The man who gunned down four Oakland police officers had robbed and raped two women at gunpoint earlier the same day as they set up a food cart in East Oakland, police said Monday.
Authorities are not sure whether Lovelle Mixon, 26, shot the two motorcycle officers who pulled him over on a March 21 traffic stop because he feared police would link him to the rapes. Mixon fled after the initial shootings to his sister's nearby apartment, where he killed two more officers with a high-powered rifle before being shot to death.
But Officer Jeff Thomason, a spokesman for Oakland police, said, "This goes into the mind-set of Mixon that day, when he brutally murdered four police officers. It clearly shows he destroyed many lives."
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