Sister Remembers Alameda County Sheriff's Recruit Killed in Oakland Freeway Shooting

David Nguyen was a period distant from achieving his imagination of being sworn successful arsenic an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy. Now, those dreams are shattered.

Someone changeable and killed the 28-year-old enlistee Tuesday arsenic helium was driving toward the Bay Bridge toll plaza.

"When I got the telephone from the lawman astir my brother’s passing, I thought they were joking," said Barbara Nguyen, David's sister.

Hours aft that call, Barbara recovered herself watching arsenic heartbroken members of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office led a procession for her member arsenic helium was taken from Highland Hospital to the coroner’s bureau.

"He was capable to get into the academy conscionable done resilience and done hard work, and I’m truthful arrogant of him for that," Barbara said.

At astir 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the California Highway Patrol learned that a antheral successful a Toyota Prius – aboriginal identified arsenic David Nguyen – crashed into a defender obstruction astatine the MacArthur Maze arsenic helium was heading toward the Bay Bridge toll plaza. The CHP said David was deed by a azygous slug that came from the right-hand side. A sheriff’s bureau spokesperson said David was apt driving location to San Francisco.

"Living successful the Bayview-Hunters Point, we were ever surrounded by a batch of crime," Barbara said.

Barbara said her brother’s passionateness for instrumentality enforcement started aboriginal and that helium besides joined the California National Guard. A spokesperson confirmed helium was portion of the 870th Military Police Company based successful Concord.

"We got done the struggles of being debased income, being a archetypal procreation family," Barbara said. "I got done it origin of him."

The freeway shooting is nether investigation.

The CHP is asking for the public's assistance successful tracking down the shooter.

"If your vehicles hap to person onboard cameras oregon if you saw thing nary substance however inconsequential you deliberation it whitethorn be, beryllium delight interaction us," CHP Sgt. Raul Gonzalez said.