Overview:
Police said they didn't find anyone hurt or any suspects but did find a car from which someone had stolen a catalytic converter.
Police are investigating after someone fired a gun in the midst of a catalytic converter theft on Ninth Street Thursday morning.
Police said they first got a report “regarding an interrupted catalytic converter theft and a gunshot heard” in the 2400 block of Ninth near Channing Way, at 6:45 a.m.
Officers who went to the scene “located physical evidence that a shooting had occurred,” but did not find anyone injured in the shooting, Berkeley police spokesperson Officer Jessica Perry said in an email.
Officers did find a car with its catalytic converter stolen, Perry said. The theft and gunshot had taken place around 5:15, about an hour and a half before the report, Perry said.
There were no suspects located at the time, and the investigation is ongoing, Perry said. The shooting came less than two days after the city’s most recent incident of gunfire, which police previously said “stemmed from a road rage incident between two drivers.” There were no injuries reported in that incident either.
