A man was arrested for shooting at officers in the North Bay on Thursday evening, police said. 

The incident happened just after 5 p.m. at Veteran’s Park in Downtown Napa. This is on Third Street at Main Street.

Police say they responded to call of a gun on the ground. When they arrived, they found an armed man.

Additional officers were called in for backup. That is when police say the suspect fired his weapon at officers.

Two officers hit the suspect with bean bag rounds. 

The suspect was taken to the hospital for minor injuries and was then taken into custody. 

None of the officers were hurt.

Here is the full statement from police:

On 06/21/18 at approximately 5:22 PM Napa Central Dispatch received a telephone call from a man who said he found a rifle in the grass at Veteran’s Park in downtown Napa. The same caller had called the Napa Dispatch Center three times just prior to this call requesting specific officers by name. The suspect’s name will not be released at this time.

Uniformed Napa Police Officers arriving on scene observed a man who was standing on the lower concrete area in the park. As officers approached they recognized him from prior police calls for service and tried to speak with him. Additional resources were called to the park, to include “less lethal” enforcement options. The situation quickly escalated. As the officer approached the man, he
raised a semi-automatic handgun and fired at least one bullet at the officers. Two of the officers immediately deployed “less lethal” bean bag projectile rounds at the man. The bean bag projectiles
struck the him and he was immediately taken into custody. No officers fired their service weapons.

Per department policy, the man was transported to Queen of the Valley Medical Center where he was treated and released for minor injuries from the “less lethal” projectiles.

We are grateful that none of the officers or citizens were injured or killed by this man during this rapidly evolving encounter and we appreciate the witnesses who remained in the area to provide statements to investigators.

We are looking for anyone with video recordings of this incident, even if you already spoke with an officer at the scene. Anyone with information about the  investigation can contact Detective Pete Piersig at 707-257-9514 or ppiersig@cityofnapa.org

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