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    Mark Anthony Estrada Sentenced to 50 Years to Life in 2015 CA Murder of 48-Year-Old Police Sergeant Scott Lunger



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    Hayward PD: Man, 21, arrested in deadly officer shooting

    Sgt. Scott Lunger, 48, killed during traffic stop

    By Sarah Heise
    KCRA.com

    HAYWARD, Calif. — A 15-year veteran of the Hayward Police Department was shot and killed during a traffic stop Wednesday, and the suspect in the case is in police custody at a hospital.

    Sgt. Scott Lunger, 48, was identified as the slain officer.

    Lunger, of Brentwood, is the father of two girls, police officials said Wednesday.

    Watch report: Police make arrest in Hayward officer's shooting death


    "We lost a warrior today," said Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban. "We've suffered a tremendous loss."

    The suspect, Mark Anthony Estrada, was dropped off at Highland Hospital in Oakland by relatives with gunshot wounds, and is under police guard.

    Police said Estrada, who has gang ties, is not cooperating in the case.

    Lunger was a member of the SWAT team and gang unit, according to acting Hayward Police Chief Mark Koller.

    "This is a tremendous loss to the police department and the community," Koller said. "This has been devastating to everyone involved. This is a very devastating and dark day for the community and the Hayward Police Department."

    Watch report here: Hayward officer killed in the line of duty


    Lunger and another Hayward police officer stopped Estrada's vehicle about 3:15 a.m. on Lion Street for erratic driving behavior, Koller said.

    Lunger walked to the driver's side of the vehicle, and the driver shot him, Koller said.

    The second officer returned fire, but the vehicle, described as a white pickup truck, sped off.

    Lunger was taken to a Castro Valley hospital, where he later died, police said.

    Soon after the shooting, Oakland police found an abandoned bullet-riddled pickup truck that was the same vehicle described leaving the scene, police said.

    "Officer-involved shootings are very difficult," Hayward police Lt. Eric Krimm said. "No officer comes to work wanting to be involved in that."

    The Hayward Police Department released this statement on its Facebook page:

    "The loss is obviously devastating to Sergeant Lunger's family, and it is also a blow to HPD and the entire Hayward Community. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time."

    Lunger is the second San Francisco Bay Area police officer killed in the line of duty this year.

    In March, San Jose Officer Michael Johnson was shot and killed while checking on a mentally ill man who had threatened to shoot himself and kill his wife.

    The man, 57-year-old Scott Dunham, fired the fatal bullet. He was also shot and killed that day, though he may have shot himself.

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    Suspect in fatal shooting of Hayward officer identified, police say

    By Joseph Serna and Veronica Rocha
    The Los Angeles Times

    The gunman who allegedly killed a Hayward police officer in a shootout after a traffic stop Wednesday morning had no criminal record, police officials said.

    Mark Anthony Estrada, 21, of Oakland didn’t have criminal past, but had some gang ties, although he was not a member, said Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban. He worked at his father’s company in Hayward.

    Police say they don’t know why Estrada opened fire on Sgt. Scott Lunger, but Urban said the fatal shooting happened 45 seconds after the traffic stop.

    “There is no why,” Urban said. “It’s an absolutely senseless murder.”
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    </aside>Estrada remains hospitalized from gunshot wounds he suffered during the shooting. Urban said Estrada is being closely monitored and is in police custody.

    Meanwhile, Hayward police are struggling with loss of a beloved officer, who to many exemplified what it meant to be a good cop.

    “We lost a warrior today,” Urban said Wednesday afternoon. “Sgt. Lunger was that it guy.”

    Urban described Lunger as athletic, experienced, ethical and inspirational.

    “He truly represented what we do every day in this line of work,” she said. “This is a dangerous job and Sgt. Lunger knew it was a dangerous job.”

    Lunger, 48, was a father of two daughters and a 15-year veteran of the force. Lunger was promoted to sergeant in 2009 and was a member of the department’s SWAT team and gang detail. He previously worked with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.

    Lunger was personal friend of Hayward police Capt. Mark Koller.

    “Scott loved his job. He did it eagerly,” Koller said at a televised news conference. “This is a very devastating, dark day for the community of Hayward, Hayward police and the men and women of law enforcement … we are pulling together and we will get through this.”

    State officials expressed their sympathies in statements Wednesday and lowered flags at the state Capitol to fly at half-staff. The Police Department, the chief said, received thousands of condolences.

    “It is with profound sadness that Jennifer and I offer our condolences to Sgt. Lunger’s family, his friends, and his colleagues on their heartbreaking loss," said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is acting governor while Gov. Jerry Brown is out of the country.

    "We join all Californians in mourning his sacrifice, and honor his service to the people and communities of Hayward.”

    California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris echoed Newsom’s sentiment, stating in part:

    “On behalf of the California Department of Justice, we offer our condolences to all those who served with Sgt. Lunger and our gratitude to all the men and women in law enforcement who face extraordinary risks and make tremendous sacrifices every day while serving and protecting our communities.”

    Police recovered ammunition from Estrada’s home and a gun, the police chief said. Investigators were working to link the numerous pieces of evidence, including blood and clothing, gathered at the crime scenes.

    “We are still just putting the bits and parts and pieces together,” she said.

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    Prosecutors file murder charges in shooting death of Northern California police sergeant

    OAKLAND, Calif. – Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a Northern California man accused of shooting and killing a police sergeant during a traffic stop.

    Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced Friday that charges were filed against 21-year-old Mark Anthony Estrada in the death of Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger.

    The complaint charges Estrada with murder of a peace officer, lying in wait and discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.

    Estrada remains jailed without bail, and it's not clear whether he has a lawyer who could comment on the charges.

    Lunger was shot Wednesday after he stopped Estrada for swerving and driving erratically. Another officer shot back, striking Estrada.

    That officer was not injured.

    The 48-year-old Lunger had been with the department for 15 years.

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    Thousands mourn slain officer

    By David DeBolt and Malaika Fraley
    Bay Area News Group

    OAKLAND - On the floor of Oracle Arena, 1,500 uniformed officers stood at attention Thursday morning, their eyes fixed on an arrangement of funeral wreaths and the framed uniform of Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger.

    Twelve minutes ticked by, the officers stoic, waiting for their fallen brother. Finally, accompanied by a synchronized salute and a bagpipe humming “Amazing Grace,” the casket draped in an American flag made its way to the stage, trailed by family, friends and the SWAT team Lunger helped lead. Lunger’s father clutched the officer’s two daughters, one of whom wore his police jacket.

    So began an emotional send-off for Lunger, an efficient and thorough officer who greeted his Hayward beat with the same zest and affection he gave to his loved ones.

    At night, the 48-year-old known as a “warrior” chased criminals with the speed of a much younger cop. Between shifts and naps, he kept ice cream dates with his daughters and coached softball at Freedom High School near his Brentwood home.

    “My dad wasn’t afraid to die. We talked about it a lot and he always said dying is a part of life, and the only thing we can do is enjoy every day that we get,” his daughter Saralyn Lunger said. “I think that my dad always knew something like this was going to happen.”

    Lunger was shot in the head July 22 after stopping 21-year-old Mark Anthony Estrada and later died at a hospital. Estrada, who was wounded by Lunger’s backup officer, has been charged with murder. He is eligible for the death penalty and is scheduled to enter a plea next month.

    The funeral for the 15-year veteran began with a procession at 8 a.m. Thursday, a week after his death, with Hayward police and their families driving north on Interstate 880 from Hayward to the Oakland arena. A police motorcade escorting Lunger’s body and his family from outside Chapel of the Chimes funeral home came later. Along the route of the procession, lines of people clutched U.S. flags and signs with messages such as “Cop lives matter.”

    “It brings tears to your eyes to see so many dedicated officers,” said spectator Carole Rabello, of Union City.

    Some 5,000 people, many of them law enforcement personnel from as far away as San Diego and Nevada, filed into Oracle Arena. Lunger’s softball players from Freedom High wore their jerseys, as did his adult softball teammates. Dignitaries there included Gov. Jerry Brown, Hayward police Chief Diane Urban, Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday and U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin.

    Swalwell, a former Alameda County prosecutor and son of a police officer, spoke of Lunger’s eye for detail in police work, saying he never had to call him in as a witness because his reports were thorough.

    “With Scott on the Hayward beat, crime found nowhere to hide,” Swalwell said. “On the best days and the worst days, he always showed up.”

    Born into a family of electricians, the Dublin native worked for 10 years in the family business as an electrician. But he had wanted to be a police officer since the day a Dublin officer caught him and his brother lighting fireworks near a dry hillside, friends recalled. So at 30, he arrived at the academy and later joined the Hayward Police Department in 2001.

    A versatile officer, Lunger worked in the gang unit and on SWAT, mentored and trained new officers, and rose to the rank of sergeant, supervising specialized teams within the department.

    Acting Sgt. Brian Maloney, his beat partner for 14 years, said Lunger had a knack for connecting with street people. While he liked a lighthearted prank or two, Lunger had a serious, tenacious side to him, preferring to work on the street and not in the office. As a sergeant, he had more arrests than many officers, Maloney said. He helped take down one of the city’s most violent gangs and was responsible for a unit removing guns from the street.

    “Scott’s passion and tenacity for catching a bad guy was exactly the same for a murder suspect as it was for a theft suspect. Whatever the level of crime, he responded with the same mindset,” Maloney said. “If I was stuck in the station writing reports, I would frequently get a call from Scott, who was, of course, out in the street.”

    Lunger would give the same line: “What are you doing? Let’s go, the bad guys aren’t going to walk into the station.”

    His final day at work began as many did for Lunger. Before his shift, Hayward Sgt. Phil Divinagracia called the former electrician for help fixing a wiring issue at his home. Then Lunger went to work. His first action of the night was chasing a suspect on a stolen motorcycle. He arrested the suspect and returned the bike to the rightful owner.

    “For many that would have been a hard night’s work and good enough reason to not go out and do anything else to keep the streets clean,” Swalwell said. “But that wasn’t Scott’s nature.”

    The final call came at 3:14 a.m. — coincidentally, the same number as his badge.

    His family said they were aware of the danger Lunger faced at work, even if he did not always talk about it.

    “You always said, ‘Dad, don’t worry, when it’s your time to go you can’t do a thing about it. It’s in God’s hands,” his father, Paul Lunger, recalled.

    But the elder Lunger said, “A son is supposed to bury his dad, not the other way around.”

    He is survived by his two daughters, Saralyn and Ashton.

    “Dad, I love you so much. I will miss your laugh. I will miss our ice cream trips. I miss you making me run into the ocean with our clothes on in 50-degree weather,” Saralyn Lunger said. “You were my dad, and no one will be able to take that away from me.”

    At the end of the service, Lunger was a given a 21-gun salute. A helicopter flyover preceded a procession to Brentwood, where Lunger was laid to rest.

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    MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HAYWARD SGT. SCOTT LUNGER TO APPEAR IN COURT

    OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The man accused of killing a Hayward police sergeant is scheduled to appear in court to enter a plea.

    Mark Estrada, 21, has been charged with murder in the July death of Sergeant Scott Lunger. Police say Estrada shot Lunger during a traffic stop. The sergeant was a 15-year veteran of the force.

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    Hayward: Evidence of officer's death comes in slowly; still no plea by alleged killer

    By Malaika Fraley
    The San Jose Mercury News

    HAYWARD -- A 21-year-old Oakland man accused of fatally shooting Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger last year appeared in court Friday, but once again did not enter a plea because of issues surrounding evidence collection.

    The courtroom was filled to capacity with the slain officer's family and former colleagues, and his alleged killer Mark Estrada's family. Estrada has been jailed without bail since he was released from a hospital with a gunshot wounded inflicted by Lunger's cover officer on July 22, 2015, when Lunger, 48, was killed during a traffic stop.

    Estrada has no previous criminal record, and his family says they believe he is innocent. His charges make him eligible for the death penalty.

    Attorneys in court Friday said they had just received Estrada's subpoenaed medical records. A judge ordered Estrada to return to court on April 22 to enter a plea.

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    Oakland man accused of killing Hayward police officer pleads not guilty

    HAYWARD -- The Oakland man accused of killing Hayward police officer Sgt. Scott Lunger pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon in the Hayward courthouse.

    It's been more than a year since Lunger, 48, was fatally shot during a traffic stop July 22, 2015, in Hayward. Mark Estrada, 22, has been jailed without bail since being released from the hospital with a gunshot wounded inflicted by Lunger's cover officer.

    Estrada has no previous criminal record, and his family says they believe he is innocent. His charges make him eligible for the death penalty.

    Estrada's attorney, Christopher Morales, addressed questions outside the Hayward courthouse back in July, at least the third time the entry of plea hearing had been postponed. Morales said he was waiting for a bulk of evidence, such as police reports and lab reports, before entering a plea. At a hearing in April, dozens of uniformed Hayward police officers filled the courtroom for Estrada's appearance.

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    Hayward cop killing: Slain sergeant’s cover officer describes 2015 shooting

    By Malaika Fraley
    The East Bay Times

    OAKLAND — It started out like any one of the hundreds of traffic stops Hayward police Officer Justin Green had watched his mentor Sgt. Scott Lunger conduct before. Walking up to a white Silverado truck with his flashlight in his left hand and his police radio in his right, Lunger greeted the driver of the truck with a friendly “Hey.”

    When Lunger follow the greeting with what sounded like, “Whoa, whoa,” he knew Lunger “saw something not good,” Green testified Thursday at a preliminary hearing for Lunger’s accused killer. Green had already begun running toward the truck when he heard a gunshot fired from inside the cab and saw Lunger collapse.

    “I started to try to get up to him as fast as I could,” Green said. “Right away, I saw Sgt. Scott Lunger go down.

    "Right away, I start shooting,” Green said.

    Mark Estrada, 22, of Oakland, is charged with murder with special circumstances that make him eligible for the death penalty in connection with Lunger’s killing on July 22, 2015. He was arrested that day at a hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound that authorities said was inflicted by Green after Lunger was fatally shot in the head.

    Estrada worked with his father as a roofer at a Hayward business a short distance from where Lunger was killed at Lion and Kiwanis streets and has no criminal record. His family contends that he is innocent. The Estrada and Lunger families, along with Hayward police officers, filled Judge Jeffrey Horner’s Oakland courtroom to capacity for the hearing on Thursday morning.

    Lunger told a police dispatcher about 3:15 a.m. that he was stopping the Silverado for “swerving all over the road.” Green, who had been traveling in a separate patrol car, testified that he believes he heard the same vehicle’s tires squealing in the neighborhood prior to the traffic stop.

    Green said he never saw who was in the Silverado, but from the verbiage that Lunger used in his greeting, he assumed it was a single male occupant.

    Green said he emptied his gun in the direction of the driver’s compartment, shooting 13 rounds before he noticed his duty weapon was empty. The Silverado accelerated, crashed into something and then drove off the street as Green momentarily tried to catch up on foot.

    When he turned to Lunger, finding him on his side in a curled position, Green searched unsuccessfully for a pulse. He saw Lunger was bleeding from the head and applied pressure while he awaited medics.

    “Everything happened just really, really fast,” Green said.

    Estrada is charged with three special murder allegations that make him eligible for capital punishment. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office typically announces its intention to pursue the death penalty against a defendant after the preliminary hearing.

    Lunger, 48, of Brentwood, had two daughters and had been with the Hayward force for 15 years.

    Estrada’s preliminary hearing is expected to last two to three days.

    Testimony continues Friday.

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    Sgt. Scott Lunger death: Friend describes alleged killer arriving wounded at doorstep

    By Malaika Fraley
    The East Bay Times

    OAKLAND — Hysterically sobbing and bleeding from a gunshot wound, Mark Estrada showed up at his friend’s doorstep in East Oakland, a little more than an hour after he allegedly killed Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger during a traffic stop, according to court testimony.

    “I kept asking him what was going on. He said he was shot by a cop and he crashed his car on 98th,” Estrada’s friend Bryan Rodriguez, 22, testified at Estrada’s preliminary hearing on Friday. “I kept telling him to go to the hospital. He said he didn’t want to go to a hospital, that he will be fine, that he will sleep through it.”

    Estrada, 22, of Oakland, is charged with murder with special circumstances that make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted in the death of 48-year-old Lunger, a Brentwood father who served on the Hayward force for 15 years. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is expected to announce whether it intends to seek capital punishment in the weeks after Estrada’s preliminary hearing, if he is ordered to trial.

    Estrada’s preliminary hearing started in Judge Jeffrey Horner’s courtroom on Thursday with testimony surrounding the police dispatch recordings of the fatal shooting and the autopsy, and from Lunger’s cover officer during the killing, Justin Green.

    Lunger was fatally shot in the head and was also shot in the thigh, shortly after he approached a white Chevrolet Silverado he had stopped for swerving in the roadway at 3:15 a.m. July 22, 2015. Officer Green returned fire at the truck, unloading his gun, but never saw who was inside before it fled Lion and Kiwanis streets in Hayward, the residential neighborhood where Lunger was killed.

    Rodriguez graduated from an Oakland charter high school with Estrada in 2013 and worked with him at a Hayward roofing company near the shooting scene. Rodriquez spent most of July 21, 2015, with Estrada, but said they separated around 7 or 8 that night and then he didn’t see him again until he appeared wounded at his doorstep around 4:30 a.m.

    They worked a midnight-to-10 a.m. shift earlier that day at a San Jose job site tearing off a roof. About noon, they went to the Estrada family home, where they spent most of the afternoon in Mark Estrada’s bedroom with a third friend playing Grand Theft Auto V, smoking weed, and drinking Crystal Head Vodka leftover from Estrada’s 21st birthday celebration a few days prior, Rodriguez testified.

    Rodriguez said he went home around 7 or 8. About an hour later, Estrada called him to say the roofing company granted their request to start their next shift at 7 a.m. instead of midnight.

    Rodriguez said he had been sleeping when at about 4:30 a.m., his father woke him up and said Estrada had been shot and was at the front door. He smelled of alcohol and was bleeding from his lower back.

    “I asked him what was wrong and he just picked up his shirt and showed me the gunshot wound,” Rodriguez said.

    On cross-examination, Rodriguez agreed with defense attorney Linda Fullerton that Estrada was hysterically crying and appeared to be in shock. Rodriguez said agreed that he himself was in shock because the event was so “out of character” for Estrada, who has no criminal record.

    He described how he and his father took Estrada to his family home, and how Estrada’s mother took him to the hospital. Rodriguez then drove to 98th Avenue and saw Estrada’s abandoned truck, which was surrounded by police officers. He didn’t know about Lunger’s death until he returned home and turned on TV news.

    Testimony is expected to conclude on Monday, after which Judge Horner is expected to rule if there enough evidence to order Estrada to trial.

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    Suspect Could Face Death Penalty In Hayward Officer’s Death

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    OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A judge Monday ordered an Oakland man to stand trial on a murder charge with three special circumstances for the fatal shooting of Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger during an early morning traffic stop two years ago.

    At the end of a preliminary hearing that spanned three days, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner said, “There’s very powerful evidence to support each and every charge” against 22-year-old Mark Estrada.

    Now that Estrada has been ordered to stand trial, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is expected to decide soon whether to seek the death penalty against him.

    Lunger was shot near Myrtle and Lion streets in Hayward at about 3:15 a.m. on July 22, 2015, and was pronounced dead at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley a short time later.

    The special circumstance allegations against Estrada are for murder of a peace officer during the course of his duties, committing a murder while lying in wait and committing a murder by discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.

    Prosecutor John Brouhard played a recording in court Monday of a police dispatch of Lunger’s last words, in which he said over the police radio that he was stopping a white Chevrolet Silverado truck driven by Estrada because it was “swerving all over the road and almost hit a few cars.”

    Hayward police Officer Justin Green testified that the truck driver fired at Lunger shortly after Lunger approached the truck.

    Brouhard said the police dispatch recording is “chilling” because he believes it indicates that Estrada didn’t immediately stop his truck after Lunger flashed his warning lights but instead slowly drove to the end of Lion Street and took the time to “prepare and arm himself with a gun” so he could shoot Lunger when he approached.

    “(Estrada) waits and watches for Sgt. Lunger to move into place where the defendant can be more successful with his plan to shoot and kill,” Brouhard said. “There was a period of waiting and watching that put Sgt. Lunger at a disadvantage.”

    But Estrada’s attorney Christopher Morales said lying-in-wait cases usually involve a suspect who has a grudge against a person or a group and there’s no evidence that Estrada knew Lunger or had a grudge against police officers as a group.

    Morales also said such cases normally involve a suspect who is waiting for a victim for “a substantial period of time.”

    However, Horner said “even a short period of waiting” is sufficient for the lying-in-wait clause to apply.

    Referring to the period between the time that Lunger flashed his warning lights at Estrada and the time that Lunger was shot, Horner said, “In terms of real life and every day law enforcement experiences, 68 seconds seems like a lifetime.”

    Green testified that after the truck driver shot Lunger, Green fired multiple rounds into the truck but the suspect, later identified by police as Estrada, managed to drive away.

    Hayward police investigators testified that the evidence indicates that Estrada abandoned his truck at 98th and Edes avenues in East Oakland and later walked into San Leandro Hospital to be treated for his gunshot wounds.

    Authorities contacted Estrada at San Leandro Hospital but eventually moved him to Highland Hospital in Oakland to be treated for a gunshot wound to his left lower flank above his waist.

    Estrada admitted to a doctor that he was shot while he was in the driver’s seat of his vehicle near A Street in Hayward but wouldn’t say who had shot him, police said.

    When police searched the crime scene, they found a 9mm handgun, unexpended rounds and an associated magazine, according to testimony at Estrada’s hearing.

    Officers testified that during a search of Estrada’s residence in the area of 107th Avenue and Beverly Street in East Oakland, they found 9mm ammunition, 9mm casings and surveillance video that showed three people arriving at the house at 4:48 a.m. on July 22, 2015, one of whom was limping.

    They also said the suspect’s vehicle had bullet holes on the driver’s side consistent with the bullets that were fired by the officer who was with Lunger.

    Estrada’s hearing was attended by Lunger’s family members, a large number of Hayward police officers and a large contingent of Estrada’s family members and friends.

    Horner ordered Estrada to return to court on May 19 to have a trial date set.

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