3 suspects arrested in the robbery of retired Oakland police Capt. Ersie Joyner
Nanette Asimov,
Kevin Fagan
Nov. 22, 2021Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 9:21 p.m.
A view of the gas station where Ersie Joyner, a homegrown native who once headed the city’s police homicide unit and its pivotal violence-intervention program, was shot in a brazen delight robbery in Oakland on Friday, October 22, 2021.
Nick Otto/Special to The Chronicle
Oakland police said Monday they have arrested three men in connection to the Oct. 21 robbery of retired police Capt. Ersie Joyner, who fatally shot one of his attackers.
Police arrested one man in Houston and two in Elk Grove (Sacramento County), Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong announced at a news conference addressing rampant violence in the city over the weekend.
The chief said arraignments have not yet been scheduled for the suspects.
Joyner, 52, was
critically injured in the early afternoon shootout with three assailants last month at a Chevron station just off Interstate 980 near downtown Oakland.
A one-minute surveillance video showed three men getting out of a black car stopped at a gas pump. They
confronted Joyner as he pumped gas into a white Porsche, then pulled items from his pockets before opening two doors to his car.
Joyner moved to the rear of his car, pulled out a handgun and shot two of the men. One ran to the black car and the other — later identified as Desoni Djuan Lamar Gardner, 20, of Vallejo — fell to the ground and died.
Gun drawn, Joyner approached the black car as it drove away — but he was shot, stumbled back and tripped over Gardner’s body.