After citizens shot and wounded three suspected criminals in the past week, Oakland police acknowledged Tuesday that residents are fed up with crime and expressed understanding for two shopkeepers and a resident who they say fought back in self-defense."I think they're tired of being infringed upon," said Officer Roland Holmgren, a police spokesman. "And they're defending themselves. I don't think it's anything different than you or I might do if we felt threatened, if we felt that our home was being violated or our work was being violated."
Holmgren spoke just hours after a North Oakland resident shot and critically injured a suspected burglar at the resident's home in the 600 block of 59th Street. Police identified the suspect in the alleged break-in at 8:15 a.m. as Nathan Cooper, 31, a parolee from Oakland.
On Saturday, an armed man who tried to rob Ed's Liquors on 23rd Avenue in East Oakland was shot three times by the store owner, who also was wounded in the leg in an exchange of gunfire, police said. Two days before that, a clerk at Wah Fay 8th Avenue Corner Market shot an 18-year-old Pittsburg man who allegedly tried to rob the store.
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