Crime & Safety
WCPD Employees Donate Blood to Wounded Fremont Officer
Officer remains in serious condition at an Oakland hospital and will require several more surgeries.
The Walnut Creek Police Association just announced that officers, dispatchers, and police records technicials recently gave blood to benefit wounded Fremont Officer Todd Young.
Young was wounded last week in a shootout with an alleged gang member from Union City and was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of shooting the 39-year-old officer in East Oakland.
Friends and colleagues described Young to the San Francisco Chronicle as a dedicated police officer and devoted family man to his wife, Nicole, and their two children, an 8-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy.
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Young was shot in the pelvis when he and another Fremont officer went to a home on Auseon Avenue in Oakland to try to arrest Barrientos for allegedly evading arrest in an earlier case, the Chronicle said.
Young remains at Oakland's Highland Hospital, where he is in serious condition. He will undergo several more surgeries this week.
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Blood drives and other fundraisers for Young and his family have been underway.
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