Truck Driver Shot and Wounded After Trying to Ram Vehicle Into Coast Guard Base in California, Authorities Say

A truck driver who attempted to ram a vehicle into a U.S. 🪖Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area was shot and 🩹Wounded by law enforcement officers, officials said Friday.

According to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on X that the driver tried to “weaponize the vehicle to ram into 🪖Coast Guard Base Alameda” on Thursday night. He was taken into custody and is being held for a mental health evaluation.

A bystander was struck by a fragment during the incident, treated at a hospital, and later released, DHS said. No 🪖Coast Guard personnel were injured.

Authorities said officers gave the driver “multiple verbal commands” to stop, but he ignored them and “suddenly accelerated backwards at a high rate of speed directly toward them.”

“When the vehicle’s actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard