Two people were wounded when an “erratic” driver prompted a shooting at Coast Guard Base Alameda, which is located on a small island next to Oakland, California, officials said.
At about 10 p.m. Thursday, a driver was spotted “driving erratically” and apparently trying to use his truck to ram into Coast Guard Base Alameda, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Coast Guard personnel told the driver to stop several times but the driver then allegedly put the truck in reverse and suddenly sped backward toward the Coast Guard security officials, DHS said on Friday.
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“Law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of defensive live fire,” which left the truck driver wounded in the stomach and a bystander struck by a fragment, DHS said.
Neither injury was considered life-threatening, DHS said. The truck driver was taken for a mental health evaluation and the bystander has been released from a hospital, DHS said.
No Coast Guard personnel were hurt, DHS said.
The FBI said it’s investigating the shooting, which it described as an isolated incident.
“Two individuals were injured in the incident, both sustaining non-life-threatening injuries,” the FBI said in a statement. “One of the individuals injured has been identified as a subject in the investigation. That subject has been released from the hospital and is currently in custody.”
Protesters were gathered outside Coast Guard Base Alameda on Thursday after the base said it was planning to host Customs and Border Protection agents there as a place of operations.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images – PHOTO: Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road, October 23, 2025 in Oakland, Calif.
President Donald Trump initially said he was sending troops to San Francisco this weekend to clean up crime, but the president said on Thursday he was pulling back on his decision after speaking with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Wednesday night.
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress,”Trump wrote on his social media platform. “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around.”
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said on Friday, “I spoke with Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, who confirmed through her communications with ICE that Border Patrol operations are cancelled for the greater Bay Area — which includes Oakland — at this time.”
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to ABC News that it has been told not to expect any surge in immigration enforcement in the Bay Area.
ABC News’ Luke Barr, Ahmad Hemingway and Alex Stone contributed to this report.
