Police Officer Ramon Irizarry, Jr., Oakland Police Department, California

Police Officer Ramon Irizarry, Jr.

Oakland Police Department, California

End of Watch Tuesday, January 18, 1983

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Ramon Irizarry, Jr.

Officer Ramon Irizarry succumbed to gunshot wounds received one week earlier.

Officer Irizarry was shot in the head at close range as he, and several other officers, served a search warrant on the occupants of a house in West Oakland at 1717 Peralta Street suspected of being the center of drug trafficking and fencing of stolen goods.

The suspect, 41, was wounded in the face and captured when three officers fired at him as he fled from the shooting scene. On January 14, 1988, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole.

Officer Irizarry was a United States Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Oakland Police Department for two years. He was survived by his wife and 2-year-old son.

Bio

Age 25
Tour 2 years
Badge Not available
Military Veteran

Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Incident Date Tuesday, January 11, 1983
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Sentenced to life

search warrant, narcotics

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The evening Ramon Died we were serving a search warrant for narcotics, when a person in an unknown vehicle pulled in front of the house we were searching and honked his horn excessively. After a few minuets the car went away, about ten minuets later the car returned and again started honking its horn excessively. I asked if anyone in the search warrant crew wanted to go out with me and check out this person and vehicle, Ramon jumped up and said lets go. You would have had to have known Ramon he was aggressive and fearless. As we walked out the narrow walk way we saw the car parked right in front of the walkway next to the curb. As we got to the car Ramon took the lead and looked down into the car thru the passenger window, and said "police" that is when the driver opened fire, Ramon went down, I emptied my revolver into the passenger window, and the driver drove off. He was stopped bleeding from the face and hand and a Smith and Wesson 32 long revolver was recovered in the car. I will remember Ramon until the day I die. As I described him, to his son in one word and that word was FEARLESS. See you soon my friend. Retired OPD Sergeant Ignatius H Chinn.

Retired Sergeant Ignatius H Chinn
Retired Sergeant OPD.

January 18, 2025