The man who allegedly led Oxnard police and Ventura County sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase and rolling gun battle before they shot and wounded him Monday night had a brother shot and killed by police under similar circumstances in 2006, his sister said Wednesday.
In an interview with The Times, Isabel Valdivia said she spoke with her brother by phone Monday night during the chase, then watched in shock as he drove by her house with more than a dozen police cars and a helicopter in pursuit.
Her brother, Augustine Medina, 46, a drywaller and lifelong Oxnard resident, is now in a Ventura hospital with two gunshot wounds to the head. He is expected to survive but with permanent brain damage, Valdivia said.
Oxnard police declined to comment or confirm Medina's name, saying the suspect in the chase has not yet been charged.
On Monday, following a domestic-violence call at an apartment in central Oxnard, police and Ventura County sheriff's deputies were led on a chase along city streets and freeways. At times, speeds reached more than 80 mph as the suspect and officers exchanged gunfire. It finally ended on a street in neighboring Port Hueneme, when the suspect emerged from his car and fired at officers. They returned fire, wounding him.
Augustine Medina's life had been spiraling out of control long before that night, his sister said.
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