#UPDATE 5:42 pm 4/18/2023
Third individual has been located and determined to not be a suspect. The are NO OUTSTANDING SUSPECTS at this time. (1/2)

— HumCoSO (@HumCoSO) April 19, 2023

From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page:

At approximately 3pm the Sheriff’s Office was notified of an Armed Robbery/Assault outside of the Bayshore Mall involving three suspects. One person was injured as a result of this assault. The suspects fled prior to law enforcement arrival.

Sheriff’s deputies located the suspect vehicle in the Cutten area and began a pursuit. At the intersection of Harris and Dolbeer Streets the suspect vehicle was involved in a traffic collision and an officer involved shooting occurred. Two suspects sustained gunshot related injuries and were transported to a local hospital in unknown condition. At least two additional parties sustained injuries and are in unknown condition. No deputies were reported injured.

One involved person is believed to be outstanding at this time and is wanted by law enforcement for questioning. The suspect is described as a heavy-set light skinned male, approximately 6 feet tall, with short hair, blue jeans and a dark sweater. The man may be associated with a white Toyota Tundra.

Harris/Dolbeer is closed and law enforcement will remain in this area investigating for some time. Please use an alternative route. Parents of children at Washington Elementary and Teachers Pet Preschool should contact the schools directly for student pick up instructions.

About half an hour separated police being notified about the incident at the Bayshore Mall — see below — and the shooting at Harris and Dolbeer. About halfway between those incidents, a red pickup truck that matched the description of the vehicle was involved in a hit-and-run collision near Washington Street and Summer on Eureka’s West Side, according to scanner traffic.

It’s worth noting that although the police have issued no information on the subject of the incident at Harris and Dolbeer — which is, still, ongoing — they radio traffic is no longer on “code 33,” or emergency status.

North Coast News went live at the scene a few minutes ago:

From the scanner archives: Witnesses at the Bayshore Mall told police that the two men who attacked a third near the Bayshore Mall “pistol-whipped” their victim before leaving in the red pickup.

Going back a little further in the scanner archives — it appears that this began about a half an hour before the shooting, when two males associated with a red pickup truck assaulted a person, or possibly multiple people, near the Bayshore Mall before fleeing in the vehicle. It was this truck that police tracked to the Harris and Dolbeer location.

There’s a massive police presence at the corner of Harris and Dolbeer in Eureka at the moment. That’s down by near the hospital, a block away from Harris’s intersection with Harrison.

According to scanner traffic, two people were shot in the last hour following a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies at that location. Both of the shot people were “suspects,” according to scanner traffic, rather than law enforcement officers.

Scanner traffic indicated that the confrontation followed a traffic collision at that location, which itself was preceded by deputies tracking a suspect vehicle. 

The situation is still very much ongoing. Avoid the area. We’ll update when we know more.

#HappeningNow There is a developing law enforcement situation occurring in the area of Harris & Dolbeer Streets, Eureka. PLEASE AVOID THE AREA. Residents in the immediate area are asked to stay inside. More information to follow.

— HumCoSO (@HumCoSO) April 18, 2023