ALAMO -- A California Highway Patrol officer is on life support and his assailant dead following a traffic stop on crowded Interstate 680 Tuesday morning that became violent as hundreds of commuters drove past.
As traffic eased south on In...
terstate 680 in Alamo at 8:20 a.m., Officer Kenyon Youngstrom was shot through the neck after pulling over a Jeep Wrangler on the shoulder of the freeway, police said. Moments later, a second CHP officer who had pulled up behind the jeep shot the man in his vehicle and aided the injured officer until emergency medical crews arrived, said Contra Costa sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee.Youngstrom, a 37-year-old married father of four, was taken to John Muir Medical Center and was
listed in critical condition as of Tuesday night with what KGO-TV described as a severed spinal cord.
Flowers were placed outside the two-story home of the officer in Cordelia, near Fairfield, as CHP colleagues came by to support the family. A man who answered the door at his home declined to be interviewed.
The officer's family "asked for everyone's prayers as Officer Youngstrom fights for his life," Paul Fontana, assistant chief of the CHP, said in a brief statement Tuesday night.
Youngstrom graduated from the academy in 2005 and worked mostly in the Martinez regional office, having been assigned to the Contra Costa office immediately after graduation. Before joining the CHP, Youngstrom served in the U.S. Army Reserve,
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