Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: 2 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 1/11/1983
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Sentenced to life
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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 suspected of being the center of drug trafficking and fencing of stolen goods.
The suspect was wounded in the face when three officers fired
at him as he fled from the shooting scene. He was apprehended and charged with murder with special circumstances and was sentenced to life.
Officer Irizarry had been with the agency for two years.
Ofc. Irizarry was shot in the head at close range on Jan. 11
While Irizarry's funeral was in progress, the man suspected of
killing Irizarry, Bobbie Joe Buckley, 41, appeared in Oakland-
Piedmont Municipal Court to be arraigned on a charge of murder
with special circumstances.
