential which our city leadership flushed down the toilet with such brilliant ideas as accepting the low income housing offsets required for affluent developments in other communities.
We have our fair share of Section 8; and the problem with the notion that we shouldn't look hard at Section 8 housing residents is that way too many of them are criminals. The reality is that the sons of single mothers are far more likely to commit serious crimes than the children in two parent or in single father houses. Criminals steal cars, firearms, etc. Young men raised without a responsible male role model are far more likely to become criminals than those who aren't. No amount of rhetoric changes that fact. Landlords need more supervision - and they also need more power to evict or refuse trashy tenants.
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Example: A woman is assaulted by a group of three to four men, while standing on the platform at the Coliseum Bart Stations. Although the entire incident was caught by security cameras, and there where multiple eyewitnesses, the suspects are only described as three to four young men. Example: During the Duke Lacrosses incident, it was repeatedly emphasized by the media that the suspects came from well-to-do white families, while the alleged victim was a low-income African-American woman. How was the race of the suspects relevant in this case, and was the media simply trying to drum up sensational attention to attract eyeballs? Sure they were. Example: When Oscar Grant was fatally shot and killed by Bart Police, the news medial beat us over the head with the fact that Oscar Grant was African-American, while the officer who shot him white. However, the media appears to have forgotten all about race in a similar shooting regarding a victim by the name of Charles Hill, who was also shot by Bart Police, Mr. HIll was white.
My brother went to trade school - he is a registered nurse. One of my cousins became a respiratory therapist. Two of my cousins are machinists; one of them went to college as well and has been voted the most outstanding high school vocational education teacher in Washington state on more than one occasion for his outstanding teaching in auto repair and auto body. One of my two nephews went to a community college and studied carpentry and construction management in Michigan. One rose through the ranks at a retail chain and became a major manager before his untimely death. The point is that to make a living wage one needs a marketable skill. I cleaned toilets, waited tables, and picked crops to pay for my education. I also know that those jobs don't pay much and that people who do them have a hard life because of the impact of poverty. And call up Ana and ask her about her view on this - she sure had a lot to say at the Council meetings about it.
Newark, the new Richmond.
I was following the Tanager and Gadwall Incident in Fremont yesterday thinking it was perhaps related to the Shooting. Still unknown on my end, but there was a few Agencies involved in that one and it carried on for probably an hour. Then I didn't hear anything more about it.