Officer involved shootings * May 5, 2001:...

Officer involved shootings

* May 5, 2001: Officer Mark Wersching shot Antonio Saldivar, 18,

in the Oak View neighborhood after mistaking him for a crime suspect

he was pursuing. He shot Saldivar when the young man allegedly

threatened him with what turned out to be a toy gun.

* May 12, 2000: A 17-year-old Russian exchange student was shot in

the leg after allegedly trying to burglarize a home. The boy

attempted to force his way into a residence armed with a handgun and

was shot when he began charging police.

* Sept. 3, 1999: Huntington Beach Police officer Nick Ekovich Jr.,

52, exchanged gunfire at close range with Eric Fredricksen, 35, of

Santa Ana, during a robbery attempt at the Green Tree Salon. The

officer was shot six times, four times in his bulletproof vest and

twice in the arm. Ekovich survived and Fredricksen died at the scene.

* April 22, 1999: David Blackman was shot and killed by Officer

Aaron Smith during a domestic violence call. Police said Blackman had

his hand in his pocket as if he was holding a gun and made a motion

to draw out a weapon. Investigations found no evidence of wrongdoing

on Smith’s part.

* Nov. 24, 1998: Frank Bac Lac was shot and killed after

carjacking a taxi cab at knifepoint. After a police pursuit, the car

came to a stop, but Bac Lac refused to follow police orders. He was

shot and killed by Officer William Murphy after allegedly charging

the officer with his knife.

* Sept. 11, 1996: Theodore Franks, 77, was shot and killed by a

police officer who was responding to a burglar alarm at a business

complex where Franks worked. Franks, who was sleeping there at the

time, was accidentally shot in the leg and died of blood loss. The

police officer was cleared in the lawsuit.

* Jan. 5, 1996: Ulises Zambrano, 17, was shot and killed by a

Huntington Beach police officer during a drug raid of a Santa Ana

home. Zambrano allegedly made a suspicious move, as if grabbing for a

weapon.

* Oct. 29, 1995: Michael Warren Vines, an ex-convict, was shot

several times by police officers after allegedly charging officers

with a pair of scissors.

* Sept. 29, 1995: Jose Manuel Rios, 22, was shot and killed while

in possession of a sawed-off shotgun in the Oak View neighborhood.

Police said the officer shot Rios after he continued to point the gun

at the officer’s unmarked car.

* July 4, 1995: Police shot a local man to death and arrested at

least 100 others when riots broke out between main and 14th streets.