Norris Reed III, a 36-year-old Oakland resident, has been identified as the suspect accused of shooting a San Francisco police officer during a vehicle pursuit that ended in an exchange of gunfire in the Bayview District late Sunday night.
Reed was booked into San Francisco County Jail on multiple felony charges, including four counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault on a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, reckless evading, conspiracy, firearm-related offenses, and parole violations, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
Police were alerted of the shooting at approximately 10:29 p.m. on May 31 after officers received information that a vehicle connected to a robbery investigation had entered San Francisco from the Bay Bridge, police said in a statement. Officers located the vehicle near Fifth and Folsom streets and attempted a traffic stop near Mission and First streets.
According to police, the driver fled, leading officers on a pursuit through city streets before the vehicle became disabled near Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue.
"When officers encountered the vehicle, the driver opened fire on SFPD officers and struck one officer multiple times," the department said in a statement. "During the encounter an officer-involved shooting occurred."
The driver fled on foot while a passenger inside the suspect vehicle was wounded during the exchange of gunfire, police said. Officers transported both the injured officer and the injured suspect to a local hospital.
Authorities said both sustained life-threatening injuries.
Additional officers searched the surrounding area and later located Reed near Bayshore Boulevard and Costa Street, where he was taken into custody without incident. Police said investigators recovered two firearms at the scene.
During a briefing on Monday, San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew said the wounded officer underwent surgery and was expected to survive despite suffering serious injuries.
"Thankfully, she is expected to survive, but still faces a long road to recovery," Lew said.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said he met with the officer's family following the shooting and described the notification they received as "a family's worst nightmare."
"When anyone commits a crime in our city or comes to commit a crime in our city, we will use every tool at our disposal to keep our city safe," he said. "To anyone who would consider coming to San Francisco to commit a crime, the message is clear: we will find you, and we will arrest you."
The officer-involved shooting remains under investigation by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, the San Francisco Police Department's Investigative Services Division, the department's Internal Affairs Division, and the Department of Police Accountability.
Police said the investigation remains active and that information released so far is preliminary and subject to change.