OAKLAND (BCN) — A man who was fatally shot by an Oakland police officer on Saturday morning had been wanted by authorities since April for violating his parole for a drug crime, a California Department of Corrections spokesman said on Wednesday.

Demouria Hogg, a 30-year-old Hayward man, absconded from his parole on April 21, which means that he wasn’t abiding by the terms of his parole, which include meeting regularly with his parole officer, Department of Corrections spokesman Luis Patino said.

Department of Corrections records indicate that over the past 10 years Hogg, who has three felony drug convictions, absconded from parole three times and committed eight other parole violations that caused him to be returned briefly to state prison.

Information on the nature of Hogg’s parole violations isn’t available, Patino said.

An Oakland police officer shot Hogg, who was inside a BMW, on the Lakeshore Avenue exit off Interstate Highway 580, near the intersection of Lake Park and Lakeshore avenues, at about 8:40 a.m. and he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital a short time later.

Oakland police said they were called to the area about an hour earlier after firefighters found Hogg passed out behind the wheel of a car with a handgun seen on the passenger seat.

Police said officers tried to wake and apprehend Hogg for more than an hour by using verbal commands from a loudspeaker and eventually used a metal pipe to break the passenger side glass in an attempt to establish communication with him.

Police said officers finally engaged Hogg, who was awake by then, and said a confrontation occurred but didn’t disclose what happened during the confrontation.

Officers recovered a loaded handgun with an attached illegal extended magazine inside Hogg’s car, police said.

The same vehicle had been used in a burglary in San Francisco on Friday night, according to police.

Activist Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror project and the Onyx Organizing Committee said today that a vigil for Hogg will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday at the location where he was shot.

Brooks said she believes, “It was a bad shooting” because it appears that Hogg, who was black, had only been awake for a minute before police shot him.

She said, “If it been a white man in a BMW they wouldn’t have shot him.”

Brooks also said she thinks the officer who shot Hogg “should be held accountable for murder.”

However, Steven Betz, the attorney for that officer, said he thinks she acted appropriately because Hogg appeared to be reaching for a gun.

Betz said Hogg was in the driver’s seat of the BMW and then abruptly reached over toward the passenger seat, where police said he had a loaded gun.

Betz, who has viewed footage from body cameras that were used by officers who were involved in the incident, said the officer fired two shots at Hogg because he posed “a lethal threat” since it only would have taken a second for him to pick up his gun and fire at officers who had surrounded his car.

The officer has only been with the Oakland Police Department for about 18 months, Betz said.

Brooks said her daughter is best friends with one of Hogg’s daughters and she knew Hogg “as a father to his three children,” seeing him at youth basketball games or school functions.

She said, “Now there are three children who no longer have a father.”

Brooks said video footage of the shooting from officers’ body cameras should be released to Hogg’s family immediately “because they have a right to see it.”

But Oakland police said they don’t have a timeline for releasing the footage and they also aren’t releasing the name of the officer who shot Hogg at this time.

Brooks called for California Attorney General Kamala Harris to conduct an outside investigation of the fatal shooting, saying she doesn’t trust Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to do an impartial probe.

According to court records, Hogg was convicted of possession of cocaine base for sale in 2004, possession of marijuana for sale in 2005 and of being an accessory to a drug sale in 2011.

His 2011 conviction stemmed from a drug sale in the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland on Feb. 26, 2010.

Oakland police Officer Steve Valle testified at Hogg’s preliminary hearing on June 14, 2010, that he was working as an undercover officer at that location because it has a reputation for “high gang violence and drug trafficking.”

Valle said that after the drug sale Hogg ran to an abandoned building that was known to be used by members of the Ghost Town and Circle Boys gangs and as a narcotics trafficking stash house.

Valle said he had seen Hogg over 100 times in connection with “numerous” police investigations.

In a police report on the drug sale, Valle wrote that he believed Hogg belonged to the Circle Boys Gang, which he said is affiliated with the Ghost Town Gang.

Valle said those gangs are in “a violent feud” with the Acorn Gang, another gang in West Oakland.