Three arrested in Berkeley-Oakland gang war
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 10, 2009
(07-09) 20:32 PDT OAKLAND --
Three alleged leaders of a violent Berkeley gang were arrested today during raids in which one of the men was shot and wounded by police, authorities said.
The suspects, Coleon Carroll, 19, his brother Joseph Carroll, 22, and Gregg Fite, 34, were at the center of a long-running feud between groups in Berkeley and North Oakland, police said.
A recent flareup resulted in a flurry of shootings, including a May 16 slaying in Berkeley, authorities said. The suspects in that case fled from police, a chase that ended with their car causing a crash that killed two men in North Oakland, authorities said.
Coleon Carroll was shot and wounded by a police officer at about 7 a.m. today when he fled out of a home on Chestnut Court in Hercules through a back window and appeared to be reaching for a weapon, said Michelle Harrington, a spokeswoman for the city.
Carroll was hit in the abdomen and is expected to survive, authorities said.
A gun was found outside the home, Harrington said. The shooting is under investigation by police and the Contra Costa County district attorney's office.
The Hercules home was one of seven locations that were searched as part of an investigation by Berkeley and Oakland police into the gang violence.
Twelve guns, including assault rifles, and an undisclosed amount of drugs were recovered during the raids, said Oakland homicide Lt. Brian Medeiros.
Rather than arrest minor players in the feud, investigators built cases against the three alleged ringleaders, police said.
"We went with the approach of going after their leaders instead of going after a bunch of the hired guns or the middlemen because we felt that we had a better effect of dismantling the gang by targeting the leaders, and that's what we did," said Oakland homicide Sgt. Tony Jones.
Coleon Carroll was being held on suspicion of robbery. Joseph Carroll was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Fite was arrested on suspicion of murder, but details of the case were not immediately available.
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