Father and 2 sons shot when Pittsburg cops confront armed man

A mother’s desperate 911 call reporting one of her sons waving a gun on the family’s front porch ended with two of her sons and her husband shot by at least one police officer Tuesday night in Pittsburg.

Officers were dispatched to the home on the 1500 block of Kingsly Drive at 9 p.m. after the mother called police saying her 20-year-old son was acting irrational and had pointed a gun at his father through the house’s security screen door several times, said Capt. Ron Raman, a spokesman for the Pittsburg Police Department.

The armed son, who the mother suspected was on drugs, was on the porch demanding entrance into the house when police arrived, Raman said.

When he reached for the weapon, at least one officer, a 20-year law enforcement veteran, opened fire hitting the young man in the leg, Raman said.

Other rounds fired by police went through the security screen door near the armed man and struck the father and the suspect’s 17-year-old brother who were standing inside the house behind the door, Raman said.

Raman said he will be transported to county jail when released from the hospital and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and additional weapons related charges.